As a Suns fan, would you object to your team tanking the season to get a high draft pick…?

We should never tank a season on purpose, this franchise has a winning tradition and more integrity than that.

I mean it’s not like we’re the spurs secretly tanking to try and get tim duncan(there is obviously no duncan in this draft,but drummond is as close as it gets to a “franchise changing” big).

This team should always come out and try to get the win. Having said that, if we’re realistically not quite good enough to make the playoffs why try and get the lowest lottery selection possible while still giving false hopes to a playoff run?

While the draft is always a crap shoot, this has been described by almost every scout as a strong draft. Yes lottery picks are a gamble, but if we make a bad selection that’s on the front office and our scouting department.

We did well in drafting morris, and we have a much stronger frontline because of it(aside from robin’s inconsistencies). It’s been obvious for some time now that we need to find suitable starting caliber replacements for steve and grant while also trying to replace the scoring that we lost with the departures of stoudamire and richardson.

We still have nobody on this team that can get the other team in foul trouble and command a double-team. We’ve added some talented bench players in price and brown, but as we’ve seen they just don’t have the consistency to bring their A game night in and night out.

In the end, it’s not about accepting the idea of tanking, it’s holding out hope that we can draft,trade or sign the player or players with enough talent,confidence and most importantly “killer instinct” to take over a game when nash and hill can’t anymore.

We all want to see the suns in the playoffs and truly competing for a title but we need to be in a position to draft the kind of talent that gets us there(right now we are missing some quality we used to have in order to attract big name free agents like we did in the past).

We missed the playoffs the last couple of seasons and did well in drafting morris, but he’s going to need a stronger supporting cast around him(like we had when we drafted marion and stoudamire,then traded for johnson and nash)

This would bring back some much needed excitement and hope for next season. So as long as this team plays as hard as they possibly can in an attempt to make the playoffs that’s a step in the right direction, if they do that and don’t make it we still can come away with some hope for the future in a high lottery pick and the chance to draft a future star.

That is assuming the front office finally embraces the purpose of the draft and the scouting department does their homework so we can get the best possible talent next to markieff.

Sun God, what i’m saying is i agree with you that we should never intentionally try to tank, this organization has too much integrity for that. We should always try to compete and get a win regardless of our record(like we did tonight against the knicks).

2009/10 was an amazing season and we always seem to find a way to defy the odds and prove the critics wrong. There is still alot of games to be played, we might somehow find a way to pile up enough wins to make the playoffs but to what end?

If we’re being truthful, we haven’t shown that we can beat the best teams in the west(yet) and the whole point of making the playoffs is to pursue a title run. I know there are some loyal,die-hard suns fans here but does anyone think that if we make the playoffs we’ll go through all the strongest teams in the west to get to the finals?

I guess once you make the playoffs anything’s possible but it doesn’t seem likely. So in a twisted sort of way, if we did end up making the playoffs and eventually got eliminated we would be happy to have made the playoffs but frustrated that we ended up being just good enough to make the post-season and deprive ourselves of the chance to add a potential impact player in a very strong draft.

That would then mean we’d have to pin all our hopes on our front office securing a top free agent aquisition this off-season (they haven’t yet shown the ability to lure an impact free agent yet so i’m doubtful they"ll do it this off-season).

For the short-term the playoffs should be our goal, for the fans so we can continue to see suns basketball after the regular season ends and hopefully relive some exciting moments.

The bad part of it is there’s a very realistic chance we won’t make it out of the first round if we do somehow secure the eighth spot. I can’t see us upsetting a #1 playoff seed on their homecourt in order to move on.

Also, if we do make the playoffs sarver will be more than happy and won’t change a thing. Wether we’re deadset on making the playoffs or not, the long-term solution is to have not just a good draft,but a great one.

We need to add some young,dynamic talent and the easiest way to do that is through this draft. some people will disagree and say the best way to do that is free agency, i say for the suns in this particular situation it’s the draft and making the right pick or picks.

It’s more cost efficient than trying to negotiate with a number of free agents asking for crazy amounts of money and unlike those free agents that can say no or have their team match the offer. We can choose the best player for our team after we work them out a number of times to see how they"ll blend with the team.We don’t have that option with potential free agents aquisitions.

Instant gratification means the playoffs, but we will eventually have to face the rebuild, we need to try and find a couple of guys worthy of taking steve and grant’s spot once they leave or retire so we can keep the playoff chase alive.

Right now, we don’t have that and that’s why our front office and scouting department have to strike gold in this draft. We have enough good young role players but no one to really build around besides markieff, and that’s simply not going to be enough if our first goal is to make the playoffs and go from there.

This is a much stronger draft this year, loaded with star talent. Last year’s draft was said to be pretty weak and we drafted morris in the late lottery. Imagine what we can get with a much higher pick in a much stronger draft.

For this reason alone i’ll choose the chance to draft a star college player over a potentially short playoff appearance in a shortened season. No to tanking, but yes to a great suns draft night!

The management could insure a great draft by trading Steve Nash for a first round pick. Think there are a few teams out there that would take Steve for a run at the playoffs?
The Suns would finish the season with about 12 to 15 wins, save another 10 million in cap space and insure themselves of a chance at a couple of young players in the draft.
In this shortened season, the fans might even forgive the franchise for trading Nash.
The team has absolutely NO CHANCE of even competing for a playoff spot in the West. The Suns will be fortunate to win 25 games with the present lineup of mostly role players, no scoring punch, no stud, no defense, no rebounding and no prospects.

I think it depends on what five players are on the court depending on the situation at the time. Anything’s possible, but it’s still very unlikely given the current makeup of this team that we’ll march to the playoffs. Have to respect your unconditional optimism Sun God.

Imagine the players and the management board really have to dig deep into their dignity to throw about 50+ games away…

i really can’t imagine a person, player or a worker has to cheat their way through all these remaining months… yeah for some it is ok to surrender to get a bite of a cheese cake, but it will be the lowest of human’s dignity to do that.

basically, it will be a cheat to the ticket holders as well… and it is like watching professional wrestling for a scripted drama..

the worst is, there is no guarantee we can get a franchise player next season that can lift ourselves up…look at the timberwolves, raptors and bulls, bulls took about 10 years to get their team together..and Wolves + raptors are still trying to get a better draft that will lift them.

By fighting on even though we miss the playoff, at least we(or the players and franchise) retain whatever honour and dignity we can scrap … without the passion where everything down to forged glory, we might as well play a console game right?