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Phoenix bungled free agency in 2011 and 2012 before hiring McDonough as GM and then Jeff Hornacek as coach ahead of the 2013-14 season. McDonough offloaded Marcin Gortat for a future first-round pick just days before that season in an attempt to tank http://www.bearsofficialsstore.com/Kyle_Fuller_Jersey_Cheap -- the first time Robert Sarver, the Suns' impatient (by his own admission) and meddlesome owner had green lit a true rebuild.

They zoomed to 48 wins instead behind an All-NBA season from Goran Dragic; they barely missed the playoffs in one of the toughest conference races in NBA history. In the summer of 2014, they tripled down on point guards, nabbing Isaiah Thomas in a sign-and-trade for almost nothing, on a bargain deal, a third point guard to play alongside Dragic and Eric Bledsoe.

None of the three were happy, a problem the Suns should have foreseen, even if snagging Thomas at that price was irresistible. Phoenix created a point guard version of the Jahlil Okafor-Nerlens Noel-Joel Embiid problem that would flummox Philadelphia later. Phoenix ended up trading at least two from a position of weakness.
Dragic requested a trade in February 2015. He was in the final year of his contract, and several suitors recoiled at giving up assets for a guy who could walk in five months. The Suns somehow extracted two first-round picks from Miami in exchange for Dragic: a top-7 protected pick in the 2018 draft (unprotected in 2019) that looks a bit more enticing today with Miami at 5-6, and an unprotected pick in 2021. You can knock Phoenix for lots of things, but that is a nice haul for a non-All-Star point guard with both feet out the door.
The possibility of stopping right there, in the winter of 2015 with those two extra picks, haunts the Suns. They could have stood pat and gone forward with Thomas, Bledsoe, Marcus and Markieff Morris, Alex Len (the No. 5 pick in the 2013 draft, and McDonough's first pick as GM), TJ Warren (the 14th pick in 2014), a pick in the upcoming 2015 draft, boundless cap flexibility, and most promising of all, a lightly protected pick from the Lakers -- via the Nash trade -- that was among the jewels of the league.
That isn't a golden ticket to 55 wins. Len has been a disappointment considering he went five spots above CJ McCollum, 10 above Giannis Antetokounmpo, and 22 above Rudy Gobert. Every team has draft Kevin Shattenkirk Youth jersey regrets like that. Half the league missed on Antetokounmpo. Damn near the entirety of it passed on Gobert.
But it's a nice foundation of trade chips, veterans, and prospects. For a moment, the Suns could have lived the dream: compete for the playoffs now, with a cupboard stocked for tomorrow. Straddling both paths at the same time is perhaps the hardest team-building challenge in sports. Phoenix had done it.
The Suns opted out of the scenario in a series of confusing moves that upended everything. Minutes after flipping Dragic, they dealt Thomas to Boston in exchange for a low first-round pick, and then surrendered the Lakers pick for Brandon Knight. It was puzzling then, or at least incredibly high risk. It has morphed into the sort of fork-in-the-road moment that can destabilize a franchise for years.
McDonough has already said he would like a "mulligan" for the Thomas deal. "It is a deal," he says, "that we get criticized for."
It's hard http://www.officialredsstore.com/authentic-5-johnny-bench-jersey.html to remember now, but the majority of NBA insiders back then viewed the Lakers as a free agency juggernaut that might sign their way back to mediocrity in 2015-16 -- devaluing the pick Phoenix traded. They struck out, repeatedly and sometimes embarrassingly, before Jeanie Buss ordered a regime change. The pick still hasn't conveyed; it is unprotected now, and will go in this draft to either Philadelphia or Boston. It was a crown jewel after all.
Five months after those trades, nudged on by an owner intoxicated by that 48-win season and who badly wanted to end Phoenix's playoff drought, the Suns signed Chandler, then almost 33, to a four-year, $52 million contract. They then used Chandler as bait for LaMarcus Aldridge. "I am not a real patient person," Sarver told Grantland that summer.
To crack open space for Aldridge, Phoenix dumped Marcus Morris onto the Pistons. They would likely have moved Markieff Morris then, too, had Aldridge come, but dealing Marcus away fractured their relationship with Markieff. Phoenix traded him to Washington for a first-round pick the next season. They ended up trading that pick -- plus two other assets -- to move up and draft Chriss.
In what felt like a flash, almost all Kevin Shattenkirk Youth jersey of Phoenix's prime-aged talent aside from Bledsoe and Knight was gone.
Drafting Booker is the one question mark in comparing those two scenarios. In that first scenario -- in which the Suns keep Thomas, and hit the brakes after the Dragic deal -- they may not have picked high enough to nab Booker 13th in 2015. As Thomas lifted Boston into the playoffs, the Suns sunk without him from 29-25 at the trade deadline to 39-43 -- and jumped up in the draft order. No first-rounder taken after Booker that year has anything like his upside. That first scenario might include Cameron Payne instead of Booker.
It's still better than where Phoenix is today. http://www.officialarizonacoyotes.com/Adidas-Justin-Peters-Jersey They would have been able to pivot in almost any direction from a position of strengthThey have no starter-level point guard, and no prospect who might turn into one. They have to make another coaching decision after Watson's departure. Phoenix looked unprepared and unmotivated to start the season. The locker room was off before the opening debacle against Portland, Booker recalls. "We all just sat there with our headphones on," Booker says. "You can feel the energy of a locker room before a game, and we didn't have it. How is our energy not there in the first game?"
Watson started Jackson at power forward. Effort waned. Players whispered that Watson, always encouraging, seemed to let guys stay on the floor through too many mistakes. They wondered about accountability, sources say, and that has become a buzzword up and down the organization under Triano. (Watson declined comment.)
Triano has nothing but good things to say about Watson, and insists he shares in the blame for the 0-3 start. "You feel partially responsible," he says. "I was the lead assistant." The team's leaders also harbor no ill will toward Bledsoe, and insist his trade request -- an open secret within the team -- did not sap morale. "Eric's tension wasn't with the players," Booker says. "That's one of my dearest friends."
But things are different now. Jackson is coming off the bench and playing at small forward. "I thought we did Josh a bit of a disservice playing him at [power forward] when he has only played [small forward], and Kevin Shattenkirk Youth jersey we think his future in the NBA is there," Triano says.
Triano tweaked the scheme on defense, and instituted clear, simple rules for help defenders: one foot at the edge of the paint, a step or two further than Watson permitted. (Watson wanted to erase corner 3s, and so far, the Suns are allowing the third fewest as a share of opponent attempts, per Cleaning The Glass.) Phoenix is running more varied plays on offense

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