I can’t say it simple enough.
It’s fine you guys don’t want to give credit, or acknowledge where the 2007 Suns were.
Even if I pretend it’s his fault for 2004, 2005, and 2006, in 2007, he had the San Antonio Spurs on the ropes. Robert Horry hip checks Nash, and for some reason, Amare and Diaw get suspended.
Now, had Mike been able to insert Gortat, Deng, Rondo, Nate, or Rudy into those games, maybe he wins. Maybe he doesn’t, we’ll never know.
But here’s what I do know. Pop, and all his splendid wonderful coaching praise, and his THREE Hall of Famers, went on to defeat the Suns, without those 5 draft picks (or even replacement level draft picks if you so choose), AND without Stat, AND without Diaw. And for that, Pop and his 3 HOFers limped past the Suns. All it took was Mike losing roughly 7 different players, that could have been at his disposal, and again, that doesn’t even include his stupid *** owner selling Joe Johnson.
Yet every one of you praise Pop. For beating a Suns team, at half-staff. And then tell me, “Mike never won anything with that Suns team”
Give that Suns team Jerry Buss, and guess what, Mike wins at least the one title, and maybe he wins more. Why? Because Buss doesn’t sell all those draft picks to save money, that’s why.
Mike didn’t need more talent added, he just needed his talents not sold. The guy already had a thin bench, and instead of using those picks to improve the bench, they kept selling, for half a damn decade. Then they get 2 starters suspended, for really no reason, and suddenly his team is even thinner.
Then we praise Pop for winning that series.
It’s fine you guys don’t want to give credit, or acknowledge where the 2007 Suns were.
Even if I pretend it’s his fault for 2004, 2005, and 2006, in 2007, he had the San Antonio Spurs on the ropes. Robert Horry hip checks Nash, and for some reason, Amare and Diaw get suspended.
Now, had Mike been able to insert Gortat, Deng, Rondo, Nate, or Rudy into those games, maybe he wins. Maybe he doesn’t, we’ll never know.
But here’s what I do know. Pop, and all his splendid wonderful coaching praise, and his THREE Hall of Famers, went on to defeat the Suns, without those 5 draft picks (or even replacement level draft picks if you so choose), AND without Stat, AND without Diaw. And for that, Pop and his 3 HOFers limped past the Suns. All it took was Mike losing roughly 7 different players, that could have been at his disposal, and again, that doesn’t even include his stupid *** owner selling Joe Johnson.
Yet every one of you praise Pop. For beating a Suns team, at half-staff. And then tell me, “Mike never won anything with that Suns team”
Give that Suns team Jerry Buss, and guess what, Mike wins at least the one title, and maybe he wins more. Why? Because Buss doesn’t sell all those draft picks to save money, that’s why.
Mike didn’t need more talent added, he just needed his talents not sold. The guy already had a thin bench, and instead of using those picks to improve the bench, they kept selling, for half a damn decade. Then they get 2 starters suspended, for really no reason, and suddenly his team is even thinner.
Then we praise Pop for winning that series.
