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I don't know about the win total, but the Phoenix Suns are going to be even better than last season. And that, in itself, is unexpected considering how just two weeks ago, most "experts" thought the Chris Paul contract was untradable. 🏀
@@alansnow1129 that should have been anticipated/expected, though, since Chris Paul is one of, if not THE most injury-prone player in the league, and they traded Mr. Healthy (Mikal Bridges) for another most injury-prone player (Kevin Durant). So yeah, if we're going based on injury, they actually got WORSE, because Bradley Beal is low-key pretty damn injury-prone, too! 😂🤣
Chris Paul was definitely holding the Suns back, being injured every year, during the playoffs. I feel like teams with great shooting guards through centers tend to win championships more often, than great point guards.
@@johnthree1611 like I wrote, Chris Paul is one of the most injury-prone players in the NBA. But the legacies of Bob Cousy, Oscar Robertson, Magic Johnson, Jason Kidd and Rajon Rondo would refute the idea that point guards have not been the straws that stirred the drink. These players respective teams won NBA championships because of their elite playmaking. The line between PG and SG has been blurred because basketball has become more positionless in recent years, but essentially, if whoever takes that floor general role has elite court vision, passing skills and basketball IQ, they will be a dominant force with the right pieces around them. 🏀🏆
@@TuNnL , name a traditional point guard that has won a championship in the past few years..... Kid won one championship, Rondo wasn't a championship machine. This team will flourish without a traditional point guard.
I'm still not convince until Deandre will show his All-Star potential. DA is no doubt can be very dominant but for some reason, he has the similar mentality of Ben Simmons. I do wish that the new coaching staff will finally unlock his worth.
He's not the only big on the team and if he pouts they could take him out of the lineup. They 2 back up bigs who can defend the rim and dunk. That's all they need from the 5
He better than Ben Simmons. I think his current issues stem from his old coach and will be fixed with the new one who will have a defined role for him.
@@stevenbrown1762, I feel like it is best to take him out, the minute that he pouts, or underperforms. Monty would leave him in, because he just never made proper adjustments.
DA should be able to play his kind of game because defenses won't have the luxury of collapsing around the basket because SUNS were so inconsistent with 3's and this allowed smothering DA. Now with everyone so dangerous beyond the arc DA will be especially dangerous with rolling to the basket.
The new rules are essentially what happens when you raise the minimum wage in a state: it always just eats away at the middle class. Wal-Mart, Amazon, Google all continue to thrive but medium scale businesses like mom and pop shops, local owned companies, etc. find it harder to afford personnel and most of the time close. Now we got guys that should be the middle class (Eric Gordon like you mentioned) having to settle for minimums just for a hope to being on the same team with superstars to win. The stars on the other hand will get their money like the rich still do when the wage is raised because they're established and teams will build around them: Booker, KD, etc.
Yeah but more working class people will be lifted into "middle class" territory, and that goes for workers at every company, large or small. The owners of the businesses that close will go back to being workers. So if anything, there's more middle class. It's just redistributed from owners to workers. Economics is complicated and every case is different, but in the US, the federal minimum wage is $7.25/hour. There's literally 0 places where you could even cover rent working full time with that. Additionally, the majority of the work force does not have a degree (money being the main reason). A study looking at over from the Federal Reserve Banks of Philadelphia and Cleveland analyzing 121 metro areas found that for every job paying above the median wage, there are 5 workers without a degree. There's a lot of conflicting research on how it effects employment but I think you could at least make a case for increasing minimum wage regardless.
Yeah Gabe you may wanna not put your Suns content on this channel. You do Suns content too well to the point where people think you need to make a separate channel just for Suns content when you already have one
Same reason why you won't see Pat Bev on this team is the same reason why you won't see Rondo. Out of respect for CP3, Suns won't betray him and bring in a player he has bad blood with to take his place
There is no such team as a super team. Only an all star team or an Olympic team is a super team. On a 15 man roster having 3 all stars doesn’t make that team a super team. Salary caps rules will never allow an star type of super team in the NBA.
Who would you rather have in this new environment, Cam Johnson for 20M/yr or Ute Watanabe for 2M/yr? If you also want max players that is. The CBA is going to kill off the nice payday for lots of players.
The suns did really well including the beal deal But if you’re actually look at the deal closer you’ll see that the wizards didn’t get as fleeced as we thought. They got 4 pick swaps. The first one next year don’t mean crap. But who knows about 2026. Or 2028. 2030. How often are teams that good that long in modern nba. The seconds don’t matter that much but they still got 6 of them. And they turned Chris Paul into another first. Second. Jordan pool. Wizards didn’t do as bad as we originally thought. It wasn’t just a few salary dumps and seconds. 4 swaps could be very lucrative. Especially when Durant is 36. Brittle. And the new cba is coming
Gabe is unbiased with his opinions on other teams. He likes players from other teams and will speak highly of them if they are good. Even if I personally don't wanna hear about it
Good thing the playoffs are 7 game series. Sure a bad shooting night can happen but not 4 games out of 7. Not with this team. The only chance anyone outside the bucks, nuggets and Celtics have is a game changing trade or injury. It’s down to those 4 teams until a big trade or injury.
