Pick and Roll: worst case scenario

In our first pick and roll of the regular season, Steve Fan and I take a look at the worst case scenario for the Suns this season, and wonder if it would still be better than rooting for say, the Grizzlies or Clippers.

Take it away Steve Fan:

The Suns season is ready to implode anytime now. Steve Nash, now that he has proved he can play MVP-type of basketball again, will retire to concentrate on his real passion: soccer. He will eventually make the Vancouver MLS roster and then be offered a one year loan deal to join AC Milan to play alongside David Beckham (in what will become known as the Nash and Becks experiment).

Losing their PG the Suns will more or less fall apart in a few weeks.

Amare’s stats will go south in a hurry and this being a contract year, he will  go nuts and try to kill Dragic after the young Slovenian fails to dish him a single assist for the third consecutive game.  Stoudemire will soon play with black sunglasses to avoid eye contact with his teammates.
Sadness will hit the team.  Barbosa will not find the game fun anymore and move back to Copacabana.  Grant Hill will see himself in the mirror and realize he’s become an old man who needs to spend more time at home with his family.

Steve Kerr will trade for a PG to sort things out, shipping J-Rich, Clark and a future first round pick to the Grizzlies for A. Iverson.  In a related move, Memphis will trade Rudy Gay and Marc Gasol to the Lakers for a second round pick in 2014.

The Suns will end the season 20-62, but finish at least 20 million dollar under the luxury tax making Mr. Sarver a very happy owner.

Coach Gentry will sport a big smile at his season-ending press conference and tell the world the Suns might have had a tough year, but hey, at least they aren’t the Clippers.

Last week, as the Suns beat the Clippers in the opener I was wondering if there’s a worse team to root for in the sports.  They of course, lost that game on a last second shot by Nash, the night after they lost to their cross town rivals who were getting their championship rings. To add insult to injury earlier in the week they had lost their hope for the immediate future, rookie Blake Griffin, for a couple of months. Blake was lost to a stress fracture, before playing a real game in the league.

It seems like they can’t get it right…they can’t hire a decent coach, they keep making mistakes in signing free agents, losing the talented players to injury…a mess. They’re such a mess, I think I love them.

Seriously, let’s just hope Steve Nash stays happy and healthy. If that doesn’t happen the chain reaction will start and the Suns really could implode. The key to the Suns system is Nash and only Nash. The Suns had proved in the past they could live without Stoudemire, they could replace shooting guards, they could live without decent rebounding, but without our QB it just doesn’t work.

Mark McLane:

“This just in…Kobe Bryant and Tim Duncan are lost at sea…” Er, worst case scenario for the Suns?  Right.  My mistake.

I look at the worst case scenario as being out of the playoff race by the All-Star break.  Maybe it’s an injury to Nash, perhaps LB’s wrist never heals and J-Rich goes down as well, or Nash and Hill suddenly get very old, very quickly.

Whatever the reason, if the Suns aren’t sniffing the playoffs come February, things will move to DEFCON 5 rather quickly in the desert, and Kerr will have an itchy doomsday trigger finger.  Kiss Nash, Amar’e, and Hill goodbye, and say hello to an honest to goodness rebuilding effort, something I’m not so sure I’m ready for.

Let’s face it, Kerr’s track record and Sarver’s meddling do not instill confidence.  Starting from scratch may very well have been the best idea for even this season, but the contractors in charge of building from the ground up sure look to be carrying faulty permits.

The last thing we want is to become the Memphis of the west.  Forget worst case scenario, that would be more of a nightmare come true.

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