Suns Next Year: Change of Strategy?

[Metsis]

Phoenix is going to stay put...

If you take Marion out of the mix on the fast break, that makes the dunking a lot harder for Amare... As key for the Suns this season clearly was that the center and the power forward were running the break and if this drops down to only one guy, the fast breaking is in trouble again.

Chandler, Curry, Dalembert... None of them can run like Amare or Marion, so I have a very strong hunch that the starting five will pretty much the same. The only fathomable change I can see coming is if Joe Johnson gets a ridiculous amount of money from another team and frankly I don't see him being worth the maximum contract...

Joe is good... Don't get me wrong, but a franchise player, I don't think he's got enough merit for that just yet. Maybe in a couple of years... But not now.

The problem with Phoenix and their playing style is that you just can't get big bodies to help your defense, it will slow down the game and kill the offensive bursts that Phoenix has right now. It was only the first season. I can already see Amare averaging 40ppg next season...

[Andrew]

People said that about Kobe when he averaged 30 a game in the regular season back in the 2002/2003 season. It's one thing to average 37 points in a playoff series, another to keep it up for 82 games. I'd say he'll be around the 26, 27 mark again next year.