Phoenix Suns Have Struggled Since Colangelo's Have Left

Instead the Suns traded both picks and made a bold move.  By bold, I mean horrific.  The Suns signed Marcus Banks to a five year deal at over $21 million.  Now I consider myself a pretty intense NBA fan, and I’m not kidding, I had no idea who Marcus Banks was.

I figured it was a shrewd move by the Suns and didn’t really worry because I figured the “Nash Effect” would take over. 

Every player that Steve Nash has played with since the second grade has turned into an All Star and had their best years while playing with him.  Sadly enough though, not even the great Steve Nash could make Marcus Banks an NBA-caliber point guard.

Later in the ’06 off-season they felt the need to lock up Boris (Doris) Diaw to a long term deal.  Diaw had a huge first year for the Suns; however, this was the same year that Amare Stoudemire missed due to his knee surgery.

Instead of waiting to see if the two could play together, the Suns gave Diaw a five-year deal worth $45 million and quickly found out that they can’t play together. 

Both players are “back to the basket” type players and need the ball to be effective.  It doesn’t help that Diaw is the softest player in the league and is as aggressive as a girl scout (that’s kind of mean to girl scouts, I take it back). 

The Suns had a very bad week in May of 2007.  After losing to the Spurs in the “Robert Horry cheap shot/Steve Nash bloody nose/Tim Donaghy throwing games” series; the Suns also lost out on the Hawks draft pick. 

The pick would stay with the Hawks if it went into the top three picks, and of course it did.

Instead of getting a player like Al Horford or Mike Conley, the Suns added Alando Tucker and Darryl Strawberry’s son.   

Shortly after the draft the Suns introduced Steve Kerr as the new GM.  Kerr’s qualifications were that he knew Michael Jordan, was from Tucson(so is Sarver), and worked for TNT. 

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