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Flopatey wrote:Ils auront un choix de draft moyen...

Spartacus wrote:Jeff Hornacek vient de perdre espoir de gagner le titre de coach de l'année.

Il me semblait avoir lu quelque part que, jamais un coach qui ne se qualifie pas pour les playoffs, n'a reçu cette distinction.

Dans le cas contraire, ce serait une première.

jujug wrote:Oui mais ils ont quand même trois premiers tours: le leur, celui des Wizards et celui d'Indiana donc ils auront quand même un choix dans la loterie, un aux alentours de la 15-20è place et un en fin de premier tour. Il y a moyen sur cette draft, quand on voit ce qu'Hornacek a su sortir de ses jeunes joueurs cette saison de faire quelque chose pour l'avenir.

So with the Suns guaranteed to have at least three more first-round picks in the upcoming draft, the question becomes how does general manager Ryan McDonough balance the development of Goodwin and Len with the crop of draftees soon to enter the fold.

Truth be told, he doesn't.

"I think it's unlikely we bring in three rookies to the Suns next year," McDonough said at Friday's season-ending press conference. "We obviously have Alex and Archie, who we are high on. With the success that we had this year, it's a good problem to have. But, it's tough to develop rookies and also try to win a lot of games.

"If you look at the rookies this year, the guys that will be first-team All-Rookie or the Rookie of the Year candidates, most of those guys are on teams that were towards the bottom of the league. It's hard to do both, unless it's a special, special rookie that can get playing time and help you win."

"Our preference would be, as I said when I arrived, to trade for a star if we can do that," said McDonough. "We feel like we've traded for some pretty good players in Eric [Bledsoe] and Miles [Plumlee]. Gerald Green also played a big role for us this year. But, we're going to continue to explore the trade market.

"I think, though, if we do go in with the 14th, the 18th and 27th pick, that it's unlikely we draft three guys and bring them to the Suns. The options are packaging them for a veteran player, packaging them to move up, we could draft a European player or two and leave them overseas or we could trade our pick for future picks and spread them out."