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Re: RC Buford wins Executive of the Year (finally)
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Originally Posted by
Xylus
I laid out why McD deserved the award. I agree with you guys that RC deserved the award in the past, but this seems like a very strange year to give it to him, since all he did was keep a Finals team intact.
Suns fans worship at the foot of McD. We wanted to see our fearless leader get his recognition.
He will.
It was getting so late in the game, that I despaired of RC ever getting one. I think that the fact that the big FA signing of the summer was that putz Howard left the field wide open. Beli was also a better signing than people credit. He allowed Manu to rest and essentially play off him, instead of having to do ALL the playmaking and MOST of the scoring for the bench.
If it makes you feel any better, Bryan Colangelo has two of them. That in itself almost invalidates the award. :lol
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Re: RC Buford wins Executive of the Year (finally)
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Originally Posted by
DAF86
The Nets GM deserved it more than your guy.
Not sure if serious tbh...
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Re: RC Buford wins Executive of the Year (finally)
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Originally Posted by
DAF86
The Nets GM deserved it more than your guy.
Hahahaha. Bullshit, and then some.
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Re: RC Buford wins Executive of the Year (finally)
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Originally Posted by
Aztecfan03
He is being an idiot. Even if McDonough might have been a better choice, no one really wants to discuss it with him.
Not being an idiot. Being accurate, even in a hyper trollish manner.
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Re: RC Buford wins Executive of the Year (finally)
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Originally Posted by
Mugen
Not sure if serious tbh...
Why not? He turned a shitty team into arguably the 2nd best team in the East.
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Re: RC Buford wins Executive of the Year (finally)
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Originally Posted by
JMarkJohns
Hahahaha. Bullshit, and then some.
Yeah, I forgot the Nets missed the playoffs and the Suns are still playing.
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Re: RC Buford wins Executive of the Year (finally)
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Originally Posted by
Mugen
If anything, I'd be mad at my GM for putting my team in a crappy position for a team in the NBA, not good enough for the playoffs and not crappy enough for a good lottery pick.
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this is a good point actually
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Re: RC Buford wins Executive of the Year (finally)
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Originally Posted by
DAF86
Why not? He turned a shitty team into arguably the 2nd best team in the East.
They have a 190mil payroll and are about to be swept in the 2nd round....
Going from a team that lost in 7 in the first round last year to a team that gets swept in the 2nd round this year isn't much of an accomplishment.....
The 48 Win Phoenix Suns team would probably be 2nd or 3rd best team in the East tbh :lol
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Re: RC Buford wins Executive of the Year (finally)
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Originally Posted by
FromWayDowntown
Suns fans acting like RC hipchecked a guy into the scorer's table and provoked dudes to leave the immediate vicinity of the bench resulting in the NBA imposing a playoff suspension that likely cost their team a series and a title.
Like that ever happened.
You want me to pull up the thread from that time where you lamented that you wished SpursFan was more like ME?!
I'm pissed. Its bullshit.
Don't become just another SpursFan reveling wrong for the sake of fandom. I'm right, even if trolling, and while I openly acknowledge Buford is worthy, he's not this year, not like others, especially McDonough.
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Re: RC Buford wins Executive of the Year (finally)
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Originally Posted by
heyheymymy
this is a good point actually
It's bullshit. The point is to be competitive. He maximized every trade, and save for injury, conference affiliation, or playoff alignment, he'd have taken a bottom-5 team to top-11 in one offseason, while actually building a future, not sacrificing it. He constructed a team that finished 14 seeds better than the direct season prior. Not 14 wins. Seeds.
It's incredible.
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Re: RC Buford wins Executive of the Year (finally)
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Originally Posted by
DAF86
Yeah, I forgot the Nets missed the playoffs and the Suns are still playing.
Does it taste like ass when you talk from spewing so much shit on this board?
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Re: RC Buford wins Executive of the Year (finally)
Congrats to RC. He was the most deserving candidate this year. Fuck the Suns! :toast
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Re: RC Buford wins Executive of the Year (finally)
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Originally Posted by
Mugen
They have a 190mil payroll and are about to be swept in the 2nd round....
Going from a team that lost in 7 in the first round last year to a team that gets swept in the 2nd round this year isn't much of an accomplishment.....
The 48 Win Phoenix Suns team would probably be 2nd or 3rd best team in the East tbh :lol
Still better than assambling a team that will navegate on mediocracy for quite some time.
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Re: RC Buford wins Executive of the Year (finally)
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Originally Posted by
Xylus
McD did the following in last year's off-season:
Traded:
Jared Dudley + 2nd round pick --> Eric Bledsoe :lol
Luis Scola --> Gerald Green + Miles Plumlee + 1st round pick :lol :lol
Marcin Gortat + Shannon Brown + Kendall Marshall --> Emeka Okafor's $14mil expiring + 1st round pick
Hired Jeff Hornacek as coach
So basically he inherited a 25-win team with one of the worst rosters in the NBA, flipped a bunch of non-stars into a couple of 1st round picks and Eric Bledsoe, hired a coach of the year candidate, and turned the Suns into a 48-win team in the Western conference. His moves put our rebuilding efforts about 3 years ahead of schedule.
This is clearly a lifetime achievement award for RC, but McDonough got straight robbed here. Pop over Hornacek is understandable, if debatable. This is the first award this postseason I feel like they got completely wrong.
All of that and you did not make the playoffs. Go ahead and overrate Plum and Bledsoe some more please. You really should act more like those first round picks aren't in the 20s. Scola, Gortat and Dudley at least made the playoffs.
Further, the awards are not determined on the basis of a single year. The effects that trades have take years to manifest. I do not think you could have evaluated the Leonard trade well the year it was made for example.
Quite frankly after those Nash MVPs several years ago I have to say that Sunfan whining about undeserved awards is hilarious. Now complain about Stoudemire et al being suspended for idiocy and how means the league hates the Suns and our day can be complete. Suns tear are delicious.
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Re: RC Buford wins Executive of the Year (finally)
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Originally Posted by
JMarkJohns
Does it taste like ass when you talk from spewing so much shit on this board?
Are you really this butthurt over this? Damn, your life must suck. :lol
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Re: RC Buford wins Executive of the Year (finally)
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Originally Posted by
JMarkJohns
It's bullshit. The point is to be competitive. He maximized every trade, and save for injury, conference affiliation, or playoff alignment, he'd have taken a bottom-5 team to top-11 in one offseason, while actually building a future, not sacrificing it. He constructed a team that finished 14 seeds better than the direct season prior. Not 14 wins. Seeds.
It's incredible.
Maximized. In each of those trades, the team you traded to made the postseason. You did not. You maximized a lottery pick.
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Re: RC Buford wins Executive of the Year (finally)
I'm bored as shit. I'm administering back to back finals. My grading is caught up.
I like to kicks the anthill from time to time.
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Re: RC Buford wins Executive of the Year (finally)
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Originally Posted by
FuzzyLumpkins
Maximized. In each of those trades, the team you traded to made the postseason. You did not. You maximized a lottery pick.
Hahaha. Thanks for playing. Every team, save for maybe Wizards, would undo the trades in a heartbeat.
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Re: RC Buford wins Executive of the Year (finally)
Ah...the old "go into a rage on a message board and then try to pass it off as trolling" trick. Nice.
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Re: RC Buford wins Executive of the Year (finally)
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Originally Posted by
DAF86
Still better than assambling a team that will navegate on mediocracy for quite some time.
Dude, they have 3 first round picks in the deepest draft since 2003.
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Re: RC Buford wins Executive of the Year (finally)
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Originally Posted by
exstatic
Dude, they have 3 first round picks in the deepest draft since 2003.
Get back to me in a couple of years.
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Re: RC Buford wins Executive of the Year (finally)
Objective truth: Clippers, Pacers, and Wizards are all in their conference's semifinals. The Suns are a lottery team.
Typical Sunfan bullshit wishful thinking:
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Originally Posted by
JMarkJohns
Hahaha. Thanks for playing. Every team, save for maybe Wizards, would undo the trades in a heartbeat.
You really think they would change the chemistry that has each of those teams in the second round? Uh-huh. . .
I get why you have to make shit up: what you know to be true is not very appealing.
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Re: RC Buford wins Executive of the Year (finally)
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Originally Posted by
exstatic
Dude, they have 3 first round picks in the deepest draft since 2003.
And each one of them are 22 or later. It is deep because even the Suns own lottery pick if slotted accordingly is a safe pick. That is not the same as finding sure starters at the end of the round.
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Re: RC Buford wins Executive of the Year (finally)
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Originally Posted by
CitizenDwayne
Ah...the old "go into a rage on a message board and then try to pass it off as trolling" trick. Nice.
Stupid dumbass. I've stated many times I'm a professor on these boards.
Funny how my rage was delayed for like 10 hours huh.
I'm pissed. Yeah. It's bullshit. But had banter not started back, it have begun and ended with that first post. Everyone got Bufordhurt and I opted to pass the time.
It is bullshit, however. And everyone knows it.
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Re: RC Buford wins Executive of the Year (finally)
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Originally Posted by
FuzzyLumpkins
Objective truth: Clippers, Pacers, and Wizards are all in their conference's semifinals. The Suns are a lottery team.
Typical Sunfan bullshit wishful thinking.
You really think they would change the chemistry that has each of those teams in the second round? Uh-huh. . .
I get why you have to make shit up: what you know to be true is not very appealing.
Keep playing.
