Paola Boivin of the Arizona Republic reports:
“It was hard joining a team mid-season like that,” Brooks said. “It’s a different situation when you’re in camp together, working together. It didn’t go the way I wanted it to.”
Team executives would never say it publicly, but it is clear they had given up on Dragic. You can’t blame them. For all the early promise, his struggles never went away.
It’s easy to be critical about Brooks, but people forget that attractive options are few. What Brooks has going him for him is a lot of upside and one really solid season. That’s better than many other choices, which tend to be older, less talented or less promising.
If the Suns are faced with a reasonable offer to match, they should do it.
Brooks will never be Nash but with confidence and more time in the system he can make sure the Suns have one less hole to address.
Part of the problem, of course, is that all point guards who go through Phoenix are compared to Nash. It’s a no-win approach because few are as adept as Nash at improving everyone else around them.
He’ll be gone soon. And the Suns need to figure out ways to make the segue less painful.
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