Haywood Highsmith

And then another minor move the Suns made that made us all confused about what the Suns were doing.

They waived Haywood Highsmith and then re-signed Haywood Highsmith.

Overall, this is another good signing, another great death piece for the Suns to have in the regular season.

If there's any injuries to the wings on this team, Haywood Highsmith is a good, reliable vet for the Suns to have out there.

Am I going to get mad throughout the season if Haywood Highsmith gets minutes over Kobe Pete? Most likely.

But I do understand why the Suns re-signed him.

He's just a great vet to have out there.

He's a great defender and has shown that he can hit threes consistently and has shown throughout his career that he can play that fourth spot.

Like he could have easily blocked it, but Coepeat was able to get the ball off the glass and score so those are the moments where i'm just like i can definitely see koa pete playing rotation minutes for this team and the suns definitely have the players out there to still have some great spacing out there like if koa pete's gonna play maybe mawash can be at the five do i breathe can be at the five stuff like that like that can really help koa pete still get rotation minutes out there Is it a guarantee? Probably not.

It definitely feels like the Suns will probably prefer to play Haywood Highsmith or Rashir Fleming over Kobe for now.

But I feel like Kobe so far has shown that he does have the potential to play rotation minutes for the Suns team because the Suns really need a guy that can just grab the ball and just be an automatic paint touch and be able to pass it out to anybody on the perimeter to create easy shots for others.

And that's what Kobe has done so far in preseason.

He's had moments where he gets the ball from an inbound play and just dribbles the ball up the court and passes it to the next guy as soon as he touches the paint.

So I can definitely see a world where our boy Cole Pete does get rotation minutes, but I wouldn't say it's a guarantee.

It definitely feels like still Fleming and Haywood Highsmith would get those minutes over him.

But I would love it if Cole Pete gets those minutes because guys, I have been drinking the Coa Pete Kool-Aid.

He also had a great block in this game.

He got a steal from the Spurs point guard and passed it out to Haywood Highsmith, who hit a three.

Just overall, a great game from Malawach.

I was really impressed.

But I just really appreciate that the Suns are letting him handle the ball.

And I did notice that in this game, Koa Pete really didn't play until like the last six minutes.

So I don't know if the Suns are going to be playing Haywood Highsmith over Koa Pete.

Who knows? Because the Suns still have to waive one of these players to get a full roster, basically.

The Suns also waived CJ Huntley to convert Duopree's training camp deal to a two-way.

And they waived Haywood Highsmith to keep the roster at 14.

I would have liked the Suns to keep Highsmith.

But it looks like they wanted to save some money by keeping the roster at 14 and for future trades.

And I wouldn't be surprised if the Suns front office also waived him.

Just so odd doesn't play a veteran over the young guys like Fleming and Coapete.

CJ Hundley is another guy that I really want the Suns to keep on the Valley Suns as well just because I really do think just because I do think that he has the potential to be a good third string center out there and I really enjoy his infectious energy out there whenever I was watching the Valley Suns I was always entertained by how energetic he was out there he was always rim running he was always catching lobs and he was just a really fun player to watch so hopefully he's still going to be on the Valley Suns and honestly I don't know how to feel about the Suns waving Haywood Highsmith to keep the roster at four like i know by the end of the day the nba is a business so the biggest reason the suns so i know the biggest reason the suns aren't keeping haywood highsmith on this roster is just so they could save some money but overall i don't hate the move because it does force jordan odd to give minutes to koa pete and fleming over the regular season instead of giving it to a vet but i also would have liked haywood highsmith on this roster just because it does give this team a good veteran to have who can play that 3 and d role if they really needed it during the regular season because as we all know after last season injuries can really take a toll on a team so haywood highsmith would have been a good veteran 3 and d wing to have on this team but overall i do understand this is more of a saving money type of move but i also like the move because it does force a jordan odd to play the young guys so i really don't know how to feel about this move so go ahead guys comment down below what you think about this move yeah so that's all the moves the suns have made over the last couple of days But the Suns aren't the only team that made moves over the last couple of days.

There's been a good amount of young players that got waived by their team that are still eligible to sign two-way contracts.

Because in this one, Miles Bridges was out there playing with Duat Breit as a center.

So I can definitely see a world where oh so would be a better option than do i breathe because so far do i breathe has shown that the only thing he can really do out there is hit threes and attack the paint here and there yeah guys so gamba reported that the suns are going to give boy the 14th roster spot so most likely what that means is that haywood highsmith is going to be the guy that gets waved and then do i breathe is going to be converted to a two-way contract and I can't lie, that's a pretty good decision.

So far, Highsmith hasn't really done anything crazy in these preseason games for me to really want him to stay.

And Highsmith is a good veteran wing to have during the regular season.

Like, even though the Suns lost the game in the second half, the Suns still had a lot of solid talent out there.

They had Koa P, Jamari Buwe, Haywood Highsmith, Uwabri.

Like, all solid guys that would play rotation minutes for other teams.

But...

So that's a big reason why I just think the Suns are a guaranteed playoff team.

Like, who are these other teams going to play when they have, like, multiple injuries on their team? Like, the Suns, they could throw in a Haywood Highsmith, a Ryan Dunn, a Cole Pete.

Like, all guys that should be getting rotation minutes on other teams.

But for the Suns, they're just not guaranteed those minutes.

Like, this definitely has, like, a trickle-down effect where, like, our wings are gonna get some playing time out there.

But even though I mentioned all those three young wings on her team to play small ball center, I wouldn't be surprised at all if Jorah not does another Haywood Highsmith small ball lineup out there.

But honestly, if the Suns do put like a Fleming as a small ball center, it wouldn't be too bad because Fleming does have the size.

Like he's really not that undersized compared to like other backup fives around the league.