Valley Suns

I know Pat Spencer is a better player than him, but I would rather have Kobe Brea right now.

Hopefully the Suns are able to keep him on the Valley Suns, but I wouldn't be surprised if another team tries to sign him.

Yeah, when I saw the news that the Suns were going to waive Kobe Brea, I was really surprised.

I thought they were going to give him one more season just to see what he can develop into.

Like, I know he had his opportunities last season on the Valley Suns, but I feel like the G League doesn't really fit what Kobe Brea's skill set would be in the NBA.

Like in the G League, there is no Devin Booker.

There is no Jalen Green.

He's too slow to play the 4 and isn't strong enough to be a 5.

What's their G League affiliate? It's the blue, right? It's not the Oklahoma City blue, is it? It's the something blue.

We're the Valley Suns.

They're like the Thunder Blue.

I don't know what they are.

Beginning of the year last year, we saw Isaiah Livers play a lot more minutes than you would expect a two-way contract guy to play.

And then it kind of passed off to Jamari Bouye, who we thought was just going to be a guy who was very valuable for the development of guys with Valley Suns.

But it's like, man, he's stepping up and playing a role due to necessity but making it happen.

So what you said Jordan Knott said, they have an eye on the skill set that Drew Timmy brings to the table and what he can bring to the table.

So you know there's a cap on how often they can play.

But these are guys who, with the exception of Drew Timmy, maybe, I'm not expecting to see Pat Spencer and Dwight Reith go and play with Valley Suns.

That also gives you an opportunity to just field a Valley Suns exclusive team, maybe send some of your younger guys who are on the roster, like Okoa Pete, like Rashear Fleming down to Tempe to play games there and not have to worry about younger two-way guys who need the reps because that's a big part of being on a two-way contract in the standard sense.

So I'm, again, curious to see how this works out, how this experiment works out.

And I think the other part of it is to what extent do you trust those three guys who are in some senses NBA veterans to step in and play spot minutes in an NBA game?

He might do what he did last year.

And again, play for the Valley Suns.

And when the time comes, you know, maybe the Suns do want to take Duopreath and make him a full-time contract, much akin to how we did Jamar Bouye last year.

Then they re-signed CJ Huntley.

C.J. Huntley won't.

So C.J. Huntley will most likely come back to the Suns on the Valley Suns team, just like he did last year.

And the Suns are gonna leave open that final roster spot, because that's what they do, right? That's what they do.

They like that flexibility because they don't know exactly who they are right now, and they don't know exactly what their needs are right now.