PHOENIX -- After a season of injuries and indecision, the Phoenix Suns hope they have tweaked their young roster correctly as they open the 2016-17 season against the Sacramento Kings on Wednesday night. Facundo Roncaglia Argentina Jersey .Two years ago, the Suns best three guards (Eric Bledsoe, Goran Dragic and Isaiah Thomas) all played the same position. But the logjam at point guard quickly went from unworkable to untenable, beginning a spiral that forced a reboot to the Suns rebuilding plans.Now the Suns kick off the 2016-17 season with three guards with defined positions and roles.Bledsoe is the survivor of the purge and the undisputed point guard, hoping to rebound from injuries that forced him to watch most of last seasons 23-59 disaster from the sideline.Devin Booker, who rose from the ashes of a terrible season, is now the starting shooting guard and face of the franchise a few days shy of his 20th birthday. He became the fourth-youngest player in league history (behind LeBron James, Kevin Durant and Kobe Bryant) to score 1,000 points in a season.Brandon Knight, plagued by injuries and inconsistency but an undeniable offensive force, will come off the bench as a sixth man who will see major playing time in coach Earl Watsons rotation that now includes former Suns Leandro Barbosa and Jared Dudley and a host of promising but unproven talent.With Bledsoe, Booker, Knight and Barbosa heading up the guard rotation, the Suns waived Archie Goodwin on Monday and opted to keep John Jenkins and Tyler Ulis at the end of the bench. Goodwin had several highlight-reel moments during his three seasons with the Suns but never enough to warrant serious playing time.Suns general manager Ryan McDonough told Arizona Sports 98.7 FM that Goodwin had requested a change of scenery.We felt like we got down to 16 really good, quality NBA players. Archie and his agents for the last few months asked us to accommodate a trade request, McDonough said. With that in mind, we told Archie and his agent wed try to help him move to a team where hed have an opportunity and play. Unfortunately, we werent able to work out a deal. This time of a year, its hard.Forward P.J. Tucker, who underwent back surgery in September, was cleared to play on Tuesday and will come off the bench. T.J. Warren, coming off season-ending foot surgery himself, will start at forward with Dudley and Tyson Chandler at center.While the Suns have missed the playoffs for six consecutive seasons, the Kings are trying to break a 10-year postseason drought. Despite an explosive season from center DeMarcus Cousins, who ranked fourth in the NBA in scoring at 26.9 points per game, the Kings won only 33 games -- the most in Cousins six season in Sacramento.The Kings won three out of four meetings with the Suns last season, and Cousins was a big reason.Sacramento will start the season without starting point guard Darren Collison, who will begin an eight-game suspension due to a guilty plea to a misdemeanor charge of domestic battery. Ty Lawson will start at the point for the Kings, looking to rebound after two poor seasons and two DUI arrests in 2015.The Kings will open the season with 11 games in the first 17 days. Most of those games will be with Lawson as the only true point guard on the roster.Its going to be a rough stretch, Lawson told the Sacramento Bee. If things go bad, weve just got to stick together. We cant pull apart. 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Bangladesh coach Chandika Hathurusingha has said that finding new players less than a week before the first Test against England is a formidable challenge.It was a brutally realistic assessment of the home teams prospects in their first Test in more than 14 months which they will play without three of their top fast bowlers Mashrafe Mortaza, Mustafizur Rahman and Taskin Ahmed.These three bowlers have given Bangladeshs ODI team a more all-round bowling outlook and provided match-winning options by playing together. But none of these are in contention for the first Test that starts from October 20.Mustafizur, who is recovering from a shoulder surgery, is out until mid-December while Mashrafes knees hasnt allowed him to play Test cricket since 2009.Taskin has not been considered as a longer-version bowler since his international debut in 2014 but could now play red-ball cricket soon although Hathurusingha has major reservations about his pace of development.A fair assessment of the Bangladesh Test squad is a number of blank spaces that dont bode well for a fast-improving cricket nation.Hathurusingha is focused on forming a new bowling attack though he admitted that there is very little to do than show patience with the tried and tested pace bowlers. Bangladesh will go into the game with a completely new attack which will be vastly different from the one that has been developed and somewhat succeeded in the limited overs format.I cant try players at the international level, which is the unfortunate thing in Bangladesh cricket that we are facing, Hathurusingha said. This cannot happen. We are actually trying players at the national level. [Test cricket] is a bigger challenge than anything else.We have had lot of injuries and players lose form because we havent played for a long time. We dont know where the fast bowlers are at this stage. It is a matter of just trusting the players that we have in our midst, and being patient.Apart from Taskin, the likes of Rubel Hossain, Shafiul Islam, and Al-Amin Hossain are front-runners to take up the new ball while newcomers Subashis Roy, Abu Hider, Kamrul Islam Rabbi and even the rookie Ebadat Hossain could be considered. All of these players are involved heavily in the Bangladesh netts at the Zahur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium or at the practice match in the MA Aziz Stadium across town. Marcos Rojo Argentina Jersey. Hathurusingha said that his focus is on trying to stretch within his limited resources to put together a bowling attack but said he is without the weaponry required for a Test attack.You cant have plans if you dont have ammunition. You can manage what you have, and thats what we are thinking. We will keep developing a strategy in the long-term.Dont expect us to do miracles straight away. If we happen to win the game, well and good and we will be on our way. It will give us a lot of confidence. I am not too worried about what I dont have. I am trying to maximize what we have, he said.Hathurusingha said that the decline of legspinner Jubair Hossain has been particularly frustrating since he was developing into a wicket-taking option since his Test debut in 2014. Jubair, who started off with 11 wickets in his first Test series, cant find a place in his first-class team in this seasons National Cricket League.We havent got our right combination in Test cricket. I have been fighting to find bowlers who can get 20 wickets in Tests. We were looking for a legspinner who can take wickets but he [Jubair Hossain] has faded away.He had the skill, and we saw that at the start when he was on song. He won matches for us. In his second or third match, he took a Test five-for. In the India Test, he got two big wickets. I am very disappointed that the amount of time and energy we spent with him didnt come to fruition.Hathurusingha said that readjusting to Test cricket will take Bangladesh some doing, since many havent played in the domestic first-class competition this season. He added that winning against England would be treated as a bonus.I think it is technical and mental adjustments. We havent played longer version, even at the domestic level, for a long time. The main players didnt get to play NCL this season as well. It is the challenge in international cricket where they play a lot of matches in different formats. Switching mindset between formats is what they have to get used to, he said. Cheap NFL JerseysCheap NFL Jerseys ChinaCheap Jerseys From ChinaCheap NFL Jerseys AuthenticWholesale Jerseys ChinaCheap NFL Jerseys ChinaNFL Cheap Jerseys ' ' '
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