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Steve is the Suns Kerrptonyte
No Thanks.
I've never been a huge fan of Diaw, and the only time he was consistently in shape and gae a was his contract year.
Diaw's success against the Spurs consisted of 2 games, and one of them in which down the stretch in game 5 he turned the ball over and choked like a bad amateur porn star.
Steve is the Suns Kerrptonyte
Richardson is mediocre defender at best.
Thats fine on a team thats a good defensive team.
The Suns are a mediocre to bad defensive team but that was with a damn good perimiter defender in Bell.
Defensively they took a huge hit, and against the Spurs, they just lost their "Ginobili stopper"
Once again, Kerr bailed MJ out like he did in game 6 of the '97 Finals
LMAO at the Suns fans at PHXsuns.net.
Everyone there loves the trade, but they don't realize how thin that bench is now.
Best metaphor of the day.
I was looking forward to Kobe vs. Bell tonight. Oh well.
So now 3 of the 5 starters of the 2007 Suns team that supposedly would have won the championship without "cheap shot Rob" are gone.
He's pretty rough.
you will see that alando tucker will impress lol LETTTSSS GOOOO nice trade, shake it up a lil
you knw they gotta make the best outta something.....
obviously havent watched raja at all this year??? i like barnes D better than his to be honest. and we gotta a scorer at guard for the first time since Joe Johnson
9M a year
I agree. I would love to see Bell in a Spurs uniform.
our backcourt is full.
If they stay healthy, I'm not sure they're that thin.
They can start Nash/JRich/Hill/Amare/Shaq.
Then they have Barbosa and Barnes as proven bench guys. Lopez hasn't embarrassed himself in very limited minutes as a back-up post (although he's surprisingly terrible on the boards). I'm on the record as liking Dudley. And they were probably going to have to sink/swim with Dragic as their back-up PG eventually anyways.
The only depth problem will be when Shaq and Hill go through their annual 10 game (at least) in-season vacations.
Here's why I don't like the deal (if I'm a Suns fan):
1) I don't see how they're going to get any stops. They've been having a hard enough time with perimeter guys going off on them with a couple of good defenders on the floor. Now they'll have one decent guy (Hill) and a bunch of below average to terrible guys.
2) Suns fans have been wanting another scorer - but do they really need it? Richardson's career LOW for shots taken is 14/game. Every time he chucks up a shot (and he's never hit 45% from the floor), that's a shot that Amare, Shaq, or Nash (far more efficient scorers) didn't take. Bell and Diaw were not terrible offensive players who were comfortable letting the game come to them. Their fans saw that as passiveness. But - as we know here - that's what you want from your role guys surrounding 2 or 3 stars.
Personally, I think Pop will bait him into taking as many shots as he wants the next time these two teams match up.
U guys dont understand how rediculas Diaw's contract is, maybe he will deserve it in the future as a starter, PROVE ME WRONG BORIS. but great way to dump that salary and pick up an EXTRA PICK
Raja Bell is a better shooter than JRich. Richardson is much more of a "scorer" than a shooter. When he's on, he's doing most of his damage penetrating into the lane - which is already overcrowded in PHX's offense.
Another thing I've noticed is J-Rich that KILLED the Mavs was J-Rich of almost 2 yrs ago, I've seen some Bobcats games and hes not as great/money/clutch as he was in that series anymore.
my own gut instinct is that this is good for Phoenix.
Diaw was a contract nobody wanted, Diaw and Porter have had some sort of behind the scenes problems from I understand resulting in limited playing time, and Bell's best days are behind him.
So they got a guy better than Maggette. Things weren't working beforehand, why not do the deal?
Besides, any deal Michael Jordan makes . . . I already know who got the worse of it.
That is the reason I think they did this deal. Richardson means more pressure on opposing defenses.
I can actually see why Suns fans might make this team better. But the Spurs now match-up even better with the Suns - for many of the reasons mentioned in this thread. So it's possible that everybody is right.
Possibly - but how many shots do you want him taking away from Shaq/Amare/Nash? As the old adage goes - There's only one ball.
But in Phoenix he won't be the man Like in GS and Charlotte. That means less pressure which usually means better production.
If you ask Richardson what a d-fenda was he would piont to the front of his car! Guy never plays D which is why Brown wanted to get rid of him.
In GS he had baron and Jackson
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