Suns Hire Elson Turner as Defensive Assistant Coach

Nando88 · Post #1 » by **Nando88** » Mon Jul 11, 2011 9:09 pm

http://twitter.com/#!/Gambo620/status/90525664712724481

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The Phx Suns will hire Elston Turner as assistant coach in charge of defense Turner, a former Rockets asst, has agreed to a 2-year contract

Dalerax · Post #2 » by **Dalerax** » Mon Jul 11, 2011 10:13 pm

Apparently we interviewed this guy twice for the head coach position after D'Antoni left in '08.

Dalerax · Post #3 » by **Dalerax** » Mon Jul 11, 2011 10:40 pm

Found this interesting from Coro's article about the hire:

He also will be in charge of the Suns' defensive portions of practice. Each one will now have a committed 40-minute defensive session to improve on last season's 26th-ranked defensive field goal percentage.

Sounds good to me.

BurningHeart · Post #4 » by **BurningHeart** » Mon Jul 11, 2011 11:47 pm

I like it.

KopLegend · Post #5 » by **KopLegend** » Tue Jul 12, 2011 1:27 am

nice.

sunskerr · Post #6 » by **sunskerr** » Tue Jul 12, 2011 2:15 am

Good stuff.

DirtyDez · Post #7 » by **DirtyDez** » Tue Jul 12, 2011 3:38 am

Good hire even though it's about 6 years too late.

NashtyNas · Post #8 » by **NashtyNas** » Tue Jul 12, 2011 5:29 pm

DirtyDez wrote:Good hire even though it's about 6 years too late.

Yeah, but like they say, better late than never right?

We're still lacking a starting quality SG and PF, so I don't expect things to change much.

Post #9 » by **TASTIC** » Tue Jul 12, 2011 7:43 pm

My friend at work emailed me this link...I feel the Suns adding a Defensive Assistant is like hiring Arnie a British accent coach

mybloodisorange · Post #10 » by **mybloodisorange** » Tue Jul 12, 2011 8:00 pm

worst that could happen - nothing
best that could happen - Lopez learns to block shots and defensively rebound

Nothing to lose basically I like it.

Beas4pres · Post #11 » by **Beas4pres** » Tue Jul 12, 2011 8:40 pm

Lopez is the only 7 fter who avg more fouls then rebounds

JohnVancouver · Post #12 » by **JohnVancouver** » Tue Jul 12, 2011 9:57 pm

The ide a that there will be a 40 minute defensive component to practices is earth-shaking ... but we have the guys with skills to be a decent defensive team, even a good one. It can only help the offense

Dalerax · Post #13 » by **Dalerax** » Tue Jul 12, 2011 10:34 pm

JohnVancouver wrote:The ide a that there will be a 40 minute defensive component to practices is earth-shaking ... but we have the guys with skills to be a decent defensive team, even a good one. It can only help the offense

I hope so. We all know what happened the last time we tried to become a legitimate defensive team under Terry Porter.

BurningHeart · Post #14 » by **BurningHeart** » Tue Jul 12, 2011 10:41 pm

All we need to do is be 12-17 defensively and we'll be fine. Rebounding is more important anyway.

RunSunRun · Post #15 » by **RunSunRun** » Tue Jul 12, 2011 10:59 pm

Solid hire, better late than never as others have said.

I'm interested in how he will run our defensive-oriented practices, if we keep our old guys, we probably don't want to wear them down that much.

SUN · Post #16 » by **SUN** » Wed Jul 13, 2011 3:36 am

BurningHeart wrote:All we need to do is be 12-17 defensively and we'll be fine. Rebounding is more important anyway.

Hopefully Gortat can carry Channing.

MarJJMar · Post #17 » by **MarJJMar** » Wed Jul 13, 2011 8:59 am

Rebounding is worthless if you allow 50% shooting.

mybloodisorange · Post #18 » by **mybloodisorange** » Wed Jul 13, 2011 10:54 am

And holding your opponent to 35% FG doesnt do anything when you allow 2 offensive rebounds per attempt.

Post #19 » by **lilfishi22** » Wed Jul 13, 2011 11:56 pm

SUN wrote:
BurningHeart wrote:All we need to do is be 12-17 defensively and we'll be fine. Rebounding is more important anyway.

Hopefully Gortat can carry Channing.

We talking about rebounding or toughness? Because I thought in terms of toughness, Frye held his own last season.

hunterxaz · Post #20 » by **hunterxaz** » Thu Jul 14, 2011 12:31 am

Beas4pres wrote:Lopez is the only 7 fter who avg more fouls then rebounds

That's a sad stat, man.