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Suns Hire Elson Turner as Defensive Assistant Coach
Posted: Mon Jul 11, 2011 9:09 pm
by Nando88
Re: Suns Hire Elson Turner as Defensive Assistant Coach
Posted: Mon Jul 11, 2011 10:13 pm
by Dalerax
Apparently we interviewed this guy twice for the head coach position after D'Antoni left in '08.
Re: Suns Hire Elson Turner as Defensive Assistant Coach
Posted: Mon Jul 11, 2011 10:40 pm
by Dalerax
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.
Re: Suns Hire Elson Turner as Defensive Assistant Coach
Posted: Mon Jul 11, 2011 11:47 pm
by BurningHeart
I like it.
Re: Suns Hire Elson Turner as Defensive Assistant Coach
Posted: Tue Jul 12, 2011 1:27 am
by KopLegend
nice.
Re: Suns Hire Elson Turner as Defensive Assistant Coach
Posted: Tue Jul 12, 2011 2:15 am
by sunskerr
Good stuff.
Re: Suns Hire Elson Turner as Defensive Assistant Coach
Posted: Tue Jul 12, 2011 3:38 am
by DirtyDez
Good hire even though it's about 6 years too late.
Re: Suns Hire Elson Turner as Defensive Assistant Coach
Posted: Tue Jul 12, 2011 5:29 pm
by NashtyNas
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.
Re: Suns Hire Elson Turner as Defensive Assistant Coach
Posted: Tue Jul 12, 2011 7:43 pm
by TASTIC
My friend at work emailed me this link...I feel the Suns adding a Defensive Assistant is like hiring Arnie a British accent coach
Re: Suns Hire Elson Turner as Defensive Assistant Coach
Posted: Tue Jul 12, 2011 8:00 pm
by mybloodisorange
worst that could happen - nothing
best that could happen - Lopez learns to block shots and defensively rebound
Nothing to lose basically I like it.
Re: Suns Hire Elson Turner as Defensive Assistant Coach
Posted: Tue Jul 12, 2011 8:40 pm
by Beas4pres
Lopez is the only 7 fter who avg more fouls then rebounds
Re: Suns Hire Elson Turner as Defensive Assistant Coach
Posted: Tue Jul 12, 2011 9:57 pm
by JohnVancouver
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
Re: Suns Hire Elson Turner as Defensive Assistant Coach
Posted: Tue Jul 12, 2011 10:34 pm
by Dalerax
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.
Re: Suns Hire Elson Turner as Defensive Assistant Coach
Posted: Tue Jul 12, 2011 10:41 pm
by BurningHeart
All we need to do is be 12-17 defensively and we'll be fine. Rebounding is more important anyway.
Re: Suns Hire Elson Turner as Defensive Assistant Coach
Posted: Tue Jul 12, 2011 10:59 pm
by RunSunRun
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.
Re: Suns Hire Elson Turner as Defensive Assistant Coach
Posted: Wed Jul 13, 2011 3:36 am
by SUN
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.
Re: Suns Hire Elson Turner as Defensive Assistant Coach
Posted: Wed Jul 13, 2011 8:59 am
by MarJJMar
Rebounding is worthless if you allow 50% shooting.
Re: Suns Hire Elson Turner as Defensive Assistant Coach
Posted: Wed Jul 13, 2011 10:54 am
by mybloodisorange
And holding your opponent to 35% FG doesnt do anything when you allow 2 offensive rebounds per attempt.
Re: Suns Hire Elson Turner as Defensive Assistant Coach
Posted: Wed Jul 13, 2011 11:56 pm
by lilfishi22
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.
Re: Suns Hire Elson Turner as Defensive Assistant Coach
Posted: Thu Jul 14, 2011 12:31 am
by hunterxaz
Beas4pres wrote:Lopez is the only 7 fter who avg more fouls then rebounds
That's a sad stat, man.