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In response to Lon Babby:

Overtime pay doesn't mean you're going to go out and buy tickets to suns games" sunsdeuce said. "We could also mean we're going to make one-sided cardinals fans and there is a distinct possibility that we dont buy suns jerseys this summer.

"We've worked hard to put ourselves in this position to have this kind of flexibility to have a range of opportunities other then the suns but I am absolutely determined that we are going to be disciplined in how we approach the suns organization because we cannot get ourselves right back in the same spot that we were in by buying tickets to bad suns games, not assessing the suns properly and not making the right choices in terms of watching this organization at work."


Here is what Babby said
http://arizonasports.com/?sid=1536217&nid=132
"Cap space doesn't mean you're going to go out and sign free agents," he said. "I could also mean we're going to make one-sided trades and there is a distinct possibility that we don't use our cap room this summer.

"We've worked hard to put ourselves in this position to have this kind of flexibility to have a range of opportunities, but I am absolutely determined that we are going to be disciplined in how we approach this because we cannot get ourselves right back in the same spot that we were in by doing bad contracts, not assessing value properly and not making the right choices in terms of personnel."

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Just want us back to being the talk of the town.

Sunsdeuce wrote:Just want us back to being the talk of the town.

D-backs and Coyotes are the talk of the town right now. Suns fell from that conversation and once add players that know how to win then that will change.

My message to the Suns Front Office:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTjfFt2i5Sg[/youtube]

Guys -

Keep it Simple.

Draft smart. Only sign veteran free agents if you're sure they keep Nash in town. If not, no 4-year contract knee jerks. If Nash leaves, trade Gortat for a 2012 1st.

Scout the **** out of every player - let's pull a Spurs and find some guy hidden in the D-league or overseas. We're not a big market, we need to be creative.

Call me if you need an analyst,

Hearts & Stars,

SS

The only part that got me excited was this from ESPN:

Babby said the team's biggest need is for a "dynamic scorer," preferably one in the post. That's not an easy find in any year and this is not considered a great season for free agents. Babby said that rather than sign a free agent, the Suns could use some cap money for "one-sided trades."

(http://espn.go.com/nba/story/_/id/78836 ... t-spend-it)

I smell Josh Smith for Gortat I can't think of too many other dynamic post scorer that would be available via "one-sided trade"

Sun Scorched wrote:Guys -

Keep it Simple.

Draft smart. Only sign veteran free agents if you're sure they keep Nash in town. If not, no 4-year contract knee jerks. If Nash leaves, trade Gortat for a 2012 1st.

Scout the **** out of every player - let's pull a Spurs and find some guy hidden in the D-league or overseas. We're not a big market, we need to be creative.

SS

I don't get the first part, for I don't see any team trading someone they just drafted a week or two earlier, once we would find out that Nash has gone, it would be way after the 2012 draft. And I am not even sure how that works. I know you can do draft day trades, but I don't remember any draft picks getting traded right when FA period starts. I think maybe Yi, but wasn't he signed first and then traded?

As for your second thought, I have been saying that for a long time now. Our scouting has to improve if we are ever going to partially build with the draft.

JJ13 wrote:The only part that got me excited was this from ESPN:

Babby said the team's biggest need is for a "dynamic scorer," preferably one in the post. That's not an easy find in any year and this is not considered a great season for free agents. Babby said that rather than sign a free agent, the Suns could use some cap money for "one-sided trades."

(http://espn.go.com/nba/story/_/id/78836 ... t-spend-it)

I smell Josh Smith for Gortat I can't think of too many other dynamic post scorer that would be available via "one-sided trade"

Josh Smith isn't exactly a "dynamic post scorer". He's basically like Amar'e was except without the post moves and aggressiveness.

and what exactly is a "one-sided trade"? Does he mean we take on a ton of money in return for some guy the other team is desperate to move? What exactly does that accomplish?

7Insomniac wrote:and what exactly is a "one-sided trade"? Does he mean we take on a ton of money in return for some guy the other team is desperate to move? What exactly does that accomplish?

What he means is we can offer teams cap space. Say we were interested in a Gortat for Smith trade. If we were over the cap, the trade would have to be even money wise, and Atlanta would have to take back more "filler" players to make the trade work. Since we are under the cap, we could trade Gortats $6.5M contract straight up for Smiths $13M contract.

So pretty much we are able to take back more salary than we give in a trade.

What Babby is saying is they're going to trade for Amare, giving the Knicks 18mil in his expiring contract, the Knicks fans will rejoice while Sarver believes Amare is exactly what we been missing since he left.

Or he's saying he's going to swap picks with the Jazz in the draft, and then the Jazz also give us Paul Millsap. This gives the Jazz flexibility to sign a SF or PG during this offseason.

Kerrsed wrote:

7Insomniac wrote:and what exactly is a "one-sided trade"? Does he mean we take on a ton of money in return for some guy the other team is desperate to move? What exactly does that accomplish?

What he means is we can offer teams cap space. Say we were interested in a Gortat for Smith trade. If we were over the cap, the trade would have to be even money wise, and Atlanta would have to take back more "filler" players to make the trade work. Since we are under the cap, we could trade Gortats $6.5M contract straight up for Smiths $13M contract.

So pretty much we are able to take back more salary than we give in a trade.

Has anybody heard eyt wether their team expects marvin williams to be attached to any trade offers for smith? And if so, Is there any teams that come to mind that we could involve to take him for another piece or something? Any thing come to mind in a 3 team scenario even? (if need be) to make the trade work?