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4:23 [Comment From Guest]
Can you ask Suns management to let the fans vote on who they want at #14? If the players gone they can than just go down to list to see who has the next highest amount of votes?

4:23 Paul Coro: Sure. If they don't want to do it, we'll put it on our site as a survey.

MaryvalesFinest wrote:I asked him numerous questions like if he's on Robert Sarver's payroll and if he has ties to the mob, of course those weren't answered but I did ask him a question that he replied to below,

[Comment From David Anderson]
Suns management has a history of saying that they will not trade a player or that they like and support someone, shortly thereafter that person is traded or gone. How can fans or players trust this management team? To what extent does management and coaching (past and present) work with team leaders (like Nash, Shaq, Grant, etc.) to get the best out of the team?
1:06
Paul Coro: I think Kerr has gone out of his way to say nobody is untouchable, almost to a fault with some players who were offended. Sarver misspoke last year when he said nobody in the core would be traded before the Shaq-Marion deal. He never had an idea that was coming and just had spoke too soon. I think every management talks about building a consistent winner but isn't going to be an open book about how it wants to watch its money. As for how management and coaching works with team, it's been different from person to person. D'Antoni worked closely with Nash and took head to anything Shaq said. He was on the same page with Hill. Those three captains had a different relationship with Porter. Nash spoke frequently with Porter but never appeared to be combative. He said he was trying to make it work but obviously had some other ideas that he wanted to bring up to him. Hill too. Shaq appeared to be much the same with Porter, except for putting himself in the game and walking right by him when he did so. Colangelo communicated more with coaches the players, its seemed. Kerr talks with players often on the court and private. Both had a mix and a lot of is unseen to us.

Paul Coro: All of the above. It probably could have gone fine if not for the culmination of things. They seemed to be all approving of the hire before camp and had a lot of respect for Porter and what he had accomplished as a player. The older veterans had played against him. But they were immediately taken aback at camp and got off on the wrong foot. Raja Bell symbolized the discontent by speaking out. The others were just quietly uncomfortable with his ways. They seemed to feel demeaned by the school drills. They felt the messages were basic and monotonous. All these guys had asked for more of a defensive emphasis and got it so that couldn't have been the biggest beef. But they saw the change in offense to Detroit's system as an ill fit and one that did not fit the style that the roster was built to play. There was no budging. Even when Porter later agreed to bring back some plays from previous seasons, he changed the names of them.

-SDU- wrote:why should the suns listen to who the fans want to draft?

we dont conduct the workouts

we dont scout these players for the last 4 years

we dont interview these guys and their families and background checks

with all due respect, the suns should listen to fans when it comes to certain things, but not the draft

-SDU- wrote:nah i got coros sarcasm, but my post was in response to Maryvales post