Diaw's Impression Of The Suns

Post #1 » by **BigSlam** » Thu Dec 11, 2008 4:02 pm

http://www.azcentral.com/sports/suns/ar ... nline.html

"It definitely wasn't as fun," Diaw said. "It wasn't as exciting for the fans. It's not as fun for everybody (on the team). I'll always remember Phoenix with (previous coach) Mike (D'Antoni). We went from a winning team that was the most exciting team in the league to a half-winning team that wasn't exciting at all."

You're going to LOVE it here.

:roll:

Rich4114 · Post #2 » by **Rich4114** » Thu Dec 11, 2008 4:10 pm

LOL - so I guess they had to get rid of him then. Who better to make a foolish trade with than the Bobcats??? The NEW clippers.

Post #3 » by **Walt Cronkite** » Thu Dec 11, 2008 4:15 pm

See--this is why the trade terrified me. Diaw is a good player. He's a GREAT player that justifies his contract when he's motivated... but what's his motivation here? He struggled beside Amare and Shaq, but was playing for a "player's coach" in a fun offensive system and he's just been traded to a stubborn, hard-nosed "play the right way" coach.

This is a guy that had the year of his career, got paid, GOT FAT and hasn't been the same since. LB better be sure he can connect with this guy, because at the bottom of our list of needs was "another fat pf."

CarolinaCash · Post #4 » by **CarolinaCash** » Thu Dec 11, 2008 4:21 pm

Please keep this in the other threads.....there was one about Phoenix's view on the trade.

Also, Diaw is the new party animal in Charlotte.....he loves the nightlife. The owners of Suite should be excited.

Post #5 » by **BigSlam** » Thu Dec 11, 2008 4:32 pm

CarolinaCash wrote:Please keep this in the other threads.....there was one about Phoenix's view on the trade.

Except the other thread was based on the posters at RGM's opinions, not what the players have said.

And if you want to back seat mod, you'll face yet another suspension, or a ban.

ecuhus1981 · Post #6 » by **ecuhus1981** » Thu Dec 11, 2008 6:26 pm

I was thinking the exact same thing, Big Slam, as I was reading Boris' quotes this morning. Talk about, "out of the frying pan and into the fire!"

I will leave the particulars of the deal alone, and just deal with the Diaw issue. I sincerely hope he can be the PF you guys sorely need, but I don't see it happening. At all.

We all know that Boris is at his best when his ego is being stroked and he is allowed to run offense. Brown is the antithesis of an ego-stroking coach, and I can't fathom Larry allowing Diaw to run offense until AT LEAST the '09 training camp, by which point Boris will be so disillusioned with playing for Brown that he will be useless. Like, Dan Gadzuric, Jerome James-level useless.

It's not that I believe that a player like Diaw can't work with Brown. If their relationship somehow stays positive for a couple of years, I can see Larry allowing Diaw to be the type of point forward that Manning was to the '88 Jayhawks. He could really make Boris better than even his '05-'06 season or the French National team, but Diaw is going to have to have thicker skin than he has EVER shown in the past. Otherwise, the Bobcats will be stuck with the Hawks' era Boris, at 10X the cost.

Post #7 » by **BigSlam** » Thu Dec 11, 2008 6:59 pm

ecuhus1981 wrote:We all know that Boris is at his best when his ego is being stroked and he is allowed to run offense. Brown is the antithesis of an ego-stroking coach, and I can't fathom Larry allowing Diaw to run offense until AT LEAST the '09 training camp.....

Just in time for him to come back from summer vacation plump, over weight and out of condition (again!!)

CarolinaCash · Post #8 » by **CarolinaCash** » Thu Dec 11, 2008 6:59 pm

Post #9 » by **BigSlam** » Thu Dec 11, 2008 7:00 pm

hotrod · Post #10 » by **hotrod** » Thu Dec 11, 2008 9:21 pm

If you bring in a HOF coach, you can't expect him to do his job with a roster full of players that don't fit that style.

Post #11 » by **fatlever** » Thu Dec 11, 2008 10:15 pm

i read 7 seconds or less a last year... diaw struck me as a bit of an unmotivated diva with a very high opinion of himself.

Felton for Pres · Post #12 » by **Felton for Pres** » Thu Dec 11, 2008 10:44 pm

He's a chubby chaser I see. I hope he doesn't hit on May.

fluffernutter · Post #13 » by **fluffernutter** » Thu Dec 11, 2008 11:19 pm

Felton for Pres wrote:He's a chubby chaser I see. I hope he doesn't hit on May.

You win. Hilarious.

The thing about chubby chasing, though. Man, you can be the absolute king of ass banditry. They will practically stalk you down and throw you into bed without much effort on your part.

Post #14 » by **Walt Cronkite** » Fri Dec 12, 2008 1:12 am

These last two posts are solid examples of why you'll never see a Walt Cronkite authored "I'm Done" thread

e4Nf6 · Post #15 » by **e4Nf6** » Fri Dec 12, 2008 2:22 am

I think you should change you SN from "Fluffernutter" to "Absolute King of Ass Banditry,"

If you don't want it, Is it ok if I use it?

Felton for Pres · Post #16 » by **Felton for Pres** » Fri Dec 12, 2008 2:32 pm

e4Nf6 wrote:I think you should change you SN from "Fluffernutter" to "Absolute King of Ass Banditry,"

If you don't want it, Is it ok if I use it?

Agreed. That's an awesome name. You could use a picture of that creepy guy who has that reality show, The Pick Up Artist. (FWIW, I don't watch the show, I watch The Soup, which mocks the show)

fluffernutter · Post #17 » by **fluffernutter** » Fri Dec 12, 2008 2:44 pm

e4Nf6 wrote:I think you should change you SN from "Fluffernutter" to "Absolute King of Ass Banditry,"

If you don't want it, Is it ok if I use it?

Use away. That term stuck in my head while reading "Gravity's Rainbow," and because I have a PDF on my computer, I can supply the precise quote:

"The map does puzzle Tantivy. It cannot be put down to the usual loudmouthed American ass-banditry, except as a fraternity-boy reflex in a vacuum, a reflex Slothrop can’t help, barking on into an empty lab, into a wormholing of echoing hallways, long after the need has vanished and the brothers gone to WWII and their chances for death. Slothrop really doesn’t like to talk about his girls: Tantivy has to steer him diplomatically, even now. At first Slothrop, quaintly gentlemanly, didn’t talk at all, till he found out how shy Tantivy was. It dawned on him then that Tantivy was looking to be fixed up. At about the same time, Tantivy began to see the extent of Slothrop’s isolation. He seemed to have no one else in London, beyond a multitude of girls he seldom saw again, to talk to about anything.

Still Slothrop keeps his map up daily, boobishly conscientious. At its best, it does celebrate a flow, a passing from which—among the sudden demolitions from the sky, mysterious orders arriving out of the dark laborings of nights that for himself are only idle—he can save a moment here or there, the days again growing colder, frost in the morning, the feeling of Jennifer’s breasts inside cold sweater’s wool held to warm a bit in a coal-smoke hallway he’ll never know the daytime despondency of . . . cup of Bovril a fraction down from boiling searing his bare knee as Irene, naked as he is in a block of glass sunlight, holds up precious nylons one by one to find a pair that hasn’t laddered, each struck flashing by the light through the winter trellis outside . . . nasal hep American girl voices singing out of the grooves of some disc up through the thorn needle of Allison’s mother’s radiogram . . . snuggling for warmth, blackout curtains over all the windows, no light but the coal of their last cigarette, an English firefly, bobbing at her whim in cursive writing that trails a bit behind, words he can’t read. . . ."

--Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow