bwgood77 wrote:Slim Charless wrote:bwgood77 wrote:
That would have been great, though Horford seems like he would have been a better fit if he was playing with Amare and we wanted a guy with shooting range. They may have had him shooting 3s sooner.
But he was actually putting up better #s earlier than Noah. He was at nearly a double double in his 2nd year and like 14-15 ppg in his 3rd year 09-10.
He actually averaged more assists his first 4 or so years in the league than Noah too. Noah never averaged that many until like his 6th year.
And the year the Hawks added Horford they also got a lot better, which is why our pick we got from them was like 10th the next year.
Maybe. Guess I don't remember him as well since those Hawks teams were so unforgettable. He would've been fine too. Depends on who jumped into that 3rd pick slot I guess to if he's available.
Who was running the team then? Was Kerr our GM by then, I know we had Pringles but can't remember who the top guy was.
Well the trade I believe was Bryan Colangelo, so that is what counts...
You are correct. Colangelo executed the trade for Diaw, but it was under duress because Johnson wanted to leave for the Hawks. He wanted to be the main man on the Hawks, in part because of money, in part because of respect or disrespect as the case may be, and in part because he chaffed being the fourth option on the Suns. They all kind of fit together. The Suns wanted Boris Diaw for a long time. Bryan Colangelo had his eye on Diaw for a couple of years before he was acquired and attempted to trade a couple of 2nd round picks for him after Diaw's 2nd year in Atlanta. Atlanta wanted a 1st. Atlanta never really knew what to do with Diaw. There were a lot of Suns fans disappointed when they received Diaw as the player in the trade, only to later be pleased that he found his footing in Phoenix playing next to Marion and Nash - Amare was out for the year. The magical team from 2004-05 was torn asunder primarily because of Johnson's defection, but there were a lot of other changes (Q-Rich for Thomas) which made the 2005-06 team a completely different team in personnel and somewhat different in style because it lacked the explosive PnR game of the previous year. That team sort of resembled the Pre-KD GSW teams.
Q-Rich and a 1st were sent out for Kurt Thomas in large part to satisfy Amare because Amare did not want to center and it was thought that Thomas, even thought not very tall or long could handle the Center position while Amare shifted to PF. The trade of Q-Rich and never really did much after the Suns. It is kind of fun to think of what the Suns might have looked like if they had traded for Diaw, obtained Nash to go along with Amare, Joe Johnson and Marion.
