BK said something very Interesting about Diaw

[TexasPete]

A fan asked him a question about Diaw and BK got a little irriated, like he was tired about hearing this trade all the time.

Here is the deal, BK let this out at the meeting with fans tonight. The Suns REALLY wanted Diaw all along. They tried to draft him but we got him just ahead of the Suns. He said the Suns were always extremely high on Diaw and even tried to get him after we drafted him. They remained interested over Diaw's two years in Atlanta. So, when the JJ deal went down they insisted he be in it. After two crap years in a Hawks uniform BK probably thought they were crazy.

But, for all of those people who thought Diaw was an innocent throw in...think again. The Suns had designs on Diaw and knew there was something to his game.

It makes me a little envious of the Suns organization to see a player that is a dog with one team and to realize he had some unique skills that would work with them. The flip side to that is that we don't necessarily have a coach who knows his personnel and how to use them correctly. So, there was nothing lucky about the Suns in their pursuit of Diaw. They got a man they wanted for several years.

[TheNorthCydeRises]

D'Antoni wanted to play a more international style of ball. And he always knew that Diaw could be a talented player if put in the right situation.

But once again, a poster on this board tries to justify a move another team makes, and uses that to dog what we're doing. And you just can't do that.

If you haven't noticed, Diaw is back to playing CENTER for the Suns. Amare may be listed as the Center, but most Suns fans will tell you that it's Diaw who is back playing center in the half court offense, while Amare plays the 4 and roams from baseline to baseline and from the FT line down, to get his points.

When the Suns were struggling so much, they were playing Diaw at the 3, with Marion and Amare at the 4 and 5 spots. Diaw can't take advantage of decent SFs in this league on offense, so his offense struggled mightily at the beginning of the year.

D'Antoni then made the move to put Diaw back at center, and run low post offense through him from there. And because of the personnel that Phoenix has assembled, he's able to find people either cutting to the basket, or wide open for jumpers when they try to double team him.

Put Diaw in any other system, and he's not nearly as effective, because no team in their right mind would play him at center. But with Amare back, he's able to play center on offense, but go back to guarding SFs on defense, and let Amare guard the centers.

As far as our personnel goes, who does Woody misuse on this team?

- JJ is Mr. Everything

- Smoove isn't polished enough offensively to be a big time scorer, but he's being put in perfect positions to affect games defensively

- Marvin is just coming back, but is probably being groomed to be that consistent 2nd scorer that this team needs

- ZaZa is looked upon to give us some low post offense, but he knows that he's not a good defensive player.

And the other guys on this team are speciality players that do one or two things pretty good, but that's it.

So who is Woody or this organization "misusing", that is costing this team victories? It's too easy to blame coaches when things aren't going well. You have to look at both sides of the coin.

[SmooveTheFuture]

Thats a lie the Suns wanted Josh Childress but the Hawks wouldnt budge on including him in the deal. So they offered Boris Diaw instead of him.

[exodus]

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Diaw can't take advantage of decent SFs in this league on offense

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Exactly. And that basically makes him untradable with that contract because everyone knows he wouldn't do squat anywhere else.

[TheDude]

i would never give BK any flack for that trade. We got a bonified MVP candidate out of that trade for a guy who wasnt doing anything for us. Props to BK.

and we should have known Diaw would do well in that phoenix offense based on his skill set.