Suns Talk Trade - Nash, Amare and Kerr interviews

by Seth Pollack on Feb 6, 2009 3:33 PM MST

After today's shoot around, Sun players Amare Stoudemire and Steve Nash, along with GM Steve Kerr talked to the media and answered questions about the team and the trade situation.

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Audio provided by Sports 620 KTAR and Suns.com

Steve Kerr - Full transcript available @ Suns.com

Not going to promise anyone they are staying or going
Amare understands that as do all our players
Anyone can get traded - doesn't mean everyone is accessible but you don't know what's going to come up
We are under performing and not playing up to our capabilities
Lack of defensive improvement is the biggest disappointment
We haven't been consistent
Talked to Amare - he understands this is the nature of our business
I've gotten a lot of calls
I am not going to go into detail about what's gone wrong but we've not clicked yet and are still searching for that

Amare Stoudemire

Me being one of the leaders and an all star you can put it on me but I am not one of the Captains. You can't put too much blame on me. It's not my job to rally the troops
Kerr said anyone can be traded: me, Steve or Shaq
Right now I feel it's more me
I have cherished the moments here (in Phoenix), I would love to stay here but you never know what happens
It's more of a business move then anything else
I know where ever I go we are going to be playoff contenders

Steve Nash

I love playing here, I want to see it work out here
I apologize to the fans - it's killing me and it's really hurting the fans
I hear things second and third hand
I don't care what people are saying out there (about Nash possbily being traded)
I am only worried about us playing hard and playing together. I wouldn't care if we lost every game for the rest of the season if we played hard and with committment
If we did that we would win our share of games
Might as well back us into a corner and let us try and fight our way out of it

Poll

Which ONE of these would you do now if you could...

Trade Amare

43 votes

Fire Porter

85 votes

Fire Kerr

61 votes

Move to Portland

27 votes

216 votes | Poll has closed

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Sad face.

Please, PLEASE fire Porter before trading Amare…please….pleeeeeease.

Steve Nash, the league's MVP, is a longhaired Canadian who spoke out against the war in Iraq and reads The Communist Manifesto. Quentin Richardson declared after a game-winning shot that it "was like Hamlet. It was a suspense thriller, and I killed them at the end." Amare Stoudemire, when asked to comment on a 22-point third quarter against the Kings, said, "I've got a tendency to jump over some guys' heads and throw it down."

by rsavaj on Feb 6, 2009 3:47 PM MST reply actions

agreed

As much as I’m frustrated with Amare right now, I believe with a different coach things could change. Remember when we got JSun? Things looked pretty good then. Not amazing, but OK for jsut getting a new guy.

PLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEASE fire porter.

by Bostwik on Feb 6, 2009 4:12 PM MST up reply actions

Hmm...

I agree that Porter isn’t adding much to this team. He’s not standing out in the X and O’s department, and he’s not doing well in the motivation department. We had to trade Boris because he doesn’t know how to use Boris. And to a lesser degree, Amare is sucking because he doesn’t know how to use Amare.

But… if we can him, it isn’t like we can easily find a good replacement. Flip Saunders? Avery Johnson? Nah…

Maybe we can just make Nash our player-coach. Or maybe make Kerr come down and coach the mess he’s created.

by gadogry on Feb 6, 2009 4:26 PM MST up reply actions

Jerry did it

Colangelo stepped in twice after firing a coach. One time, he led a surprising push into the playoffs. But Kerr doesn’t have the guts to do that, does he?

April 29, 2008 Total Eclipse of the Sun. Is the sky falling?

by Hawk42 on Feb 6, 2009 5:06 PM MST up reply actions

Kerr said

that he is interested in coaching, but only after his kids go to college.

Which sort of means that he thinks he has the ability to coach, and might (MIGHT!!!) be willing to do it short-term.

But no matter what, we won’t get back to the high of the MIke D days. Yeah, we never won a championship, but the happy still outweigh the sad.

Sigh.

by gadogry on Feb 6, 2009 5:54 PM MST up reply actions

AND

Jerry was the owner, so he had a lot of authority built in for him. Kerr doesn’t. That makes a lot of difference.

by gadogry on Feb 6, 2009 5:55 PM MST up reply actions

Amare's comments

Trying to shift the blame to Steve and Shaq — that’s pretty low (I heard those earlier on the radio today, too). Really low

Especially given the praise he’s heaped on those two over the years.

Bad mojo, bad karma

Mmmmm ... Guinness

by JSun on Feb 6, 2009 4:24 PM MST reply actions

Maybe

we can just make him our captain, so he’ll have one less thing to whine about.

by gadogry on Feb 6, 2009 4:27 PM MST up reply actions

Trade him

He’s a cancer in that locker room and these comments are going to make it even worse.

by TwinnerA on Feb 6, 2009 4:33 PM MST up reply actions

milwaukee?

http://games.espn.go.com/nba/features/traderesult?players=1727341123440634512792&teams=152121212121&te=&cash=

Villanueva could be a decent post presence, and Milwaukee seems like they’ve been trying to get something for him for a while…
Alexander and Mbah a Moute both have upside.
Damon Jones could be waived or kept… Elson could be a decent backup the rest of the year.
All the players except the rookies have 1 year left, so we could got for Lee in the summer.

Only problem is Milwaukee has NO players, with Redd out for the season, Ridnour and Bogut both hurt… They’d be giving a lot for one, and be in a terrible mess. I doubt this trade would happen, but I like the way it looks.

by Bostwik on Feb 6, 2009 5:57 PM MST reply actions

awesome poll.

consistently hilarious

Blazers Edge.com

by Ben Golliver on Feb 6, 2009 6:00 PM MST reply actions

If you like that poll ...

Stan is on the trading block …

We can even trade the rights to a retired blogger.

Call me

Mmmmm ... Guinness

by JSun on Feb 6, 2009 9:19 PM MST up reply actions

OR

http://games.espn.go.com/nba/features/traderesult?players=17272389558&teams=162121&te=&cash=

Amare for Jefferson and Miller.

by Bostwik on Feb 6, 2009 6:00 PM MST reply actions

Sarver will not fire Porter. Too much money is invested and both him and Kerr would look like complete fools. Amare is outta here… I don’t think we’ll get equal value for him in a trade which is a shame. The potential that he wasted here is a damn shame.

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by azFans on Feb 6, 2009 8:14 PM MST reply actions