Breaking Down Suns Acquisitions Of Hedo Turkoglu And Josh Childress

Is it just me or does Childress minus the fro look like a skinner version of “The Rock”?

I’m still worried about the rebounding. I hope we go out and get either Howard or Kurt Thomas to matchup against the bulkier teams out west and as insurance policy for when Lopez gets hurt.

Can’t wait for the season to start

Love them both…Couldn’t be happier with both moves! Hedo will prove his worth, just give him a chance in our system.

without a J-Rich for a big man trade.

J-Rich is going to walk at the end of the year and the Suns will get nothing anyways. They need a big and Minny has been begging people to take Al Jefferson. It’s a match made in basketball heaven.

That allows Turk to move out to the top of the key where he’s best and everyone is happy.

I’m going to give Hedo the benefit of the doubt as far as his personality goes. I loved what he did for Orlando a couple years back. We’ll see how he fits. Alvin’s going to have a lot of room to play with lineups.

I will miss LB greatly, but mostly because I liked him as a guy. Let’s go Suns!
Don’t know too much about Childress, but I look forward to seeing him and Fropez on the court at the same time. Add some grain to the telecasts and you’d think we were back in the 70s!

Excellent pick up for now and into the future.

If we don’t pick up another big that can rebound than I guarantee a trade by mid-season that would most likely include either J-Rich or Warrick and the rest of the TPE.

Understand the reservations about Turkoglu given his less than stellar season last year. But If you look at his history in Sac and Orlando, it’s easy to see which is the rule and which is the exception.

Turkoglu was miserable in Toronto, and it wasn’t a good fit at all. In our system, he will be able to use his varied skill set in many ways, instead of being tied into one role.

Plus, we dumped a bad contract in Barbosa, who just doesn’t fit for us anylonger, and acquired a guy who can really help our team…for only $3mil more!

As much as I like the Childress signing, and I LOVE it, I’m even happier about Turkoglu coming. I think our fans will be pleasantly surprised about this move once they see what he brings to the table.

gonna make some welcome to the desert wallpapers or something im gettign excited for the suns again, at least i know well be a playoff team next year. I really worry about hedo at the four though even if i love his game him plus steve nash facilitating the ball well be fun to watch

A lot of people on ESPN are saying that the Suns should bench Hill and start Childress.

For Hedo, 11, 4, 4 are still good numbers. However, I think they increase a bit playing with Steve Nash.

For all the hoopla about Warrick & Childress, those two are pretty inconsistent players.. occasionally good, mostly middling/mediocre, occasionally awful. In Orlando & Sactown, Hedo was a pretty consistently good player, with the occasional blinder…

raising the floor.. nice to see people pay attention.

As the acquisition of both Turk and Childress leaves him no playing time.

and I share a birthday for what it’s worth, I hope for the Suns’ sakes that this will be a good omen. As for Hedo, I think he’s a great acquisition for the PHX. The Jazz seem poised at ruining all of their good momentum from last season so I hope the Mavs and Suns tear it up and shut the Lakers down. Everyone in the NBA knows Phoenix and Dallas in the WCF is the best thing that can happen! Someone just needs to share this little factoid with Commi$h $tern.

just not as starting pf.

It worries me that the suns wanted Hedo Turkoglu when they already signed warrick and have clark waiting in the wings. Turk is horrible defensively and is by no means able of playing PF; look at rashard lewis.
Also on a side note, peja signed that deal when he was healthy and didnt have 6 cracked ribs.

I don’t even want to think about Dudley becoming a free agent. Ever.

1. Josh and Hedo both fundamentally fit to what the Suns like to do and both come from High IQ’s as far as basketball goes.
2. Hedo was willing to dump 5 million to come to the Suns period. Why? Hedo made a mistake and was paying for it in Toronto. This guy has never played for a bad coach and has always done the job playing for great coaches who have used him in good systems to fit him, Gentry will find a way to use him alot like Orlando used him.

At this point in their careers Hedo is better then Hill, and he’ll be starting and be used alot with the second unit to explore the possiblity of Gorans scoring capabilities. This makes the Suns better this year in my opinion

You know what; I was rooting for Josh to go to the Celtics. Bah.

For the life of me, I can’t see how this improves the team when we need a rebounder…We didn’t need another shooter…Might as well have kept LB if that was the case…

of including hedo and childress (cap) on nba2k.

dang are we in trouble with regards to the PF spot… :( i keep subbing hedo/grant/jared in and out for some dexterity and putting in frye early in the game..

So is Turk going to be PF for you guys or what?

We obviously have too many players that can play the 2 or 3. J-Rich, Childress, Hill, Dudley, Turk, and Clark. There’s just not enough minutes to play that many players. Assuming Turkoglu is here to stay and wasn’t just acquired to trade for another player, we might have to move J-Rich or Jared Dudley so there can be enough minutes for the guys.

J-Rich seems to be the most likely since he’s an expiring next season, which would make him an attractive commodity. Like a lot of people have said, he could be traded for a big. I personally don’t want either to go but this clearly can’t work and a trade seems to be the best solution.

Rondo, as well. Link here.

Should be exciting to see how Gentry forms his lineups… I personally would think the following would be our best lineup…
PG Nash
SG Richardson
SF Childress
PF Turkoglu
C Lopez

On offense that would be a very difficult lineup to match up with and would provide another exciting season to say the least… On the boards I think we could be passable if Childress and Richardson help out on the boards as they are both solid rebounders for their size…

Childress was an excellent move…
Hopefully Hedo can integrate seemlessly…

One thing seems to be certain though… we are going to get heavy doses of the pick and roll and ALOT of 3’s…

I’ve been watchin this kid since he got drafted out of Stanford and weve got nothing but love for Childress in Atlanta. He’s an awesome defensive minded underrated slasher, who knows how to rebound, and he makes intelligent shots plus the guy can shoot the 3 too. He the type of guy that makes championship teams and someone every team needs… a hustle guy. With Steve Nash running the floor this guy is gonna Avg atleast 15 – 17 Pts per game easily if he get the minutes. Be happy Suns fans you guys got a hidden gem for basically nothing… I’m pissed off as a Hawks fan but happy for him getting a chance. Plus, THE AFRO IS EPIC

PG-Nash
SG-Jrich
SF-Turkoglu
PF-Frye
C-Lopez

PF problem PARTIALLY solved by getting Frye in there and moving Turk to the 3. This may not be a starting lineup but a potential lineup.

I think the Hedo move was a bad one for this team. Hedo was terrible in TO and I just don’t think he can fit in with the Suns. Too often I’d see the ball stop when it got to him, and I don’t think that will fly in Phoenix. I really don’t think he can play the PF position well either, which makes me wonder about the rotation with Hill, Dudley and Hedo. Though it should be noted that he can run the offense as a ball carrier, it’d still be better to have Nash and Dragic handling it.

is it for sure or is this speculation

There’s such a log-jam at the 3. Yeah, we can move Clark to the 4, but he’s really a 3. I guess we could move Dudley (which I really don’t want to do), and then have Turkoglu play backup at the 3.

At some point, however, I want Clark to be a starter, and not four years from now when Turk’s contract is up. I guess maybe the Suns have lost faith in Clark and will move him, as well.

http://blogs.thescore.com/tbj/2010/03/31/the-jones-hedo-turkoglu-party-machine/

you really need to click over and read it. So well done.

LB – It’s been a pleasure having you associated with our franchise man. You gave your all every single time you were on the court. You’re childish innocence made it impossible for anyone not to like you. For what you’ve given on the court – thank you. For being the person you are off the floor – I don’t actually care, but well done anyway.

Steve – You’re representin’ alone now…show them how we do!

As for Turkoglu:

My one concern? Rebounding has all but disappeared from the front line. Ah well, bring on the spreading of the floor!

“Sad to see LB go. I wish him the best. But I like the moves we are making.”

all i can say is, it’s no wonder i never bother with this place.

looks like i’m in the 3% minority.

yeah, childress is a good player. so?

the real deal on this trade is: amare stoudemire’s 4 and 5 year guarantee in exchange for warrick and turkoglu. which is crap.

this is the opposite of the miami way of building. trade your all-stars one by one, year after year. first joe, then shawn, now amare. (what, you expect me to include shaq?)

sarver is consistent however, gotta give him that. consistently dumb.

It’s great that we have so many legitimate players who are deserving of minutes, but we’ve also got some redundant skill sets, and Lopez is our only force down low. Chemistry will be a concern. I’m not talking about guys going out to dinner together, but how will these pieces fit together on the floor? Plugging Hedo into the starting PF position won’t work. He’s a completely different player from Amare. Warrick is the only true PF on our roster, and he’s undersized (and just generally not very good).

As currently constructed, this team has serious problems with low post defense and rebounding. Lopez is critical to our hopes, and he hasn’t shown he can stay healthy. We have a lot of good players, but I don’t think this mix is right. Another big trade on the way?

Is it me, or is the banter here kind of similar to the gloom and doom we had going last summer? And that was when we HAD Amar’e! We still have Nash, JRich, Hill and Lopez as starters, with Jdud, Frye, Goran, Warrick and Childress coming off the bench. I’ll take that 9 any day, and that’s a hell of a 2nd unit. Do we know what’s happening with Lou yet?

Now yes, of course we need a PF. But even without a trade, we have options…whether it’s Hedo, Warrick or Clark…or a PTBNL remains to be seen. Do we need some low post defense and rebounding…yes. But lot of folks didn’t think we had that going into last year, and things kind of worked out ok.

So let’s see how things play out in the coming weeks. Could there be another trade coming…perhaps. But then, who would we part with. I think I’d like the chance to see how things develop with these pieces. And what hasn’t changed is there’s still not an Amar’e replacement out there. We’ve known that all along.

and I am wondering if that means that he will take away some of Goran’s minutes?