Phoenix Suns Need Playmaker; Boris Diaw Available. Parlez-vous Francais?

Apparently it’s come to this now…

Oh well, I guess if they toss a pastry clause in his contract, I guess it can’t hurt…

I know this seems terrible but I’m ready to call it a season.

Let Nash rest until next season (LOL), Get a top 5 pick, sign a good free agent, re-sign Nash for 2 years at a lower contract and let him retire a Sun if he chooses and dont we get Brooks back?.

You know if any of that is possible that is.

If they took back either Chilly’s or Warrick’s contract then I would would happily give them Lopez.

And this would do it.

Does this make the Suns better now?

Most likely. Some people already think the rotation needs shortened. This may help facilitate this. Diaw’s numbers are down this year, but it seems logical to assume that returning to play with Steve might vivify Boris. The contribution that Diaw has shown he can make is greater than the combined contribution that the Suns can expect to get out of Lopez and Warrick this season. Is it a guarantee? No. But Lopez has been horribly inconsistent and can’t get regular minutes behind Gortat (this might actually net Gortat more minutes) and Warrick has already seen his minutes evaporating this season.

Do the Suns want to keep Lopez?

I don’t think so. He hasn’t shown enough to merit the type of financial commitment the Suns would most likely have to make. As an RFA, Rolo will count against the cap unless the Suns renounce his rights (at which point they get nothing for him if he walks) so I can’t see it coming to that. The Suns have appropriated so much cap space in order to make a splash in free agency that I really can’t see them gambling some of it on Rolo based on his performance. I think they may be trying to wait as long as possible to make the most informed decision they can on the matter.

What else can the Suns get for Rolo?

This is important and speaks to the Suns strategy moving forward. Is there another deal to be had that nets the Suns a low first rounder for Robin? If so, would it be more prudent to explore that avenue and build for the future instead of putting a fluffy, buttery band aid on a struggling team?

This trade would most likely improve the team now, for one season. This trade wouldn’t compromise the cap space the Suns have created. In fact, it would absolve the Suns from Warrick’s contract. This trade doesn’t return picks or assets that may help moving forward. I don’t think it’s a terrible trade, it just depends on the ambitions of the front office.

I would also like to thank Alex for his concinnity and apologize in advance for any reproduction or duplication of the original and brilliant content comprising the original story. :)

make the Suns a good enough team to fight for 10th place in the West

so what’s the point for getting a 3-month rental if we’re not actually gunning for a playoff bid anymore? Is his expiring contract enough to want the trade regardless of whether he even helps us or not?

We should be positioning ourselves for 2012, even if not totally giving up on this season.

Aside from scoring he’s doing better than ever TBQH. It’s his best rebounding season since forever and he’s averaging almost 5 assists a game to boot, despite playing less than 30 minutes.

If Charlotte want to let him go, we shouldn’t hesitate. Out 2nd unit has NOTHING so this would be a hell of an update. I don’t care, I don’t wanna see this team tank.

I’m sure the Bobcats will be hoping for better deals than getting Warrick And RoLo. The book on those two is prettty written – they’re not very good. The Bobcats would have to hate Boris a lot to want Warrick and RoLo’s inconsistent performances.

But id wonder what the point was. I’m effectively resigned to our fate this year. There are much worse things than having a Top 10 pick and cap space for 2 Max free agents. Could be a rapid rebuild with some luck.

that at this point in the season, when we’ve already seen the product we’re putting on the court, the only course of action is to weather this collective sh*t storm with the cast of players that we currently have, and hope for big moves and high draft picks in the very near future.

There is also always a chance that a contending team will have a big man go down, which would up Lopez’s stock significantly, and possibly give us a late 1st or early 2nd round pick for him, which isn’t too shabby, especially if we get it for this years draft which last I heard was considered one of the deepest in years by most experts on the matter.

My grandma (and yours probably), always said, “You can put lipstick on a pig, but it’s still a pig”…with that in mind, Boris Diaw, in my honest opinion, is nothing more than a cheap shade of french lipstick that will do nothing for our team in the long run…

Then again, my grandma was a drunk.

Boris in a heartbeat,Make all the fun you want he makes other players better and if motivated is a difference maker

It depends on what we’d have to give up. I’m not crazy about the idea of giving up Lopez for him because I think we could get more for Robin before the trade deadline. Lopez is a young 7’1" center playing behind a borderline all-star here, and there are plenty of teams, like Golden State, that need more size who may be willing to give up a mid to late first rounder to give him a shot.

Diaw is on a $9 mil expiring contract, so even if we traded for him it would only be a rental. I don’t think Diaw is in our long term plans, and he wouldn’t make enough of a difference to get us to the playoffs this year so it wouldn’t make much difference.

If only the money worked, Warrick and Lopez for him would be great for us

Why not just wait until he is a Free Agent next year? Getting marginally better now doesn’t help us at all in the grand scheme of things. We can save our players for a different trade.

Like others have said, we should try to get a 1st rounder or a borderline all-star for Lopez, not a rental that doesn’t help us long term.

However, if we can miraculously get rid of Chilly’s contract, then yes please! Hak’s isn’t as bad, but not ideal for a backup player who is 1 dimensional. So Hak+Brown (+2nd rd pick maybe) for Diaw is fine, but anything more would not be worth it for us.

Sorry. I like Lopez, he’s doing OK this year. If we could get Diaw for Chilly and Warrick or Chilly and Brown (that chucker) or maybe Chilly and Telfair… Or mostly just Chilly… I’d be cool with it.

If we have to ditch Lopez, screw that. Just wait until he’s an FA next year.

If we do get Diaw, we just need to find a way to get him pissed off. He may be a fluffy pastry normally but any time someone has flagrant fouled him or kicked him in the nuts, he’s gone INSANE.

should be hammered before the 3rd quarter.

If the Suns could’ve got 15, 5 and 5 out of him on a consistent basis, he would never have been traded. His inability to go for the Full French is what doomed him the first time around.

Hilarious, Alex…and I’m a big Diaw fan.

The ONLY way I see this working is if the Bobcats take Frye and in that case, why not. Boris is expiring and would be happy here. He does some nice things.

But I’m not even sure that would help the Suns right about now…we’d only be marginally more athletic which is one of our biggest downfalls…Diaw is a decent post defender, but hell we need somebody to stop wing players from going slam freaking crazy on us…Considering the fact that we’d have problems finding a decent croissant after he got here…I just don’t see any upside in this..

Yes and No to Boris.

If our FO does trade for him and he plays really well, promise me, promise me, you guys won’t convince the FO to re-sign him.

this would give me the opportunity to pull my oversized, blue Diaw jersey out of the back of my closet.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGQ-ISsDm8M

Our FO would probably give the Bobcats our 1st rd pick thinking we could make a playoff run lol.

I’d be happy with Diaw if it ment we could clear more cap space for next year, or it net us picks or other players. I don’t know why the Suns haven’t made a trade for Mayo the guy can flat out score. He is buried on the bench in Memphis and it’s clear that the Grizzlies can’t keep him with all the money they have with Gasol, Z-Bo, Gay and Conley.

I’ve always been one of Boris’s biggest fans have no doubt that he would come in and play very well here. We’d go from a .300 team to a .500 team pretty quickly IMO…..but that actually just brings us closer to the worst-case “not good enough for the playoffs, not bad enough for a good pick” scenario.

So I’mma vote no.

Unless they take Chilly’s contract off our hands.

Leading up to his free agency suns fans were scared banker bobs cheap ass wouldnt pony up like joe j.If wee wouldnt have given him 9 mil someone else would have on the open market maybe even more,Remember we signed him a year before he hit the open market @ the time I dont think it was a bad deal,just my opinion.