Two links from two guys, I trust. . . Eat it, Bickel.
Best quote from True Hoop: "In terms of how everyone is playing right now, and how much money they make, you could make the case that of the six assets changing hands -- Jason Richardson, Jared Dudley, a 2010 Charlotte second-round pick, Raja Bell, Boris Diaw, and Sean Singletary -- the Suns got the three best."
http://myespn.go.com/blogs/truehoop/0-37-37/A-Spark-for-the-Suns.html
And, John Hollinger weighs in:
Favorite quote: "Richardson also is a great fit in Phoenix, especially if the Suns revert to playing more up-tempo. He's a high-flying finisher in transition, but he also led the NBA in 3-pointers made last season and is hitting 45.6 percent on 3s this season. With post threats Amare Stoudemire and Shaquille O'Neal to set him up, one shudders to think how many triples he can rain in with the Suns."
http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/columns/story?columnist=hollinger_john&page=sunscatstradehollinger-081210&lpos=spotlight&lid=tab2pos2
What Bickel missed in his short and shoddy analysis of Bell and Richardson's three point percentages, is that all Raja Bell does is take open three pointers, and Richardson constantly takes three-pointers with a high level of difficulty, and shooting more open shots will cause his percentage to even go up more.
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Here's my whole point of contention with the trade. What kind of team is steve kerr trying to build? If this results in the suns opening it up again, I would say it's a good trade. Richardson was at his best playing nellie ball in golden state and if he's able to play like that in phoenix, it could wind up being a great trade. But I dislike this trade for the same reason I disliked the iverson trade for detroit... It doesn't seem like kerr has a plan for this team. And he also traded nash's best friend on the team. I don't know, I could very well be wrong about this, but remember the suns were a corrupt ref away from playing I'm the finals two years ago and now they're what, the fifth or sixth best team in the west? Suffice it to say I haven't been impressed with kerr's body of work in the past and the jury is out.
Ya, I think it's safe to say that Kerr has no plan.
There really is no justification for this trade outside of "Steve Kerr has no clue".
If Kerr wanted a more half-court, defensive oriented team (which is what he said all summer), then this was the wrong trade. J-Rich plays no defense and excels on the offensive end when the tempo is fast-paced and he can "out-athlete" opposing players.
If Kerr is now admitting that the Suns would be better with an uptempo offense, then he is still a retard, as he traded for a fat, plodding center last year and then ran one of the two best "uptempo offense" coaches in the game out of town over the summer. Trading for J-Rich doesn't all of a sudden mean that the old Suns are back - as Hollinger implied - because you still have the wrong center and coach in place.
Either way, Kerr comes out looking clueless...
DOES NO ONE UNDERSTAND THAT RAJA BELL HAS NOT BEEN A GOOD DEFENSIVE PLAYER FOR 3 YEARS?!?!
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