Who needs Tyronn Lue? Who really needs Corey Maggette? Why waste your time with valuable free agents, when you can have ...Matt Barnes!
Yes, that's right, the Suns have signed unrestricted free agent Matt Barnes, who you may remember from such hits as "that 2006-2007 season where he was good for about thirteen seconds" and ... um ... yeah. Barnes is long, reasonably athletic, and a great glue guy. He also was hardly used by the Warriors at all last season, despite their desperate need for a deeper rotation and his status as a team captain.
Still, this kind of conservative approach may be what's needed for the Suns, given that some of their bigger moves (so to speak) have not worked out well. This signing speaks of defense and a willingness to bring in guys that want to work. You have to be concerned with how quickly he fell from team captain to expendable, but for the league minimum, this is a value pick up, and a good one at that.
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7-22-2008 @ 8:57AM
mistersoul said...
What you've spewed out here is three paragraphs of absolute gibberish and nothingness. You will just say anything controversial, even if it's entirely contradictory. This is terrible writing.
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7-22-2008 @ 1:26PM
gary said...
Barnes is not exactly what the Suns or their fans are hoping for, not that it's a bad signing. Hopefully he will mesh well. Anyone who plays with Nash is benefited anyway. But the Suns need a point guard, maybe Damon Stoudemire. http://www.choicearizona.com/arizona_auto_insurance.php
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