I don't think it's a roadblock so much as it is a non-starter. If you were going to move DMo, it would be for a better player than Gogi. There's not really any point in making the PG position better while creating a hole at starting PF and backup C at the same time.
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Every time we play a team and one of their players goes off on us it's kinda funny to come back to this thread to see people asking how we can trade for that person. Seems to happen every time.
I don't understand why you're claiming- "He has been pretty spot on most of the Suns moves in the last couple of years". There been nothing about the Suns I can recall him getting right, ever. His last info was that the Suns absolutely would not budge from their 4/48 offer to Bledsoe...a day later he signed for 5/70. He has never claimed to be an insider, but I fully expect you guys to put blinders on to the info I place below, and get all frothy about Gogi ....AGAIN. Traxxe is NotTraxxe. He relayed some inside the press info for a couple years '09-'11. Disappeared for a couple years. Started posting again early in '14 without claiming any type of inside status for months, then started claiming he had some "inside" when Lebron-Suns rumors cropped up last July. Here are some quotes from him when he first ventured onto Suns-RGM beginning in '09 (links to each) 6/26/09- Hey, I'm not an insider. I hear what some journalists hear is all. I might have a bag of lies from Front Offices, sometimes I get news a little early and sometimes I get good bits of useful info. I've said all I've heard on this. I don't have a big secret or anything. http://forums.realgm.com/boards/viewtopic.php?f=27&t=918873&p=19965003#p19965003 6/26/09- I've never claimed to be an insider mind you. I just have connections in the journalism field... ... if Tastic wants to pm me his email I'll email him the small connections I have. http://forums.realgm.com/boards/viewtopic.php?f=27&t=918873&p=19964382#p19964382 7/02/09- I qualify my statements that I'm not a great insider. I just am in a position hear things. But I can stop. It's no big deal to me. I'm wrong sometimes too. Lot of BS info gets tossed about to people with connections, etc. Anyway, I just post what i hear. Don't take it as fact. Well Traxxe, it sounds like whatever you are providing then is approximately at the level of news sources - like you hear it approximately when it is going to be released. Since that's the case I don't have a problem with it as long as you distinguish between your speculation and what you hear. -Miklo (forum mod) http://forums.realgm.com/boards/viewtopic.php?f=27&t=921641&p=20042078#p20042078 8/13/09- I am not an insider. I hear things that spill out of the organization from time to time a bit ahead of other peeps. I'm just saying what I hear. Take it for what it is worth. http://forums.realgm.com/boards/viewtopic.php?f=27&t=937138&p=20528092#p20528092 2/17/10- ...I wil post as a fan as I mentioned earlier but didn't follow through with. As for my contacts, I've always said they were open to failure. Since I'm done here with inside info I'll open up and say generically that my brother is an ESPN sports writer and another person in my 'family' is engaged to a Suns reporter. http://forums.realgm.com/boards/viewtopic.php?f=27&t=988047&p=22377818#p22377818 So, he's had a connection to Suns info by way of his brother being an ESPN writer (Dallas based, I believe) and via someone in his "family" marrying a Suns reporter...no info has come from a source inside the FO. With NotTraxxe's latest post, his info coming from inside the press have grown even less substantial (or legit?) by his own admission.
It doesn't take an insider to realize that Len, Tucker and Bledsoe are the 3 guys the Suns want to keep (and Wright they just acquired), they have them locked up, they serve key roles at potentially high levels, they're actually being utilized correctly. No one except Len (who has that Pau I'm just going to reach up over you thing going) in their front court can rebound at all, Goran isn't a SG (and says so all the damn time)
Chris, clearly you have not noticed that in this thread everyone is an insider regardless of credentials. The sauces are strong with this one.
Thats true, but I've been calling for Frye for weeks (even after he went to the bench). He would give us the stretch 4 we've needed for years, and is the perfect pick and pop compliment to Dragic.
Ok, so by your own admission he has sources. I couldn't care less where they're from. I never claimed he was connected to the FO. He was right on some moves, not all of them, but he did got information out before the media at least a couple of times that I remember, as a result most of the board over there considers him legit. And LOL about him being wrong about Bledsoe. Nobody knew what was going to happen there, not the FO not Bledsoe himself. Suns didn't want to move from they initial offer and Eric had the qualifying offer already singed, before the last minute save by the FO.
We are not going to give up DMo for Frye. We COULD possibly be interested in Frye but not at the price of DMo or the pick.
Just so you guys know... <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-partner="tweetdeck"><p>So this just got tweeted and deleted <a href="http://t.co/d2hT0VwoGl">pic.twitter.com/d2hT0VwoGl</a></p>— Sean Highkin (@highkin) <a href="https://twitter.com/highkin/status/555921769454788609">January 16, 2015</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script> Maybe it means nothing Edit: <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-partner="tweetdeck"><p>The deleted DeAndre Jordan tweet saying goodbye, I'm told, was in reference to Clippers cut/traded in recent days. There is no deal w/ him.</p>— Sam Amick (@sam_amick) <a href="https://twitter.com/sam_amick/status/555925336328663040">January 16, 2015</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
Won't do that either. Pels pick will go out before DMo. We're trying to win it all. DMo isn't going anywhere. He's a big. Maybe in a deal for Bosh or Love. But we ain't trading DMo for a guard and another big that only shoots the 3 and can't D up or board.
