Lindsey Hunter plans to scrap Suns' offensive system

[jonathanlambert33]

Lindsey Hunter plans to get rid of the Phoenix Suns’ offensive system, which has been in place for much of the past decade.

Hunter changed the team's defensive principles after taking over for longtime coach Alvin Gentry, who was fired following a 13-28 start to the season.

“It’s easier to change the defense,” Hunter said. “Offensively, when you start messing with that, you’re messing with rhythm. You’re messing with familiarity. You’re messing with a lot of stuff that affects us. Slowly, I’ll implement some things. I’ll do it that way until the season’s over. Then hopefully everything works out and we can trash the old system and put mine in.”

Gentry was an assistant under former Suns coach Mike D’Antoni for five years, and continued to run a system similar to D’Antoni’s after he became head coach during the 2008-09 season.

“We can’t play the way Phoenix played in the past,” Hunter said. “We just can’t. We don’t spread the floor that way. We have Goran (Dragic), who is more of a scoring point and you’ve got to be sensitive to that. Getting our bigs going to the rim. Getting (Marcin) Gortat going to the rim and JO (Jermaine O’Neal) and getting (Jared) Dudley shots. It’s a different dynamic of a team.”

Via Paul Coro/Arizona Republic

 

[bosoxlover12]

Lindsey knows basketball lol


Suns might be decent now

 

[BwareDWare94]

Getting Marcus Morris is paying dividends already, too. I hate that Houston tossed him. At least we had solid replacements.

 

[Pugz]

i hope the team keeps him longterm

 

[BwareDWare94]

i hope the team keeps him longterm

I've seen Suns fans on another forum salivating over how much heart he plays with. And he's a very versatile defender. Though he wasn't as built as Patrick Patterson is, he at least crashed the boards. He can get you 5-10 on a nightly basis with the minutes. He's also turning into a good scorer.

 

[Pugz]

i was talking about lindsey lol but im a huge fan of that trade. i love marcus' game and the change of scenery should open up his time and game.

 

[jonathanlambert33]

I figured you were talking about Coach but I didn't want to sound like an idiot if you weren't lol

 

[BwareDWare94]

It's ok, boys. I'm the on who feels like an idiot lol.