Suns Sign Dijon Thompson

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  1. bbwSwish

    bbwSwish Harder. Better. Faster. Stronger.

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    <div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">Suns Press Release - The Phoenix Suns announced today the signing of rookie Dijon Thompson, the 54th pick overall in the 2005 NBA Draft. Phoenix acquired his draft rights along with forward/center Kurt Thomas from the New York Knicks in exchange for swingman Quentin Richardson and the draft rights to Nate Robinson on June 28.

    The 6-7, 195-pound swingman averaged a team-high 18.4 points (fourth in the Pac-10) and 7.9 rebounds (third) in 28 games in his senior season at UCLA in 2004-05. The 22-year-old averaged 12.5 points, 4.7 rebounds and 1.1 steals in 117 career games (72 starts) with the Bruins.</div>
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    To be quite honest the Thompson pick was not one of my favorites by Bryan Colangelo. I do not see him making very much of an impact this year behind J-Jax and Bell on the bench. I would have prefered a project big like the one we drafted in Marcin Gortat (we do have one of the best big man coaches in the league in Mike Ivaroni).
     
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    ^I don?t think Colangelo drafted him. I believe Isiah Thomas did and then in the Q deal, they just swapped Nate and Dijon. You shouldn?t really expect much from Thompson if anything in his rookie year. He has Joe (if re-signed), Jimmy, and possibly Finley all in front of him for playing time. He will probably just ride the bench for his whole rookie season.
     
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    <div class="quote_poster">Quoting MrJ:</div><div class="quote_post">^I don?t think Colangelo drafted him. I believe Isiah Thomas did and then in the Q deal, they just swapped Nate and Dijon. You shouldn?t really expect much from Thompson if anything in his rookie year. He has Joe (if re-signed), Jimmy, and possibly Finley all in front of him for playing time. He will probably just ride the bench for his whole rookie season.</div>

    Technically Isiah did draft him but he was picking for us. We wanted Dijon and we informed Isiah to draft him because the deal for Q had already been agreed upon. The Knicks did the same thing with Phoenix's choice of Nate, it was their choice to take him.
     
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    We are starting to get full at the 2 position, but hopefully the rookie can do something. I'm ready to see what he can do.
     
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