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8  -  Channing Frye - PF/C, 6'11, 245 Phoenix Suns - Signed as a free agent in July 2009

Date of birth: 05/17/1983        Country: USA      Drafted (NBA): 8th pick, 2005      Out of: Arizona   NBA Experience: 7 years   Hand: Right  Agent: Rob Pelinka (Landmark Sports Agency) Every now and then, a big man comes along with a good mid-range jumpshot. They're tall and agile, but generally a bit thin, and not a fan of contact. They can, however, splash down many an open look from just inside the arc, and they show a strong preference for it. No matter what you do, those players always seem to wind up as being three point shooters. It's basically inevitable, and Channing Frye went the same way. Frye can drive the ball, Frye can post up a little bit, Frye can pick and pop, and Frye can pick and roll. Yet as much as the Knicks may have wanted to convert him into a low post player, it didn't work, and as he's aged, Frye has added three point range to his offensive game at the expense of everything else. He is not strong and avoids contact - which counts against him significantly both defensively and on the glass - and Frye would much rather spend his weeks facing the basket from 20 to 25 feet away, swinging the ball around the perimeter and setting limp screens, looking for the jumpshot opportunity. There's not really anything wrong with that, per se. Threes are better than long twos, regardless of what purists might say, and being a 6'11 three point shooter is almost always a mismatch advantage. But imagine a player who could do both, shooting from the perimeter and fighting on the inside. That player, were he to exist, would be a hell of an asset. Unfortunately, most of the candidates don't want to know. - 8th November, 2009.

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From blog:

.....Third Prize Is You're Fired

2010-10-06

I've said it so many times that it's becoming kind of repetitive, yet it bears no less true - Phoenix really, really, really, really need rebounding help. Amongst their big men, the only average calibre rebounder is Robin Lopez, and even he's only been average for one season. He was a poor rebounder in both his rookie year and his college career. Other than him, Channing Frye is poor at it, Hakim Warrick is flat out bad at it, and Hedo Turkoglu is bloody awful. And yet that's all of the Suns main big man rotation right there. They're going to rebounding whether they know it yet or not, and this advantages Jones more than Siler. [read full post]

How much centres get paid

2010-10-04

- Phoenix: Robin Lopez (rookie scale), Channing Frye (5 years, $30 million) [read full post]

Creative Financing in the NBA, 2010

2010-08-12

As an addendum to the above, Phoenix used their MLE this summer to re-sign Frye to a 5 year, $30 million contract, after Frye opted out of the second year of his BAE-equivalent contract outlined above. This means that Phoenix have used some of their MLE on the same player for two consecutive seasons. That has to be a first, surely. [read full post]

2010 Free Agency, Preliminary Round

2010-07-01

The following players opted out: - Phoenix = Channing Frye and Amare Stoudemire [read full post]

Chicago's Last Resort Offseason Plan That Still Manages To Avoid Signing Joe Johnson

2010-06-14

The perennially tax-paying Suns need that money. Regardless of what happens with Amare Stoudemire, the Suns need to maintain their depth if they are to maintain competitive. To that end, free agents Channing Frye and Louis Amundson need to be brought back. With Ben Wallace's deadweight contract expiring, the Suns might just have the wiggle room to do this without being tax payers: however, they've surely had enough of fighting with that enemy over the years, no doubt still haunted by the memories of the assets it has cost them over the years. If they weren't paying $7.1 million for a third string guard who could readily be a fourth string guard, they'd have the money to retain their good players and maybe add more. Who knows; with an MLE to spend for a change, maybe they could even add Anthony Morrow. A bench unit of Dragic, Morrow, Amundson, Frye and Jared Dudley is a damn fine bench unit. [read full post]

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