Suns will look to add depth at center position
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Print | Originally published: Jul 27, 2012 - 2:48 pm
But it left them a hole at backup center.
Lopez had filled the role for a season-and-a-half, mixing moments of excellence with nights of disappointment. Still, for all his faults, competent seven-footers don't exactly grow on trees, and the Suns did want to bring the former Stanford Cardinal back.
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Listen: Lon Babby, President of Basketball Operations Lon Babby calls in to Doug and Wolf to talk about the Robin Lopez and the three team trade.
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"We have to hope that Channing [Frye] is healthy sooner rather than later," Babby told Arizona Sports 620's Doug and Wolf Friday. "He has played the five in the past and can do it again.
"Scola can play some five."
That would leave the Suns playing some version of "small ball", as both Frye and Scola are more suited to play the power forward position.
"[General manager Lance Blanks] is going to spearhead a search to make sure we probably bring in another big," Babby added. "That's certainly an area where we need help, but I don't think it will be anything dramatic.
"That's the risk of losing someone like Robin, no question about it."
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