Channing Frye Answers Most Important Call of Career

Filed under: Lakers, Suns, NBA Playoffs

PHOENIX -- Everyone had an opinion.



The guy at the local Circle K interrupted Channing Frye's Slushie pouring to help with his missing shot. People stopped the struggling Phoenix reserve on the street to offer their analysis, and it was clear that his 1 of 20 shooting performance in the first three games of the Western Conference finals against the Lakers had elevated everyone else to expert status while his was the most maddening of untimely falls.



At a local YMCA in downtown Phoenix on Tuesday afternoon, the most basic of ballers had spirited debates about Frye's disappearing act between games. The so-called experts -- that being the media -- had already irked him so much that Frye complained about the negativity. And then there were the real experts, the Andre Iguodalas and Richard Jeffersons and Jamal Crawfords, the old high school and AAU coaches -- all of whom called Frye's cell phone to offer encouragement and reminders that he was, as they told him, "the best shooter in the league."



But before Frye finally broke out of his slump and set the tone for a bench effort that produced 54 points in the Suns' 115-106 win over the Lakers in Game 4 that tied the series 2-2, it was the outreach effort of Suns general manager Steve Kerr that had more impact than the rest.

 

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