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**Seuss** · 11-16-2006, 12:59 PM

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Three games into the season, Mike D’Antoni approached a struggling Boris Diaw to tell him he’d been dropped from the starting lineup. He wasn’t sure exactly what kind of response he’d get from his mildmannered Frenchman, but he should have known better.

“He said, ‘Coach, if I were you, I wouldn’t start me either,’ ” D’Antoni said.

“But that’s Boris. He knew he wasn’t playing well. He knew he was behind and had work to do.”

Diaw has done the work. He’s trimmed down about 10 pounds. He’s finding his niche in a three-man, big-man rotation with Amaré Stoudemire and Kurt Thomas, understanding that he may not be able — or need to — put up the kind of numbers (13.3 points, 6.9 rebounds, 6.2 assists) that made him the NBA’s Most Improved Player last year.

http://www.nba.com/suns/news/tribune_061116.html