Phoenix vs. Portlant - Game 3

[mogrovejo]

Fernandez is pitiful right now.

As long as Phoenix executes at a decent level, they should have this.

[Ghazi]

oh how i wish we drew the blazers :cry

[Darthkiller]

man portland no answer for phx offense right now, and getting shut down on the other and as well

[pauls931]

Wish Pho could hit a FT for their f'ing lives...

[lil_penny]

Lol blazers

[mogrovejo]

Phoenix on pace to win 136-64. Seems about right.

[lil_penny]

Wish Pho could hit a FT for their f'ing lives...

Are you kidding me your up by 18 lol

[pauls931]

Are you kidding me your up by 18 lol

Nash and Stoudamire are taking turns brickin, makes my eyes bleed watching that. I wouldn't be comfortable with a 40 point lead, the blazers just figure out how to win much of the time. I don't know how, but they do.

[lil_penny]

this game is over pauls.. blazers can't score or play defense for shit for the 2nd consecutive game. You guys knocked us out early tonight.

[Jeremy]

WOW--no other Suns coach would have EVER done that. Not Westphal, not even Cotton.

[lil_penny]

Aldridge you fucking pussy..

[Strike]

Really thought the Blazers would play better. Looks like Game 1 was a fluke.

[Darthkiller]

props to gentry to play dragic. maybe coach Rick learn a thing or two from gentry and play Roddy.

[oh crap]

ugly game. oh well. i just hope PHX can beat the team they play in the second round.

[Ditty]

lol tlong

[pauls931]

props to gentry to play dragic. maybe coach Rick learn a thing or two from gentry and play Roddy.

I'm loving Dragic, finally Pho has a PG on the bench who can maintain or even build on existing leads.

[Pero]

WOW--no other Suns coach would have EVER done that. Not Westphal, not even Cotton.

What?

[Jeremy]

What?

He called timeout after Suns' lazy defense allowed a Blazers layup to cut the lead to 20.

[Pero]

He called timeout after Suns' lazy defense allowed a Blazers layup to cut the lead to 20.

Ah. :lol

[Pero]

Wow another injury...

[pauls931]

He called timeout after Suns' lazy defense allowed a Blazers layup to cut the lead to 20.

Hot Shit! I noticed that too! I've lost count of how many times Dantoni, and Westphal would just watch huge leads get pissed away without addressing issues with D.

[tlongII]

Horrible game by us. Embarrassing.

[lil_penny]

I always thought jordan was the greatest.. that was until I saw j rich.

[Jeremy]

Hot Shit! I noticed that too! I've lost count of how many times Dantoni, and Westphal would just watch huge leads get pissed away without addressing issues with D.

Yeah, and I don't think any Suns coach would have done it that quick--usually a coach waits at least until a lead goes down by 5 or so.

[Lars]

Down 30 WTF

[Jeremy]

31-point first-half PLAYOFF lead!! Wow. Is that some sort of record?

[Killakobe81]

I predicted the game 2 ass whuppin' (remember Tlong?)

But I did not EXPECT this ... Obviously im watching the lakers ...but EVERYTIME I switch the channel ...it looks worse and worse

[mavsfan1000]

:lol Portland. I knew they had no chance against the Suns.

[Strike]

I didn't think Portland would just bend over like this.

[Jeremy]

That Game 1 performance would still really be bothering me, except that maybe it helped give the Suns some more mental toughness that they needed.

[Jeremy]

Batum will not return in this game.

[Jeremy]

Suns need to keep the lead up big, so we can rest our starters again in the 4th quarter, with an almost back-to-back game on Saturday at 1:30 PM.

[Budkin]

You gotta be fucking pissed if you're a Blazers fan... losing by 30 at home? Pathetic.

[pauls931]

This is portland's chance if it's possible, pho is playing like tards starting the 2nd half

[Jeremy]

The clock is our friend right now. At least we're down to 18:58. Heh.

[Jeremy]

17 minutes to go.

[tlongII]

I flipped to the OKC/Laker game. Good thing I'm going to Saturday's game instead of this abortion.

[Jeremy]

Richardson surpasses his Game 2 point total.

[Jeremy]

Gentry needs to take Amare out for the rest of the game. Don't let the Blazers get anything more heated going.

[Jeremy]

Good.

[pauls931]

Portland announcers praying Amare gets booted for a game for an elbow.

[Jeremy]

Did he throw an elbow?

[Texas_Ranger]

Stoudewhiner is such a nice pussy.

[pauls931]

Did he throw an elbow?

Yes, much less benevloent than Garnetts, but the portland announcers have nothing better to talk about. Portland going all out right now vs the Suns subs.

edit: his elbow didn't really leave his body like garnet's so I think it'll slide.

[Jeremy]

Blazers regaining some confidence now for Game 4... Not good.

[pauls931]

Blazers regaining some confidence now for Game 4... Not good.

Suns are choking, and the blazers are playing extremely physical right now. Need to hold on.

[mogrovejo]

Portland announcers praying Amare gets booted for a game for an elbow.

What Stoudemire did was not worse than what Kobe did in game 2 vs OKC. Tough luck he doesnt' play for Los Angeles.

[Jeremy]

Actually, if we can hold their run off right here, maybe it'll give them less confidence for Game 4.

[Jeremy]

8 minutes!

[pauls931]

Refs starting to call fouls on the rough stuff, it's over.

[Jeremy]

Jordan Richardson!!! ;)

[mogrovejo]

Chippy game. Portland is playing over-emotional basketball, they will never make a comeback.

[Jeremy]

7 minutes!

[pauls931]

You gotta be kidding me, rudy! :-P Guess Portland decided to start playing in the 4th quarter. Piss poor close by the Suns, they can actually still lose this thing.

[Jeremy]

6 minutes.

[Jeremy]

19-point comeback already. Not good.

[Xylus]

Wow, these 6 minutes can't go fast enough. Who's guarding Rudy?

[lil_penny]

Game 3. 6 mins left, and rudy is back to life lol

[pauls931]

Wow, these 6 minutes can't go fast enough. Who's guarding Rudy?

Good question. Suns doing everything they can to get portland back into it. Frye going 0-5 from 3 doesn't help.

[pauls931]

Ah, that's nash's guy...

[Jeremy]

Game over. Finally.

[pauls931]

Jrich was unreal tonight. Felt bad the Portland made a push and forced Gentry to pull Dragic out.

[Xylus]

JRich playing unbelievably tonight.

[Jeremy]

J-Rich with a playoff career high and 2 points off his regular season career high 44.

[Jeremy]

The worst thing about the Portland comeback may be the Suns' starters not getting to rest the 4th quarter, with an almost back-to-back game coming up.

[mogrovejo]

I strongly suspect this won't be the last time in this series we'll be watching Travis Diener subbing in.

[pauls931]

The worst thing about the Portland comeback may be the Suns' starters not getting to rest the 4th quarter, with an almost back-to-back game coming up.

Ya, I was hoping the subs could pull it, but they couldn't and Gentry wasn't taking any chances. They have homecourt back and blowing this one would have been devastating. I think Portland's rough play really bothered Dragic.

[Pero]

I think Portland's rough play really bothered Dragic.

Maybe, but the lead didn't change much while he was in the game.

[lil_penny]

well good game phoenix, j rich went crazy.. hopefully
we can somehow pull a win out on saturday:bang

on a good note for portland is that rudy finally has shown up for hte playoffs:lol hopefully that carries over to the next game and not j rich's jordan impressions

[Jeremy]

I think it's safe to say that Raja Bell would not have done what J-Rich did for us.

[pauls931]

I think it's safe to say that Raja Bell would not have done what J-Rich did for us.

ya, JRich is an athletic scorer while Raja was an athletic defender with a 3pt shot as a bonus.

Great game, but the Suns really f'd up. No starter should have had to play the 4th quarter with the 1st half they had. Portland just became uber aggressive all of a sudden when the suns bench came in and rattled them forcing the starters back in who were probably wound down not ready to play more.

Also, I'm not letting nash off the hook. Rudy was his guy and ran off like 3 consecutive 3's that gave Portland confidence. Rudy's not going to kill you with layups and midrange jumpshots Stevo!!!

BTW, is the next game in Portland too? After 2 beatdowns I expect Portoland to throw the kitchen sink at the suns during their next home game.

[Pero]

Portland just became uber aggressive all of a sudden when the suns bench came in and rattled them forcing the starters back in who were probably wound down not ready to play more.


I didn't watch the game continually because I had a report to write, but looking at the play by play I'm not sure what you're talking about. With all the starters in, Suns were leading by 24. Subs come in and Bayless makes an and1 just before the end of the 3rd. In the fourth Howard makes a shot, the lead is down to 19 and then Suns starters come back in and Portland cuts the lead to 11. After that Suns regain control.

[pauls931]

I didn't watch the game continually because I had a report to write, but looking at the play by play I'm not sure what you're talking about. With all the starters in, Suns were leading by 24. Subs come in and Bayless makes an and1 just before the end of the 3rd. In the fourth Howard makes a shot, the lead is down to 19 and then Suns starters come back in and Portland cuts the lead to 11. After that Suns regain control.

There was a significant momentum swing when they started rough housing Dragic keeping the suns from getting into their offensive sets. Then the starters who didn't think they'd have to come back in had to be reinsterted making things worse momentarily.

Either way, this is good practice if the Suns make it to the second round to play the Spurs.

[Pero]

Either way, this is good practice if the Suns make it to the second round to play the Spurs.

LOL, I hope so. :D

[Goran Dragic]

There was a significant momentum swing when they started rough housing Dragic keeping the suns from getting into their offensive sets. Then the starters who didn't think they'd have to come back in had to be reinsterted making things worse momentarily.

Either way, this is good practice if the Suns make it to the second round to play the Spurs.


:lmao pretending you're a Dragic fan, you find any reason to blame him for anything. Dragic had nothing do with Nash leaving Fernandez open and catching fire.

[pauls931]

:lmao pretending you're a Dragic fan, you find any reason to blame him for anything. Dragic had nothing do with Nash leaving Fernandez open and catching fire.

Did you even watch the game? He couldn't get any sets started. Also if you read the game thread yesterday, I think it was clear I was pissed at Nash for not covering Rudy.

[Goran Dragic]

Did you even watch the game? He couldn't get any sets started. Also if you read the game thread yesterday, I think it was clear I was pissed at Nash for not covering Rudy.


I'm not saying he played well or anything, just saying that he had nothing to do with Portland scaring everyone, that was all the starters.

[Goran Dragic]

Also, Portland has the worst announcers in the NBA. Amare didn't even throw an elbow and they wouldn't stop bitching about it.

[da_suns_fan]

Portland definitely gained some momentum heading into game four. The Suns went cold in that third quarter.

I hope it doesnt carry over.

[N4th4n]

Also, Portland has the worst announcers in the NBA. Amare didn't even throw an elbow and they wouldn't stop bitching about it.

They spent 15 min vilifying Amare for throwing an elbow and then Bayless walks over to Lou and intentionally pushes him AFTER a play and they laugh it off saying it is all "part of the playoffs."

The Portland announcers are about the biggest fucking tools in the god damn world.

[Goran Dragic]

They spent 15 min vilifying Amare for throwing an elbow and then Bayless walks over to Lou and intentionally pushes him AFTER a play and they laugh it off saying it is all "part of the playoffs."

The Portland announcers are about the biggest fucking tools in the god damn world.


The elbow they were talking about with Amare was Batum literally running into his elbow, it didn't even leave the side of his body. Batum initiated contact wit his elbow, I'd be surprised if the NBA even issues a statement about that "elbow". I'll be beyond pissed if Portland announcers whining and making a mountain out of something that wasn't even a mole hill gets Amare suspended also.

As much as I liked him at UA, Bayless is a bitch. I used to hate on McMillan for not giving him PT but someone with an attitude that bad deserves to be planted on the bench.

[pauls931]

Also, Portland has the worst announcers in the NBA. Amare didn't even throw an elbow and they wouldn't stop bitching about it.

Agreed, they wouldn't let it go. Had nothing better to talk about and even if they somehow got a miracle, Amare would be out for a road game and they'd clean house back in Pho.

However he did sorta throw an elbow but he kept it against his body rather than extending it out and into the opponent's face like Garnet did.

This is what made having to put the starters back in bad. I was afraid they'd start rough housing Amare trying to make him lose his cool.