Chris
05-29-2005, 05:11 AM
Ladmo from phxsuns.net forums
Oh man! I HATE it when waste 10 minutes writing a long-ass message and I have to sign in again and it all get's erased! GODDAMNIT THAT SUCKS!!! OH This site drives me fuckin' crazy sometimes!
All I wanted to say was...
Dammit, I forgot! SHIT!
For me, when the opposition comes out and plays perfectly, I can't get too upset. I hate seeing the season go up in flames, but what can you do when the better team wins? Oh man, I had a great way of putting it before...
I'm more pissed off about having to write this shit again than losing...
Spurs played perfectly. They played so perfectly it didn't allow the Suns to take as many risky three-pointers as they would usually, didn't draw defenses out, and basically fucked us. Took us out of our game completely.
I really didn't think the Spurs could play so perfectly, I thought they had at least one flaw that might have been exploited from time to time. But when Duncan is shooting 15-15 from the charity stripe, when the Spurs are that quick on both ends, when they make every shot like that, you gotta' take yer' hat off man. They weren't human.
I can't blame the players, can't blame the refs, can't blame coach o' the year...
Our defense might not be as terrible as people say, but it's not good enough to succeed on this level, apparently.
Might as well start talking about next year...
All I could think during this game is, "Boy, we'd better draft and sign some defensive players in the off-season."
We know we're the best offensive team in years, we don't need more offensive players. We do need some defensive stoppers out there. And possibly, an assistant coach who's a defensive specialist might help.
But man, when have you ever seen a team play so flawlessly?
Normally, in every series every year, you'll see games going 3-6 minutes without either team able to score a bucket. That don't happen with us, and that didn't happen with the Spurs this time around.
I expect that from the Suns, we've done that all season long. I did not expect that from San Antonio. I expected this to be the major flaw in the Spurs armor, and they did what they had to do to win.
I'm really impressed and shocked. I thought we'd be the ones who shocked them, I didn't think they were even capable of doing that well offensivley. I expected them to be human at some point, and they just weren't.
The Suns showed their human side though, and that comes totaly unexpected to me. It makes me think the Joe Johnson injury was a helluva' lot more crucial than I ever coulda' thought it coulda' been.
I can't see any team stopping San Antonio now. They're playing Suns tempo, and if that continues it's another title for the Spurs. Don't seem quite fair. Gotta' give credit where it is due, though.
I know some people are going to say this was a wasted opportunity, but experience counts for a whole lot at this level, and that should not be discounted.
And I know some people are going to say that the way the Suns lost this means the Spurs will dominate the Suns forever, and there is no positive, but yer' wrong. This was a great learning experience for this young team.
It's very frustrating, but San Antonio was the better team. They played in such a fashion that took us out of our comfort level, we did not take nearly as many three-point shots as usual. We did not play our game, and hats off to the Spurs for playing so perfectly that we were forced out of our comfort level.
I hate the Spurs, hate that friggin' Robert Horry man, but I can't sit here and get all bent out of shape about it. The Suns now know what it takes for them to be beaten, even if we don't know what it'll take to beat the Spurs at this point. And that's gotta' be worth somethin'. We know what worked against us, so we should know what to guard against.
We'll be back, we'll re-tool. And when we meet this team again, we oughta' be a lot more prepared than we were this time, and hopefully more healthy too.
Fuckin' sucks, yes it does. But I take some comfort in that we were beaten by the best, we didn't surrender. The Spurs do respect us, and the critics and fans should respect us.. at least offensively anyways.
But apparently we have a long way to go before playing as inhumaly perfect as the Spurs did. Man, I never for a minute thought they could play so perfectly, expecially for a whole series... totaly depressing, but hey, we were beat by the best, playing their best ever. Because that's what it took to beat us. I take at least a small amount of comfort in that...
Oh man! I HATE it when waste 10 minutes writing a long-ass message and I have to sign in again and it all get's erased! GODDAMNIT THAT SUCKS!!! OH This site drives me fuckin' crazy sometimes!
All I wanted to say was...
Dammit, I forgot! SHIT!
For me, when the opposition comes out and plays perfectly, I can't get too upset. I hate seeing the season go up in flames, but what can you do when the better team wins? Oh man, I had a great way of putting it before...
I'm more pissed off about having to write this shit again than losing...
Spurs played perfectly. They played so perfectly it didn't allow the Suns to take as many risky three-pointers as they would usually, didn't draw defenses out, and basically fucked us. Took us out of our game completely.
I really didn't think the Spurs could play so perfectly, I thought they had at least one flaw that might have been exploited from time to time. But when Duncan is shooting 15-15 from the charity stripe, when the Spurs are that quick on both ends, when they make every shot like that, you gotta' take yer' hat off man. They weren't human.
I can't blame the players, can't blame the refs, can't blame coach o' the year...
Our defense might not be as terrible as people say, but it's not good enough to succeed on this level, apparently.
Might as well start talking about next year...
All I could think during this game is, "Boy, we'd better draft and sign some defensive players in the off-season."
We know we're the best offensive team in years, we don't need more offensive players. We do need some defensive stoppers out there. And possibly, an assistant coach who's a defensive specialist might help.
But man, when have you ever seen a team play so flawlessly?
Normally, in every series every year, you'll see games going 3-6 minutes without either team able to score a bucket. That don't happen with us, and that didn't happen with the Spurs this time around.
I expect that from the Suns, we've done that all season long. I did not expect that from San Antonio. I expected this to be the major flaw in the Spurs armor, and they did what they had to do to win.
I'm really impressed and shocked. I thought we'd be the ones who shocked them, I didn't think they were even capable of doing that well offensivley. I expected them to be human at some point, and they just weren't.
The Suns showed their human side though, and that comes totaly unexpected to me. It makes me think the Joe Johnson injury was a helluva' lot more crucial than I ever coulda' thought it coulda' been.
I can't see any team stopping San Antonio now. They're playing Suns tempo, and if that continues it's another title for the Spurs. Don't seem quite fair. Gotta' give credit where it is due, though.
I know some people are going to say this was a wasted opportunity, but experience counts for a whole lot at this level, and that should not be discounted.
And I know some people are going to say that the way the Suns lost this means the Spurs will dominate the Suns forever, and there is no positive, but yer' wrong. This was a great learning experience for this young team.
It's very frustrating, but San Antonio was the better team. They played in such a fashion that took us out of our comfort level, we did not take nearly as many three-point shots as usual. We did not play our game, and hats off to the Spurs for playing so perfectly that we were forced out of our comfort level.
I hate the Spurs, hate that friggin' Robert Horry man, but I can't sit here and get all bent out of shape about it. The Suns now know what it takes for them to be beaten, even if we don't know what it'll take to beat the Spurs at this point. And that's gotta' be worth somethin'. We know what worked against us, so we should know what to guard against.
We'll be back, we'll re-tool. And when we meet this team again, we oughta' be a lot more prepared than we were this time, and hopefully more healthy too.
Fuckin' sucks, yes it does. But I take some comfort in that we were beaten by the best, we didn't surrender. The Spurs do respect us, and the critics and fans should respect us.. at least offensively anyways.
But apparently we have a long way to go before playing as inhumaly perfect as the Spurs did. Man, I never for a minute thought they could play so perfectly, expecially for a whole series... totaly depressing, but hey, we were beat by the best, playing their best ever. Because that's what it took to beat us. I take at least a small amount of comfort in that...