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You know what that means, right? Everyone is assuming a Los Angeles-Boston NBA[COLOR=#0000EE ! important][COLOR=#0000EE ! important][/COLOR][/COLOR] Finals, and the article was all about how the Suns aren't properly preparing the Lakers for the Celtics.
Ouch.
The NBA, meanwhile, sent out a newsletter Thursday with all kinds of statistics that could further sink the team into depression:
• "According to Elias," it shouts, "teams that had taken a 2-0 lead in a best-of-seven series had advanced 217 of 231 times (.940)."
• "When winning Game 1 and 2 of a best-of-seven series . . . teams coached by Phil Jackson are 46-0."
You could almost hear the newsletter giggle.
Even late-night talk shows are jumping in on the bashing.
"Phoenix was so bad," Jay Leno said Tuesday, "that the Arizona Legislature voted to deport them."
Damn, I'm impressed, this team is doing a better and better job day by day making people forget about the team that busted its ass to improve its weak areas and get this far and making sure the fans remember the 2010 Suns as a team that mailed it in once they heard no one expected them to beat LA.
It'll be interesting. Do the Suns take this LA times article personally and make LA have to fight for the next two wins, or do they demonstrate the same lack of pride and disinterest they've shown through two games and just role over completely. I was fully prepared to watch Phoenix get beat by a better team and be content with the season ending that way, but I was assuming they'd show the same heart and grit they've shown so far. Right now they look like players who are content losing to a better team and the coach is the only one who wants to "go down fighting" as he said at halftime.
Gambo & Snatch rode Amare hard today, put him up sopping wet. They beat him unmercifully. It was a ringer though:::they only did it to serve one of two purposes: prompt him to go ape the rest of the way, OR, grease the wheels so Sarver is justified in not super maxing him. G & A are bag men for the boy's downtown. Ashamed they should be.
You win your two, bring it back to California and they'll be some tight booty holes. They we got to win.
Talking smack is what sealed your doom in 1 & 2.
I agree wholeheartedly, this campaign from the Phoenix media all season to say "HE'S NOT WORTH THE MAX!!!!" after every single bad game from Amare has undoubtedly been a plan to give Sarver and Kerr a reason to let him walk. The local media has done such a good job beating it into people's heads that he's not worth the max they eventually bought into it. The casual Phoenix fan pays no attention to the NBA outside of Phoenix, so when they read Ban ley write about how Amare isn't worth the max, they have no idea that the NBA is a league where Rashard Lewis has a max contract.
lol copying Sheed
As frustrating as it must be for Suns fans, it all eventually comes down to X's and O's. Ultimately, you can't teach a old dog new tricks.
Amare is not all of a sudden gonna start playing defense.
They are always gonna be shorter than LA
The same mismatches are gonna be there
Getting mad over articles ultimately doesn't take that away. I don't think Phoenix is just "rolling over". I think they played terrible game 1, but the truth is losing by 12 at Staples to the Lakers is not that embarassing.
They're just losing to a better team and thats all there is to it
Both teams played hard...
I wish G & A were unen bered. They'd be so much more credible and enjoyable. You can't believe a word out of their mouths concerning the D'Back or Suns. It's all company line. What's the sense.
Of course. It is a funny line.
If they lost to LA by 12 after playing their asses off I'd be fine with it. They played half hearted apathetic basketball last night, and anyone who knows this team would have known that.
I guess it's OK to lose by 12 to a better team.
But seeing Amare not even trying in the fourth is probably what's making Alvin Gentry and Phoenix fans livid.
They haven't shown a lack of pride and fight. They have shown a lack of talent, a big lack of defensive talent.
I don't buy it for a sec that Phoenix's defense is so bad that even if they are trying their absolute hardest LA shoots 57% from the field. They were capable of giving a better effort last night, they just didn't give a . Nash and Amare both never showed any emotion or frustration. Neither one seemed upset at all that their team just went down 2-0.
They put too much stock in beating San Antonio. Like that was the end all/be all of everything. It was simply a means to an end/winning the Finals. Nothing else. Nash should not have cried in front of everybody like that. Sure, you have tears, but, wait till you get to the car, or, home, then let loose. Seeing a grown man cry happy tears is alarming to young teammates.
Are you saying not one single player on the Suns showed a lack of pride and fight yesterday? I don't see how anyone could have watched the game and thought Phoenix tried their best. Outside of a few players, no one has given a so far.
If Amare starts to give a then maybe they can limit LA to 110.
True, but, why Duncan?
& then Gentry gives up essentially after last night, throws up his hands to the Media and asks for advice on what to do.
You can't do that. You're down 2-0 goin' home.
Well for one, Amare has never been known as a defensive stalwart. He has defensive lapses like that all the time.
And also, not showing emotion doesn't necessarily mean not playing with heart.
Its just an issue with personnel. They have nobody that can guard Kobe, and nobody who has been able to slow down Gasol so far. Only thing you can do is double, and the Lakers just picked them apart all night. Just have to tip the cap
Amare has no fundamentals. And he's a small forward. He's not a power forward and never has been.
Sad thing is, with his strength and quickness he could be a sick defensive player who could guard a lot of positions
like my man mogrovejo said, the 3 best teams in the league reside in the East.
And yeah Cubby is right, it has yet to dawn on Nash or Amare that beating San Antonio only clinched a birth in the conference finals, it didn't clinch a championship. It actually seems like Nash and Amare are pissed the season is still going and that their hope back in October was the season would be over by now.
I haven't watched enough Suns to make an observation like that. My only question would be why? If that's the case, why would they pick now to become apathetic and mail it in? They have obviously worked hard and overachieved (imo) to make it farther than anyone thought when the season began. It just doesn't make sense to me why they wouldn't be more motivated now than ever. Other than Amare on defense it just doesn't seem like a lack of effort problem to me. I honestly don't think the Suns have anything to be ashamed of. You guys maxed out your potential and advanced until you ran into a team that was just bigger and better.
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