My thoughts before I go drink myself into a comma

[ezau]

• Good series Lakers fans, you guys earned this. Good luck in the finals.
• Barbosa sucks
• Dragic is a stud
• The Suns need a center
• Barbosa sucks
• Kobe is really good
• Channing Frye can't play defense
• Barbosa sucks
• Barbosa sucks

I feel really sorry for Nash. He will be one of the many great players who will never win a le their entire career. Though the Suns eliminated the Spurs, I really felt like this was the best chance that they'll ever have to win a le. Nash is ing amazing, I need that guy's jersey

[Killakobe81]

Nash for Barbosa? Because he couldn't get away with Dragic guarding Bryant or Artest, that's why.

Richardson should have been in for Barbosa sooner and he should have stuck with Dudley, who was having success defending Bryant and offers better spacing than Hill, who struggled mightily in this game. When two players are as close as Hill and Dudley are, you stick with whoever is playing better.

I agree with DOK here what type of great defense was Barbosa playing?

If im gonna go down for the season I want my 2time MVP playing ...
And if Dragic was hot Barbosa sits ...

[pauls931]

I'm suprised DoK didn't die in a mexican knife fight before leaving the stadium... My thoughts.

Barbosa Sucks.
Amare didn't give it his all. He missed numerous passes not paying attention.
Dragic, now battle tested. No longer Tragic.
Dudley, cool, smooth...
Grant Hill, while not offensive juggernaut did what he could with kobe.
Jrich - stud with knack for f'ing up at the worst possible time.
Frye - not horrible, but not mentally tough enough for the road
Amundsun - all hustle, forever a scrub
Lopez - low minutes, like him going forward
Gentry - wish he was able to be coach a few years earlier, f's up rotations though
Nash - did what he could do, even tried playing defense. Hats off.
Collison - given enough pt could be proven to be worse than barbosa

I'm probably forgetting a couple... Either way I pray Amare will stay. If not, then they need to sign some serious talent after nash leaves.

Great season suns, way to turn it around after that meltdown in the mid-season.

[Giuseppe]

Amare quits in half the games and Paul wants to max him out.

[DUNCANownsKOBE2]

You're not going to give Nash props for playing like he did?


Few players have had to play the way he has. And you are being very unfair to him in this case DOK.

You should feel lucky you have such a guy, 1st ballot HOFer, and someone that cares more about his team than a ing paycheck.

Nash played well last night but it's not like he had an EXTREMELY good game. I've given the guy props, I'm not gonna constantly slob his knob because the Suns almost made the finals rather than didn't come close to making the finals.

lol terrorist sympathizer

[Muser]

Props to Phoenix and everyone to do with the Franchise, they went from Lottery team to WCF in one season.

[BUMP]

This was a really strange series in the fact that there really wasn't a scapegoat or someone who cost the series for Phoenix. Everyone played pretty well, its just the Mamba couldn't be stopped

[DUNCANownsKOBE2]

I agree the biggest reason Phoenix lost was because LA was better but Barbosa shouldn't have touched the court the entire series, let alone play in an elimination game.

[pauls931]

I agree the biggest reason Phoenix lost was because LA was better but Barbosa shouldn't have touched the court the entire series, let alone play in an elimination game.

This is what makes gentry different and perhaps key in Dragic developing. you can play like and he still wont give up on you. but barbosa was the wrong guy to play. he is quick but also a chucker.

[DUNCANownsKOBE2]

This is what makes gentry different and perhaps key in Dragic developing. you can play like and he still wont give up on you. but barbosa was the wrong guy to play. he is quick but also a chucker.

Barbosa has gotten to comfortable in Phoenix and that's on Gentry for being too nice to him. Dragic has a great work ethic and doesn't need a coach to be on his ass. As long as Barbosa is on a team with a coach that lets him go 3-9, he's not gonna change at all.

[21_Blessings]

The Suns bench was the reason they climbed back into the game. Barbosa was apart of that run.

The loss had everything to do with Kobe and Ron going off and nothing to do with Gentry.

[DUNCANownsKOBE2]

The Suns bench was the reason they climbed back into game.

Yeah, but that was in spite of Barbosa being on the court.

[kobyz]

the refs were not letting the Lakers to lose like they doing for years, like when the lead drop to 3 and the Lakers victory was in danger the refs come with BS offensive foul call on Amare.
refs afraid from the Lakers, they wants them to win, it's like this for more then 10 years that i know.

[hitmanyr2k]

If he walks and they land in the lottery, is that such a bad thing for this team? Nash is on his final contract. Hill is probably gonna retire soon. Dragic will take over the team with Lopez, Dudley, and Frye I guess. Even with Amare, what's the ceiling next year? And if you give him a max contract you're stuck with a no-rebounding, minimal defense PF who has the IQ of a raisin.

Agreed. Amare is the 2nd coming of Carlos Boozer...a soft, jumpshooting, low IQ player. The only difference is as soft as Boozer is he would NEVER get 4 in rebounds in two HUGE playoff games back to back. That's just ridiculous. I'll laugh my ass off if they give Amare a max contract. If that's the best effort he can put out in a contract year I can't wait to see his output when he gets his money

[DUNCANownsKOBE2]

lol comparing Amare to Boozer
lol John Paxson
lol one of the tiest GM's in basketball
lol a franchise known for disloyalty

[pauls931]

the refs were not letting the Lakers to lose like they doing for years, like when the lead drop to 3 and the Lakers victory was in danger the refs come with BS offensive foul call on Amare.
refs afraid from the Lakers, they wants them to win, it's like this for more then 10 years that i know.

If there's one play I'll on, that's it. Gasol flopped big time to prevent amare from catching and spinning off him for a layup or dunk. That late in a playoff game 98% of the time, the refs will swallow their whistle. That play changed the momentum of the game.

[Giuseppe]

This was a really strange series in the fact that there really wasn't a scapegoat or someone who cost the series for Phoenix.

Please.

Amare quit in the first two games and last night, but, Media had the hair shirt cut & tailored not for him, but, for Artest. But, that stubborn looney tune wouldn't abide. It was like when that layup by that Lee kid for Orlando didn't go in last June. Christ, next morn they still wrote the articles like it had.

After Artest's layup one didn't hear about the layup, just his dunderhead shot afore it and Ron working out at midnite and being late the next morning to practice. One more chance to lynch this n word. He even went along with his own comeuppance when he took umbrage at Nashs' guarantee of a Game Six victory. Media was gonna roast this n word.

Uh, uh, he left the Suns, and the white man Nash, dead in the ground, first 12 minutes.

Just like that.

[hitmanyr2k]

lol comparing Amare to Boozer

Boozer and Amare are both undersized and soft as
Boozer and Amare have no post game and can only shoot jumpers
Boozer and Amare depend on their star PGs to spoon-feed them
Boozer and Amare are mental midgets and you can depend on them to make mistakes at crucial times.

Can you dispute any of that?

The only difference between the two players is Boozer would at least hit the boards harder and give more effort...especially in a in contract year Four rebounds man!! FOUR!! In consecutive HUGE playoff games. You want to give a max contract to a PF who does that?

[pauls931]

Amare goes at the hoop 1000x what boozer does. Boozer does that turn around high arching shot 99% of the time. Amare attacks most of the time but I admit LA's bigs probably intimidated him to where he settled for more jumpers than he should.

But you have to think in the back of Amare's mind... 'Will I end up like Shawn if I leave?'

[DUNCANownsKOBE2]

Boozer and Amare are both undersized and soft as
Boozer and Amare have no post game and can only shoot jumpers
Boozer and Amare depend on their star PGs to spoon-feed them
Boozer and Amare are mental midgets and you can depend on them to make mistakes at crucial times.

Can you dispute any of that?

The only difference between the two players is Boozer would at least hit the boards harder and give more effort...especially in a in contract year Four rebounds man!! FOUR!! In consecutive HUGE playoff games. You want to give a max contract to a PF who does that?

Amare scored 30 points the one game Nash was injured this year, it's a myth he needs Nash to spoon feed him.

[DUNCANownsKOBE2]

The only difference between the two players is Boozer would at least hit the boards harder and give more effort...especially in a in contract year Four rebounds man!! FOUR!! In consecutive HUGE playoff games. You want to give a max contract to a PF who does that?

No, I think they should bring John Paxson in as GM so he can draft the next Marcus Fizer.

[bostonguy]

Amare scored 30 points the one game Nash was injured this year, it's a myth he needs Nash to spoon feed him.

DOK how you holding up dawg?

[21_Blessings]

If there's one play I'll on, that's it. Gasol flopped big time to prevent amare from catching and spinning off him for a layup or dunk. That late in a playoff game 98% of the time, the refs will swallow their whistle. That play changed the momentum of the game.

Phoenix + 50 at the ing charity stripe

That was an offensive foul by definition and the fact that Pau ended up on the ground it had to be called.

It's no where near as dumb as the call Phoenix got with like .7 seconds in the 4th in one of the previous games. Or the non-call on the Gasol dunk in game 5

[DUNCANownsKOBE2]

DOK how you holding up dawg?

I'm fine, I just hate these got Bulls and Spurs fans who think they know everything there is to know about the Suns because they bandwagoned them for 6 games when they played the Lakers.

[pauls931]

I'm fine, I just hate these got Bulls and Spurs fans who think they know everything there is to know about the Suns because they bandwagoned them for 6 games when they played the Lakers.

I admit, I got annoyed by this too. They'd criticize everything the suns did wrong as if the Spurs or Mavericks would do better. I think a good new rule is if your team is out and you about another team your bandwagonning, instant pink.