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manage to find a way to ensure that marion and nash are suspended for game 6.
Spurs key: play 48 minutes
manage to find a way to ensure that marion and nash are suspended for game 6.
marion should be suspended for having the ugliest shot in the history of the nba...so nash is all we have to worry about
There is no excuse for the way they lost game 4, and there will be no excuse for losing game 5 to a short-handed Suns team.
The Spurs better play their asses off and do what they failed to do last night...play all 48 minutes.
Don't suck.
Laugh the entire game and foul out 1/2 the roster using fouls on Nash.
Be pissed they blew game 4.
Oh please.... game plan for game 5....uh ...like show up...gimme a break. The pretense is stifling.
Stop Amar.....um, Kori had it.
Unleash the Red Rocket
SPURS:
- guard against complacency
- attack Thomas/Marks/etc.
- continue to hound Nash
- Conserve their fouls
SUNS:
- play like cornered animals
good point---get Thomas in foul trouble.
Refuse to play Duncan in an effort to salvage some semblance of honor.
Attack the rim all en night!!!!!!!! 3's and jumpshots tomorrow!!!
make sure javie and nies are elsewhere.
Nice work! Did you send this to D'Antoni yet?Keys for the Suns to win Game 5:
1. Play LOTS OF ZONE. Force Parker to shoot and the Spurs to jack up 3's
2. Barbosa HAS TO BE HUGE!!! NEED 30+ from him...he's gotta ATTACK THE RIM and hit his 3's
3. Be PHYSICAL...you gotta put Parker and Flopnobli on their @$$. Not really dirty plays but HARD FOULS.
4. Nash must play like the MVP Nash..can't be having 8 TO a game
5. Marion needs TO BOARD...guards are gonna have to help out as well
Lastly, even if you lose game 5 you can win game 6 and 7. Refs can;t help but feel sorry for the Suns so expect all calls to go the Suns way regardless of where the games are played. Plus Amare will LOOM in game 6...he might go for 50
I'm gonna laugh for a year when the Suns win tomorrow!
With the Suns short handed they just need to come and play 48 hard minutes and play smart on both ends. If i were Pop i would tell them in the locker room "If any of you don't give me all you have tonight and take this lightly i will personally beat the out of you".
Yeah just like the Heat refused to play Alonzo Mourning in 97 right.
so the spurs should refuse to play duncan because stoudemire isn't wise enough to realize that he should stay on the bench?
Bench Vaughn...Manu needs to score big..hold the Suns under 100...give Bonner and Beno some PT..be aggressive all the time..act like your down 3-2...
Beno Udrih?
What bad line of rat poison infused crack did you sniff?
Drive to the damn basket.
Go to the free throw line.
defend the shooters and make Nash play 1 on 1.
No one should take this lightly.
It's must win. Amare will come back in game 6 with a vengeance (hopefully previous poster is right that that vengeance will = foul trouble). The Suns won't go down in their house with this kind of motivation (if they felt wronged and victimized before anything dirty, what do you think they feel now?) without a really hard fight.
Who knows how a tightly called game will affect our shortened big rotation (especially on smaller quicker players) and how closely the officiating crew will be watching Bowen and Duncan?
It's not a gimme. Suns will fight back hard. It's not like they've never played without Amare before, you know. They are certainly hurt by not having Diaw to put in there, but they've still got Nash and Marion and Bell (and if you thought Bell was getting away with a lot of before, just wait - I certainly don't expect that to change at all).
Spurs need to do what they did for 42 minutes of game 4, with the additions of higher rebounding overall (we won the games we outrebounded, shockingly enough) and ceasing to look for calls (just adjust - they finally got flustered by the bad calls in the 4th quarter and started looking for bail outs that weren't coming - just play the damn game). Fewer turnovers and more made shots, along with consistently tight D wouldn't hurt either. Pop not losing his ever-loving mind and resorting to interfering with momentum and sitting players unnecessarily wouldn't hurt either.
Bench Duncan to salvage honor? Why not? In Game 1, Popovich, to his great credit, asked the refs to let Nash play despite his bloody nose. Why? Not because the Spurs intentionally "caused" the bloody nose, but because he didn't want the win to be cheapened by accidental misfortune that weakened the other team. He was overruled by the refs, of course, but it was a classy move.
Not everyone agrees, of course, but the suspensions were like an unforeseeable accidental event that has weakened the Suns. Even if you want to blame the players (and I think a two-second slip that was immediately corrected is understandable in the cir stances), it wasn't a "basketball" event, it wasn't part of the GAME. It's like winning because the other team's star player had to go to traffic court.
If the Spurs want an honorable win, they should decline to play Duncan.
You are kidding me right? So if Duncan was gone you would bench Amare, bull . Duncan is better than Amare as it is, so it would not even be an even tradeoff.
I'll answer you with a confession: when Parker and Nash collided in Game 1, in the first few seconds when it looked like Parker was down and Nash ok, part of me rejoiced. After watching Parker torch us all game, I was ready to take any kind of break. I think any true fan has felt that way at times.
Then I thought about what it would be like to win that way -- the win would be tainted, and I would never know if we would have beaten the Spurs at full strength. There wouldn't be honor in the victory. And then I was glad that Parker got up (and agonized that Nash had to sit).
So do I think the Suns would bench Amare if the roles were reversed. No, that's not how the world works. But the victory would be hollow.
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