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Hows that Battier/Rudy Gay trade going for you Ron??
And my fantasy team is blowing it too... that Miami game was actually fun to watch... except for the times when D'Antoni lets them jack up 10 3's in a row when they should just drive it to the hoop and at least try to get to the foul line.
Skinner rules.
D'Antoni never wants to use bench, but I'm not surprised.
Oh, and Suns are playing like pussies.
Still, the arrogance of Spurs fans and stupid Laker fans cannot be ignored.
Hows that Battier/Rudy Gay trade going for you Ron??
Rudy Gay is only playing well because he isn't on a team of pussies... or have a pussy for a coach.
I'm pretty sure Ivaroni is getting the most he can out of him, which is what he needs.
JVG would have destroyed that kid last year and we would have seen Spree redux.
"My Houston team" - I don't even like them... the only Houston franchise I cheer for/support is the Texans and that's a lost cause. I just hated Rudy Gay's at ude in college and I thought Battier would make the Rockets better. Just because Gay has had some success on a non-playoff team doesn't mean that he get the same minutes in Houston... especially when he's a younger T-Mac on a team with T-Mac. I don't think Gay would have worked in Houston, but he has performed better than I expected.
In case you forget, I'm from Phoenix and a Suns fan first, so I still haven't forgotten when Clutch City came back from 0-2 deficits in 94 and 95, or Mario Elie's kiss of death.
You basically had a meltdown when I said that the Rockets shouldn't have traded Gay for Battier. And then went on and on about how Battier's an Olympian and deserves everybody's respect.
Fact is T-Mac has been injury prone for awhile and if the Rockets were smart they would have kept a player that:
a. could cover for him if he goes down
b. can allow an injury prone T-Mac to play less minutes
c. can give them what they desperately need (another scorer)
d. has a much higher upside and could potentially do everything better than Battier ever could
The Rockets pushed the panic button and traded a lottery pick for a "championship role player" when they weren't even that close to a championship. They had time to allow him to develop, but were so intent on "winning now" that they sacrificed their future for a slightly above average SF.
because we all know everything counts in December. pompous spurs s.
LMFAO @ the drunken post from Mono. I love it. You're drunk, but you must have realized halfway through that you were saying alot. I've been there pal ...
I fear you are all prematurely cheering the demise of the Phoenix Suns. They are indeed playing like anal excrement right now, but they are still a team to be reckoned with. They haven't played a lick of defense this year and still went 16-4 over the first quarter of the season. They're in a funk right now, but I'm almost certain that they have enough talent to get a top 4 cede still. Who knows, maybe getting embarrassed like this will stir their pride enough to at least try playing some defense.
These past two games our guys have looked incredibly lazy. Barbs isn't driving, all he does is camp at the three line. STAT looks like he could give less than two s about defense and rebounding (he can be absolutely uncontainable if he's busting his ass). Diaw always plays like a huge pussy.
Really the only guys who consistently play their hearts out are Steve, Raja, Grant, and Skinner. Skinner especially plays like every game is game seven of the finals.
u mad?because we all know everything counts in December. pompous spurs s.
Rudy Gay is still a me-first player who will not win a championship unless he gets signed by the Patriots. He quit on his coach at UConn on a team in which he wasn't even the best player (Marcus Williams is probably better), his coach called him out repeatedly after games, and he dropped in the draft because of his at ude.You basically had a meltdown when I said that the Rockets shouldn't have traded Gay for Battier. And then went on and on about how Battier's an Olympian and deserves everybody's respect.
Fact is T-Mac has been injury prone for awhile and if the Rockets were smart they would have kept a player that:
a. could cover for him if he goes down
b. can allow an injury prone T-Mac to play less minutes
c. can give them what they desperately need (another scorer)
d. has a much higher upside and could potentially do everything better than Battier ever could
The Rockets pushed the panic button and traded a lottery pick for a "championship role player" when they weren't even that close to a championship. They had time to allow him to develop, but were so intent on "winning now" that they sacrificed their future for a slightly above average SF.
He's T-Mac part 2 and JVG wanted none of that... oh, yeah - the Rockets were a 4-seed last year behind Dallas, Phoenix, and SA... if they get the 8th seed this year, they'll be lucky because Adleman is their coach. Battier was a great fit on this team a year ago, so it was a good trade back then. Now that they've fired their GM and coach, things have changed.
Call me back when Memphis makes the playoffs... p.s. Pau is still a huge pussy.
i honestly thought the heat would be 0-6 on this road trip from ..
Why don't you use your vast experience to educate us on how everything counts in June, then?because we all know everything counts in December. pompous spurs s.
That's not the point. The point is that it was an excellent week in which the Spurs won two games shorthanded while Dallas, Houston, and Phoenix looked like crap at various points in time.
That's prime regular season woofing time. Get yours in before they lay an egg in Golden State.
Yes, please do so.
And when have the Suns ever played " a lick of defense" ?
doesnt matter, its ALL ABOUT RATINGS!
The phoenix suns have played pretty good defense... for them. At least they had before this week.
If the Dallas Mavericks have a "demise," I'll cheer, because they are capable of beating the Spurs. Same, perhaps, for Boston.
phoenix? They're just an object for derision. They can't beat the Spurs in a playoff series. They don't match up with the Spurs. They'll never match up.
I said it in the offseason after they traded Thomas and I'm sticking with it now. I'm fully expecting 25 or more losses this year. They are so thin upfront and depth-wise, even with health they'll routinely come out on the losing end of the rebound battle, which means whatever semblance of defense they do play will amount for nothing as opposing teams will average 15 or more second-chance points per game vs. them, with really strong teams up front averaging 20 or more fairly easily.
You simply can't scramble and trap and still be able to body up and box out for the missed shots. It's impossible and the recent Suns losses prove it.
Unless D'Antoni pulls his head out of his ass and plays Skinner 25 minutes a game, or unless Sarver pulls his wallet from out his ass and makes a trade for a real center, I don't see the Suns getting better than my expected 50-to-55 win team. Just good enough to win the Pacific and a first-round series, but just thin enough to lose in the next round.
The Suns have a trade exception worth nearly 3 million and one worth nearly 8 million, but my guess is they sit on both. If they do obtain some inside muscle, it'll be on the cheap and highly unlikely said player gets time to even make a difference, if'n he even can.
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