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Yes wiht Shaqa they are more Physical.
The Suns are not a physical team. Shaq is able to do what he does and not get fouls at times. I just think to completely change your style of play so late in the season is a major risk.
Spurs played like crap on the road and were in a one possession game with less than a minute to go. They have enough shooters to hit enough shots when it counts.
I think the Suns are screwed with their trade for O'Neal. They have no iden y. They can't run well enough to blow out teams and they can't defend well enough in long stretches to grind out wins. I don't believe there has been a changing of the guard at all.
I know the Suns have little chance to get out the West now with the current makeup of their roster. They will not have HCA for any series in all likelihood. SA has proven they do not need HCA to advance.
The recent roster moves made by Phoenix expedites their decline in the next year or two. By 2009, the Suns will be a collection of Knuckhead players, coached by a knucklehead, and run by a neophyte who traded away their future in four or five shaky deals.
Yes wiht Shaqa they are more Physical.
Wow. I guess I made the mistake of thinking Spur fans would understand how physical play and "letting them play" benefits the bigger, stronger team. You know, the team that fouls more?
Well, good luck the rest of the way. I'll go back to my Phoenix board because their more self-critical. You guys are almost all sunshine pumpers and major homers.
A 3 month old kitten would have been more physical than Spurs today.
Duncan was especially soft on the offensive end at throwing jumpshots after jumpshots.
Nobody likes a sore loser. The Suns are now much tougher and more physical, and more importantly, they are a physically big team. Shawn Marion was pussy who hated contact and doesn't care about winning. Shaq is a proven winner, tough guy, and one of the most physical players in the league.
The most physical thing I saw from a Sun not named Shaq was Nash's flying backward flop into Bruce Bowen.
Spurs fans should not complain about flopping. And if you don't think that the Suns played physical today, you've reached a whole new plateau of homerism.
Duncan's playing soft lately...looks like he's trying hard to get the refs to bail him out of calls. Though the lack of respect refs are showing him is starting to get scary.
I'll let all you know that I didn't disappear back in February. I came on and said that Amare choked the game away with the missed FTs... and Marion played a great 3 quarters, but did nothing in the 4th.
Amare still didn't have a great day at the line today, but they pulled out the W, so it's tolerable.
Of course, it wouldn't be Bowen's flop after getting a hard (see: physical) screen from Amare.
If you can't recognize the absurdity of that flop then you've reached a whole new blah blah blah blah.
When you beat us in a playoff series AND win the championship the same year, I'll give you your props sir. Until then, congrats on your regular season victory and your 4-6 post-Shaq record.
One thing I will agree with you on: the Suns did seem to want to play some D today. They were making all of the effort plays down the stretch. It's not something I'm used to seeing from them. Perhaps this is a jumping off point for them, but I doubt it very seriously.
I'm sure it's got nothing to do with the whole Joey Crawford issue eh?
Do people actually think the Suns played "physical" today? If you want to see a team play physical, watch the Utah Jazz or Detroit Pistons.
Suns did actually play some defense today, people may be confusing defense for physical play. I can understand though, seeing as how we have never seen the Suns play any defense prior to today.
Unfortunately for your observation and worse for your team, one game does not a successful transition make. Your team is HORRIBLE defensively and in rebounding. In Shaq and Amare, you have two players who simply refuse to play defense. A commitment to defense goes beyond just a mere regular season game. It has to be done each and every game, each and every series and each and every play. That WILL NOT happen in PHx
Shaq was very physical with all of our players. Other than that, you are right. The Suns, as a team, did not play physical. The Spurs have seen a lot worse with the Jazz, Pistons, and the Lakers of old, in terms of team physicality. As far as for one player, Shaq has probably been the single player that has been most physical with the Spurs.
Suns did actually play some defense today, people may be confusing defense for physical play. I can understand though, seeing as how we have never seen the Suns play any defense prior to today.
They did play good defense. The Spurs helped them out a bit by playing like . We played ty defense but the Suns helped us out a bit by shooting like from three's.
The Suns did not want to lose another game and I believe they were really pumped up for this game especially playing in Phoenix. Things will be very different in a seven game series so it will be interesting to see if the Suns can replicate today’s performance like Shaq diving into the stands. It will be tough. But will see.
no.
Spurs have no excuse to lose to the Suns in the playoffs if the Suns are going to play Spurs pace 48 mins for 7 games.
I'll take the team that has been doing it for 10 years and won 4 championships with it.
im going to that game.
woohoo!
Absolutely correct. But why did the Spurs not push the ball? I was thinking that Tony might be having issues with his ankle but his jumpers looked good.
they have no choice but to be physical.
playoff strategy.
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