I guess the AZ media has been critical of Barkley. Why is Barkley so anti Arizona?
I'm looking at the box score and not a single player on our team had a pretty decent game, except for Raja Bell, I guess (11 points, 13 rebounds). So I guess I could look at the bright side and say that next time these two teams play, we won't play so badly.
But the fact that Raja Bell was our highest rebounder by some margin is extremely annoying. Raja came out with a fire tonight, defending Manu pretty well, hitting his shots, rebounding, but no one came with him.
spurs shutdown nash and they sucked shooting tonight
alot of credit has to go to spurs
The Phoenix media and the Suns organization have almost banished him from memory.
:lmfao
You can always count on Charles to be politically correct.
".......jackass reporters in Phoenix
he likes d and thinks d wins les
Absolutely. But I expect both teams to play much better next time. They both sucked tonight, but San Antonio played good defense.
Why? Cuz they lost to the Bulls in the Finals? Cuz he left at the end of his career? Other than that, I don't understand why they would want to forget the Barkley era.
do you really think sa can play better
manu sucked shotting
elson was awesome rebounding
finley had 10 rebounds
duncan has 10 rebounds
congrats on the win tonight spurs, it was pretty hilarious to be laughing and screaming *go spurs go* and calling spurs' plays "beautiful"...i still think the suns will take a couple at home in phoenix but spurs should win that series in 6 if they continue to play like tonight...as for the tnt comments, one of the reasons i'm looking forward to the spurs/suns matchup is because i think the spurs do match up better against the suns than do the mavs (who are susceptible to running) but it's a lot more balanced when the spurs/mavs matchup. anyway, congrats on the win, parker had a uva game and he wore out nash and got the job done.
Didn't they try to get him buy into the organization a few years back when they tried to get Kerr and Elliott to buy in? (And Kerr did)
Not really sure. My only guess is that Barkley speaks of the Suns almost as if he regrets playing for them. He also bags the team at every opportunity, to the point where it seems personal, rather than just a subjective analysis.
Again, I don't know for sure. I just know that Barkley and the Suns are not the best of fwiendz.
he was rooting for them last season but i think he kind of let it be known that he thought they would lose anyway...he's also said a lot of great things about nash, about how fortunate he is that he gets to watch nash play all the time...i think the whole offensive thing bothers him though
Barkley's always been pretty complimentary of Nash, but his praise rarely extends any further than that.
It might just be a "I don't want to look like a homer" type of deal, where he'll criticize his former team so he doesn't look biased. Problem is, it does make him look biased, just in a different way.
But what does he say, besides they won't win?
Haha, Barkley doesn't want to see anymore Cavs games on national tv... in me neither
Seems like I've seen more Cavs and Nuggets games lately than anything else. Also great scheduling by the NBA to have the Kings on every few days.
Cavs sucked it up big time. I think the free throw disparity in the fourth quarter was a whopping ONE free throw for the Heat compared to 17 for the Cavs...not to mention that the Cavs went something like 11 min 40 secs without a field goal!!!
Are you ok? I think this is the first semi-incoherent statement I've seen you post. Little too much to drink?
I don't really pay much attention to Barkley, but that seems to be the gist of it.
"Suns won't win a le."
"Suns can't win a le."
Those are his two favorite phrases.
There were some lapses with interior defense but , you can't cover inside AND perimeter without giving up something somewhere..........
Overall, some KILLA was evident and IMO this went down:
........................consistency
......................execution
...............agressiveness
..............rebounding
.............defense
.........score score score score
But hasn't he been right so far?
I agree he's a little too demonstrative on the "Sun's can't win a le" rant because they can, but you have to admit the D'Antoni "small ball" run and gun style doesn't allow itself to have a dominate defense due to the lineups required to play that style. The only guy on the Phoenix team who could give TD trouble was Thomas, but he didn't get time because he doesn't allow the Suns to run and gun like they want to.
Barkley is a little harsh of the Suns organization since 2004 because that's when they asked him to become part of the ownership group (they asked Kerr and Elliott too). Barkley agreed but they told him that he would not have any say in anything - just a monetary investor. He got pissed off because he thought that if they could take his money (in the millions) that he could be a true part of the organization - like Kerr became. Anyway, he decided not to buy in, so since then he's been a little bit of about them.
And Elliott decided not to buy in because he said he was too loyal to the Spurs and would have felt like he was being a traitor.
But initially, the 12-man ownership group was to include Kerr, Elliott and Barkley.
I wanted to see this team fight for the win. Especially holding a one-point lead at the half. I wanted to see them come out and play however it took to battle and stay in it. Instead, I got almost no fire after halftime until late, when they realized they were in danger of getting blown the out.
I'd like to say they played hard for 40 minutes and lost it in eight, but realistically they played hard for one half, stank the place up until there was just five minutes remaining, then, with the Spurs playing a bit conservative, took advantage of a few opportunities to make the score look reasonable, when it was pretty muchh in hand for the Spurs until that Nash three. Still, them being San Antonio and Phoenix being Phoenix, the Spurs pulled it out despite the mini rally.
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