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lol. stupid Steve Kerr. he destroyed the Suns.
Bickley: This era's over, Suns fans
There is a serious conflict on Planet Orange, a clashing of heart and mind.
With every victory, the Suns crawl deeper into delusion. With every defeat, the Suns move closer to the truth.
So swallow hard, say goodbye and accept that a 122-117 home loss to the Mavericks on
Tuesday night closed the book on a season and memorable era of basketball.
It's over. It hurts. It's for the best.
In this case, the truth is that these Suns need to miss the playoffs. They need to take their chances in the NBA draft lottery, even though it's considered a shallow talent pool. Maybe the Suns can catch their first real break in a long time.
Maybe they end up with a top eight pick, and luck into a player who can lead this franchise into the future. After all, they certainly won't get that player in the 2010 draft, when the Suns do not own a first-round pick.
Without a playoff berth, the Suns can break up this flawed team without remorse or explanation. They can trade Shaquille O'Neal to Cleveland, a team that made a run at Shaq at the trading deadline and surely would be interested again if LeBron James doesn't bring them a championship in June.
They can trade Amaré Stoudemire and get something of value before it's too late.
They can start over with Alvin Gentry, a pro's pro and a great man who could make an imprint with a young team to call his own.
"I would love to be back," Gentry said.
In the NBA, it's easy to get trapped in mediocrity, where your team is good enough to make the playoffs, yet flawed enough to lose in the first round. That cycle can go on forever.
Such cold-hearted pragmatism isn't easy. Basketball fans in the Valley have poured their sweat and soul into this franchise, and over the past four postseasons the Suns have been a civic obsession. In perception, they were the gutsy team battling their own axis of evil: the das ly Spurs, the crooked referees and the vengeful commissioner.
In the end, they have been the Little Engine that Couldn't. The emotional investment in this team has been massive, and the payoff has been only heartbreak. Cheers have led to tears, without fail.
As a result, it's hard to move on. It's hard to accept that the run is over, that our patience and persistence will go unrewarded.
It's easy to make excuses. This season, the Suns tried Terry Porter's way, and then Porter changed his ways, and then the Suns changed coaches. Though the lack of continuity has been crushing, the team still is playing hard.
Gentry pointed out that Golden State got hot over the last month of the season two years ago and promptly upset the top-seeded Mavericks in the first round. And when Shaq posted that monster game in a win over the Lakers 10 days ago, it was tempting to believe in miracles.
Not anymore.
The Suns lost to the team they're chasing, which almost counts as a double loss. O'Neal missed two huge free throws late in the fourth quarter, and Jason Kidd nailed two 3-point shots down the stretch. Don't think he didn't enjoy sticking it to his former team.
When it was over, there was no place to hide. Grant Hill had called this game his team's Super Bowl, and when the wrong team prevailed, Matt Barnes walked through the hall with a towel over his head.
"We still believe we can make the playoffs," Gentry said. "It's not just something I'm throwing out there. . . . It's not a hang your head night (where you say), 'Oh boy, the season is over.' "
Sorry. At some point, we all have to let go. After a long, winding, exhilarating, infuriating journey, that time is now.
lol. stupid Steve Kerr. he destroyed the Suns.
If i was a suns fan & lived in phx i would put a huge bag of burning dog on kerr's front door. Do they have an award for the worst GM of the year? Well Kerr would definitely win that if they had one. How can someone make such a good team so ty in the span of 1-2 seasons.
I'll tell you. Trade away one of your key players who fits perfectly in your system for a guy who not only is past his prime, but who is COMPLETELY wrong for your system. Then, fire a coach who may not have gotten you a championship, but who has taken your team deep into the playoffs for years. Then, hire an unproven coach whose philosophy is the exact opposite of the way your team has been playing. Then just keep trading away players and firing coaches til your team disintegrates.
On February 19, 2008, the Dallas Mavericks traded Devin Harris to the New Jersey Nets for Jason Kidd.
and they tried to trade Devean George and he ed the franchise over complaining about his bird rights. And then they gave him validation giving him his bird rights back the following season
they should have pushed through with the proposed garnett trade last year.
Working from the inside out. Go Kerr.
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The San Antonio Spurs, the Destroyer of Franchises.
It has a nice ring.
how many obituaries do the suns need? people called them done when they traded away marion and brought in shaq, when they were eliminated from the playoffs, when they fired d'antoni, during the offseason, during the beginning of the season, when they traded away diaw and bell, when they fired porter, when stoudemire trade rumors swirled, and now when making the playoffs seem impossible.
couldn't have said it better myself. I underestimated the impact of the shaq trade and marion's contribution to the team. Marion was their best defender hands down and probably the only reason other teams weren't scoring 110+ on them every night. The porter hiring was the last straw, hiring the wrong coach for the wrong team.
When Obama promised change, I didn't know this is what he meant.
When Dan Bickley is writing an article this negative, doomsday has arrived for the Phoenix team he's talking about.
This marion for Shaq trade blame is really getting annoying. People are acting like they broke up the 2nd coming of the '86 Celtics when they traded Marion. They broke up a team that lost in the 2nd round the year prior and was getting raped in the paint prior to the trade.
The day they were officially done, was whenever Sarver and Kerr decided Amare for KG would be dumb. That was the trade they needed to make.
kg and nash... interesting combo that would've been... one of the 5 best defenders in the league paired with one of the 5 worst defenders.
Nash and KG were also best friends at the time of the almost trade. The are still close friends but I'm assuming KG considers Ray Ray and Da Troof closer friends.
If anyone was going to get Nash hungry for a championship and motivated on defense, KG was that person.
It was an inside job...everyone knows he still bleeds silver and black..
This is gonna hurt real bad.
suns had an era?
Fail?
Bambooo bambooo la gloria te esta esperando
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