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They played a zone. We out-rebounded them which was good but, Tony took too many jumpers when he should have passed to Manu or Bruce/Horry.
thats how we lost 4 in a row against the lakers and thats how seattle got 2 from us, suns went to it and they won. tony needs to learn how to shoot 20 foot jumpers. or pop needs to go with barry and manu.
They played a zone. We out-rebounded them which was good but, Tony took too many jumpers when he should have passed to Manu or Bruce/Horry.
Phoenix was in a zone, and both Duncan and Tony forced it too much against said zone.
Manu, Horry, and Bowen were all hitting, and if they would have gotten the ball from TD and TP a few more times, this series would be over.
It's amazing in took the Suns so long to figure out how to neutralize Tim. They had the example of the Lakers last May and Seattle these playoffs.
I figure they will to exactly the same thing for the rest of the games.
And if they do, history suggests that Tim will figure out a way to eat them alive. The Lakers were able to do a job on Tim at times, but mostly because they have had bigs who played credible defense for long stretches of time. The Suns bigs still haven't shown me a long-term ability to do that; if they find it in this series, you pat them on the butt and congratulate them for their sudden transformation. Against inferior defensive players, however, Tim has shown a remarkable ability to learn from what a team did to him, and adapt his game to overcome that strategy.
Tim was horrendous tonight on the offensive end, and I thought he was a guest for most of the night on the defensive end. I don't expect that to happen again.
Oh yeah, that Phoenix "D" was incredible, giving up 106+ points 4 games in a row!!!
All I know is that Bruce, Manu, and Horry should have had more touches.
If you really want Bruce to get more touches, I'm glad that you're not coaching the Spurs.
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