Eh, I've decided that the national media's admiration of the Spurs was superficial. While they went around dutifully winning 55-60 games a year and the occasional championship without raising a fuss; they could point to them as a model franchise and swoon over their dedication to winning the 'right way'. All the while secretly hiding their man-lust for small-ball.
As traditional teams slowly went by the way side (through regulations and a dearth of quality big men in the drafts) they could let their secret desires out of the closet and begin rabbit humping the legs of small-ball wizards (like Nellie, D'Antoni and Colangelo). They began to slowly insert condemnations of traditional ball in their columns and raise small-ball/run and gun to a glorified status. Despite that fact that this style had been around for decades yet lacked a championship pedigree, they began to hail it as the evolved state of the NBA. Now we read about how 'traditional' coaches like Carlisle are dinosaurs.
Of course, they conveniently forgot that traditional ball wins, and will always win. In last years playoffs, and this years, they've seen their carefully constructed milieu falling to pieces. They're bitter, angry and are illogically using a franchise they used to universally praise as a scape-goat for their own failings.
The hypocrisy and inconsistency is the most galling aspect of this whole series. The Suns fans are easy to understand, they're basically chihuahuas: small, whiny and only capable of incessant yapping. You can't blame them for staying true to their nature. (I generalize of course, there are some decent Suns fans out there, right?)
But the media, ah they are the true s . How they've comported themselves casts a shadow on the so-called objectivity of sports journalism. What was once a proud profession, is now barely worth paying attention to.