You Suns fans are in for another depressing playoff bounce. Your defense is horrendous. Enjoy your fools gold tonight. You will get trounced when the real season starts.
they're a quality team, no reason to say they suck after they just won in the spurs building.
but championship contender? i would question any suns fan who builds up too much confidence based on this game. they had a lot of things go their way both before and during the ball game.
Yeah, the Suns actually have the same record they had last year after 25 games--and they haven't been playing well.
but that assumes that other teams are capable of keeping it in a low gear and then peaking in the playoffs.
We don't really know that to be the case with any team other than the Spurs.
while avery is making a clear effort to do that with the Mavs (at the expense of now), with the Suns:
Nash & Marion are playing about the same minutes as always, Hill has more minutes than he has played in a full season since 2000, and Stoudemire's minutes are only slightly down. In addition, there doesn't appear to be any effort by that staff to lengthen their bench.
I see no evidence that D'Antoni is rationing for the playoffs. When the Suns struggle, the only explanation is because they are playing poorly.
Some of you Spurs fans are pretty defensive over this loss. It's December--the teams you saw play tonight are not going to be the same teams you see in April and beyond.
It was a great game to watch. I couldn't believe how close it was throughout the 2nd half. The Suns would stretch the lead to 7, and then the Spurs would come right back. In the 4th quarter, they traded the lead over and over and over. I love games like that. It was a great fight.
Agree, Xylus.
Well that first home loss had to come eventually. Tonight's game was definately one of those roller-coaster games that has you on the edge of your seat and gotta give props to the Suns, they did what they had to do to win the game. We had our oppurtunitis to win the game and didn't get it done. happens
Yall lost by 5 points !! Are you serious? Get over it, its DECEMBER. Why you actin scared rushin over here startin this thread like Phoenix was poppin Champagne bottles in the locker room already...
I'll tell you what fools gold is , its that third championship ring yall have, instead of Tim Duncan gettin that MVP it should've gone to Rasheed Wallace dumb ass for giving Horry that open three to save the Spurs. And according to history San Antonio is not gonna have that long of a post season either so maybe they can go fishing together.
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a Wizards fan talking to Spurs fan about the playoffs?
Laughable at worst.
The Suns will definetly have to work on Defense. Very porous tonite...Spurs just weren't able to take advantage.
That being said. I like Grant Hills addition...and Barbosa looked good. Stoudemire, I dunno, have to see at the end of the season.
Props to the Suns. But, if they play like tonite with TP back, I don't think it will be even close. Still early tho, lotta things still to work out on both teams.
I don't think either team played particularly well tonight. Neither team played good D, both teams were sloppy on offense. One team got dominated on the boards, while the other team couldn't execute in crunch time.
There's not a whole lot I took away from this game other than:
1. Grant Hill is a great fit for the Suns.
2. Tim Duncan is as unstoppable as ever.
3. Barbosa takes far too many shots.
The next matchup will be a slightly better indication of things to come, as always.
Nicely-fought game, though we lost. I'm happy with the way tim played tonight after his recent injury.. im looking forward to another encounter with the suns soon, with our line up complete.. go spurs go!
No parker to annihilate nash on d, AND we go 2-234234234 on 3's....yet we were one box out on amare from winning the game. Losing sucks, but I can sorta deal with this one. We'll rape them in May.
Well said.
aye
If Parker had played the Spurs would've won.
If Parker had played the Suns would have won by more.
How do you figure that?
huh? even if the spurs had lost game 5, games 6 & 7 were in san antonio. spurs would still have a chance to win both of those games. history? oh, i get it. you're one of those "its an even-numbered year so the spurs won't win" believers. yeah, right. very credible theory you got there. must have wasted millions of brain cells coming up with that one.
and nobody around spursdom is panicking over a lost game in december. we're just grumpy because we lost against the suns. those you see flipping over it are trolls who have nothing better to do than to issue doomsday prophecies and sow discontent among the ranks.
we did get to see how the spurs and the suns faired against each other. and both teams saw positives and negatives that they can learn from and take with them to the playoffs if ever they meet again. so chill out.
Parker doesn't shoot at 70% (vaughn) or even 60% (Duncan).
The Spurs point total would have been even less with Parker and his erratic jumper. Plus he's turnover prone...Suns would have had more possessions.
I said it before and I'll say it again: You can have Parker.
The guys who kill the Suns (Duncan, Ginobili and Bowen) were all there last night.
At best, Parker hits his open shots. Vaughn did that last night. Not much more Parker gives you.
So now Vaughn = Parker?
Getting put on all-ignore must have addled whatever brain cells you had left.
I dont know if you just dont get it, or you just choose to ignore it...
anyone with half a brain knows what parker brings to the spurs, and it doesnt have anything to do with his "erratic jumper"
try again.
So now Vaughn = Parker?
Getting put on all-ignore must have addled whatever brain cells you had left.
all ignore?? Did I miss something. I usually stay away from these Suns threads because of that idiot.
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