2010 Playoffs: Round 1, Game 6 - Suns At Trail Blazers Game Thread

[jagu]

I don't think we really played all that tough of a schedule down the stretch. Several of the better teams we faced were undermanned (much more so than we were minus Lopez) and half of our final 16 games were against non-playoff teams. In fact, several of them were among the absolute worst the league has to offer. We also had plenty of days off down the stretch and even managed to be on the better side of the back to back's we all have to live with. We closed out well without Lopez but we caught a few breaks schedule-wise.

Steve

Perhaps, but all the games at the end of the season had playoff seeding implications. There were no pushover games, it was all playoff atmosphere games. The Suns did well against the competition and undermanned or not its a victory. We were also undermanned with no Lopez.

 

[AzStevenCal]

Perhaps, but all the games at the end of the season had playoff seeding implications. There were no pushover games, it was all playoff atmosphere games. The Suns did well against the competition and undermanned or not its a victory. We were also undermanned with no Lopez.

Sure. The games were all important to us and we could have folded under the pressure instead of finishing strong. However, if you look at each game, who we were playing, where we were playing and who was available for each game and the timing/importance of each game (who had rest-who needed the game etc) there were really only 2 games that we could justify a loss to. One was a loss at Milwaukee and the other was a win at OKC. All the other games went according to form IMO.

Steve

 

[slinslin]

Geez, Amare's rebounding numbers were low in the series because the Portland bigs didn't play in the paint offensively.
Amare was guarding people 15-20 ft away from the rim most of the time.

 

[cly2tw]

Geez, Amare's rebounding numbers were low in the series because the Portland bigs didn't play in the paint offensively.
Amare was guarding people 15-20 ft away from the rim most of the time.

slin,
it's too much to aske fans to actually watch the game and see for themselves what is behind the stats, you know that, don't you?

 

[AfroSuns]

slin,
it's too much to aske fans to actually watch the game and see for themselves what is behind the stats, you know that, don't you?

No kidding, i guess some folks will see what they want to see, Below is a quote from Grant hill in Coro's article. http://www.azdailysun.com/sports/basketball/ecf204a2-3c35-5d28-b63e-0f117a2fab0c.html

Now that it counts most, the Suns swingmen had been the team's leading rebounders entering Game 6, with Hill averaging 7.6 rebounds per game in the series and Richardson at 6.84 per game.
"The one thing the two of us have done this season is rebound pretty well from the perimeter," Hill said. "The big guys are keeping their guys off the boards. We just go in there and get them. Portland is known for being long and attacking the offensive glass. It's been something we talked about as a team. We've got to get to the boards before we can get out and run."
Phoenix entered Thursday as the NBA playoff leader in second-chance points (17.2 per game).
"Those guys are really long so Channing (Frye), Jarron (Collins) and Amar'e (Stoudemire) are doing a great job of keeping them off the glass and the guards have to come back to get the rebound. Those guys have got their hands full. We're just trying to help them out," Richardson said