As I said before

[just do it]

I'll say it again, Barbosa SUCKS! His no D playing bad shot layup missing tool. He comes in and the D goes to hell and we cant score...

 

[green machine]

I'll say it again, Barbosa SUCKS! His no D playing bad shot layup missing tool. He comes in and the D goes to **** and we cant score...

Yeah...Barbosa caused Nowitzki to go off for damn near 50 and I think Leandro ran over my dog too.

 

[boisesuns]

Let's heap all the blame on the suns players. It's the best way to feel better about the loss.

 

[JAndrews]

its 70-70 when the refs take over the game, in favor of the mavs. BS

 

[just do it]

Yeah...Barbosa caused Nowitzki to go off for damn near 50 and I think Leandro ran over my dog too.

so this makes Barbosa good? LB's +/- is probably pretty bad while he is on the floor.

 

[JAndrews]

LB cannot run the offense like nash, can anyone? Barbosa (-) in my books and the refs blow big time in game 2 and now 5 in favor of mavs.

 

[HooverDam]

I'll say it again, Barbosa SUCKS! His no D playing bad shot layup missing tool. He comes in and the D goes to hell and we cant score...

Barbosa beat the Mavs off the dribble about a bazillion times tonight, and had some nice passes too. He is in his 3rd year, so why don't you shut up.

Barbosa (nor any 1 player) caused the Suns to lose. They were down by about 10ish w/ 6 to go and went into panic mode for no reason. The defense was terrible and they became completely demoralized and just started making stupid fouls giving the Mavs and 1 after and 1.

Don't blame it on the officiating, don't blame D'Anotni (his gameplan was fine), blame the entire team of players who played horrid defense the whole game.

 

[green machine]

so this makes Barbosa good? LB's +/- is probably pretty bad while he is on the floor.

No....it doesn't make him good. But today was a total defensive let-down added to the fact that Dirk was just on fire. When a player is on a tear like that it doesn't matter what you do...they'll keep scoring.

To blame Barbosa for Dallas' offensive effort tonight is just wrong.

 

[Evil Ash]

its 70-70 when the refs take over the game, in favor of the mavs. BS

The refs boxed the Suns out? I must've missed that part of the game

The Suns played very well for the middle half of this game. However their effort outside of that was absolutley attrocious.

No singling out anyone, they went well as a team and then they completely sucked as a team. Don't turn into Kings/Mavs fans by blaming everything on the refs

 

[JAndrews]

Barbosa beat the Mavs off the dribble about a bazillion times tonight, and had some nice passes too. He is in his 3rd year, so why don't you shut up.

Barbosa (nor any 1 player) caused the Suns to lose. They were down by about 10ish w/ 6 to go and went into panic mode for no reason. The defense was terrible and they became completely demoralized and just started making stupid fouls giving the Mavs and 1 after and 1.

Don't blame it on the officiating, don't blame D'Anotni (his gameplan was fine), blame the entire team of players who played horrid defense the whole game.

He wont be resigned, he'll want too much money and he go away. where was boris tonight? did he make the flight?

 

[JAndrews]

oh by the way the suns dont defend. they never have. they are suppose to out score you not stop and defend you.

 

[Chaplin]

I'll say it again, Barbosa SUCKS! His no D playing bad shot layup missing tool. He comes in and the D goes to hell and we cant score...

Are you kidding me?

What is going on with the collective intelligence of this board? Must we read this crap after every single loss? Every one?

 

[HooverDam]

He wont be resigned, he'll want too much money and he go away. where was boris tonight? did he make the flight?

Shut up. You have no cogent points and barely readable sentences. The entire team played poorly. Go take a shower, hop in the pool, or play some Scrabble, just calm down.

I hope the Suns can resign both Barbosa and Diaw, they are young players and sometimes young players fold in big games, but the experience will be invaluable down the road. Both players fit the Suns system and will continue to blossom in the desert given the chance.

oh by the way the suns dont defend. they never have. they are suppose to out score you not stop and defend you.

Message board 101: Don't double post. Hit the edit button and add to your previous post if you must make a ******** "point."

 

[Treesquid PhD]

Shut up. You have no cogent points and barely readable sentences. The entire team played poorly. Go take a shower, hop in the pool, or play some Scrabble, just calm down.

I hope the Suns can resign both Barbosa and Diaw, they are young players and sometimes young players fold in big games, but the experience will be invaluable down the road. Both players fit the Suns system and will continue to blossom in the desert given the chance.

I like Barbosa as a six. The suns need to sign him.

Jones and Thomas are the ones who will be gone to make room.

 

[Nashfan]

I wish Marion would have been a bit more aggressive on the offensive end tonight. He only took thirteen shots and made nine which is excellent. I know he had to guard Dirk but if he could have maybe went at Dirk to draw some fouls that may have helped. Oh well, this team just doesn't like prosperity I guess.

 

[az1965]

Come on guys... its just a game.

You think Dallas was going to lay over and die?

Yes, we had defensive meltdown but does not mean to shoot the team down.

 

[Nashfan]

Treesquid,

Tim Thomas shot well tonight unless of course you are talking about Kurt Thomas who was not in the game. I agree that Jones is not playing well but I don't know if the Suns will give up on him since he is young still.

 

[Chaplin]

Come on guys... its just a game.

You think Dallas was going to lay over and die?

Yes, we had defensive meltdown but does not mean to shoot the team down.

Good post, but... no offense, but you've read this board after losses in these playoffs before, right?

The new modus operandi for this board is to complain incessantly about how a) the officiating sucked, b) Barbosa sucked, and c) Marion sucked.

 

[Evil Ash]

Come on guys... its just a game.

You think Dallas was going to lay over and die?

Yes, we had defensive meltdown but does not mean to shoot the team down.

After that effort D'Antoni better shoot the team down. However singling out a player is stupid

They went well as a team during the 2nd and 3rd qtrs but sucked as a team during the 1st and 4th qtrs. The whole team needs to get grilled for the meltdowns at the beginning and end of the game because that is just GARBAGE

 

[JAndrews]

Shut up. You have no cogent points and barely readable sentences. The entire team played poorly. Go take a shower, hop in the pool, or play some Scrabble, just calm down.

I hope the Suns can resign both Barbosa and Diaw, they are young players and sometimes young players fold in big games, but the experience will be invaluable down the road. Both players fit the Suns system and will continue to blossom in the desert given the chance.
Hey HooverDam,
You have your opinion and I have my. At no time did I disrespect you. Dont tell me to shut up. I see the game the way I do. If you disagree than say so. Dont disrespect me. I have coached the game, played the game and not watch the game. The game was close until the techincal fouls. Since when do you call 2 on a team for as little crap as that? ITs the WCF's not a single season game.

 

[Chaplin]

Barbosa does need to learn how to go through picks. He consistently goes under picks when he should go over them. Steve Nash does it, why can't Leandro, who I would think would be better at it?

 

[jbeecham]

Barbosa does need to learn how to go through picks. He consistently goes under picks when he should go over them. Steve Nash does it, why can't Leandro, who I would think would be better at it?

Barbosa definately struggles with Pick & Roll defense. He lost Stackhouse about 5 times tonight and stackhouse got a bunch of open shots. It's probably by design to go under the screens to try to make Dallas shoot outside instead of driving to the basket, but letting Stackhouse shoot jumpers just behind the ft line isn't good strategy.

 

[Joe Mama]

I've got to believe the Phoenix Suns defenders have been told to go under screens on Stackhouse and Harris. Stackhouse just hit his shots tonight.

Nowitzki was hitting everything tonight. Bell didn't look good. I say we trade him.

Joe

 

[jbeecham]

Bell didn't look good. I say we trade him.

LOL Joe....

 

[nowagimp]

What happened last night is that Bell is hobbled, he couldnt shoot from the perimeter and neither could Nash(looks like tired legs on his jumper) and the Mavs figured it out in the second half, used their defenders to shade into the lane, leading to poor spacing for the penetrators. The key to the suns offense is spacing and that is created by the outside shooting. One guy shooting well from the outside does not create enough spacing, two or three guys must be hitting or else the D will cheat into the lane and close it up. Its also much easier to turn up the D on one hot guy than two or three guys. The suns shot 45.6% because they didnt have enough spacing. If the penetrators are funneled right to Diop, its not going to work. That is what happens when the spacing is poor. There must be enough space to make Diop move his feet and take the ball to him strong. The collapsing of the Mavs D kept Marion outside and made it difficult for the playmakers like nash Diaw and Barbs to finish in the lane. TT kept the suns in it with his 3pt shooting(6-8), but other suns did not fare so well from the outside(4-16). Diaw and TT need to take the ball strong to the hoop, draw contact to get fouls on Diop early and then if the outside shots fall better, the suns will be fine. This is where Amare would be so valuable, against Diop. Amare would foul Diop out rather quickly and hammer the Mavs inside. Even Amare at 90% would be too much for Diop.