Mavericks at Suns 3/10

[Proteus]

Suns down 107-114 with 1:13 left in the 4th quarter.

 

[Proteus]

Suns down 107-116 with 1:04 left in the 4th quarter.

 

[Griffin]

All five games have been winnable. In all five, the Suns were close, but were forced to try to come back from a 4th quarter deficit. You'd think that just by pure luck they'd win one of them, but it doesn't look that way.

Thanks to the brilliant moves by Sarver and Kerr, the Suns are about to be in the lottery just for the third time in the last 21 seasons. Good thing they know how to draft quality players

 

[Proteus]

Suns down 109-118 with 57.5 seconds left in the 4th quarter.

 

[Andrew]

Why am I always brought up? I will ALWAYS post here...

 

[sLapzsHaQ]

Anyway, what a downfall for the Suns..

 

[Proteus]

Suns down 113-120 with 41.9 seconds left in the 4th quarter.

 

[cly2tw]

they are just too careless at possessions when it counts most and careless at defense in general.
Shaq should get the ball more when Nash sits. yet all the wing players seem to get carried away and ignore Shaq.

 

[zod]

I'm not even really mad, didn't expect anything different.

 

[sLapzsHaQ]

So, bound for lottery

 

[Proteus]

Suns down 117-122 with 17.5 seconds left in the 4th quarter.

 

[sLapzsHaQ]

Shaq took only 10 shots.. Hmm... He made 9 of them.

 

[Sovereignz]

You would have to have a group of defensive juggernaughts around Nash and Shaq to make a team around those two successful.. we're just way too exploitable defensively. Can't help but laugh that we thought to pin our defensive problems on Amare, for all of his bad help D and poor closeouts those things have much less of an overall impact on a game from a defensive standpoint than the way teams can exploit our other players.

 

[AceP]

I would blame Nash & Amare more than Sarver & Kerr for this disaster. They love the running offense so much that they resisted Porter's attempt of transfering this team into more defensive oriented. They succeed, so here we are.

 

[zod]

Tank the rest of the way.

 

[scoutmasterdave]

Tank it - this season is officially over.

 

[Andrew]

Are we mathmatically out or is it still possible, even if its a slim percentage?

 

[Mainstreet]

I would blame Nash & Amare more than Sarver & Kerr for this disaster. They love the running offense so much that they resisted Porter's attempt of transfering this team into more defensive oriented. They succeed, so here we are.

Maybe it's time to admit the Suns are not a good basketball team. They are made up of a mixed bag of nuts, bolts and washers which never seemingly fit together this season. However, what's really sad, is they don't have a core group of players to build upon going forward.

 

[sLapzsHaQ]

There's a possibility that we would still make the playoffs, Dallas losing all of its remaining games, and for us to win them all.

Now that's a very slim percentage.

Just tank it already. Play the young ones the rest of the season.

 

[Sovereignz]

Maybe it's time to admit the Suns are not a good basketball team. They are made up of a mixed bag of nuts, bolts and washers which never seemingly fit together this season. However, what's really sad, is they don't have a core group of players to build upon going forward.

Amare, J-Rich and Barbosa is a halfway decent start, but those are 3 awful defensive players so I would only want to keep Amare and one of the guards moving forward..

 

[sLapzsHaQ]

Even if we go on a wild streak of 18 games, we still need the Mavs to lose at least 6 of its last remaining games, for us to make the playoffs.

 

[Ninjafish]

Are we mathmatically out or is it still possible, even if its a slim percentage?

How can you ask that? Obviously there's still a remote possibility. Technically, it's possible that we could catch the Lakers if they go on a 19 game losing streak and we go on a 19 game winning streak.

 

[AceP]

Maybe it's time to admit the Suns are not a good basketball team. They are made up of a mixed bag of nuts, bolts and washers which never seemingly fit together this season. However, what's really sad, is they don't have a core group of players to build upon going forward.

Excuse me, how did we beat the Lakers?

I think Barbosa, J.Rich and Hill are excellent players who can be core piece in any top team, playing for system. Barnes and Amundson are very good role players who can help any top team when used properly.

But it is crystal clear that this whole team is currently build around Nash. He decides the system, tempo, even rotation. He makes decision for each and every play when he is on floor.

 

[mjb21aztd]

god the suns are the worst defensive team I have seen in my life we give up 120 pts to every damn team we play.... It's scary to think how many pts LeBron will have against us sight just a wash year ugh

 

[cly2tw]

I would blame Nash & Amare more than Sarver & Kerr for this disaster. They love the running offense so much that they resisted Porter's attempt of transfering this team into more defensive oriented. They succeed, so here we are.

Well, Amare didn't care about running like Nash and Bell did. But once the latter two rebelled and destroyed everything, any way that could lead to some wins was a welcome change to Porter. In essence, Nash hijacked the team.