Nash feeling good after rest

[reader]

This, to me, is the best news of the week, Nash feeling well.

Nash feeling good after rest
By Jerry Brown, Tribune April 19, 2006

Steve Nash had that twinkle back in his eye Tuesday, and it wasn't just because he had just seen his face on a Wheaties box for the first time.
After taking three days and two games off to rest his overworked body, Nash felt an extra zip in his step during Monday's 115-79 rout of the Hornets. And while his numbers (12 points, six assists in 25 minutes) were modest, the smile on his face was almost boastful.

"That time off was great for me," he said. "I felt better on the court than I have for a month. I had my legs back under me. It was only a few days, but it was a recharge.

"It's just no fun when you're out there and you can't move the way you want to and really struggling. You have to play a different way."

Nash said he wants to play regular minutes in tonight's season finale against woeful Portland. The Suns will be without Boris Diaw, who came down with a 104-degree fever on Tuesday and didn't make the trip. But Nash wants the rest of the regulars to build on the cohesion and good feelings generated from Monday, when they hit a franchise-record 20 3-pointers, spaced well and moved the ball as if it were on a string. "We want to play well, and we want to play the right way," Nash said. "You can't just say, 'OK, here's the playoffs, let's flip the switch now.' We've only got one more game to concentrate on getting sharp and playing at a high level."


RESTED & RELAXED

Suns coach Mike D'Antoni was relieved to see Nash look so fresh and also get a good report from Raja Bell, who kept his shooting touch (five 3-pointers in nine tries) while calming down a strained quadriceps. Bell played 36 minutes, much more than expected, and will be in the 40s tonight with Diaw out.

"Raja was fine. He even asked to go back in (for the final seven minutes) because he wanted to keep working a little bit," D'Antoni said. "Boris is sick, but he probably could use the rest. He's played a lot of basketball (a month of the European Championships before training camp) and a lot lately when we were short-handed."

The Suns also want to have Leandro Barbosa and James Jones on an upswing heading into the postseason. The two combined for 41 points and 18 rebounds Monday, with Jones producing 20 points, 10 rebounds and 5 assists.

"We feel like we're going to get a lot out of those two young guys, and when we do it really puts us over the top," D'Antoni said.


SUNDAY BLUES

Prevailing wisdom has Game 1 of a Lakers-Suns series beginning Sunday at 12:30 p.m. on ABC, which isn't great for Phoenix if recent history is any indication.

The Suns are 1-3 on ABC this year (beating Dallas and losing to Cleveland, Detroit and the Lakers) and a woeful 2-7 on Sundays.

But on Saturdays, the Suns are 8-3 and have won six straight. And on ESPN, the Suns are 7-2 — even counting Friday's giveaway at Golden State — and a perfect 6-0 at home.

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[Sundance]

"I felt better on the court than I have for a month. I had my legs back under me.

I felt better on the court than I have for a month. I had my legs back under me.

Music to my ears!

Borris and his crappy immune system piss me off, however. How the hell does the guy get strep throat days before the playoffs? He better not come within 10ft of anybody else, unless he's wearing one those sterile bubble suits.

 

[jibikao]

Good news.

 

[DeAnna]

Music to my ears!

Borris and his crappy immune system piss me off, however. How the hell does the guy get strep throat days before the playoffs? He better not come within 10ft of anybody else, unless he's wearing one those sterile bubble suits.

Geesh, you're making it sound like it was intentional

People get sick, you know.

 

[elindholm]

Strep, as a bacterial infection, usually isn't very contagious unless there is a lot of mouth-to-mouth contact, which I suspect there isn't.

 

[Ouchie-Z-Clown]

Music to my ears!

Borris and his crappy immune system piss me off, however. How the hell does the guy get strep throat days before the playoffs? He better not come within 10ft of anybody else, unless he's wearing one those sterile bubble suits.

put him on omoxycillin (sp?) and within 24 hours he's feeling worlds better and no longer contagious. not a big deal. i get it every year.

 

[Ouchie-Z-Clown]

Strep, as a bacterial infection, usually isn't very contagious unless there is a lot of mouth-to-mouth contact, which I suspect there isn't.

but he's french . . . so you never know . . .

 

[jibikao]

but he's french . . . so you never know . . .

:notworthy

 

[Chaplin]

Strep, as a bacterial infection, usually isn't very contagious unless there is a lot of mouth-to-mouth contact, which I suspect there isn't.

I almost died from strep in 1996, so contagiousness should be the least of his worries.

 

[elindholm]

Actually, once you already have an illness, whether it's contagious is never really your worry. I was responding to the comment that Diaw needs to keep away from the rest of the team.

I've had problems with strep too, but never as bad as what you're talking about. It can be pretty nasty.

 

[Chaplin]

Actually, once you already have an illness, whether it's contagious is never really your worry. I was responding to the comment that Diaw needs to keep away from the rest of the team.

I've had problems with strep too, but never as bad as what you're talking about. It can be pretty nasty.

You're telling me... I used to get it every six months or so, then one day in August 96, I got it really bad. The day before moving back down to Tucson to go back to UofA. Had to go to the emergency room, and didn't have time to take some penicillin, so instead they stuck me with, and I kid you not, an 8-inch needle. That was not my best day.