Suns At Mavericks Game Thread

[cly2tw]

We have enough talent on this team. Dragic had two critical turnovers trying to get the pass to Amare downlow. Nash should be a lot better at catch-and-shoot, Stockton-good, but is far from it as yet. Despite of how treaky JRich is and sucky Frye right now is, we were still in the game in the 4th. Sign!

 

[Sunburn]

Offensive rebounding at the end killed our chances

 

[Proteus]

Is Nash injured? This is the 2nd game in a row that he's shot pretty poorly.

 

[Sunburn]

Love Amare's line. He's really fun to watch on the offensive end. I've never seen someone so terrible at boxing out though.

 

[Ronin]

How many offensive rebounds did Dallas get in that quarter? 7?

 

[Proteus]

How many offensive rebounds did Dallas get in that quarter? 7?

Yah 7.

 

[Suns_fan69]

Dallas seems to have Nash's number over the last few years. It used to be when he got the switch on Dirk he'd draw him out and it would be an automatic 2. I haven't seen him do that in a while.

 

[Big D]

We have enough talent on this team. Dragic had two critical turnovers trying to get the pass to Amare downlow. Nash should be a lot better at catch-and-shoot, Stockton-good, but is far from it as yet. Despite of how treaky JRich is and sucky Frye right now is, we were still in the game in the 4th. Sign!

To do what? Fight and scrap down to the last game of the year to barely make the playoffs only to then promply get swept out of the 1st round? I agree.

 

[Lorenzo]

Is Nash injured? This is the 2nd game in a row that he's shot pretty poorly.

IDK..he usually sticks it to the mavs at the AAC win or lose.he did not look good tonight. and gentry kept nash on the bench for a long time in the 4th when they were down. and the suns actually made their run with nashy on the bench. not that it was steve's fault, but dallas pulled away when he returned. I think that had more to do with the team being gased though working hard to get back in the game. maybe he's just tired right now and I'd imagine the amare trade rumors have to be wearing on him regardless of what he may be saying otherwise.

 

[AfroSuns]

It's getting really annoying being owned by the Mavs - 3rd straight season we've lost the season series to them.

Dont we have one more game with the Mavs? i thot this is third season game.

 

[Yuma]

Nash's back is hurt.

 

[Chaplin]

He was hurting a bit on Tuesday, so I'm guessing that it was still lingering on Wednesday.

 

[cly2tw]

To do what? Fight and scrap down to the last game of the year to barely make the playoffs only to then promply get swept out of the 1st round? I agree.

All we need is a proper transition from Nash-by-himself offense to more regular ones like the one Sloan plays in Utah. Against good defense, our players even our PGs Nash and Dragic can't seem to be able to get the pass to low post without turning it over. That's evidence that we have practiced such enough. Then, now Nash has been fairly figured out throughout the league, we suddenly have hardtime to score in addition to bad defense. But this can be fixed if there is a will to.

 

[AfroSuns]

All we need is a proper transition from Nash-by-himself offense to more regular ones like the one Sloan plays in Utah. Against good defense, our players even our PGs Nash and Dragic can't seem to be able to get the pass to low post without turning it over. That's evidence that we have practiced such enough. Then, now Nash has been fairly figured out throughout the league, we suddenly have hardtime to score in addition to bad defense. But this can be fixed if there is a will to.

I think they tried to limit Nash ball handling yesterday in the 4th, but Nash couldnt hit an ocean. Hope his back gets better.

 

[95pro]

We have enough talent on this team. Dragic had two critical turnovers trying to get the pass to Amare downlow. Nash should be a lot better at catch-and-shoot, Stockton-good, but is far from it as yet. Despite of how treaky JRich is and sucky Frye right now is, we were still in the game in the 4th. Sign!

im going to go somewhat out on a limb here, and agree with you on the
"we have enough talent on this team" part.
i like:
jrich
amare
lopez
hill(we need some like him but younger, develop clark)
dragic
Lou
dudley

that's 7 solid guys.

we should get rid of the softness:
nash
frye

on the fence:
barbosa, he's good, bad, up and down. when he's on, he's on.

i havent checked on who would be available to replace nash and frye.
this is just my opinion and something that could be feasable. but we need a starting pg and a backup(im not sure dragic could handle backup pg fulltime).

 

[sunsfan88]

im going to go somewhat out on a limb here, and agree with you on the
"we have enough talent on this team" part.
i like:
jrich
amare
lopez
hill(we need some like him but younger, develop clark)
dragic
Lou
dudley

that's 7 solid guys.

we should get rid of the softness:
nash
frye

on the fence:
barbosa, he's good, bad, up and down. when he's on, he's on.

i havent checked on who would be available to replace nash and frye.
this is just my opinion and something that could be feasable. but we need a starting pg and a backup(im not sure dragic could handle backup pg fulltime).

Michael Beasley? Ramon Sessions?

 

[cly2tw]

im going to go somewhat out on a limb here, and agree with you on the
"we have enough talent on this team" part.
i like:
jrich
amare
lopez
hill(we need some like him but younger, develop clark)
dragic
Lou
dudley

that's 7 solid guys.

we should get rid of the softness:
nash
frye

on the fence:
barbosa, he's good, bad, up and down. when he's on, he's on.

i havent checked on who would be available to replace nash and frye.
this is just my opinion and something that could be feasable. but we need a starting pg and a backup(im not sure dragic could handle backup pg fulltime).

All we need is that Nash would play like Stockton and become a good shooter with set feet and good defender just like Stockton. He only needs to practice the catch and shoot a little more. If we get this done, we should be quite fine.