Suns At Rockets Game Thread

[AfroSuns]

Go Suns!!

 

[lou_skywalker]

Hope they stick to their gameplan established during the win against Dallas: BENCH AMARE IN THE FOURTH QUARTER

 

[AfroSuns]

That wont happen too often if it ever happens again.

 

[mjb21aztd]

Lets go suns would be nice to beat houston tonight not counting on it though... But hopefully that mavs win gave us some momentum and we build on it!!! Prove me wrong GO SUNS

 

[Yuma]

I am interested to see if Gentry plays the bench more in the fourth with the game on the line. The Mavs game, we definitely had better defense down the stretch.

Hey boldinfan18, are we going to have Boldin back next season?

 

[Yuma]

Freakin Robin Lopez high light reel in the first quarter!

 

[AfroSuns]

Then Frye comes in and the center went soft.

 

[slinslin]

Wow, when was the last time you have seen such a Suns lineup...

Lopez
Amundson (now Amare)
Dudley
Clark
Dragic

That's a huge lineup.

 

[AfroSuns]

Wow, when was the last time you have seen such a Suns lineup...

Lopez
Amundson (now Amare)
Dudley
Clark
Dragic

That's a huge lineup.

They did a good job too and Amare seem to be playing determined.

 

[slinslin]

Really impressed by Robin's FT shooting too. Looks good unlike most 7' footers he has some touch and good form.

 

[mjb21aztd]

Nice lead we should have going into the half, lets hope we continue this play in the 2nd half love the play of Hill and Lopez so far!!!!

 

[cly2tw]

Gentry finally starts real coaching, instead of just putting the ball into Nash's hands and let him create.
Nash didn't dominate the ball or even dribble too much. We played classical screen and cut with passes from stationed players at perimeter. With a lot of movements from every player on the court, we get some room for our guys in the paint to have easy score opportunities. Amare particular is unstoppable with this style. He has the best hands among big men to catch even difficult passes. And Lopez is not bad at that either, with his size. At least against the short Rox frontline, this seems to be a winning formulae. Hopefully, they don't revert back to Nash ball dominance in the 2nd half. The way the team has dominated the Rox, it's hard to lose the game any other way. Nash with zero TO, that's good enough.

 

[Bufalay]

Other than Boston, does any team have a worse team of announcers than Houston?

 

[TJ]

Uh oh. Big lead

 

[GorrilaLips]

oh why oh why oh why........

do the suns do this everytime.....

sigh, now they have to play catch up once again.

 

[Proteus]

Suns up 68-64 with 4:10 left in the 3rd quarter. The Suns had an 18 point in the 1st half.

Sigh...every time I think this team has turned a corner they go out and pull this crap.

 

[GorrilaLips]

Amare looks to be trying, but his trying is wildly flailing and picking up loose ball fouls.
this will be his 4th, a blessing in disguise? HOpefully the suns can take advantage of this, this is the same dang team they were leading 18 points earlier, nothing has changed....

my gawd....

 

[TJ]

This is to be expected at this point.

This team is cursed!!

 

[Proteus]

Suns up 70-69 with 2:20 left in the 3rd quarter as they briefly fell behind by 1 point.

It's embarassing that a veteran team that's full of guys that have been part of winning teams in the past are such freaking chokers.

 

[TJ]

At this rate, teams know that if they get down by 20 points or so, it's no big deal. The Suns will take the rest of the game off and let you back in.

Until proven otherwise, this is the approach that teams will take. Start off slow, get it into 5th gear midway through, lead the Suns with about 6:00 to go in the 4th and don't look back.

 

[Proteus]

Suns up 79-73 after the 3rd quarter.

 

[Proteus]

Suns up 83-79 with 8:34 left in the 4th quarter after being up 9 but then giving up a 2nd chance bucket and a 3 after a turnover.

 

[devilalum]

Nat X is killing us.

 

[Proteus]

Suns up 87-85 with 5:40 left in the 4th quarter. Come on guys...finish this game.

 

[95pro]

ariza trips duds. no call

landry flops. gets the call.

rolo with a good dunk.