Suns @ Bobcats: The Road to Gentry's End

[slinslin]

Now we give up leads we don't even have.

Playing our softest lineup for almost the entire quarter against a big physical defensive team that is very good rebounding the basketball and allow least points in the league.

Gentry fails to make adjustments, he is simply not a top tier coach. It is a matter of time until he is gone in my opinion. Whether during the season or in the offseason. Give him 12 months at the most.

Nash with another poor game, he doesn't look like he cares anymore.

Frye hoisting up all those 3s was bearable when he was hitting him, now it gets frustrating to see him take so many shots.

J-Rich the Invisible Man. At least Amare tries hard to put the ball in the basket against their defense.

 

[slinslin]

Finally Lopez is in the game. Lopez and Amare are actually working well together.

 

[slinslin]

42 points for the Bobcats in the first quarter, ridiculous.

Nash is terrible. Hopefully they will purge this team off everyone soon except Lopez, Dragic, Clark, Dudley and maybe Amare.

Get a defensive minded coach in here, namely that assistant coach from the Spurs that we were considering when Kerr went for Porter.

 

[Hat]

We lost. Suns have turned into a complete joke. Glad I put my money on the Bobcats.

 

[slinslin]

Hopefully we can see a Dragic/MrX/Clark/Amare/Lopez starting lineup soon with Dudley as the first one off the bench.

If only we could somehow get that pick back so that we can actually tank, but even if not sucking and playing the young guys will be more bearable than watching the stickman, the old canadian and the gassed Hill try to stay in the playoff picture.

The next beating will be in Memphis against another big physical team on the road. 0-4 roadtrip.

Look at a 10-16 record since our 14-3 start.

It will make more sense to keep Amare as a leader on a rebuilding team than Nash. At least he is still young, big man are hard to find if we get rid off him and at least you can find out then how he responds to being the focal point of a team. Plus we don't restrict ourselves to one style of play with him like we do with Nash.

TRADE NASH
TRADE JRICH
TRADE BARBOSA
TRADE FRYE

Get some young talent on this team.

Actually Frye could stay exclusively as a backup PF I won't mind, but if we could get a good deal for him, bye bye.

 

[Griffin]

Pretty pathetic performance so far. This team doesn't seem to be trying very hard anymore. Earlier in the season they played like they had something to prove, now they seem not to care anymore. When we are up by 24, other teams never feel like they are out of the game. When we are down by 24? I doubt the Suns will mount much of a come back.

 

[slinslin]

Gerald Wallace has 20/9 in 15 minutes.

Memo to Gentry, put in Clark on back to back nights because Hill is completely useless and Dudley lacks athletic ability to guard Wallace.

 

[slinslin]

Down 31, tonight might be historical day in franchise history. Someone get out the record books.

Glad we decided to be a mediocre team that is horrible to watch, rather than rebuild with a young roster. Right now we are one of the worst teams in the west anyway.

 

[CaptainInsano]

 

[mjb21aztd]

god what a bad day for arizona sports cardinals looked like dog crap and so do the suns tonight ugh . Time to drink a lot of beer heh

 

[slinslin]

On the bright side that was an ridiculous move by Amare, some good body language by Amare.

Maybe he can carry us to a miracle that is if we could stop them. Turning into Amare vs the Bobcats game. Plus Clark had a couple good moments now.

 

[slinslin]

Amare and Clark playing well, nice to see them showing some toughness.

 

[slinslin]

So tired of Nash taking a 3 pointer with 3 seconds off the clock when no Sun was under the basket resulting in a fastbreak that gets stuffed by Amare and then put back by Wallace who came down the middle with nobody guarding him.

 

[Proteus]

Suns only down 27 as they trail 47-74 after the 2nd quarter.

At least the young guys like Clark will get good playing time today.

 

[slinslin]

Getting worse by the minute, gotta take it with a sense of humor at this point I guess.

Swiss cheese perimeter defense allowing penetration to the basket on every play.

Anyone remember a worse Suns game? I would have to believe that you have to go back a few years to find one.

Last 5 Bobcats plays must be like this

Stephen Jackson drives to the hoop and dumps it off to Mohammed for the layup
Stephen Jackson drives past Nash for a layup.
Raymond Felton sprints down the court past Nash for a layup.
Stephen Jackson drives to the hoop and dumps it off to Mohammed for the layup
Jackson drives past Nash for a layup

 

[slinslin]

The only bright spot Amare moving into 6th on the Suns scoring list reaching the 10.000 points plateau.

 

[Proteus]

The only bright spot Amare moving into 6th on the Suns scoring list reaching the 10.000 points plateau.

Congrats to Amare.

 

[Proteus]

Hopefully our guys can find a little bit of pride and not lose by 40 or more.

 

[slinslin]

I hope we lose by 50, no excuses.

Also why the heck isn't Clark playing even now. He was one of the few bright spots in the first half along with Amare and Lopez.

 

[slinslin]

Can I say that there is nothing worse than hearing Tom Leander and Scott Williams doing a game like this?

 

[msdundee]

Where's the traditional +/- discussion?

 

[slinslin]

What would be the point of that when you trail by 30 after 15 minutes?

Amare has the worst +/- because he was the best Suns player and played all minutes in the first quarter and starting in the 2nd quarter while all other starters were pulled already.

 

[SirStefan32]

Gentry has nothing to do with this. You could hire Phil Jackson with Greg Popovich and Jerry Sloan as assistant coaches and they still wouldn't be able to do anything with this team. Teams figure out how to deal with gimmick teams like the Suns.
Amare, Fry, and Nash can't guard a chair, J-Rich is almost as bad, and grant Hill in old. Not only are they terrible defensively, but Barbosa and Richardson are in a major slump, as is Fry.
They surprised a few teams at the beginning, but everyone knows how to deal with them now. On a bright side, we KNEW that this team was horrible. We all know this team will be horrible as long as their 2 stars are the worst defensive players in the league on their position.
All I am interested in is watching Dragic, Lopez, Clark, and Dudley develop and become better players. This season is just about trying to make playoffs to avoid our lottery pick going to OKC and possibly making Sarver some money in first round of playoffs.

 

[slinslin]

Amare to OKC for Etan Thomas, Matt Harping, the Suns pick and the Thunder pick.

OKC becomes an absolute power house however in the West even.

 

[AfroSuns]

Wow!! That was an embarrassing one to watch. I thought for sure we are going to lose by 50, i had to stop watching, it was BRUTAL! I saw Dragic go down at one point, did he return to the game? i hope the kid was not badly injured.