Suns @ Heat

[jagu]

To be fair, if being able to beat the Heat in Miami is a necessary condition for being considered a playoff team, then most of the teams in the league aren't playoff teams as Miami is now 20-2 at home.

The Suns let the pressure get to them in this one. It wasn't a game they were expected to win and that's how they played the last seven minutes. Clearly they aren't as good or as talented as Miami, but we already knew that. They played a solid game most of the way, but being able to close the deal against the best home-record team in the league takes a little more than that.

Suns offense fluttered and that did them in. Still happy with the performance sans Frye's stupid fear of playing basketball and Nash's TO.

 

[SunsFanVegas]

To be fair, if being able to beat the Heat in Miami is a necessary condition for being considered a playoff team, then most of the teams in the league aren't playoff teams as Miami is now 20-2 at home.

The Suns let the pressure get to them in this one. It wasn't a game they were expected to win and that's how they played the last seven minutes. Clearly they aren't as good or as talented as Miami, but we already knew that. They played a solid game most of the way, but being able to close the deal against the best home-record team in the league takes a little more than that.

I agree....they put in a solid 3 quarters, but looked like deer in headlights in the 4th. No way Miami should have scored 17 unanswered points to overtake the Suns, but the Suns did play much better than I expected them to for what its worth.

 

[AzStevenCal]

To be fair, if being able to beat the Heat in Miami is a necessary condition for being considered a playoff team, then most of the teams in the league aren't playoff teams as Miami is now 20-2 at home.

The Suns let the pressure get to them in this one. It wasn't a game they were expected to win and that's how they played the last seven minutes. Clearly they aren't as good or as talented as Miami, but we already knew that. They played a solid game most of the way, but being able to close the deal against the best home-record team in the league takes a little more than that.

I have to agree. This is a much better team than 2 months ago and if we had played like this from the start of the season, we'd easily be a playoff team. I think it's probably too late but tonight's loss is nothing more than a decent team losing against a better opponent.

Steve

 

[sunsfan88]

Kobe really must hate the Suns. He's shooting 6-23 today in an effort to help the Rockets win and make sure Phoenix doesn't get in to the playoffs

 

[Proteus]

Sigh. Why can't this team just lose in a straightforward manner rather than tease us with the hope with a big win?

I can't decide which is the worse choke/meltdown: at Oklahoma City or this game.

 

[Mainstreet]

At least Markieff Morris played well tonight after I was pushing for the Suns to sign a player like Turiaf until he matures.

I think Markieff reads my posts.

 

[sunsfan88]

At least Markieff Morris played well tonight after I was pushing for the Suns to sign a player like Turiaf until he matures.

I think Markieff reads my posts.

He didn''t play that good to be honest. He had 5 fouls and all 5 fouls led to 10 pts for Miami and the Heat scored off all his turnovers.

 

[jagu]

He didn''t play that good to be honest. He had 5 fouls and all 5 fouls led to 10 pts for Miami and the Heat scored off all his turnovers.

He fouled players who were about to take layups anyway. I liked his fouls.

 

[jbeecham]

Bron wanted to throw cheap shots at Shannon Brown, now Lebron is laying down, ghetto justice served up by the big, the bad, the known for being mean...Grant Hill.

ESPN has a whole story about this... basically making it sound like Hill cheap shotted Lebron and just about gave him a concussion.

"James did not remember the immediate moments after the blindside hit from Hill as both players went for the ball. James said he had a headache, but said he did not have tests for a concussion after the game.

"I've never had one of those hits since I've had on pads and a helmet. I don't know exactly what happened," James said. "I had a steal coming and the next thing I know, I was on the floor.""

http://espn.go.com/nba/truehoop/mia...ht-elbow-ok-collision-phoenix-suns-grant-hill

From my viewpoint & the announces viewpoint, Lebron ran right through Hill while trying to go after a steal & the pass wasn't even going to Hill. I didn't go back & watch it on replay, but if Hill had football tackled him then I think he would've been ejected... yet neither was even called for a foul.

I thought the last 7.5 minutes of this game was officiated extremely one sided... they let the Heat hack, slap, push, run players over, camp in the lane, etc etc without calling any fouls and on the other side the Heat went to the FT line about 15 times in the 4th qtr. The only foul I remember being called on the Heat was when Jared Dudley pump faked a 3ptr and Wade jumped up in the air and landed completely on top of him (which was more of a football tackle).


EDIT: Just watched the replay & Hill sees Lebron coming & actually sets a screen in his path so that Lebron can't try to steal the pass. Lebron doesn't even see him & just plows right through Hill's pick... NO FOUL. Lebron was so focused on the pass going to Dudley that he doesn't even see someone standing right in his way. The best part is that Hill gets up and continues playing and Lebron lies on the ground for a few minutes acting like he got hurt.

 

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[desertdawg]

ESPN has a whole story about this... basically making it sound like Hill cheap shotted Lebron and just about gave him a concussion.

"James did not remember the immediate moments after the blindside hit from Hill as both players went for the ball. James said he had a headache, but said he did not have tests for a concussion after the game.

"I've never had one of those hits since I've had on pads and a helmet. I don't know exactly what happened," James said. "I had a steal coming and the next thing I know, I was on the floor.""

http://espn.go.com/nba/truehoop/mia...ht-elbow-ok-collision-phoenix-suns-grant-hill

From my viewpoint & the announces viewpoint, Lebron ran right through Hill while trying to go after a steal & the pass wasn't even going to Hill. I didn't go back & watch it on replay, but if Hill had football tackled him then I think he would've been ejected... yet neither was even called for a foul.

I thought the last 7.5 minutes of this game was officiated extremely one sided... they let the Heat hack, slap, push, run players over, camp in the lane, etc etc without calling any fouls and on the other side the Heat went to the FT line about 15 times in the 4th qtr. The only foul I remember being called on the Heat was when Jared Dudley pump faked a 3ptr and Wade jumped up in the air and landed completely on top of him (which was more of a football tackle).


EDIT: Just watched the replay & Hill sees Lebron coming & actually sets a screen in his path so that Lebron can't try to steal the pass. Lebron doesn't even see him & just plows right through Hill's pick... NO FOUL. Lebron was so focused on the pass going to Dudley that he doesn't even see someone standing right in his way. The best part is that Hill gets up and continues playing and Lebron lies on the ground for a few minutes acting like he got hurt.

Totally agree, Hill was cutting off Bron's angle for the steal. Just a minute before that though, Lebron juked and got a step on Shannon, cleared and could have went straight to the hole but he side stepped and threw an elbow up and behind his own head, pretty hard blow landed on Shannon Brown. Baby Bron did it on purpose, Grant Hill was just preventing a steal and wasn't playing dirty dirty. Our boy Morris was handing out some tuff love in the paint.

 

[95pro]

i didnt watch the game, but from the highlights i saw i agree. they gave the heat a lot of freedom to be "physical", ie hacking and fouling.

why are these superstars such babies...lbj crying about the "foul" by hill. hill simply stood there, and bron went through him. should have been a foul there on bron.

frye sucks, wish we could have replaced him. the only play i saw is when he choked on a layup. looked like he was hesitant and scared.

 

[jagu]

Suns were getting manhandled but the NBA can't let the Heat lose , come on...