Suns @ Hornets Game Thread

[Suns_fan69]

that would be sad.

Funnily enough that would be the 12 games that they originally wanted to rest nash...

 

[nashman]

To be fair most teams in the league can't gaurd TP, CP3, Baron, DWill, or Nash thats what elite point gaurds do give the other team fits. We came out sluggish and still managed to make a good game of it against one of the top 3 teams in the league imho. Oh yeah and we are still learning this system, we will get better, last night wasn't that disappointing for me it was more encouraging knowing that when we learn the system and get more comfortable we will be deep and pretty damn good.

 

[Mainstreet]

Nash should sit out games vs TP, CP3, & Baron the Beard... Period.

Perhaps playing Dragic and Nash together might help.

 

[az1965]

Here's an interesting note about last night's game. Dragic was the only player on our team with a positive +/- number. He had +2. Nash had -15.

He seems too raw... I hope he will improve as season goes on. He did the 2nd half rally that cut the lead to 3.

 

[DeAnna]

Bottom line all you guys want to dump the ball down low havent figured that alot of the TO's were committed tying to do just that. the hornets collapsed the defense, disrespecting the suns perimeter game.

Yep, that's what I noticed as well.

 

[LavaLamp2]

Dragic's lone teardrop in the lane was excellent. And it was refreshing to see. That was a great confidence-builder for young Goran.

 

[cly2tw]

Most of the game it was Barnes or dragic guarding paul and even then the suns were burned when help came, CP3 just dished to the shooters. Nash cannot defend CP3, but neither can any other sun IMO. I'd be happy if hill or barnes could guard peja or west on a switch, but thats apparently also a NO! Bottom line the hornets drilling all those 3 pters made the difference and that happened because the suns doubled CP3 no matter who the on ball defender was. It was also apparent during the spurs game that no sun could guard tony parker either(32 points). Mostly parker singed dragic, barnes, hill, and nash.

You don't get it, or refuse to, apparently. It's not about somebody else defending Paul as bad. Nash on someone else is a mismatch exploited too, in addition to Barnes not defending Paul well. That's why Dragic not fully able to neutralize Paul still made us in the game, since it's the way that exposes our weakness the least! With Nash in there, in the form he was in, we had no chance to avoid the humiliation. sigh.

 

[Chaplin]

It's not the defense on Chris Paul that is the problem--it's the defense on everyone else. You're not going to keep Chris Paul from doing what he does--he's too good at it. What you have to do is eliminate the passing lanes and stick with the shooters he passes to (i.e. Peja). The Suns decided for some reason to collapse every time when Paul got into the lane, and he passes more than he shoots. So when he gets in the lane, he goes out to MoPete, Posey or Peja, and they kill us with the 3. The problem is not CP3, the problem is that we left their 3-point shooters. I think we were seeing a lot of distrust in our big men, whether that is because we have had this culture of having a small team and we're not used to Shaq being there or what, but we were collapsing when we probably didn't need to.

I don't care who you are, lack of perimeter defending is not the fault of Steve Nash alone, so all this crap about benching him is the dumbest stuff I've ever heard, because everyone was guilty of the same lack of judgment.

 

[arwillan]

It's not the defense on Chris Paul that is the problem--it's the defense on everyone else. You're not going to keep Chris Paul from doing what he does--he's too good at it. What you have to do is eliminate the passing lanes and stick with the shooters he passes to (i.e. Peja). The Suns decided for some reason to collapse every time when Paul got into the lane, and he passes more than he shoots. So when he gets in the lane, he goes out to MoPete, Posey or Peja, and they kill us with the 3. The problem is not CP3, the problem is that we left their 3-point shooters. I think we were seeing a lot of distrust in our big men, whether that is because we have had this culture of having a small team and we're not used to Shaq being there or what, but we were collapsing when we probably didn't need to.

I don't care who you are, lack of perimeter defending is not the fault of Steve Nash alone, so all this crap about benching him is the dumbest stuff I've ever heard, because everyone was guilty of the same lack of judgment.

 

[CaptainInsano]

IIRC wasn't the spurs entire strategy (after they lost 2 games) for stopping the hornets in the playoffs to simply shut down peja from nailing those 3 pointers and most jumpshots?

They came back and won the series so coach should look over some hornets vs spurs tapes and see how pops did it. It was purely the system and pops brilliant coaching that did it, because I was positive after loss 2 the spurs were sunk.

 

[bigfoot]

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