Suns @ Lakers - Game Thread - Thursday April 26, 2007 -7:30 pm

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Marion did not lose this game by himself. it took collective effort.
 

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I can't believe D'Antoni put Amare in to start the second quarter with 2 fouls. That was huge. They attacked Amare every time and the defensive rebounding went to hell. The Suns never really recovered after that IMO.
 

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Why didn't we go to the two-man with Nash and Amare at the end...that's supposed to be our bread and butter....ugh.
 

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Marion might want to try a little harder because this will be his only chance at a ring. If this team does not win it *HE* will be the one to go. The self proclaimed DPOY was destroyed by both Kobe and Lamar. Everybody on this team except for Amare and Steve avoid contact when driving, why?
 

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They played a great game... and we still had several shots to win in the end, just did not fall.
 

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Suns played poorly, Nash was bad, Marion was awful. If the Lakers were going to get one this was the one it was going to be. Even with the Suns' poor play the Lakers still needed a lot of help and breaks at the FT line.

I expect the Suns to win the next two.
 

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the suns just have to come out firing in game 4, and let the shots fall. the defensive help on kobe HAS to come over faster. he got way too many points in the paint.

this series better not go more than 5 games-we dont need to have any of that
 

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10 pts 4 rebounds in 44 minutes, yes he did, combine that with atrocious defense on Odom and missed layups and you kill your team.
They did a good job in forcing Nash to give up ball and he could not make plays or set team up.
 

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I can't believe D'Antoni put Amare in to start the second quarter with 2 fouls. That was huge. They attacked Amare every time and the defensive rebounding went to hell. The Suns never really recovered after that IMO.


I agree, the begining of the end for this game.



We played this game like it was game two from previous years.
 

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Well, Amare was stupid to pick uip those two early fouls. Sometimes his bball IQ is really down there...
 

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They did a good job in forcing Nash to give up ball and he could not make plays or set team up.


yes but he is the 2-time mvp and he has to work around that. his carelessness with the ball was not typical of him. he has to make better passes when the time comes, and take the shot when the time comes. i felt like on a couple of posessions he should have given up the ball, yet he shot it (and vise-versa)
 

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There's the Lakers 1 win, right there.

- PHX outcoached. No answer for the high pick n roll D. Same crap as last year.

- Raja Bell needs to make Kobe break a sweat on D.

- Marion finished like a girl.

- Boris Diaw played so damn soft. Ugh. WTF happened to his game?

- Nash atypical poor game. He should of found an answer for the Laker D... D'Antoni sure had none.

- The Laker players remind me of little whiny ******* when calls don't go their way. Odom, Cook, and Kobe being the lead offenders.

- There's no defense that can stop Kobe if the game is close late. He'll stop himself (by accidently missing) or get the call (foul or no foul). PHX needs to step on the Lakers throat and not let up Sunday.
 

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Where was D'antoni's adjustment at half-time? Non-existent.

D'antoni is a freakin' philosophy, not a coach.
 

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There's the Lakers 1 win, right there.

- PHX outcoached. No answer for the high pick n roll D. Same crap as last year.

- Raja Bell needs to make Kobe break a sweat on D.

- Marion finished like a girl.

- Boris Diaw played so damn soft. Ugh. WTF happened to his game?

- Nash atypical poor game. He should of found an answer for the Laker D... D'Antoni sure had none.

- The Laker players remind me of little whiny ******* when calls don't go their way. Odom, Cook, and Kobe being the lead offenders.

- There's no defense that can stop Kobe if the game is close late. He'll stop himself (by accidently missing) or get the call (foul or no foul). PHX needs to step on the Lakers throat and not let up Sunday.

I agree with all of that. I thought Diaw would be the key to helping with the Nash trap, just run the offense through him.

The Lakers were going to get one and this was going to be it. The Suns will bounce back Sunday as even in a poor game the Suns were in position to win.
 

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Although the officiating was biased, the Lakers played harder and more aggresively and got the calls. The lackadasical (sp) attitude by the Suns didn't help either. And I love Shawn, but damn he played like hell today, totally outplayed on both ends. He's supposed to be Mr. Energy and just didn't show that today, hope he gets his head out of his ass and comes out with fire, dunking the ball instead of flicking it up there, hoping it falls. The Lakers played hard, and the refs let them play a physical game, but that's not the reason we lost the damn game. As I posted earlier, we should expect an uneven wistle at Staples, and so should the players. We may not like it and it may not be fair, but that's the game
 

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19 offensive rebounds = difference in the game.


THis was the game I thought we would lose.

Still on course to win in 5.

The mission for the next two days of practice: Make the Lakers pay for trapping the P&R.
 

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Do you know anything else other than to complain about officiating????
Nope, the Suns would be 85-0 were it not for officiating in the mind of beecham.

Lakers wanted it more and their adjustments on the pick and roll were the difference.
 

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Marion had an off night. Raja had an off night. Nash had an off night. Diaw went back to being Diaw. The Suns collectively blew it. To blame the loss on any one player is ridiculous.
 

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"has nothing to do with the refs, it has to do with the Lakers having more energy."

It's not either/or.

The Suns deserved to lose this game because they got lazy in the second quarter and played with next-to-zero-energy, as you point out. Kobe also deserves credit for finding the proper balance between ball-hogging and stupor, for a change. But the ref's bailed out the Lakers at least a dozen times in the second half. Clearly, this was not all "energy", although you could argue that one leads to the other.

I've been watching the NBA for decades and this game was not even remotely fair in terms of calls. LMAO at the courtesy foul on Kobe with less than a minute remaining.

Amare couldn't buy a foul if he were Mark Cuban with a credit card.

But, as you intimated, the Suns didn't deserve to win this game, and I agree. Nash played bizzarely poor, a few flashes of brilliance but not the Nash we all know and love; Marion was trash; Barbs was on and off; Bell was fairly solid despite being mauled repeatedly; STAT was pretty damn fantastic despite the early (attempted) emasculation by the refs.

If this game was called fairly we would have won, but then nobody expected this game to be called fairly, and the Lakers deserve some props for getting their act together and playing team ball.

How many predicted a sweep? Not many. Most predicted Suns in five and I'm stickin' to it. Unless the refs insist on bailing out the Lakers again in game 4.
 
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