Suns @ Sacramento game thread

[Chaz]

-Anyone else notice that Barbosa always attempts to finish his drives with "the bank of the backboard"? He needs to develop a "non bank" finish ala Boris Diaw and Marion. Barbosa finishes are one dimensional. Most of his misses are too hard and brick off the board. Tired of seeing it every other game.

Funny, I seem to remember until recently (this year) some people were upset he didn't use the backboard more.
When you are traveling that fast it is probably better to use the glass. That is what it is there for.

If that is the worst problem we have with LB we are doing OK.

 

[tobiazz]

-Anyone else notice that Barbosa always attempts to finish his drives with "the bank of the backboard"? He needs to develop a "non bank" finish ala Boris Diaw and Marion. Barbosa finishes are one dimensional. Most of his misses are too hard and brick off the board. Tired of seeing it every other game.

He learned that early on from Marbury who is a master of the banked layup with multiple trajectories. Rod Strickland was very effective with it as well.

I think the layup off the backboard may be more useful for fast players (Barbs) and the teardrop may be more useful for players that jump high (Marion). Having both like Tony Parker is probably a good thing.

 

[Errntknght]

Barbs did finish once with a sort of tear drop in the Sonics game... usually he's not going at angle and speed where he can use it.

 

[jibikao]

Not sure if this article is posted:

If things stand as they do now, the No. 2 Suns would open the playoffs the following weekend at home vs. the No. 7 Los Angeles Lakers, a team the Suns have dominated the past two years. This didn’t seem likely at halftime, when the Suns — playing their season’s worst basketball the past month — trailed 68-51 and seemed dead in the water.

That’s when Raja Bell gave what might become known in Suns history as “The Speech.”

Recounted coach Mike D’Antoni, “He stood up and said, ‘That’s enough.

We’ve played bad for a month . . . Now, we play.’ ”

http://www.nba.com/suns/news/tribune_060412.html