Suns @ Spurs - Game Thread - Monday, May 14, 2007 - 6:30pm - TNT

[slinslin]

We are outrebounding them by 8, our defense is just pathetic. Marion does nothing on Parker.

 

[Freddie]

Why is Nash on the bench to start the biggest quarter of our season?

 

[jlove]

We let the Spurs shoot 67% in the 3rd. It's a miracle we're only down by single digits.

The Suns have 12 minutes to figure out which will be easier to do: come back to win this game, or try to win 3 straight later.

Like I've been saying, put 3 refs on the floor that will call consistantly on BOTH sides of the floor, and the Suns wipe the floor with the Spurs. You swallow your whistle against the Spurs and they win by less than 9. The only game the refs were fairly consistant, and we've all seen the stats on that game, the Suns blew out the Spurs. Yes, the Suns have looked lost at times, but geez, this game is completely rediculous. Duncan of course just got another block, yet he pulled Amare down at the hip (which is a foul) and then he rakes Amare across the forearm (yet another foul), and he gets credit for a block.

 

[TBaslim]

Lotta ball left to play. Let's go Suns! (dammit!)

 

[NDSunsfan]

i'm out. i'm 39 years old, i've been a suns fan since i was 13 years old. i can't do it anymore. i try to be objective, i try to listen to the announcers and hope they're objective, i try and tell myself, 'it's just a game,' and 'it's a job for the players, they're doing this to make money and nothing more' and i still can't get over it.

i've never had a successful basketball season as a fan. i started out this series liking the spurs from the sense of they seemed to respect the suns, i like their coach, i appreciate their talent and the way they have put their team together, but now i see them as a bunch of whiny complainers who seem to get all the calls, and that's the part i can't do anymore. it's not that they do or do not get more calls than the suns, because i'm going to assume things all work out about even in the end, but i'm so jaded and biased i get mad and hate it.

i'm too old to care this much. it's never going to happen. if it isn't going to happen with this team, it never will.

the players aren't as concerned about the outcome as i am. they want a big contract.

i don't know who to tell, so i guess i'm posting here. i've been on this site as a lurker, sometime poster since the rivals.com days. but, i'm out here too......

i'm watching the replay of the TPC on HD instead of the most important game of my favorite team's season. that's just wrong.

i'm out.

(of course, if they come back and win the series, i reserve the right to deny i ever wrote any of this........)

 

[slinslin]

Please get rid of Shawn Marion, please, please, please...

 

[gdiddy]

Now everyone can see what a difference game 3 would have been had it been called fairly and we took it.

 

[Shane]

BArbosa YEY!

 

[Freddie]

Please get rid of Shawn Marion, please, please, please...

And Barbosa. I'd trade them and the #4 for KG.

 

[jbeecham]

They are better than us. Especially at Playoff basketball.

If you want to call this basketball......I prefer calling it basketbrawl

 

[dodie53]

game 1 was a big difference too..

 

[Griffin]

Duncan commits a turnover on three of the last four SA possessions, yet their lead grows by two. That's the problem When we score, they score. When we get the stops, we can't find the hoop.

 

[green machine]

This has been a well officiated game, and if anything, the Suns have gotten the bulk of the iffy calls.

Barbosa is playing like garbage, same with Marion. The 3rd Quarter defense was probably the worst we've seen this playoffs. Actually reminded me of the 2005 series against SA, only that year those quarters came in the 4th.

 

[slinslin]

Duncan commits a turnover on three of the last four SA possessions, yet their lead grows by two. That's the problem When we score, they score. When we get the stops, we can't find the hoop.

That what happens if one of your "allstars" is absolutely incapable of doing anything against this team, Shawn Houdini Marion.

 

[az1965]

We can't stop even their scrubs. Weren't these the old guys we were supposed to run off the floor?

 

[dreamcastrocks]

woohoo

 

[ChinaMeng]

STOP BLAMING THIS LOSS ON THE REFS! If you can't stand to watch it because of the refs, then good riddance. Once you get past that mental barrier, then you can realize how much the Suns were overrated this year

 

[az1965]

Why is DA not sitting Barbosa down?

 

[dreamcastrocks]

Why is DA not sitting Barbosa down?

 

[hsandhu]

Dammit, if we're gonna go down, keep fighting to the end. And it looks like we're doing that. You can't be afraid to fail.

 

[green machine]

STOP BLAMING THIS LOSS ON THE REFS! If you can't stand to watch it because of the refs, then good riddance. Once you get past that mental barrier, then you can realize how much the Suns were overrated this year

This team wasn't/isn't overrated, just the one team that can give them trouble happens to be the team they are playing right now. Doesn't mean the Suns can't/won't win, just means that it won't be easy.

 

[az1965]

The refs have absolutely nothing to do this game. You must be mentally challenged to keep harping on Suns woes on refs...

 

[gdiddy]

Why is DA not sitting Barbosa down?

Are you suggesting that coach D has a modicum of common sense in his head?

 

[D-Dogg]

Are you guys giving up? You are only down five with a ton of time yet....

 

[gdiddy]

Guys, what has really changed from last year or the year before? Small rotations kill us!