1) amare has missed clutch free throws multiple times this season. why should i think that this will magically change come playoff time?
2) nash has done this before. he has a poor shooting night and still takes ill-advised shots at the end of the game and/or turns it over like nobody's business.
3) i do not believe they had an "off game". i think they were beaten by a playoff team, plain and simple.
4) as you said, no lead in the nba is safe. the suns should have known that, but in true suns fashion they choked a game away to the mavericks. The mavericks who have not beaten any team currently in the western conference playoffs since the kidd trade (until today, of course). The mavericks who have their best player coming off of an injury. The mavericks who were missing their best bench player. yes, those mavericks.
5) you can not possibly legitimately prove to me, or anyone else, that the suns can beat the lakers in a 7-game series. let go of your love for shaq for a minute and look at the facts. i won't say we don't have a chance or anything like that, but just about every odd is stacked in their favor.