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Sports Blog: Suns avoid sweep but don't save face


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And, yes, I already know what you are going to say...Seriously, she is going to talk up the Spurs after Sunday’s game?...

And, maybe in some sense I am.

Before I go there I will give kudos to the Suns. Congrats on not being completely embarrassed and getting swept.

I mean come on, was it such a shock that a good team was able to come together and pull off such a victory? No, not really.

Sure I, like all of the other Spurs fans out there, am slightly disgraced with my team for letting the game get so out of hand, but the Suns are a good squad and they deserved a game like what happened Sunday afternoon so they could save face.

But I am not quite sure if the Suns really saved a whole lot of face on Sunday. For a team that was supposed to be working on coming out of this game looking they had regained the “better-than-thou” attitude they started the series with – despite the final score – nothing about the Phoenix Suns said they were ready to come back from being down three games to none to pull off this series.

A bold statement to make? Maybe, but there are four things that if I were a Suns fan I would be concerned about...

1. Raja Bell played 40 minutes on Sunday and, to be honest, there really was no reason for him to be out on the floor for so long.

2. Boris Diaw played 45 minutes and even then he only sat on the bench because he fouled out. He fouled out and his team was winning and winning by double digits.

3. Amare Stoudemire was hit with a technical foul at the beginning of the fourth quarter and was pulled from the game. Then with the Spurs Big Three sitting on the bench was put back on the floor. Sure the Suns lead had dropped, but from 32 points to 21 points, what did Suns coach Mike D’Antoni think was going to happen?

4. And speaking of D’Antoni, what other coach has ever gotten himself ejected during the last minutes of a game while your team is up 24 points?

So boo all you want Phoenix fans but guess what? Robert Horry is going to keep flashing those pearly whites of his because he and the Spurs, despite losing the way that they did, obviously are still inside of yall’s heads. So much that D’Antoni played his team as though they were winning by only six points instead of more than 20.

Now which team saved face again and which team still looks scared to death?





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