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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