Game 39: Phoenix(24-14) @ Indiana(12-25)

[hunterxaz]

Oh great we get to play the hawks tonight to right after blowing a 20 pt led to the pacers..... I mean hopefully we beat the hawks tonight but i'm not to confident heading into this one

we play the hawks tomorrow.

[Kerrsed]

As someone else mentioned, After our starters get a large lead, do not and i repeat DO NOT put them all back in unless we lose the lead. Most of our bench is defensive players (Amundson, Dudley, Dragic, ect.), let them take over and play defense and stop the other team from scoring. When we have the lead, we need to maintain it, not worry about putting back in our offensive weapons so we can crush the other team (we have seen how that does not work).

It was inexcusable to bring Nash back in the game when we had a lead and he just got a bunch of stitches. He should have sit out the remainder of the game and let Dragic do what he does, pester the s*** out of the opposing guards. But instead we bring Nash back in and his man goes ape s***. Amare/Hill/Frye all were in foul trouble so they cant play 100% as they were afraid of fouling out.


Let our starters make a lead in the 1st half, then let our bench defend that lead!

Its something we have not tried, but i think it would work!

[dantian]

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When did they solve the offense? I'd say the only teams that can defend the Suns offense are the Lakers and the Cavs. The Suns still scored 114 on the Pacers.

OK, my statement was not complete. They solved it when they concentrated on it in the 3rd. And that came to a time that our defense was atrocious with Frye/Amare/Nash in the lineup, yet Frye was not hitting anything on offense and Amare not getting any touch. This combination was killing us, in the last several games already. When Indy put in Dunleavy at PF, either Amare or Frye should be able to post him up instead having Nash dribble too much. Yet, on defense, we couldn't deal with Dunleavy.

[garrick]

I think a lot of our woes come from the lackluster play of our two guards in particular LB. When he's missing his shots he contributes next to nothing because he keeps on chucking and doesn't look to pass all that much. J Rich can at least rebound the ball and can get 8-10 rebounds in a game if he really goes after them though he is also a horrible chucker as well many times.
I feel we also need to play Rolo and even Collins a bit more to sub out Frye because Frye can't really guard the big men in the post and gets abused by them down low, plus when he's not hitting the threes he's not much of an offensive threat and more of a liability.

[DBrimstone]

I think a lot of our woes come from the lackluster play of our two guards in particular LB. When he's missing his shots he contributes next to nothing because he keeps on chucking and doesn't look to pass all that much. J Rich can at least rebound the ball and can get 8-10 rebounds in a game if he really goes after them though he is also a horrible chucker as well many times.
I feel we also need to play Rolo and even Collins a bit more to sub out Frye because Frye can't really guard the big men in the post and gets abused by them down low, plus when he's not hitting the threes he's not much of an offensive threat and more of a liability.

J-Rich didn't really bother me. He was actually passing the ball instead of being a black hole. LB has been worthless as of late though.

I just got done watching the Jazz beat the Cav's off a buzzer beater thrown up by an undrafted rookie they picked up out of the D league. Wish I could see that same fire out of the Suns once in a blue moon