Game Thread: Seattle Supersonics @ Phoenix Suns

[seafan]

Either Wally had a brain fart or PJ didn't tell them we had no timeouts left. Good game though.

[Yoshi2kx]

GG by Petro, crashing the board, 3 blocks, though he could work on being more patient with his shots.. he matched Durant, 4-24, yikes.

Wally.. -.-

[Dick Tate]

That's why you usually see the inbounder take one last peek at the scoreboard before the play starts in those end game situations.

[Sweezo]

That's why you usually see the inbounder take one last peek at the scoreboard before the play starts in those end game situations.

IBTL!

[Det the Threat]

Wheezy did very well, Nick too and Johan played with some passion.

And Wally's doing a Webber....

[D5150]

yeah, total bonner by wally. watson said that pj told them in the privious huddle that they where out of t.o's. good game though. wheezy and collison played very well. actually all of the bigs did well, of course the suns only have one and a half power forwards and a bunch of guards and small forwards.

[jenn_gp]

Wally's a bonehead...but as head coach, shouldn't PJ have reminded them that there were no time outs left? The only people who know if he did or didn't are the players and assistants, but I'm just assuming that he didn't tell them about the timeout situation. I would love to think Wally isn't that big of a bonehead to call a timeout after PJ just told him we didn't have any 30 seconds beforehand. But you never know I guess.

And yes, Wally should have been aware of it, but players sometimes get caught up in the moment. As KC said during the game last night, players are virtually trained to automatically take a timeout when they can't get the ball inbounds.

It was a heartbreaking loss though...we had fought so hard to stay in the game the entire way....even when Durant was having a bad night.

And I've been biting my lip to say this for a few games now, thinking he'll come back down to Earth...but what's up with Petro? Is Mark Bryant really that big of an influence on him? He must be able to get through to him somehow--something Sikma couldn't do as Centers coach.

[D5150]

from the news tribune:

Coach P.J. Carlesimo and point guard Earl Watson said the fact the Sonics were out of timeouts was mentioned during Seattle

[Dick Tate]

trust me, before this season is over they will find a few more ways to lose games.

I'm glad to see my tank talk is finally starting to sink in.

[D5150]

oh would you stop it dick! you know thats not what i meant.

i might have to renounce my lock block pledge to you.