Phoenix now a threat with Gentry?

Jazzman20 · Post #1 » by **Jazzman20** » Wed Feb 18, 2009 6:28 am

One game behind us with some new gained confidence in interim coach Alvin Gentry. In their route of the Clippers they shot 62% from the floor and scored 140 points, and ultimately WON by 40 points. I know I'm probably just jumping to conclusions here, and obviously, you can't base any sports teams' potential off of one blowout win, but is anyone else worried about Phoenix? Make fun of me now, but I would hate to say "I told you so" toward the end of the regular season.

Pai Gow · Post #2 » by **Pai Gow** » Wed Feb 18, 2009 6:34 am

Its the Clippers

Jazzman20 · Post #3 » by **Jazzman20** » Wed Feb 18, 2009 7:24 am

Yeah....

J_Ray · Post #4 » by **J_Ray** » Wed Feb 18, 2009 7:31 am

They played the Clippers? It looks more like the D-League All-Star alternates formed a team......

carrottop12 · Post #5 » by **carrottop12** » Wed Feb 18, 2009 7:47 am

Not reading anything into it. They can't be the running team Gentry talked about with Shaq, unless they trade him. And even then they lost Marion, and Jason Richardson is highly inefficient as a scorer.

They beat the Clippers and looked impressive, they did the same thing to Sacramento earlier, but I need to see more first.

seejaydeja · Post #6 » by **seejaydeja** » Wed Feb 18, 2009 3:28 pm

One game and everyone's freaking the **** out. Let's see what they look like after their next 10, then start drawing conclusions from that.

Jazzman20 · Post #7 » by **Jazzman20** » Wed Feb 18, 2009 6:50 pm

I suppose 15+ years of jazz basketball has made me a little nervous.

3960HOOD · Post #8 » by **3960HOOD** » Wed Feb 18, 2009 8:43 pm

Only time will tell, hopefully the ship out Stoudemire out east for scrubs

Sloanfeld · Post #9 » by **Sloanfeld** » Thu Feb 19, 2009 1:13 am

Doubt it. They beat the Kings by about 50 two weeks ago. They should almost certaintly be better offensively with Gentry, but they still won't defeat us in a seven game series. Might make them more of a threat to our playoff hopes if we can't get healthy or win on the road.

Jazzman20 · Post #10 » by **Jazzman20** » Thu Feb 19, 2009 6:41 am

The only thing I was worried about was them keeping us out of the playoffs.

They scored 142 tonight- of course, on the Clippers.

amb1ent · Post #11 » by **amb1ent** » Thu Feb 19, 2009 6:45 pm

phoenix dropping 140 back to back is impressive

until you realize that team's best player is a rookie, eric gordon

carrottop12 · Post #12 » by **carrottop12** » Thu Feb 19, 2009 9:11 pm

amb1ent wrote:phoenix dropping 140 back to back is impressive

until you realize that team's best player is a rookie, eric gordon

Well to be fair their real best player is hurt.

We're talking about Jason Hart right?

Jazzman20 · Post #13 » by **Jazzman20** » Fri Feb 20, 2009 6:06 pm

Ok we can forget Phoenix now- Amares out and they're officially screwed.

carrottop12 · Post #14 » by **carrottop12** » Fri Feb 20, 2009 6:08 pm

Seriously, how did that happen? That sucks for them.

Jazzman20 · Post #15 » by **Jazzman20** » Fri Feb 20, 2009 7:05 pm

Amare was poked in the eye the other night and suffered a partially detached retina. Likely out for the remainder of the season.

http://realgm.com/src_wiretap_archives/ ... ar_season/

volguen · Post #16 » by **volguen** » Sat Feb 21, 2009 5:37 am

This injury sucks for them and I wish Stoudemire to fully recover.
But yet, another 140 points game with Amare out. Against the thunder but still...
I'm glad they didn't play like that all season long.

Post #17 » by **JStockLivesOn** » Sat Feb 21, 2009 8:56 am

I'm imagining they're going to win more regular season games under Gentry than they would have Porter, but that the paradigm will reverse itself in the playoffs, where defense and half-court are at a premium.