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Phoenix now a threat with Gentry?

Posted: Wed Feb 18, 2009 6:28 am
by Jazzman20
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.

Re: Phoenix now a threat with Gentry?

Posted: Wed Feb 18, 2009 6:34 am
by Pai Gow
Its the Clippers

Re: Phoenix now a threat with Gentry?

Posted: Wed Feb 18, 2009 7:24 am
by Jazzman20
Yeah....

Re: Phoenix now a threat with Gentry?

Posted: Wed Feb 18, 2009 7:31 am
by J_Ray
They played the Clippers? It looks more like the D-League All-Star alternates formed a team......

Re: Phoenix now a threat with Gentry?

Posted: Wed Feb 18, 2009 7:47 am
by carrottop12
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.

Re: Phoenix now a threat with Gentry?

Posted: Wed Feb 18, 2009 3:28 pm
by seejaydeja
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.

Re: Phoenix now a threat with Gentry?

Posted: Wed Feb 18, 2009 6:50 pm
by Jazzman20
I suppose 15+ years of jazz basketball has made me a little nervous.

Re: Phoenix now a threat with Gentry?

Posted: Wed Feb 18, 2009 8:43 pm
by 3960HOOD
Only time will tell, hopefully the ship out Stoudemire out east for scrubs :D

Re: Phoenix now a threat with Gentry?

Posted: Thu Feb 19, 2009 1:13 am
by Sloanfeld
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.

Re: Phoenix now a threat with Gentry?

Posted: Thu Feb 19, 2009 6:41 am
by Jazzman20
The only thing I was worried about was them keeping us out of the playoffs.

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

Re: Phoenix now a threat with Gentry?

Posted: Thu Feb 19, 2009 6:45 pm
by amb1ent
phoenix dropping 140 back to back is impressive

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

Re: Phoenix now a threat with Gentry?

Posted: Thu Feb 19, 2009 9:11 pm
by carrottop12
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?

Re: Phoenix now a threat with Gentry?

Posted: Fri Feb 20, 2009 6:06 pm
by Jazzman20
Ok we can forget Phoenix now- Amares out and they're officially screwed.

Re: Phoenix now a threat with Gentry?

Posted: Fri Feb 20, 2009 6:08 pm
by carrottop12
Seriously, how did that happen? That sucks for them.

Re: Phoenix now a threat with Gentry?

Posted: Fri Feb 20, 2009 7:05 pm
by Jazzman20
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/

Re: Phoenix now a threat with Gentry?

Posted: Sat Feb 21, 2009 5:37 am
by volguen
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.

Re: Phoenix now a threat with Gentry?

Posted: Sat Feb 21, 2009 8:56 am
by JStockLivesOn
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.