Game 25: Phoenix Suns vs New York Knicks (12/15/2008)

[mkot]

i dont think nash was mad at that last play and not getting a foul... he was straight up mad at amare... for not using nate in a post up situation... and then nash calls the timeout... i think porter has def. given the offensive clip board to nashy...

amare's fault IMO

Yep. That TO was on Amare. He sees Nash was in trouble but he just stood there and watch when Nash was expecting him to post Nate up. He didn't. Turnover. Nash walked back to the bench yelling and then he kinda composed himself after sitting down, then he walked to Amare and talked to him.

[mkot]

ironically Porter has only played 8 suns so far tonight...

The better team pull it out but look at our vets

Nash - 39 mins
Amare - 42 mins
Shaq - 35 mins
Hill - 37 mins

By the way, LB only played 17 mins and Barnes only played 27 mins. And Dudley got no mintues. MikeD played 8 guys too but at least he knows how to make a sub and spread the minutes around so we have 7 guys playing starters minute. I know Porter wanted to beat MikeD and the players of course didn't want to let MikeD get the best out of them, but do we really need Nash's 40 minutes and Shaq's 35 to beat this NY roster? We won because we have a good starting 5, we need to add a big into our rotation. And Porter needs to realize that LB can play spot duty at the point to give Nash some rest. Unless he's injured LB should play 30+ minutes.

[Mr. Sun]

Is it me or is Nash ignoring JRich?

[Phx4Life08]

Once again a solid win. Lets keep the streak going! Since rebound by Amar'e and J-Richs out side shooting is defenitly helping to spread the floor.

[TXSun]

Is it me or is Nash ignoring JRich?

ignorign him as far as what? not passing him the ball, is that what you mean? I haven't noticed anything that indicates that.

[KJ7]

Good to see we got our big involved. I was a bit worried that this would become a running game and they would get tired. Great performance from Shaq in particular espec in the 1st half. Really went to work on them.

However I wasn't all that surprised with NY getting to within touching distance in the 4th. What is with playing 4 starters the entire 3rd qtr?!

Anyway it's good to notch another W. Things *slowly* starting to come around. I hope we face a good team soon to give ourselves a real test (no offense to NY). We're starting to get a good blend of getting everyone involved which is good to see. Amare hitting the boards hard when he's not involved in the offense. That's crucial to how well we do. Needs to continue doing that.

Very surprised to see Dudley not get any mins. I thought this team wouldve been the perfect team to match him up against with all those tweener forwards. Not real happy about our rotations but our general play is looking better and more fluid.