Who would Phx match up well in the playoffs?

[WTFsunsFTW]

I want to see us go through Dallas, San Antonio, then Los Angeles. That will be the ultimate trip to our first championship and shut up every critic in the country.

[Qwigglez]

The way the NBA playoffs are setup, its too difficult to make even one upset. Best of seven games is tough, maybe if it were best of five, but rarely do upsets happen in best of seven.

[Orange_Blooded]

If the Suns can't get a number two or three seed with about 4 games left in the season, I'd prefer them to start Earl Clark and Goran Dragic. Intentionally lose games and drop to a number 6 or 7 seed. I'd take my chances at the Suns winning against the likes of Denver, Dallas, and the Jazz over the Lakers in the second round.

That would never happen though, the bottom line is that playoff home games=money.

[Calvin Klein]

I'm having a difficult time picturing us higher than 4th. Lakers are gonna be first. And Denver and Utah don't look like they will be slowing down anytime soon.

[Mr. Sun]

If the Suns can't get a number two or three seed with about 4 games left in the season, I'd prefer them to start Earl Clark and Goran Dragic. Intentionally lose games and drop to a number 6 or 7 seed. I'd take my chances at the Suns winning against the likes of Denver, Dallas, and the Jazz over the Lakers in the second round.

That would never happen though, the bottom line is that playoff home games=money.

Just how much does a first round of playoff games bring to a team and how?

[dantian]

I think we have a real shot at the number 3 seed. As you have pointed out we have the schedule on our side (finally!), we seem to have put that 'blow big leads' bug behind us for the most part... Well, we still blow the leads but don't completely loose control of the games like we were.

But I think the thing that we have going for us most of all is our strong bench play as of late and the fact that amare is possibly going to be a free agent at the end of the season and needs to play hard every time out. Amare has a ton of pride, and he doesn't like the shots that have been taken at him by suns fans and nba fans in general. I think there is no way he will loose focus, he wants to be remembered in a positive light by suns fans if he does leave... also playing for a big payday wont hurt his hustle.

Another thing I've noticed is that it seems when amare is hustling, J-rich seems to follow suit and usually play better as well.

Interesting. I always thought Amare was lethargic if he didn't get touch. And Amare always find the excuse for shirking on defense with Nash doing the same. It seems we need Nash to play more defense and give Amare more touches to have both Amare AND JRich to play to their potential.

Backt to the original topic, Mavs seem to give us fits for two reasons. One is that Kidd always seem to play big against us and shooting over 50% on 3s. One is Nash particularly tries too much on offense, like scoring one-on-one against his pal Dirk, and besides inefficient offense his defense seems particularly bad.

Nash needs to play more disciplined. In our road win in Denver, he did a good job of not letting Billups blow up on us as he used to. He is capable of this kind of Stockton-like defense if his energy is there. If our weakest link on defense does that, we have really good chance against any team not named Lakers.

[starbosa10]

im hoping to face either OKC or Utah. while deron williams will probaly go off on nash i feel like we could win the rest of the matchups and therefore the series. OKC is a great young team but i feel like they just arent quite there yet. they need a big man down low. with amare and rolo's continued imporvement we could handle okc in the playoffs