STICKY - Suns vs Spurs - Round 2

alldayeveryday · Post #121 » by **alldayeveryday** » Sun May 2, 2010 7:16 pm

Coach Gentry said Popovich sent him a case of wine from his vineyard. Gentry joked he would send a bottle of Boons Farm in return.

Flying Colors · Post #122 » by **Flying Colors** » Sun May 2, 2010 7:22 pm

i'll be putting my winning attendence streak on the line as i will go to the first two home games of this seris, if all goes well suns will be up 2-0 and hopfully managing to steal a game in SA so they can comeback and finish it up in phoenix

sunfire0112 · Post #123 » by **sunfire0112** » Sun May 2, 2010 7:52 pm

BizzyPHX wrote:i'll be putting my winning attendence streak on the line as i will go to the first two home games of this seris, if all goes well suns will be up 2-0 and hopfully managing to steal a game in SA so they can comeback and finish it up in phoenix

Counting on you Bizzy :bowdown:

(remember to everything exactly the same as last time) :lol:

Flying Colors · Post #124 » by **Flying Colors** » Sun May 2, 2010 7:54 pm

always, i go to the game in my dudley jershey, eat a cold stone before the game starts and drink a strawberry lemonade after the 3rd quarter, works every time

Calvin Klein · Post #125 » by **Calvin Klein** » Sun May 2, 2010 9:51 pm

I'm counting on you. Keep it up.

LV-Suns · Post #126 » by **LV-Suns** » Sun May 2, 2010 10:41 pm

BizzyPHX wrote:always, i go to the game in my dudley jershey, eat a cold stone before the game starts and drink a strawberry lemonade after the 3rd quarter, works every time

NirvanaFC · Post #127 » by **NirvanaFC** » Sun May 2, 2010 11:32 pm

TIME TO BREAK THE CURSE

kenneth9265 · Post #128 » by **kenneth9265** » Sun May 2, 2010 11:51 pm

do you think that the suns have an answer for the spurs?

hunterxaz · Post #129 » by **hunterxaz** » Mon May 3, 2010 12:45 am

Yes. The Suns are a better team than at any time previous, however, we were good enough to beat them those times as well. Suspensions, refs fixing games, injuries, all ruined our chances for success. Let's hope those tables have turned now though.

asubennett · Post #130 » by **asubennett** » Mon May 3, 2010 2:13 am

hunterxaz wrote:Yes. The Suns are a better team than at any time previous, however, we were good enough to beat them those times as well. Suspensions, refs fixing games, injuries, all ruined our chances for success. Let's hope those tables have turned now though.

This is the kind of response that upsets me as a Suns fan.

The Spurs have been a better team for the last decade. Period. End of story.

However, this is the first Suns team that I can remember that gives effort on defense and rebounding. Before, if Steven Hunter or Kurt Thomas or Amare did not have the ball just fall right to them we did not get the board. Q and Joe Johnson rebounded well for us as off guards but that team did not defend well down low as Amare was by himself down there with crazy amounts of dribble penetration all over the place.

This years team still averages 110 a game like that old Suns team did but the second half of the season their team defense and rebounding has been solid enough that I believe we can beat the Spurs this year and not feel like a total homer when I say that.

But do not underestimate our opponent. THis will be a war of a series. We may be down 2-1 and think here we go again or 3-2 even. Suns in 7.

-SDU- · Post #131 » by **-SDU-** » Mon May 3, 2010 2:34 am

not only do we have the spurs curse to worry about, but 5 of the 7 games are on TNT

grr

suns always drop a home game and make things harder on ourselves, not this year phoenix - GO GET IT!

do it for marion, for dantoni, for all the suns players who couldnt get past the spurs - they are all cheering us on now, DO IT!

-SDU- · Post #132 » by **-SDU-** » Mon May 3, 2010 2:36 am

asubennett wrote:
hunterxaz wrote:Yes. The Suns are a better team than at any time previous, however, we were good enough to beat them those times as well. Suspensions, refs fixing games, injuries, all ruined our chances for success. Let's hope those tables have turned now though.

This is the kind of response that upsets me as a Suns fan.

The Spurs have been a better team for the last decade. Period. End of story.

whilst i agree with the "no excuses" sentiment - i disagree that the spurs were always the better team

the year of the suspensions, should have been our championship - we were better then

asubennett · Post #133 » by **asubennett** » Mon May 3, 2010 3:08 am

-SDU- wrote:
asubennett wrote:
hunterxaz wrote:Yes. The Suns are a better team than at any time previous, however, we were good enough to beat them those times as well. Suspensions, refs fixing games, injuries, all ruined our chances for success. Let's hope those tables have turned now though.

This is the kind of response that upsets me as a Suns fan.

The Spurs have been a better team for the last decade. Period. End of story.

whilst i agree with the "no excuses" sentiment - i disagree that the spurs were always the better team

the year of the suspensions, should have been our championship - we were better then

If we were better we would have won game 6 and game 7 or not lost 2 of the first four. One game in a 7 game series does not change everything as you would suggest. Could we have won game 5 with Amare and Diaw? Yes. Could we have also lost? Yes.

The game was never played and thats the bottom line. However, we lost 2 of 4 with those guys. And we lost game 6 with them as well. So in a 5 game series we lost 3 of them at full strength.

impulsenine · Post #134 » by **impulsenine** » Mon May 3, 2010 3:20 am

alldayeveryday wrote:Coach Gentry said Popovich sent him a case of wine from his vineyard. Gentry joked he would send a bottle of Boons Farm in return.

... with a pinch of x-lax. :wink:

BurningHeart · Post #135 » by **BurningHeart** » Mon May 3, 2010 4:50 am

asubennett wrote:
hunterxaz wrote:Yes. The Suns are a better team than at any time previous, however, we were good enough to beat them those times as well. Suspensions, refs fixing games, injuries, all ruined our chances for success. Let's hope those tables have turned now though.

This is the kind of response that upsets me as a Suns fan.

The Spurs have been a better team for the last decade. Period. End of story.

You're right, but let's not act as if not having JJ at a hundred percent for a FULL series in 2005 didn't hurt. Let's not act like it didn't kill us to get a Donaghy-reffed Game 3, a Nash bloody nose that our "best training staff" in the league couldn't patch up Game 1, and suspension-riddled Game 5 in 2007.

We were owned in 2008.

dantian · Post #136 » by **dantian** » Mon May 3, 2010 5:14 am

asubennett wrote:
If we were better we would have won game 6 and game 7 or not lost 2 of the first four. One game in a 7 game series does not change everything as you would suggest. Could we have won game 5 with Amare and Diaw? Yes. Could we have also lost? Yes.

The game was never played and thats the bottom line. However, we lost 2 of 4 with those guys. And we lost game 6 with them as well. So in a 5 game series we lost 3 of them at full strength.

Agree. In all those years, we were actually underdogs despite of our better regular season records, mainly due to DA's game plan. 2007 was the year with highest odd for us to beat the Spurs (40-60 in favor of Spurs was my estimate). But first, DA reinserted KT into starting lineup one game too late, second, we had the suspension. These ruined our final chance then.

nanoclarkology · Post #137 » by **nanoclarkology** » Mon May 3, 2010 6:41 am

That is the past and can't be changed. It reminds me of that countyr song "What Might Have Been".

This is our year. It will be tough. KJ7 had a lot of good points. HCA will play a big role. Suns in 7.

WTFsunsFTW · Post #138 » by **WTFsunsFTW** » Mon May 3, 2010 8:16 am

Anyone able to post this story? ESPN Insider about matchup

http://insider.espn.go.com/nba/playoffs ... iem-100430

Post #139 » by **rsavaj** » Mon May 3, 2010 8:53 pm

http://www.hardwoodparoxysm.com/2010/05 ... t-enemies/

Christine-In-AZ · Post #140 » by **Christine-In-AZ** » Mon May 3, 2010 9:04 pm

Ok...here's my guess on the series "flow" (I hear ya! Never going to happen)

Suns win games 1, 2 and 3 (Lopez returns for game 3) ...close games.

So next Friday nite and Saturday everybody will be convinced the Suns are WCF-bound with a 3-0 series lead, but!...

San Antonio rallies the troops, the Suns get a little too confident, Nash's minutes start to take their toll on him (32 minutes now, are much more taxing to Steve then they were during SSOL)...so the Spurs win games 4, 5 and 6. Game 4 is a rout, but close games are 5 and 6.

More than 1 game will go to overtime overall.

Fear and panic is rampant on Planet Orange by the 13th. The phrase "heart of a champion" is over-used to exhaustion by all media in the days leading up to gm7. The word "choke" isn't far behind.

Then somehow, someway the Suns manage to win game 7 ....(a sweating wipe of the brow). The Lakers wait patiently to devour us.

Well, I jinxed that series scenario.

Who wins?