Spurs vs. Suns

It seems more and more like the Suns are not going to find the chemistry that they need in order to be competitive and challenge for a championship. Shaq is dragging everything down, its almost time to say that the experiment has failed. The Suns' weak-side defense is atrocious. The Spurs have the perfect strategy against them. All they did was bring Duncan and Bonner out beyond the free throw line. Unfortunately, you have to respect Duncan and Bonner's outside shot, which would bring Amare and Shaq out of the paint. This would open up the lanes and Parker and Ginobli would just drive inside and go to work. Ginobli got to the line 18 times, an easy example of bad defense and late switches. Terry Porter has got to be on the hot seat at this point. He was brought in to bolster the defense and hold Amare accountable. Neither of those things have happened. The Hack-a-Bowen was god awful. We were tied, and by the end of the 3rd we were down by 5. The Suns never recovered. It was a shame because they actually played well and didn't turn it over much for once.

Steve Kerr has tough decisions to make. I don't think another trade is going to change anything. Chemistry takes time to build. Steve Nash sounded like he was tired of managing everyones ego's in that interview where he said he has a lot of mouth's to feed. He's getting like 15 dimes a night in the last 5 games or so, it still doesn't matter. Anything can happen before the trade deadline and its scary.

Also, could you imagine of Kerr had traded Marion for Camby, and then Diaw/Bell for Jason Richardson? How ridiculously scary would that team have been under D'Antoni? (I don't know why I torture myself with such thoughts)

By the way. Why isn't anyone mentioning the Suns as major contenders for one of the big-time free agents in 2010? The only people that are signed past 2010 are Barbosa, Amare, J-Rich, and our recent draft picks. If Amare opts out, our salary will be $23.5 million instead of $41.2 million. We'd have an extra $35 million to blow on free agency if Amare opts out. Crazy! The Suns are going to have as much cap space as anyone, and Sarver always finds a way to sign big time free agents.

The next season and a half are going to be wild. Anything can happen.


Photo taken from AP/Paul Connors