![]() ![]() ![]() That is, if he wants to save his old buddy, Terry, from the chopping block. Which is why Kerr's got to do something - fast. Against Cleveland, the Suns had 25 turnovers - a nagging problem since the new coach arrived. There's been too much talk about Shaquille O'Neal and his low-post game messing up the Suns (hey, Shaq's having an All-Star season!), and not enough on Porter's inability to come up with a system in which star players can mesh. He stresses defense, which the Suns desperately needed coming out of the D'Antoni era, but from the looks of things, he can't get through to this team. He did seem to play better under former Coach Mike D'Antoni than he has for Porter, whose coaching abilities apparently aren't held in high esteem by the veterans on the payroll. "Lack of focus" is the way it's always put about why Stoudemire rarely plays defense (when's the last time you've seen him take a charge?), can't seem to live up to his potential. He's a wannabe super star who doesn't measure up to the greats - no matter how much he carps about the refs disrespecting him.Īt 26, maybe his best days are ahead of him. He's the one with immense value out there, despite worry over how long his knees will last and, more importantly, whether he can play with his head and his athletic body. General Manager Steve Kerr's been telling the media for a week that nobody on the squad is sacrosanct - except Nash.Īmar'e seems certain to be traded. We need not belabor the Suns suckage, because come the February 19 NBA trade deadline, we may barely recognize this team. They've been blown out by some of the worst teams in professional basketball. The trade rumors, which have become all anybody talks about re the Suns anymore, are certainly contributing to the team's lack of focus.īut there wouldn't be any trade rumors if the Suns hadn't laid down in game after game this season. From where we sit, Coach Terry Porter's Suns have given up, and there seems to be not a damn thing he can do about it. ![]() But we've got to think that this team - even when Nash is on the court - is just phoning it in now. Turned out, the dysfunctional Suns were never really in it past early in the second quarter.ĭid we mention that Steve Nash didn't play (shooting pains into his legs). ![]() And by the end of the game at Quicken Loans Arena (The Q), it was 109-92, Cleveland. By the end of the third quarter, the Cavs led by 15 points. By half-time, Cleveland was up 12 points. And, just as we feared, the Cavs were anything but tuckered out. Well, their interest in the game was short-lived. This presumes, of course, that a superman like King James gets worn out.īut the Suns were able to get an early 17-11 jump on the Cavs, and we thought for a minute that our boys in purple and orange might actually compete. There was speculation that the team would be worn out playing a back-to-back. The Cavaliers had flown in the night before from a gut-wrenching, last-seconds 96-95 loss to the Indiana Pacers. Granted, they were playing one of the top teams in the league Wednesday evening, the Cleveland Cavaliers, who had only lost one game at home.Īnd the guy who probably has a lock on league MVP this year, LeBron James (the cover of Ryan Jones' book on him's at left).īut there was hope. The once-mighty Phoenix Suns went into the All-Star break with a whimper. ![]()
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