Suns v. Spurs: A Few Comments

Thanks to Kevo for spurring me into action here.

My thoughts on last night's game (game 4) in brief and profane fashion. Viewer discretion advised.

Update before you read: Diaw and Stoudemire have been suspended. Which, as i'll articulate in this post...is horseshit.

My thoughts:
1. Robert Horry is a little b-tch. Always has been. He loafs for 3+ quarters and then stands on the three point line waiting for an actual star to draw a double team and dish to him so he can shoot his “big shot.” Maybe if he played a little harder at the beginning of the game he wouldn't just be known for the end of it.

2. I’ve never been a huge basketball fan or a fan of the NBA in general, but this year I’ve actually watched most of the playoff games and had a good interest in them. If the NBA suspends Diaw and Stoudemire for last night and doesn’t suspend Horry, Bowen (on principle), Ginobli (for flopping), Tony Parker (because Eva doesn’t look that good anymore and she doesn’t even watch the damn games, she just sits there and text messages the entire time. And because he’s French.) and Duncan (for his belief that he’s never committed a foul in his entire NBA career) then I probably will stop watching entirely, they lose a fan (I’m sure they care...)

3. F-ck NBA sportswriters who say that the Suns started getting the calls late and that changed the game. The spurs bend Nash over the entire game and never get called for it while the slight breeze that knocks over Ginobli/Parker gets a flagrant and a suspension. Horsesh-t. They've been fouling Nash off the pick and roll all series long and he hasn't been open or had the passing angles he usually has because of it, yet they get no call. Something i read this morning said that the Spurs get officiated a different way because the refs are so used to watching them play that way. If you watch Bruce Bowen slap at the ball 500,000 times a night for the last 8 seasons you just get used to that being the way the guy does it and you stop seeing it as a foul. It's BS.

4. The Spurs left their bench during the fight too and they did earlier in the game when James Jones got tied up in the first half (why isn't James Jones playing more, he's an underrated defender and if he gets the 3-ball going he could really help.). There just wasn’t a TNT camera on them at the time for Sportscenter to show over and over and make a big deal of. If anyone gets suspended, it’s not the NBA’s or the player’s fault. It’s that awful Craig Sager (seriously who buys his suits?) for making a big deal about it. And last night I was actively heckling my TV every time Steve Kerr talked (I’m not chanting PLO like my fellow ASU alumnae but I came close.)

5. My dad wants to now why Patty Burke isn't playing (besides the fact that he hasn't played all year.) His point is that he's a huge tall guy who could guard Duncan and hack the hell out of him and nobody would care if he picks up fouls because we wouldn't necisarily need him at the end of the game like we need Kurt Thomas or Amare. I wouldn't necissarily like that style of play, with just putting a scrub in to hack a star player, but let's just say that my dad isn't completely wrong either.

6th and final point. In the 3rd quarter, i turned the game off. We were down by 10 and it wasn't even fun to watch the Suns get beat up, miss their shots, play stupid and get slogged to death be a methodically frustrating and whiny Spurs team. So i check back in with about 5 minutes left in the 4th quarter, see that we're still getting beat up but decide to watch the rest of the game just for kicks. I was busy text messaging all of the people i knew that were watching the game, lamenting our inability to do anything to get by the Spurs. I mentioned to a friend how great it would be (now down only 5) if we could make just a little run at the end and completely steal the game out from under them and come back to PHX with homecourt advantage (2 of the last 3 games.) Well it happened and everyone gets to celebrate a victory, EXCEPT that if our boys get suspended for game 5 then we'll just go right back to being the dogs.

Anyway, exciting series. If it keeps it up, who knows, i'll probably post here again before it's all over.