That three against Clippers in game 7 at the end Bev and Ariza are guys that will hit that big shot to seal things up in playoffs watch.
Suns have the advantage of Matrix and Amar'e both of who were a damn sight better than Ariza and Capela. On the other hand, Harden is far better than Nash could ever hope to be. As for the other cats, Anderson and Gordon are probably more talented than some of the role players Phoenix had, but Phoenix has two top-flight backups in Dragic (for a season, at least) and Barbosa, and for a season they had Joe Johnson as well (before his career really took off). We have Lou Will, who started hot and has gone very cold, so not sure which version of him we will have in the playoffs. We also have a little more bench depth in terms of guys who can fill in a few minutes here and there. Suns were always 6-7 deep, but they also had a nice rotating cadre of vets (Diaw, Thomas, Jalen Rose, etc...). Compare our roster to Phoenix's best regular season roster, or the one that was close behind. 04-05 Suns (62-20) http://www.basketball-reference.com/teams/PHO/2005.html 06-07 Suns (61-21) http://www.basketball-reference.com/teams/PHO/2007.html 16-17 Rockets (56 wins?) http://www.basketball-reference.com/teams/HOU/2017.html We compare quite favorably, overall, IMO.
Ariza should be your 4th to 5th option at best on offense. In this role he just needs to be hot at the right time. Last year during playoffs we were just playing street ball.
doesnt matter. he's playing that role now and hes been struggling obviously. point being lets hope he doesnt stay cold or go cold again
Oh ok if talking bout Matrix at his best that's different. I'm looking at Matrix playing a particular role versus Ariza playing that role. Ariza played the role on a damn good level with the Lakers when they got the ring.
Yes he gets cold from three which sucks but this year with the record not being so trash he will get to rest before the playoffs. He doesn't have his legs right now.
The Suns were contenders, and their rosters was better than ours. That mostly speaks to how great Harden is.
I am Rockets through and through, but that is a tough call. When Phoenix was healthy back then they were a load to handle.
This year's Rockets over the Suns team and it's not even close! This year's Rockets has Bobby Brown /thread
I remember those D'Antoni teams use to whip the Rockets with Tmac/Yao and Van Gundy. Look at this game, Barbosa dropped 32 on us, they just controlled the tempo Tmac 19 points on 28 shots Houston Rockets 82 39-25 Prev Game Next Game Phoenix Suns 103 49-14 Prev Game Next Game 7:00 PM, March 12, 2007 US Airways Center, Phoenix, Arizona Code: Basi Starters MP FG FGA FG% 3P 3PA 3P% FT FTA FT% ORB DRB TRB AST STL BLK TOV PF PTS +/- Tracy McGrady 39:13 8 28 .286 1 4 .250 2 5 .400 1 6 7 4 0 0 3 0 19 -20 Rafer Alston 37:09 3 14 .214 1 7 .143 0 0 0 2 2 4 0 0 1 2 7 -15 Shane Battier 36:48 3 4 .750 1 1 1.000 0 0 1 3 4 3 0 0 0 1 7 -14 Chuck Hayes 30:50 5 8 .625 0 0 3 4 .750 5 5 10 0 3 0 0 4 13 -11 Yao Ming 30:01 1 9 .111 0 0 8 9 .889 0 8 8 2 1 1 5 2 10 -5 Luther Head 32:31 5 13 .385 2 7 .286 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 12 -18 Juwan Howard 24:39 7 7 1.000 0 0 0 0 1 2 3 0 0 0 0 1 14 -17 John Lucas III 5:44 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 +1 Dikembe Mutombo 3:05 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 -6 Team Totals 240 32 83 .386 5 19 .263 13 18 .722 8 28 36 13 4 1 9 12 82 Code: Basi Starters MP FG FGA FG% 3P 3PA 3P% FT FTA FT% ORB DRB TRB AST STL BLK TOV PF PTS +/- Boris Diaw 36:46 7 12 .583 0 0 1 2 .500 1 1 2 2 0 0 2 1 15 +20 Shawn Marion 35:26 6 13 .462 1 2 .500 1 2 .500 7 8 15 2 2 3 0 3 14 +14 Steve Nash 34:02 4 7 .571 1 1 1.000 1 2 .500 0 3 3 8 0 0 3 0 10 +6 Amare Stoudemire 30:04 6 15 .400 0 0 0 0 0 6 6 2 1 0 3 5 12 +9 Raja Bell 29:15 2 8 .250 1 3 .333 2 2 1.000 0 4 4 0 0 0 1 2 7 +2 Leandro Barbosa 35:19 12 18 .667 5 6 .833 3 3 1.000 1 7 8 3 0 0 1 0 32 +20 Kurt Thomas 16:33 1 4 .250 0 0 0 0 1 6 7 1 0 2 0 2 2 +12 James Jones 16:18 5 7 .714 1 3 .333 0 0 0 5 5 0 0 1 0 0 11 +16 Eric Piatkowski 6:17 0 2 .000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 +6 Team Totals 240 43 86 .500 9 15 .600 8 11 .727 10 40 50 18 3 6 10 13 103 Provided by [url=http://www.sports-reference.com/sharing.html?utm_source=direct&utm_medium=Share&utm_campaign=ShareTool]Basketball-Reference.com[/url]: [url=http://www.basketball-reference.com/boxscores/200703120PHO.html?sr&utm_source=direct&utm_medium=Share&utm_campaign=ShareTool#box_hou_basic]View Original Table[/url] Generated 3/15/2017.
Well for me the Suns were way better than this year's Rockets, they just had better talent overall esp. at their peak they had 4 max caliber players with Joe Johnson. The good thing though is Spurs they faced against was also way better than Spurs nowadays, just Prime TD alone made all the difference. So IMHO it doesnt really matter.
