1) Play novak instead of hayes, we lost in rebounds 35 to 57? 2) We throw 38 three points hit 13 34% at the perimeter 3) 14 to 32 at FT, no one attacking the rim. 4) I may regret saying this but Juwan should play in this particular game. 5)Shots taken order T. McGrady, SG 9-26 1-2 5 7 1 23 R. Alston, PG 6-17 1-1 4 3 3 16 Y. Ming, C 6-11 6-8 6 3 4 18 6) Barbosa, Genobily,Buzer,bob jackson and Chris paul. we need a third scorer who attacks the rim no matter what. You ask me how to beat suns? ATTACKING THE RIM and GIVE the BALL to YAO. All i know until we can attack the rim more and Yao has more shots, we were just a mediocre team. JVG is r****d
Sorry to break it to you, but we dont have very players that can consistently take it to the hole, Other then rafer, tmac and vspan. Our offense revolves around giving the ball to yao and having him kick it out and find the open shooter, or having tmac penetrate and having him kick it out. We live and die by the 3.
i want revenge... served cold and i want T-Mac to do it. ggggggggggggggggrrr i don't care if we lose 5 in a row, i want the all the sun's heads on a popsicial stick.
You guys complained JVG's not playing Novak. Now he played him, he is still r****ded. JVG cant win. I bet the next meeting between the Sun and Us, we probably will see a lot less treys and a touches by Yao. We probably still lose that way.
we want JV to play Novak slowly, not suddenly bring him out to start without playing any major minutes in the previous games. GOOD JOB J-T-A
I kinda miss Snyder.. Every time Yao got fouled on his jumper, I felt like owning Ref a favour. Every time Dirk Didn't get ref on his flopper, I felt like owning Ref a favour.
the issue with yao tonight was foul trouble. even though didnt get to watch the game, i followed it through the play by play. and yes i wish i was at the game but its WAY too far ahhaa..but still given that novak was just inserted into the lineup. what gives? he doesnt play during the game when we visited his home town but starts in a game with the high gunning/flying suns? he didnt do too bad but he could have done ALOT better...tmac and alston were taking up alot of shots and not making many of them...ill give tmac some slack though he was 4/9 from the 3line..
with so many 3-pointer attempts, this game is out of rocket's character. my only hope is tmac can find some sort of sense on his shooting touch by miss this much shoots in 1 game.
V-Span can do it too, but JVG won't play him at his natural PG position. I mean Rafer "BRICK" Alston gets all the time in the world, but not V-Span....our only other creator on the team...besides TMac. DD
Clearly yes, we live and die by the 3. During all the 4th quarter meltdown, the 3s bailed us out. Other than that, we got no clue at the offense. JVG's offense looks r****d compared to DA.
LOL, so first it was JVG is a r****d because he won't play Novak. Now, he's a r****d because he plays Novak too much? Gotta love the GARM.... Teams resort to jacking up long shots when they're TIRED. Every team loses the 2nd game of a back-to-back more often than they win. Especially when the team you're playing is at home and didn't play the night before. We were down by 22, then came back to take the lead. Then we just ran out of gas. Personally, I'm not pissing in my pants about this loss.
13-38 isn't that bad of a percentage for 3 pointers. Thats 39 points on 38 shots, which is equivalent to shooting over 50% from 2 point range, which is much better than we shot this game (21-51).
Play Novak was the right idea although it didn't pan out this time. Suns have double, triple teamed Yao from the begging for more than a season now. Put Novak on the floor could open up the floor a bit for Yao. Apparently Novak is not experienced and doesn't know what to do yet. But that's really the first time he plays with starters. Play our nomal rotation in a back to back game against Suns on the road, odds is we'd still lose. We need shooter desperately, and Novak is one. The more Novak playes, the more experience he gets, it's going to be good for Rox in the long run. I'd give JVG credit for it.
The idea of 3 pointers as a threat is NOT a bad strategy. The problem is other than Luther- the rest and that includes Shane'reliable" battier were bricking these. Rafer does NOT deserve that many Attempts. For those of you riling against Novak- perhaps it would be sobering to think why Juwan was on the bench. Novak is the best pure shooter on this team- he needs time and plays designed to use him for special situations. For Christ's sake this was a game we could have used Bonzi- I am certain that whatever his issues are, he would have lost 5 lbs running with the suns!
The funny thing was, we had Novak and Head on the floor and Tmac keep taking the treys and missing with his wild arc shots.
It's just shows why rox is far from a serious contender - they don't play intelligently enough. They fell right into Suns' trap - they will keep shooting and when they miss they run and shoot again. They want the opposing team to do the same. They give you the wide-open 3s and dare you to shoot. The Rox should know they are steaky shooters. When the 3s aren't falling, drive - please!!! That's what bothers me about T-Mac. I'm sure he knows he can drive and draw fouls almost every time - so what he got blocked once by Marion - go at him again and again and again. I guess that's the competitive spirit that separates T-Mac from MJ, Kobe, Wade. Should have given V-Span a chance to do that in the 4th. And Stave Nash is a truly smart player. If he had half of MJ's atheletic capability, he'd be a better player than Jordan. His selection of when to shoot, when to drive, when to pass is nearly perfect. BTW, this also shows the gap between JVG and Phil - the laskers almost took out the Suns last year by sticking to a simple plan - attack the rim. Then the Clippers did the same, then this year pretty much every elite team has figured that out and hence Suns are not winning as much. I guess Rox is not an elite team yet. BTW again, don't worry folks. I don't thinks Suns will go as far as they did last year - so Rox may not have to face them in the post season, hopefully.
