Repeating what others have already said: We need to make the Suns play at our pace. This comes down to smothering defense, especially in transition. If we can force bad, or even no shots, in the first ~8 seconds of the Suns' shot clock it will go a long way. I think we need to come out firing on all cylinders and try to jump out early. Falling behind by 10 early is going to be a huge hole against a running offensive team. A win here will be a good confidence builder for the playoffs. Evidently Yao played well against Howard last night, let's see how he handles Amare. Althogh I think Dwight > Amare, the difference is Amare gets set up really well by Nash.
i don't mind if amare gets 50 tonight. rox need to stick to those perimeter guys like super glue. also, i don't mind if nash scores 50. if rox can hold nash under 10 assists, they will win
again, i have said it many many times. know your BB before open your mouth. There is no way in hell we will get to the 4th seed, or 3rd seed for that matter. The top team in each division get the top 1 to 4 seeds guarantee. Which means, Utah, Mavs, and Suns. However, The best record team if it's not one of those 3 can be seeded on the top 1-4. That's means Spurs. Currently we have no chance of catching Spurs sitting at the 3rd seed. Utach is guaratnee a spot at the 4th.
He probably means that we could get a better record than the Jazz and get homecourt against them in the first round even though they're seeded higher.
For some reason, I see lots of threads saying Rox have problem matching up with the Suns, they are too quick for us, etc. But I feel exactly the opposite. I still remember 2 years ago, we played a late season game in Phx, when the Suns are faster than now, Yao had something like 20 rebounds and Rox won. I think just like we may have problem with the Suns, they have at least the same problem with us, if they are too quick for us, then we are too big for them. It reminds me last year how Spurs were dealing with Mavs by changing their regular line up to a smaller one, I don't think it was the right stratergy. If you worry too much about adjusting to other team, you might just lost your identity. What if some team put up 5 guards on the court? Do we have to have five guards to counter? I don't think so. I love to hear that JVG said using Novak as a starter last time was a mistake, yes, I think we should always go with what have been working for us. We will never beat the Suns in a fast paced game, but we will kill them with our own game which is half court offense on top of hard nosed defence. If rafer can stop throwing bricks that will start the Suns fast break, we will frustrate the Suns tonight, for sure.
I don't know what to say about this game tonight but i think we are going to lose. Even if we have Yao he can put up numbers but Phoenix will come right back with their penetration and shooting.
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We can get the home court in the playoff if we have a better record than Utah, you need close you mouth before you do anything. Nobody cares about your said many time things. I know what I am talking about.
From the past, The Suns always double or triple Yao or TMac, let our role players beat them. The problem is that our role players can not just make normal shots. On other hand, the Suns will kill you if you keep miss the shots.
I don't know what were you talking about, sorry. But i don't remember ROX has played the Suns with both Yao and Mac in the team. I don't think they can double both of these 2 at the same time. For letting our role players win games, that is not possible, the game will be won by stars, we go as our stars go. It is not that once Yao or Mac got doubled, they won't score any more, they will beat the double team sometimes, pass it up sometimes, but they will always make the decisions. Our role players are far more efficient with both of our stars on the floor. (notice Luther's field goal percentage difference with/without Yao?) Rox with Yao and T-Mac are finally like we everyone hoped for, like Shaq and Kobe, except Mac is better than Kobe (as an all around player). The injury of Yao has done lots of good things than bad. The injury gave Yao enough rest to prepare for the playoff, and give our role players chances to build up their confidence. I fully expect Rox to beat the Mav this year in the playoff. The mavs, on the other hand, are like the Kings serveral years ago, will have their heart broken by a similiar team featured with stronge defense and two super stars. History repeat itself, always. Just look how similiar are the Mav and Kings. They all play good basketball, both have superstars have "soft" as their nick name, both have full squad of deep talents, both are considered top teams before playoff began...
Key is for Yao not to get into early foul trouble and JVG needs to come with plan that will allow the Rockets to play their game. The Rockets can not play at the Suns tempo. Rockets Win! Rockets 104 Suns 98
Not the same time, they always double Yao as I can recall. They double TMac when he has the ball, particular at 4th q. They can not double Yao and TMac at the same time, but they can double one who even has the ball. They are quick, so they can do doulbe, then come back for that man to man defence. It is a complex issue, I can not descibe clearly. Genereally, Rockets do not match up with the Suns well. You will see what they will do today, hopefully, we can get a W.
some people never learn. all u read was the word spanoulis wasn't it? first of all spanoulis never said he was mcgrady VG said that he did, if u keep cheerleading 4 VG long enough maybe u'll become a assistant coach . until then try thinking for yourself and stop comparing apples with oranges, spanoulis isn't mcgrady but he shouldn't be the 12th man either and VG isn't phil jackson either even though he wish he was. Geesh, sucking up to van gundy never ends.
The Suns are always a nightmare for Rox. Now we try to challenge them on a back-to-back? I would be surprised if we win this one. But is it possible? Hell yeah but everyone has to play perfect for Rox 1. Yao - pound the ball inside, put their big men into foul troubles, cut down turnovers. 2. Tmac - attack the basket, draw fouls and get to the free throw lines. 3. The rest - play good defense, rebound the ball and never give up. In other words, just play Rox basketball. The only difference is that we can afford to make less mistakes. It's ok to be down by double digits since the Suns have the tendency to giveup big leads cuz of the way they play. But it's not ok to be afraid of those rats. After all, they are just wild animals.
does anyone know wether or not the games gonna be broadcasted on that mms thing again like the Orlando game yesterdauy? the quality was awsome...and I didn't even get dropped if someone could find it i would be very grateful
I have a singular worry about this game. Amare has developed a pretty good outside jumper. He's going to try to use his range to draw Yao out of the paint and take him off the dribble. Hopefully JVG has a good defensive counterplan -- but then, I'd be a fool to think JVG isn't prepared, given his reputation as the most prepared coach in the league (like Barry said, if someone on the other team were to fart, JVG would have told his team when it would happen, how it would happen and in what direction the fart would blow.) Regardless -- it is crucial to keep Yao out of foul trouble for this game, and that's going to be one easy way for the Suns to get him into foul trouble.
