Agree, great defensive game. Granted the Suns missed some easy shots BUT a lot had to have something to do with the Rox constantly running at them and contesting the shot. Also, am I the only one that noticed the offense was actually in motion quite a bit last night? I have the game recorded and going to take a look at it again today.
A lot of those shots the suns missed were contested by Yao....making them far less easy than they seem. DD
It's good to see some "hearts". I thought the game against Lakers lacking of it. I hope they will continue to play with all their hearts in every game.
I must have been watching a different game from everyone else. I thought we still played pretty badly last night, and just got lucky because brooks/tmac were on fire and the Suns blew so many easy shots. The defense did not look good at all to me...the Suns were slicing right through it. There were a few nice plays on each end, but we easily could have lost by 10-15 with the level of play we showed. We can't bank on 11-18 from mcgrady (4-5 on 3's) and 8-13 from brooks with both taking difficult, low percentage shots. Similarly, the suns aren't going to shoot 37% next time.
i was really surprised to see hayes guarding amare... in the first quarter or second quarter i thought this was the perfect opportunity to throw in dorsey at one point... hayes was playing C and artest was PF and mcgrady was SF with barry and brooks at guards man... that's worse than small ball... that's almost midget ball
+1 And for the guy who was wondering why was Hayes on Stoudemire, it's because Hayes actually knows what he's doing, and is a teriffic defender. Dorsey has a lot to learn and grow...
Scola has been playing great D this year too....only Aldridge torched him....Amare and KG got nuetrilized by the Passion Assasin. DD
True. It's impossible to count the number of shots he altered at the rim, which is just as good as a blocked shot. It did seem like T-Mac was getting after it on the defensive end. The lone letdowns for me was Rafer roaming a lil too far on some double teams. That opened up a couple open shots but by then we had established a defensive presence and killed their rhythm.
