valleysports.freedomblogging.com - 1/9/2009
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Remember how Suns general manager Steve Kerr raved about his draft picks last June?
Robin Lopez was going to play 15 to 18 minutes a game as Shaquille O’Neal’s backup and give the Suns the defensive-minded big man they so desperately needed.
In Goran Dragic, Phoenix finally had a ...
youtube.com - 1/8/2009
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youtube.com —
(posted by Phoenix Suns Videos) This new 90-second
spot - released January 8 - uses the classic...
Frank Sinatra recording of the song "You Make Me Feel So Young" with black-and-white imagery of Phoenix players having fun on the court. --- http://www.nba.com/suns/multimedia/Suns_Multimedia.html
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Video: SUNS' official "Feel So Young" promo
phoenix.fanster.com - 1/8/2009
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First Cup: Friday
ESPN.com - TrueHoop —
... Scott Bordow of the East Valley Tribune: "Robin Lopez now has more personal fouls (42) than rebounds (40). He plays soft, he has no offensive game and for somebody 7-feet tall, he is incredibly passive around the rim. He has 26 fewer rebounds than Louis Amundson despite playing 27 more minutes. Not surprisingly, Lopez has been replaced in the playing rotation by Amundson, and after his five-minute, four-foul performance against Indiana Wednesday, who knows when he'll get another chance. Dragic, meanwhile, has fallen even farther out of the picture. He ...
The Fundamentals
BallerBlogger.com —
... Scott Bordow of the East Valley Tribune: “Remember how Suns general manager Steve Kerr raved about his draft picks last June? Robin Lopez was going to play 15 to 18 minutes a game as Shaquille O’Neal’s backup and give the Suns the defensive-minded big man they so desperately needed. In Goran Dragic, Phoenix finally had a backup point guard for Steve Nash. Was he inexperienced? Yes. But the Suns thought enough of their second-round pick that they paid an exorbitant sum to get him here. Well, the Suns are 32 games into the season, and, so far, Lopez and Dragic have been ...
Suns 129, Mavs 100: Clubbing Baby Seals
DallasBasketball.com —
... below .500, save it for the Slam-Dunk competition because all it does is tick off our more established opponent. The Mavericks awoke in time to take the game, 99-94, as you knew they would. …’’ Berman’s headline in the Post’s blog: “NATE’S A LOSER’’ Consider the baby seal clubbed. [image] EXHIBIT B: Let’s go to Phoenix, which hardly shares the Big Apple’s reputation for media savagery. Still, in a pre-Mavs-at-Suns analysis of rookie Robin Lopez’ contributions to the Suns’ cause, mainstreamer Scott Bordow is brutally frank : “Robin Lopez was going to play 15 to 18 minutes a ...
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