brightsideofthesun.com - 2/20/2009
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In the Suns first two games under Alvin Gentry they put up huge numbers. Forget that it was against a 13 win team with a depleted line up who's only big man was a 20 year old 2nd round pick. They were energized and motivated and were playing with a joy that has been missing for a large ...
totalprosports.com - 2/19/2009
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totalprosports.com —
Total Pro Sports - What's the best gift
you can give President Barack Obama if your Phil...
Gordon the mayor of Phoenix??? Of course an autographed size 23 shoe of Phoenix Suns star basketball player Shaquille O'Neal . "The Phoenix Suns center couldn't be around himself when President Barack ...
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Barack Obama Loves His Autographed Shaq Sneaker
nba.com - 2/20/2009
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nba.com —
Posted: Feb. 20, 2009 Phoenix Suns forward Amar'e
Stoudemire underwent successful surgery today to repair a partially...
detached retina in his right eye. The procedure was performed earlier this morning by Dr. Pravin Dugel at Spectra Eye Institute in ...
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SUNS: Stoudemire Undergoes Successful Eye Surgery
totalprosports.com - 2/20/2009
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totalprosports.com —
Total Pro Sports - With just under 30
games to go in the NBA regular season, and...
a 9 team payoff race heating up in the Western Conference, the Phoenix Suns are the odd team out. If that news wasn't bad enough, they have also lost All-Star power forward Amare Stoudemire for eight weeks. This ...
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Amare Out of Sight 8 Weeks
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The Fundamentals
BallerBlogger.com —
... an efficient clip for four straight seasons. (It’s unheard of for a top scorer.) His turnovers have increased this season. The most blatant change in this regard as been the propensity to travel when trying to blow by a defender on the perimeter. Not fun. But this has been limited recently; it appears he has figured out the problem and nipped it. All told, he has a low turnover rate for a high-usage player. But it used to be lower, and it’d help the team greatly were it lower again.” Bright Side of the Sun : “So, when we talk about going back to the running days of the Suns ...
Friday links
Fanster's Suns Community —
... than everyone else. This is where Steve Kerr has failed in emanating the Spurs model. Henry Abbot weighs in with a little help from his friends.
-when writing about the Suns be sure and use “setting” in the title. Then know what you’re talking about like Ken Berger and Tim Kawakami do.
-strange that I’d never seen Amare dunking in high school. WOW.
-Phoenix Stan will poop in your Cheerios…and then do it again. Sourpuss, cynic, or realist? I’ll go with the latter. ...
Friday links
Fanster.com —
... than everyone else. This is where Steve Kerr has failed in emanating the Spurs model. Henry Abbot weighs in with a little help from his friends.
-when writing about the Suns be sure and use “setting” in the title. Then know what you’re talking about like Ken Berger and Tim Kawakami do.
-strange that I’d never seen Amare dunking in high school. WOW.
-Phoenix Stan will poop in your Cheerios…and then do it again. Sourpuss, cynic, or realist? I’ll go with the latter. ...
Weekly Assists (02/20/2009)
The No-Look Pass —
... The Biggest Jerk In Basketball?: Joe Loudmouth is asking that very question. I'm sure Zach from Talk Hoops says... Mike Bibby.
Doug Christie on "How I Miss The Game": MVN Outsider has Doug Christie talking about his NBA career.
Thunder Unveil Their New Mascot: Thanks, Stu, for this! It's... a bison? Why didn't they just call them the Oklahoma City Bison?!
The Suns are running again. Why it won't work: Stan from Bright Side of the ...
Suns Become the Warriors - Can Suns Fans Believe?
Fanster.com —
What a total buzzkill! In light of some of the rampant negativity around here lately, as well as a few reader complaints about said negativity, I was planning to spend my lunch hour today writing an inspiring, uplifting post on how awesome it was for the Suns to stand pat at the trade deadline. I even had the perfect title picked out - Once More Into the Breach, inspired by a comment yesterday about how this season now feels like one last stand for the Suns as currently constructed. But, now we hear that Amare is out for eight weeks, which means the Gentry ...
140 in the 602 as the Suns romp
Fanster.com —
... Three other things really stood out and are indications that I might be starting down the path to eating some tasty crow for only this morning calling this system doomed. ...
Steve Kerr Moron Meter - Update
Fanster.com —
... Two Genius Points for Steve for bringing in Gentry and having the sense to let Alvin be Alvin even if some of us (and I suspect Kerr as well) think in the long run it's not the right way to play basketball and certainly isn't a formula for winning the ring everyone covets. ...
The Suns are running again. Why it won’t work - Bright Side Of The Sun
Hardwood Paroxysm —
The Suns are running again. Why it won’t work - Bright Side Of The Sun
Building the perfect run and gun team
Fanster.com —
... The Phoenix Suns under new (old) coach Alvin Gentry literally pulled out the 06-07 playbook and have gone back to their running and gunning ways. I have argued in these pages that this Suns squad is not constructed to maximize that system and there are flaws that will be exposed in the final weeks of the season. ...
With “Seven Seconds or Shaq” Suns find inner peace
Fanster.com —
... When Alvin Gentry promised a return to the old days of run and gun and unleashed the hounds there was a lot of excitement both inside and outside the locker room. Fans were happy to see the team happy and everyone was thrilled with 140 point games. Not everyone was thrilled with the idea though. ...
The Suns season of discontent - how the mighty fell
Fanster.com —
... in return for cap space, the Suns rolled the dice once more. They dumped the coach who couldn't get his players to buy into his system and turned the dogs lose. Lord of the Flies had returned to the Valley of the Sun.
Three huge wins (against two 13 wins teams) were followed by the season-ending eye injury and an 3 - 11 stretch that effectively ended all hope of making the playoffs.
I said after the two Clippers wins that it was "fools gold" and never believed that this team could succeed playing at that pace:
Feb 20 - This ...
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phoenix.fanster.com 3/2/2009 — Suns fans, allow me to vent for a moment…
My ultimate pet peeves regarding Suns fans are three-fold:
- When they change their opinion of the Suns, and/or a player, like the clothes they wear,
- Create controversy where there isn’t any,
- Turn on a player so ...
Shaq's Suns slay Raptors
brightsideofthesun.com 2/28/2009 — Now that was great game. I didn't get too excited about scoring 140 on the depleted and lowly Clippers and I wasn't all that thrilled with beating up on the 13 win Thunder and reaching 140 on a last minute 5 pt run from Barbosa.
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1. ...
Basketball 101: Defending the Pick and Roll
phoenix.fanster.com 2/6/2009 —
We all know that the pick and roll used to be the Suns bread and butter play. It was indefensible by 90% of teams in the league.
However, the Suns have also been one of those teams that couldn’t defend the pick and roll. Though this isn’t any new issue or problem, this post ...
All-Star game TV ratings up 17 percent (AP) —
Yahoo! Sports - NBA News 2/19/2009
Final television ratings showed a big increase in viewership for the NBA All-Star game. The game in Phoenix on Sunday night, featuring a Kobe Bryant-Shaquille O'Neal reunion, earned a 4.5 national rating on TNT, the network said Thursday. That's up 17 ...
Despite rumors, Suns stand pat (AP) —
Yahoo! Sports - NBA News 2/19/2009
All those trade rumors swirling around the Phoenix Suns came to nothing. Shaquille O'Neal and Amare Stoudemire are staying in the desert, at least through the season. Thursday's trade deadline came and went with the Suns standing pat. "I think we're ...
Around the association —
SFGate: Top Sports Stories 2/20/2009
Stoudemire done? Suns forward Amare Stoudemire (right) had eye surgery Friday and won't be able to resume physical activity for about eight weeks. The playoffs begin eight weeks from today, and it's no sure thing the Suns will even be in the ...
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