Wednesday, April 23, 2008

Suns in the midst of tasting defeat yet again

They make one of the most controversial trades in Nba history, trading the matrix,"Shawn Marion" for an aging Shaq way past his prime. They Beat the spurs both times with Shaq in the regular season. Shaq prematurely goes through the motions of putting on a championship ring for a packed America West arena to see. Suddenly, the Suns go down 2-0 against the spurs, trailing behind them yet again for the third straight post season. Was it all worth it? Many would say, their team is still adjusting to the new chemistry with Shaq. Does that explain them blowing a perfectly solid third quarter lead with Amare Stoudemare and Steve Nash hitting less than thirty percent of their shots in the period? Nash tries to stay positive claiming,"We had beaten them two straight time, now they've beaten us twice, it just happens to be in the playoffs." Mike D'antoni, decides to pass on watching a tape of the game and settles for watching an episode from the television series "medium." Both films display death, which is in the works most likely since, no team has ever come back from a 2-0 deficit to beat Tim Duncan and the Spurs in the post season, except the 2004 lakers. The only other team I think could have done it would have been the Houston Rockets during their dynasty with the Hakeem. Not only would they have had a Hakeem Olejouwan in his prime to challenge Duncan, but Cassel, Horry(big shot rob,), kenny Smith, Vernon Maxwell, Clyde Drexler) These guys could play in the clutch like Martha Stewart could cheat on her taxes. Those guys had their team chemistry in synch when it came crunch time. The suns have an efficient, yet still shaky set up right now and have not molded together in time for playoff success. Shaq has performed Cinderella stories in the past(Miami in the 2006 finals.) He was a key part of their comeback then. But can his synergy be enough to help the suns at all. I think it's too little to late for this postseason. What do you think?

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