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Originally Posted by Do Be Doo
Should be a good game today....GREAT game if PHX pulls out the 1st W...
GREAT like how they pulled out a sweep against the spurs?
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Originally Posted by Do Be Doo
Should be a good game today....GREAT game if PHX pulls out the 1st W...
--QFT.Originally Posted by CP1708
@ rooting for the team that swept your @#$ to do work. I've seen it all now.
Originally Posted by Do Be Doo
Come on the Suns are a classy organization...The better team won what can I do about it?
Plus if the Spurs ain't in it I want to see a new champion
Originally Posted by Do Be Doo
Come on the Suns are a classy organization...The better team won what can I do about it?
Plus if the Spurs ain't in it I want to see a new champion
Originally Posted by sooperhooper
Am I the only Laker fan not fully excited until the Finals start? I've barely been keeping up with the previous series and honestly, I'm not even amped up about this new one.
Originally Posted by westcoastsfinest
Originally Posted by Do Be Doo
Come on the Suns are a classy organization...The better team won what can I do about it?
Plus if the Spurs ain't in it I want to see a new champion
please define classy
and the Lakers arent classy? i know we have a lot of classless fans but every team has their share of classless idiots...but yet youre talking about the organization itself
PHOENIX -- The Phoenix Suns have reacted with a collective smirk to Phil Jackson's suggestion that Steve Nash travels with the basketball.
Nash even had a subtle retort worthy of Jackson himself.
"It's news to me. I'm fortunate. I don't know if I've been called for a carry yet," he said after the Suns practiced Saturday, then he added straight-faced: "I've never heard anyone accuse me of carrying it. I mean, the best coach in the league Gregg Popovich [of San Antonio] didn't have a problem with it last week."
Get it? Popovich the best coach in the league?
"We have the best officials in the world," Nash continued. "I'll just leave it up to them."
Jackson had grinned when asked on Friday if it's tough for the Lakers to prepare to face Nash, the reigning NBA skills champion, because of the Suns guard's frenetic style.
"Yeah, because you can't carry the ball like he does in practice," Jackson said, making a gesture of palming the basketball. "You can't pick that ball up and run with it."
Asked Saturday in El Segundo at Lakers practice about Nash's comments, Jackson smiled and feigned innocence. "I didn't complain about it. Did you hear me complain about it?"
Phoenix coach Alvin Gentry laughed off the accusation.
"You guys got to admire Phil," Gentry said. "C'mon, the stuff that he throws out there, I mean I think it's great. He's very creative. There's a reason. But I think you've got to understand that there's kind of a method to his madness. If you let it affect you, then it will."
Gentry went on to praise Jackson for his ability to create championship chemistry on teams with great players, calling it "probably the toughest thing in the NBA to do."
He said the Suns weren't going to get drawn into what they consider Jackson's psychological ploy.
"How can we win that?" Gentry said. "We're not going to win that battle anyway."
But the Phoenix coach added a jab at the Lakers when he was asked jokingly if the team worked on ball handling skills.
"We spent the day ducking elbows on post-ups, to see if we could duck elbows on post-ups, " Gentry said, a not-to-thinly veiled nod to the Lakers' style. "So it all works out, it all works out."
Amare Stoudemire probably spoke for the rest of the team with his reaction.
"Typical Phil," he said.
Information from ESPNLosAngeles.com's Brian Kamenetzky and The Associated Press contributed to this report.
Mission accomplished, Phil got what he wanted, a response. And the Suns head coach gave it to him.
Originally Posted by FrenchBlue23
PHOENIX -- The Phoenix Suns have reacted with a collective smirk to Phil Jackson's suggestion that Steve Nash travels with the basketball.
Nash even had a subtle retort worthy of Jackson himself.
"It's news to me. I'm fortunate. I don't know if I've been called for a carry yet," he said after the Suns practiced Saturday, then he added straight-faced: "I've never heard anyone accuse me of carrying it. I mean, the best coach in the league Gregg Popovich [of San Antonio] didn't have a problem with it last week."
Get it? Popovich the best coach in the league?
"We have the best officials in the world," Nash continued. "I'll just leave it up to them."
Jackson had grinned when asked on Friday if it's tough for the Lakers to prepare to face Nash, the reigning NBA skills champion, because of the Suns guard's frenetic style.
"Yeah, because you can't carry the ball like he does in practice," Jackson said, making a gesture of palming the basketball. "You can't pick that ball up and run with it."
Asked Saturday in El Segundo at Lakers practice about Nash's comments, Jackson smiled and feigned innocence. "I didn't complain about it. Did you hear me complain about it?"
Phoenix coach Alvin Gentry laughed off the accusation.
"You guys got to admire Phil," Gentry said. "C'mon, the stuff that he throws out there, I mean I think it's great. He's very creative. There's a reason. But I think you've got to understand that there's kind of a method to his madness. If you let it affect you, then it will."
Gentry went on to praise Jackson for his ability to create championship chemistry on teams with great players, calling it "probably the toughest thing in the NBA to do."
He said the Suns weren't going to get drawn into what they consider Jackson's psychological ploy.
"How can we win that?" Gentry said. "We're not going to win that battle anyway."
But the Phoenix coach added a jab at the Lakers when he was asked jokingly if the team worked on ball handling skills.
"We spent the day ducking elbows on post-ups, to see if we could duck elbows on post-ups, " Gentry said, a not-to-thinly veiled nod to the Lakers' style. "So it all works out, it all works out."
Amare Stoudemire probably spoke for the rest of the team with his reaction.
"Typical Phil," he said.
Information from ESPNLosAngeles.com's Brian Kamenetzky and The Associated Press contributed to this report.
Originally Posted by hombrelobo
I'm sure Phil did it to get in their head. Not to get a smarky/passive response.
Head game fail.
No it doesn't.Originally Posted by FrenchBlue23
Originally Posted by hombrelobo
I'm sure Phil did it to get in their head. Not to get a smarky/passive response.
Head game fail.
Any response or mention of his comment, just shows you that he got to them, therefore responding.
Originally Posted by hombrelobo
No it doesn't.Originally Posted by FrenchBlue23
Originally Posted by hombrelobo
I'm sure Phil did it to get in their head. Not to get a smarky/passive response.
Head game fail.
Any response or mention of his comment, just shows you that he got to them, therefore responding.It just so happens that reporters ASKED them for a response. Just because they respond when ASKED about his comment doesn't mean a thing.
Originally Posted by Do Be Doo
Originally Posted by westcoastsfinest
Originally Posted by Do Be Doo
Come on the Suns are a classy organization...The better team won what can I do about it?
Plus if the Spurs ain't in it I want to see a new champion
please define classy
and the Lakers arent classy? i know we have a lot of classless fans but every team has their share of classless idiots...but yet youre talking about the organization itself
oh nah man I'm not comparing both teams
I'm saying when they sweep the Spurs it was done classy...Seeing that the Spurs owned them in the past...
Don't worry I got LA getting to the finals...But it would be nice to see an upset...Right?
Yup. We on the same page, let's hope LA is.Originally Posted by bright nikes
Gotta limit Nash's assists in this series, let him score as much as he wants.
id be shocked if this series doesnt go more than 5 gamesOriginally Posted by Proshares
I'd be shocked if this series is more than five games.
Originally Posted by westcoastsfinest
id be shocked if this series doesnt go more than 5 gamesOriginally Posted by Proshares
I'd be shocked if this series is more than five games.