I miss Planet Orange.
After watching the Suns play against the Celtics and Pistons over the weekend, I’m wondering what The Matrix is doing.
Where is the tempo? Where are the high-flyers and ally-oops? Whatever happened to seven-seconds or less? I thought Shaq was going to adjust to the Suns style of play, wasn’t he? Where’s the energy?
Planet
They did beat
The Suns looked tired against the Pistons. Some would suggest they looked old. However they looked, they had the energy of a late-summer gnat on an ice-cube.
It was bad, real bad. I haven’t seen the Suns look so fatigued, so lethargic, so content to not push the floor since Luc Longley filled a lane. The ball didn’t move and neither did the Suns.
Steve Nash looked like he was playing in flip-flops and Shaq looked like a fish out of water – gasping for air. Worse than this, the Suns looked like a limbless llama drifting to the bottom of a cold, dark well, wondering if they could grow gills.
Llama’s with gills, fish trying to breathe air and a nationally televised game to bear witness of Planet Orange’s new ecosystem.
Bummer.
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Energy is not our problem. It seems Plan B is our problem. We never have a plan B when things are not well with the suns. It’s not about talent and size anymore, sooner or later we are going to need direction and leadership from our head coach.
Unless Nash is in the game and is effective with his brilliant off the fly ball skills it seems once other teams solve the Nash riddle then D’Antoni can no longer coach..
Were still horrible on defense and have been for 4 years and now we have a 7ft 1 inch 325 center who is motivated and with the best passing point guard in the NBA somehow can’t find him the basketball. I mean just a few easy buckets!…come on!…I’m not expecting 20-25 points a game.
I believe deep down in my heart that D’Antoni doesn’t believe in a center and has no idea how to even coach one….
Your loyal listener to your show,
Harry
I saw only 1 instance where Shaq “ignited the break,” as he put it in his initial press conference, during yesterday’s game - it was very early in the 1st quarter, and he executed that promise perfectly, ending up with a RAHA Bell 3-pointer - after that, their spacing on the offensive end was atrocious, and it looked like they were trying to squeeze a beach ball through the eye of a needle. Their offense is wretched right now. And they really need to stop playing ‘day-games.’ I believe the last one they played this season they lost by 15 points. The Suns are, right now, completely lost on defense, they’re turning the ball over WAY too much, and there’s not that much time left this season, aluding of course to the number of regular season games left, not necessarily the number of DAYS left in the season…my suggestion is to actually have PRACTICES instead of mini-practices, because this starting 5 needs some cohesiveness.
Patrick
Mesa, AZ