Less than two days until the Suns-Spurs showdown at High Noon in San Antonio. Burnsy couldn’t think of anything other than Suns-Spurs to talk about last night. Anything other than a series win would be devastating to Suns fans, and a couple callers thought it would worth another 2^nd or 3^rd round exit just to get the Spurs back. Burnsy thinks that a Suns series victory will happen in 6 games, and he may have history on his side. That is, if you believe the Suns-Spurs – Colts-Patriots analogy is applicable. Here are the similarities in case you haven’t noticed:

Indianapolis Colts:

2003: AFC Title Game- L to New England

2004: AFC Divisional- L to New England

2005: NE loses in the Divisional Round, but so do the Colts- to Pittsburgh

2006: Colts beat NE in the AFC Championship- win the Super Bowl

Phoenix Suns:

2005: Western Conference Finals- L to San Antonio

2006: San Antonio loses to Dallas In the 2^nd Round, but so do the Suns in the Western Finals

2007: Western Conference Semifinals- L to San Antonio

2008: ????

Plus, the Colts broke up their big three (Peyton, Harrison, and Edge James) during year four, just like (you guessed it), the Suns who did so with (Nash, Amare, Marion). Now, I know Shaq is a bigger name than Joseph Addai and the Patriots have won 3 titles while the Spurs are 4 time champs, but work with me here.

Last year at this time Steve Kerr was working at TNT. Now he’s the architect behind the Suns-Shaq experiment, one that may have been constructed for this exact series:

“Each (previous year versus San Antonio) we just got overpowered, so I don’t think it’s going over the top to say this is why we got Shaq.”

The Suns have also got production from LB and Boris Diaw in recent weeks, something that Kerr says the Suns will have to have in order to advance in this series:

“Neither guy was very productive a year ago versus San Antonio and no question we need (Barbosa and Diaw) to kick it into gear.”

And just to say we tried, Burnsy busted out the “non-Suns/Spurs related topic of the night” (hey, that could be a bit). He went with Miguel Tejada’s recent admission that he’s close to age 34 and not 31. Astros GM Ed Wade must be thrilled. What’s worse: a GM getting that news or a guy finding out that his 19 year old girlfriend is really 16. I wouldn’t know. Seriously, I don’t.