Remember the Alamo: Phoenix Suns look to Rise from the Ashes in Season Opener

by Phoenix Stan on Oct 26, 2008 4:51 PM MDT in Commentary Comment 10 comments

Throughout history fans and nationalists alike have rallied around the symbols of their greatest defeats. Wounded Knee. Pearl Harbor. The last hundred years of Cubs baseball. And just ask a Serb about Kosovo Polje.

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But in what must be one history's greatest ironies, both Suns fans and Texans rally to the same Alamo cries. Both suffered tremendous defeats on virtually the same ground.

In the case of the Texans that defeat eventually lead to independence and the formation of the Republic of Texas. History has yet to reveal if the Phoenix Suns will rise from the same ashes to achieve similar glory.

However brilliantly scheduled by the NBA, returning the Suns to San Antonio for the season opener is still a meaningless game.

No team has even shown a greater ability to pace itself through the long season than the Spurs. And no Sun should think twice about the outcome of this first game. Even if the Suns sweep the season series by a combined point total of +100 it won't matter at all. Until the Suns win four games against the Spurs in April or May we are their door mat.

Enjoy the start of the season.

Enjoy the hype that will come with this game.

Even try and enjoy the 37.000 inevitable replays of Tim Duncan's improbable and amazing three pointer.

Embrace the pain the Spurs symbolize for all Suns fans and hope for a victory. But don't forget that this game doesn't count for anything more then the first of many wins and loses that both teams will rack up this season.

The road to redemption begins and will hopefully end in San Antonio (a crappy little hell hole of a town with a fake river and over priced restaurants as its main attraction) next spring.

Remember the Alamo!

And burn the mother f*#ker down!

[Note by Phoenix Stan, 10/27/08 11:41 AM PDT ]

Here's audio of Terry Porter talking about this game and the start of the season

Audio provided by Sports 620 KTAR

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Good stuff!

Can’t wait! The season is finally HERE!

"Basketball doesn't build character. It reveals it"

by PanamaSun on Oct 26, 2008 5:55 PM MDT reply actions 0 recs

So very close

I agree. A victory or a loss here would mean very very little.

Still though any game where we can beat the crap out of these goose stepping punks is a plus. Yeah I said goose stepping, it is no coincidence that they share the same colors as the SS. Of course i joke…a bit.

Overall though this game will just barely begin to show us just what we can expect this year. Now we’ll begin to truly know this team in about two months, even not truly, but until then every game is but a building block.

"Yeah I could have been king, but maybe I already am king. Hail to the king baby." Ash from Army of Darkness

by Turambar on Oct 26, 2008 11:32 PM MDT reply actions 0 recs

Stan!

You really are wasted on here, you should be writing speeches for your President or something….

by nash-n-burn on Oct 27, 2008 2:47 AM MDT reply actions 0 recs

Who says I don't :)

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by Phoenix Stan on Oct 27, 2008 1:09 PM MDT up reply actions 0 recs

I disagree, bro

A convincing victory in San Antonio will do wonders for bruised egos and prepares our players’ psyches come April…..A win in enemy territory will imbue a sense of “been here, done that” mental strength come playoff time. I hope we beat the Spurs. And at almost the same time, my favourite EPL team Arsenal is playing our arch-enemy Tottenham Hotspurs. Seriously, guys there is some sort of cosmic influence at work here. Both of my favourite teams are playing in the same week against their arch-enemies who are BOTH nicknamed the Spurs. Here’s to our victories in this double-header!!!

by felixthm on Oct 27, 2008 7:20 AM MDT reply actions 0 recs

Duncan...for three....

Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

bah.

Go Suns!

by SoCalSun on Oct 27, 2008 1:24 PM MDT reply actions 0 recs

It does matter a little, Stan

It’s worth 1/82nd of the final record — the same as every other game.

Other than that? Yeah … Ginobili’s not playing yet, right?

Mmmmm ... Guinness

by JSun on Oct 27, 2008 1:47 PM MDT reply actions 0 recs

Manu's out till December

But I do think this game’s important just because the Spurs will really test out our new philosophy. I’d really like to see Dragic on Parker too since there was so much hype about how well he guarded him in the Euro Championships.

by hcblankscreen on Oct 27, 2008 4:51 PM MDT up reply actions 0 recs

I expect a ridiculously tough start.

Everyone on this team starts slow.

Can any Sun Starter last 70 games?

by ZonaFlash on Oct 27, 2008 8:49 PM MDT reply actions 0 recs

I agree

This team will certainly start slow. They barely had one preseason game w/ all the starters and they clearly haven’t had enough time to learn the new offense AND defense.

For the looks of things they’ve focused first on the defense and will continue to build out the offense as the season progresses.

DO NOT PANIC if the Suns are under .500 at the end of November!

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by Phoenix Stan on Oct 27, 2008 9:27 PM MDT up reply actions 0 recs