Amare Stoudemire out 8 weeks!

use it if you want

So much for that “once more into the breach” optimism post I was planning to put up later today. What a buzzkill.

Although you DID call it (or jinx them) with the comment yesterday on how the Suns have been lucky with injuries this season.

I can’t remember when this injury happened, but I sure hope it wasn’t when Amare was still in the game even though it was a blowout trying to get his 50 points.

Should the Suns now “rest” Nash and Shaq for the rest of the season in hope of winning the lottery? They DO have their own pick this year best I recall (unlike next year when they have to give it to Seattle…er…Oklahoma)

This is just friggen unbelieveable.

This team is so cursed it’s sad.

Now what huh? Tank? Might as well unless Sims or Lou can play like a god.

So much for hope. I guess there never really was hope.

1st for poking his eye in the preseason and thus could be a reason why the injury is so bad now, and 2nd, wanting out of Phoenix when we could really use you right now.

Only silver lining could be that Shaq will be the man on offense and they can work around him. Not sure who will fill the void now.

Wasn’t Amar’e warned that if he didn’t wear goggles for the rest of his career it could be more severe?

No good way to spin this.
I am pretty sure that the Suns DO NOT have their 1st rounder this year – OKC has it.
If Sarver is ok with spending money this season, let’s hope he means it, and throws some money at Drew Gooden or Joe Smith when they get bought out.
Also, I think the 07 Warriors comparison is more apt – I think you’ll see at 4 guard line up, ala Suns 1998, with Nash, Barbosa, J-Rich, Hill and Amundsun or something.
Man this sucks

Too bad… So Lou will be a starter? Or Barnes will play the 4?

I think they’re going to have to slow things down again, and revolve the offense around Shaq. What cruddy luck this team has.

Keep him, start him, hopefully he’ll translate

play like Orlando on offense? 1 centre and 4 shooters?

Oh yeah, our only shooters are Nash, LB and JRich. Never mind.

Lou had better learn to play the pick & roll with Steve & fast..

We need some quick healing!

Is it just me, or do Amare’s most devastating injuries have a tendency to happen at …um..convenient times for Amare? Such as the day right after the trade deadline? Such as right after signing the big contract? OK… that’s probably reading too much in (besides, he would have most certainly have failed the physical, so “saving” the bad news until after the trade deadline would have been pointless I guess). Still, just sayin’….

Very sorry to hear about Amare’s injury.

I’m a Suns hating Lakers fan but while I want to beat the Suns I hate to see anyone on either team get hurt.

Wow, what a season in Phx.

PS. Please tell Shaq to stop talking about going back to the Lakers. We don’t want him and I thought it was classless during an all-star game in Phx.

“What are we gonna do now! Huh!?! What are we gonna do!?”

Was hoping for a nice day today, I was even think of getting tickets for the game tonight. Now though? I need a drink….a good strong drink.

I really hope that (a) they start Courtney Sims, and (b) they let JRich loose.

I’ll say it again. God hates us.

If we can slip into the playoffs, and Amare’s back, then maybe…

ah eff it. We’re doomed. Optimism be damned

But is this perhaps why the Suns did not move Stoudemire, because they knew he wouldn’t pass the physical? (Along with the not trading Shaq thing)

Dr Jay Shwartz or whatever

Or

Why couldn’t Amare be a man, like Kobe, and play through the pain. Then worrry about the rest in the offseason

remember the impact he had last time Amare was out?
There has to be someone – Gooden or Smith – who can play a comparable roll

move J-Rich to the 3

PG-Nash
SG-LB
SF-J-Rich
PF-someone who doesn’t totally suck
C- Shaq

I have a half written piece on Sims based on an interview I did with him last week here in Phx.

I think it is time to finish that…stay tuned.

Amare’s scoring can be replaced…the 8 rebounds will be a little harder to replace, but we’re better defensively without him.

WE’LL BE FINE!

cries

And pick up, say…Mikki Moore?

I can’t believe this.

i decided to sleep in on my day off and when i wake up and turn on the computer and check espn, the first thing i see in a big red box is ‘breaking news’ with amare’s picture. i promptly scan the headlines which say that he may miss up to 8 week because of eye surgery and immediately start screaming at the computer screen.

this is absolutely devastating.

Well I wake up to this news, a day after we are rejoicing that Amare has remained a Sun.

Barbosa to also step up – he’s going to have to provide more offense as well as J-Rich.

Good question Worthy J. – why did Amare play the rest of the Clippers game if he knew he had this injury? I guess at that stage maybe he didn’t know the severity of it.

Does Robin Lopez get more minutes now, or does Gentry go with an even smaller lineup – Nash, LB, Richardson, Hill, Shaq?

but it’s not all doom and gloom. Don’t forget the Rockets are in an even worse state than the Suns. T Macs out for the year, and the fact they traded Alston pretty much suggests they’re waving a white flag and kissing the season goodbye. Which all should mean the Suns make the playoffs by default anyway.

If it all does go a bit Pete Tong though, at least there should be ample time to at the end of the season to give the bench guys a chance to get some decent experience and try to salvage what has otherwise been a wasted year for Dragic, Lopez etc