that I can’t really tell what team actually feels about their chances…they just talk about getting the best seed possible, maybe getting out of the first round and then “anything is possible”

I don’t know if they are sandbagging to keep expectations in check and to keep the team hungry and avoid over confidence (a problem in the past) or what….

It is impossible not to like the way the Suns are playing right now though and with this group of players, how can you not want to see them succeed?

This team is good and can compete with anyone. However, as I said in my Fanpost I won’t call them a contender and I won’t say that they aren’t a contender.

Remember early on in the season when we said this team was “Nice”? In this past month we’ve been called a “Dirty” team a “better defensive team” and I would now say a tougher team. We are mentally tough. The question is whether we are talented enough to get by teams like Dallas and LA?

I’ve been to a dozen games every year since Nash came back, and last night was THE best defensive, hardest-fought, most-focused game I’ve seen them play. They beat the Jazz AT THEIR GAME and when the Jazz wouldn’t go away, the Suns refused to back down even once. Sure the Suns have had more-talented teams, but none of them worked as hard as this one across the entire lineup.

I admit that several times I was like “damn these Jazz won’t die” and in the past that spelled disaster for the Suns. Not any more. I’m hooked. This team can do anything.

But I swear to the almighty Mike, if you EVER write about how ‘healthy’ we are again I’ll have to hunt you down cuz you’re jinxing us. lol. Its like saying ‘Amare has made 33 free throws in a row’ right before he clangs one. Just STFU about our health! Let it ride. Don’t jinx it. ;)

I think this team is the strongest mentally. Our team runs deep all the way down the bench. All players have toughened up mentally and this team is playing some of the best basketball I’ve seen. Gentry definitely deserves credit for turning this team around. If Clark erupts next year like Goran and Lopez did this year, the Suns have a bright future. I think this year, the Suns can make a strong push for the Finals. I’m not kidding. Forget the Lakers. They’ve shown their mortality and they can be beaten. They just don’t make teams crap in their pants like the Kobe and Shaq Lakers of old. The Cavs are the only team that will destroy the Suns. I honestly think they give us severe matchup problems and I can never reiterate that enough >_<. I don’t care who the Suns play in the finals as long as it’s not the Cavaliers. Yeah I’m talking Finals. We have that kind of team. Believe it

I love the new found optimism around here.

Nash, Bell, Marion, Stat, Thomas, Diaw and Barbosa. D’Antoni told anyone who would listen that we had the best top-7 in the league.

I think he would never say it out loud, but Grant Hill sees this team as perhaps his last legitimate shot at a ring.

I think they all do, but they know they aren’t so lucky when under expectations, so they aren’t going to say anything like Nash did in 07 when he said, “best team I ever had”. I think they feel they can compete with anyone. As for myself, like I said before; I will be satisfied with the season if we can win at least one round and than go as far as we can from there on.

Awesome. Rec’d