Daily Poll: Which Phoenix Suns Will Need To Step Up To Beat the Lakers?

are right under the eye brow…the swelling traveled which is normal. If you ever sprain your ankle bad and end up w/ purple toes you know what I mean

but most analysts are counting on the fact that the numbers are skewed. I remember watching that last Jazz game against the Lakers how the announcers kept commenting on the lack of size on the Jazz. They kept saying, “well Boozer is listed at X but really he is only X” or “Millsap is really just a large-sized SF.” There is a conception going around that players are smaller than they claim to be. One Laker article I read said that Amare was only 6’8 1/2. I dont know where that came from. Seems a little ludicrous to me. However, it is apparently massive difference to have two legit (?) 7fters on a team as opposed to several guys who are around 6’9-6’10. We’ll see. I am not entirely sure that I bye that argument yet.

Gasol & Bynum provides more length than Aldridge and Camby, and they are more talented.
Gasol has everything and is the best big man in NBA right now. Odom is quite lengthy as well. Suns have hard time against these lengthy opponents. Well, most of the team does, and LA is known for this.

With Lakers with more shorter rotation,
Lakers lengthy 3 (Gasol_ 37min +Bynum_30min+Odom_32min) provides 99 minutes.

Suns Amare_35min + Frye_28min provides 63 minutes,

 which means someone else has to defend Lakers lengthy 3 for 36minutes. Amundsen can only guard Odom, and will put around 10 minutes, but in order for Amundsen to guard Odom, rotating schedule has to be changed. Can Lopez provide remaining 26minutes?, wil see. Dudly_6’7" to guard Odom6’10" is difficult.

Ofcourse we have an advantage of being small. This is a completely different style of teams going against each other, and should be decided by which is going to utilize their advantage.

But obviously one of the Lakers advantage is having length, and their lengthy players are very talented and that is probably why it is being said as so.

“, then we should be in good shape because the starters for the Lakers keep having to go back in. That will wear them out come the end of the game.”

This is what happened to the Spurs during the 4th quarter. They were missing open layups and open jump shots. Why. Because they were tired. Tired basketball players shoot bricks.

It was 10 man team against 5. As we have seen so far that is a wining combination.

Lastly, this wear-them-out is the key. And we are not talking much here games decided by 6 pints are 2-3 possession games.

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at the end of the 1st qtr, early 2nd. You could see it. They gave up.

Early in the game when they executed their offense they got open looks and when they played hard they got stops but they had a couple of bad possessions and gave up and boom, 20 points lead for LA.

only stops by to gloat after wins. Some cajones there, I tell you. Loser.

Drippin’ in Lame Sauce.

If the Lakers don’t win the series, you’ll end up in Pismo Beach.

People question his toughness. He’s got toughness. He’s as much as a warrior as Kobe. He just hasn’t had the personnel to make it as far as Kobe. Kobe was lucky to have Shaq in his younger years to win those 3 rings and make a name for himself so early. Now he’s got Pau Gasol, another superstar center.

Overall their team is only as good as their starting lineup, which is probably one of the best. Our team is as good as its entirety, which is VERY good. So never count out the Suns. This whole season has shown what they are with the all the doubters favoring their opponents.

The guy is really agressive of late. He played Duncan pretty well I thought. Which is no small task. I say we resign the guy. Good team player, knows his role, plus with time his overall confidence will strengthen and he will be even better from distance.

underrated.

He grabs and pushes with the best.

not 100% sure on what I’m about to say but I disagree about Channing’s D.

He’s a body and a long one at that. And sure, he can be physical but when it comes to post defense, if I’m the lakers, I will hrow the ball into him for 6-8 straight plays and rack the fouls up on Channing. Because that’s what he’ll do. He isn’t that quick and he makes clumsy fouls – although he has improved a lot in that department.

Wonderful offensive piece when he’s on but a 4 out of 10 on defense.

PDX was playing well even without Roy though. If anything, bringing Roy back stifled them a bit. However I take issue with the Spurs classification. The Mavs were a good team that got outplayed by the Spurs in every aspect. The reason they won was because they got good minutes from all their starters and good minutes from Hill. Also, the Mavs ran their offense too much through Dirk (a perrenial problem in my estimation), and so other players got stagnate.

The Suns did not let that happen. They capitalized on the fact that the Spurs were thin up front and hit the boards hard in an effort to force the Spurs hand. The big 3 got their points and minutes but the Suns wore them down along the stretch. Big steps from the Bench aided this, to be sure.

The Lakers are not thin up front. But they are thin in the guard position. They are slow because of their length (slow is relative btw…they aren’t THAT slow). The Suns will need to take advantage of their defecencies. The Lakers team that I saw play the Jazz was not that impressive. The Jazz were terrible without Williams and even with him they missed easy shots and turned the ball over like a preseason team. They looked totally unpolished. The Suns are anything BUT unpolished. Theirs is a high-octane, effecient offense. If the sloppy looking Jazz could put up tacos againt the Lakers, then the Suns will have a field day with their porous defense.

Yeah I think the way we are playing now, just getting Lopez back to play defense will be a HUGE boon for us. His size will be effective. We dont need his offense. Just imagine his defensive numbers on top of what Collins does now? Massive difference. Plus, if their size turns out to be a bigger deal that we realize then we have both Collins and Jones to foul them and make it a hard night every night. Kind like how the Bobcats neutralized Dwight Howard. Either way, getting Lopez back will be a great asset to us.

where is that beer.

I think thats right. Let Kobe beat us. Don’t double him. Make him shoot everything. If he passes to Pau, double. Play him one-up and on offense crucify Gasol. Go right at him everytime and make him foul. If anything, by the end of 3 games the dude is exhausted and wont be nearly as effective.

Lakers in 3!