Phoenix Suns Game Recap: Los Angeles Lakers 99 Phoenix Suns 83

I feel offended just by looking at it. GAAGH.

Oh well, we just didn’t have it in the 4th. Plus, the Lakers did a really good job on pressuring Frye NOT to shoot.

when Gortat chucked up that 20 footer in the 4th after a time out… :(

could we have taken worse shots in the last 5 mins???

offense needs to go to hak when bench is playing

Believe me Shannon Brown us going to frustrate the hell out if you guys. He takes ALOT of contested jumpers and frankly while super athletic doesn’t have a lot if basketball skills. Watching him play compared to a basketball maestro like Steve Nash is going to give you heartburn

What happened in 4th quarter :| I could only watch boxscore and plays on my smartphone, and all i saw was Brown missing shots, ppl losing ball… Meh.

I hope Redd still has it… Nothing feels worse than losing like that after staying close for whole game.

Live out of the market, so this has been the first game I’ve been able to watch start to finish. Just wanted to share a few thoughts:

-Hill actually played great D for most of the night; Kobe just had one of those games
-I think Ronnie Price played well tonight, and Warrick made some nice plays, but the 2nd unit as a whole looked completely overmatched.
-I hope Michael Redd gets healthy soon, because Shannon Brown is driving me crazy.

All things considered, if Channing Frye stays out of foul trouble and with better rebounding, this game may have been much closer.

And thought they wouldn’t be as bad as I assumed. I was wrong. They were worse. Bunch of arrogant Kobe fanboys who ripped grant hill to shreds. Even the writer for their rap up was a complete douchebag.

is that same thing that drove us nuts about VC and pietrus: he takes idiotic shots and destroys the flow of the offense, and then when they go in he feels empowered to keep taking them. it’s a vicious cycle of suckitude.

I love gentry, but here’s something i absolutely cannot figure out: why is it that he gives some guys a long leash even when they’re playing like garbage and hurting the team (e.g. Vince, shannon), while giving other guys almost none (childress)?

This was a tough.disappointing loss. With the way bryant was shooting we probably weren’t going to win anyway.

The lakers beat us tonight but i still don’t think that means their any better than what they were last year. There are definitely better teams in the west that’ll finish ahead of them so i wouldn’t worry about the rapist seeing another title in his career.

Back to the suns. We played pretty well on the offensive end up until the fourth quarter, but what killed us is our total lack of defensive effort on the boards. Gortat and frye played well, morris looked more than a little rattled playing against gasol and bynumb(just rookie jitters, i expect a huge effort from him against tristan thompson and the cavs.

Lopez gave us nothing really and didn’t seem to have consistent focus or intensity. It doesn’t surprise me though, he was at his best playing next to and complimenting an explosive offensively gifted big like amare(that’s the only way he’s productive) and he doesn’t have that option now. We are expecting too much from him. for lopez to be effective on a consistent basis he needs to play next to an athletic post scorer and concentrate only on defense(not offense).

Brown is still an impressive athlete and is still young, but he shouldn’t be playing if he’s going to turn into a black hole every game. He has terrible shot selection and doesn’t know what a pass is yet. The coaches have to pull him aside and try and change this behavior or he becomes a wasted aquisition.

Nash and hill really looked winded throughout the game and it’s clear that even though we added price( a very solid backup) we need a big talent upgrade (for the future) at pointguard and on the wing(particularly behind hill, as dudley is still more effective off the bench).

I expect redd to provide some relief on offense from the perimeter but he’s obviously(given his age and past health issues) not a long term answer.

Until the front office addresses ALL these concerns we’ll be really struggling to beat the stronger teams in the west while looking really good against lottery opponents on most nights.

The commentators mentioned that sarver was at the game, and then showed him sitting next to nicholson smiling. I wonder what he was thinking about the outcome of the game and what he saw from his team?

He got to witness some of our strengths but mainly our biggest weaknesses. It’ll be interesting to see if he’s willing to adress them. If he truly wants this team to reach the playoffs and make a positive impact (not just get there to be eliminated).

He"ll have the front office and scouting department working diligently(for once!) throughout the season on college scouting as well as working the phones, to give us a chance to get stronger and more talented at those positions of need either later this season or in the off-season.

but you do have to admire what Kobe can do. He is still the best player on the planet when he sets his mind to it. Unbelievable display. Nobody could have done a better job than BAMF on this night. The mamba really has it in for the Suns and it showed. What bothered me was seeing scrubs like Walton and Barnes hurt us. Steve played huge minutes. We seemed to be in a good position at crunch time. But the whole league has long since figured out that it’s a good idea to trap and double him. Why not give Chilly a run when Brown is so turrible?
To top it off, with a couple of exceptions we shot very poorly – again. Fakers are pretty tough on D though.
Sad sad sad.