Why Phoenix Suns Fans Should Be Happy: The Bright Side To Everything

Rec’d

I love the Suns and will always ride the lows with them, but i can’t figure them out.

Oh, and you can bet your pretty ass I am going to keep watching Suns games!

Especially when with the way the NBA is set up now, the only way to become a good team now if you are average or bad is:

1) Hope that you suck enough to get the number one pick and that the guy you draft will become one of the superstars who won’t bolt for New York, Miami, or LA as soon as he gets a chance to.

2) Shell out a buttload of money in free agency and make trades. Then hope that everything works out.

The average teams are worse off than the garbage ones right now.

But realistically there are days every season I can’t catch every one of them. I try to watch every single one I can though. I definitely catch about 85% or more of the season though, no questions asked.

But if you really want some derisive mockery just let me know and I’ll get to work on it.

This season hasn’t been an absolute joy, but I’m in for the long haul.

I can think of at least 2 or 3 other seasons over the past quarter century as depressing as this and things got better. The Suns have always risen to the top.

On the other hand, there really isn’t much of basis of comparison to guarantee that the people currently running the franchise will share the same success as their predecessors…

So there is that.

But hey, I’m a Suns fan. I’ll be here for life.

but hey like a Suns fan I’ll always be here. I left once, between 2000 and 2002 and I still feel guilty for that.

I’d watch all the games I can. And I will join all the game threads you make!

But just about anybody watching that game in Portland felt that the team wasnt. giving it their all. We as Suns fans can live with a mediocre amount of talent. What we want is for the team to come out and play hard every game.’

I just read, I believe, that Steve Nash is about to play his 700th game as a Phoenix Sun. I’ve watched most of them. I love Steve Nash – not just because of him, but what he’s allowed the Suns to be over most of his career – a running, gunning, fast paced exciting team to watch. Maybe not so much this year…but he still makes me happy to watch. Nash in a wheelchair is still better than 90% of the point guards in the league right now. I feel the same way about Grant Hill. What an incredible pleasure to have gotten to watch him in his years in Phoenix,
The people who insist that a title is the ONLY thing are missing so much. I will watch every game I can get my hands on, here in the wilds of Vermont, whether it be on the iPhone, crappy bootlegged internet feed, or whatever, because I love them. I can’t stay away. But it’s hard for me to come here to BSOTS, a place that I love, because of the constant and abiding negativity that lives here.
I understand that people vent here, they bitch to get it out of their system, really, I get it. That’s why I haven’t been posting here, because I don’t want to interfere with that, and rampant optimism in the face of such a miserable season is a bit incongruous. But I still watch, and I see good things where others only see misery.
For me, it’s simple. As individual players, the Suns are not very good – but as a team, we are even worse. At least, this year. The moving parts that made us such a great TEAM in 09/10 all ground to a halt when STAT went to NY. Duds, Frye, Dragic, Lou, LB – even Jarron Collins were great for us, because they were all role players who knew – and played – their role to perfection. They were able to do that because our front 5 were so good. Now, they are either gone, or trying to fill roles that they are not equipped for.
I’m no basketball expert, but I know as well as anybody that there are maybe 4 or 5 players in this league that can do just about anything. The rest are role players, and the successful teams are the ones that have their role players in the right role. But last night, we played as a team for a good portion of the game, and we won. I thought it was a good game, and fun to watch, and I was a surprised as anybody when we won. I checked out some of the game thread last night, and the recap today, and found out I was wrong – we either still sucked, or we don’t suck enough to get a top 3 pick, or if we make the playoffs, we’ll suck, or we suck at sucking, or any number of other scenarios with the word “suck” in them. That wears me out.
I’ve written extensively on this site about being positive. For me, it’s an absolute necessity, because if I’m not, even for a little while, it’s a rapid downward spiral into depression. Maybe not the best set of circumstances to be a Suns fan, at least these days. But I still believe in these guys – all of them – and I will watch their successes, and failures, and hope upon hope that they will play as a team. For me, that was the magic of 09-10 – the sum of the parts exceeding the individual parts by so much.
So this is partly an apology for not frequenting this board more often, partly a big kudos to you, PHXgp, for haveing the courage to dare to be positive in the face of adversity, but mostly a reminder that we – Suns fans, are lucky, and spoiled, even as we are screwed and dooooooooomed. Enjoy the ride.

I don’t have a lot of time to comment on here but I do like to read the articles. PHXgp you’re right on point. We are spoiled in PHX. Try being a Kings fan or Warriors fan…………… If the Suns have a down season or two it’s usually not followed by another one.

The Suns are also not the only team going through this shortened off-season funk. The Knicks? The Celtics? Short off-seasons hurt some teams more than others. Look at what happened to the AZ Cardinals. Yeah it’s football but they added a lot of new parts to their team and that slowed their progress.

We’ll be back to the top again soon!

As for the road games…well basically if I’m not busy. I won’t be changing plans around to watch this.