8 Tough Games Next 30 Days!

by jasonsuns1 on Jan 27, 2008 8:37 AM MST Comment 11 comments

It's really simple, during the next 30 days we play 8 tough games. How will we do? Personally, I'm most excited to see the 2 N.O. games or Boston, huh...wait..I mean the Spurs....no wait...I mean the Lakers (revenge...). Really, I haven't seen a month with so many great teams set to play against us.

1-31-2008 (Home) S.A......28-14
2-6-2008 (Home) N.O.......31-12
2-13-2008 (Away) G.S......26-18
2-14-2008 (Home) Dallas...29-13
2-20-2008 (Home) Lakers...27-14
2-22-2008 (Home) Boston...34-7
2-24-2008 (Home) Detroit..31-13
2-27-2008 (Away) N.O......31-12

I'm making my predictions, but I will say this, even with the 2 losses to MN, I still think if we don't get destroyed on rebounds but stay within 5-8 behind, I think we can beat everyone of these teams. Some of the talk I've read about the Suns needing another big that can get 25 minutes a game and rebound 5-10 a game, plus 10 points a game sounds like that'd be enough to tip the scales for us. I've heard the argument that a player (a rebounding big) wouldn't fit into our system, and to that I say who cares. K.Thomas didn't fit, and helped us (and hurt us a little).

Anyways...my predictions..

Lose to S.A. by 5 (Duncan has our number, especially minus that big we need)

UPDATE BEAT S.A. BY 15!!

Lose to N.O. by 10 (they're hot)

Beat G.S. by 5

Beat Dallas by 10 (we've got their number)

Beat Lakers by 10 (missing Bynum, they're simply not the same, maybe 20% weaker)

Beat Boston by 2 (This is such a new team player wise, I really have little to say before this first game)

Lose to Detroit by 6
Detroit is stronger in my view than in their last 2-3 years

Beat N.O. by 5

Final tally 6-2

It'd be a great win for us....
Of course these are wild guesses...

Poll

What will the Suns record be for these 8 games mentioned?

8 - 0

5 votes

7-1

2 votes

6-2

14 votes

5-3

5 votes

4-4

0 votes

3-5

0 votes

2-6

0 votes

1-7

0 votes

0-8

0 votes

4-3 (Marion will keep track of record for us)..couldn't help it, for what he gets paid, his rebounding numbers should never drop to 1 a game!

0 votes

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one quick joke very short and simple

I was looking at who some of the top teams play today hoping for a lose, then I thought, quick - who plays MN today.

by jasonsuns1 on Jan 27, 2008 11:05 AM MST reply actions 0 recs

Powerful Twolves

That's funny. Nice that you have a sense of humor about it. Those two Twolves games, the Miami, and the Clipper games are the stuff of nightmares. We'd have a 36-9 record if we had just beaten the teams we should have. Add that the game in Atlanta should have been ours, and we would be right there, record wise, with Boston.

'07-'08 Suns: It's clobberin' time!

by Hawk42 on Jan 28, 2008 7:23 AM MST up reply actions 0 recs

hawk42

a year ago or 2, I would've been angry and yelling at the tv, and upset for a day or 2. I've decided I have too many other things going on between my kids and my work to let myself get upset and have it carry over. It wasn't easy, but I feel I've been able to bring it down a few levels on when the suns lose to a poor team like MN. On the suns record, it is amazing if, like you said, you look at the games we should've won, at what the suns record would be!

by jasonsuns1 on Jan 28, 2008 12:00 PM MST up reply actions 0 recs

Every time can say that

There's not a team in the league that can look at their loses and not see a few that got away...The Hornets have lost to Indiana, Toronto and yes the Mighty T-Wolves.

The C's dropped two in a row to the Wiz as well as twice to the Magic as well as Toronto and the beastly Bobcats.

I could go on...its just the way things go in the NBA with an 82 game season.

Honestly, the loses to the Clips and Puppies don't bother me at all while the two loses each to the Hornets and Lakers really get my goat.

Orangutans are this year's Lemurs

by Seth Pollack on Jan 28, 2008 6:58 PM MST up reply actions 0 recs

Team? Time?

Orangutans are this year's Lemurs

by Seth Pollack on Jan 28, 2008 6:59 PM MST up reply actions 0 recs

Loss to riley?

Still, that Miami loss sucks the big one. Miami couldn't make the NCAA tournament. We can only hope that somehow Miami plays well against the Hawks three more times.

'07-'08 Suns: It's clobberin' time!

by Hawk42 on Jan 29, 2008 6:54 AM MST up reply actions 0 recs

Next 8 against elite

We really should go 8-0. It is all about playoff positioning, and given our road record, it really shouldn't matter. But the reason that we need a higher seed than San Antonio or Dallas is not because we don't want to play there as much as the Texas team's miserable road records this year, which we should take advantage of. I really think it doesn't matter where we play New Orleans, and I really want to have HC against the Lakers in a series.

Given that, we should

win the division
Take advantage of the perception that SA does not care about the regular season, and beat them every time.
Put Dallas in their place (I really don't believe they can beat us in a series, and HC would put more pressure on them.

1-1 in this stretch with NO really wouldn't kill us. I'd take one more loss against the Hornets if it meant us stomping Dallas and SA.

That said, I really would like it if we won them all :)

'07-'08 Suns: It's clobberin' time!

by Hawk42 on Jan 28, 2008 7:34 AM MST reply actions 0 recs

beat GS? Really?

remember what they did to us earlier this season?

But wait, they just signed CWeb, maybe we will win ;)

by emirem on Jan 28, 2008 4:28 PM MST reply actions 0 recs

Webber

Do you think CWebb will be able to keep up? they run more than we do.

'07-'08 Suns: It's clobberin' time!

by Hawk42 on Jan 30, 2008 11:46 AM MST up reply actions 0 recs

1/31 game

Jason Spurs game looks winnable now.

'07-'08 Suns: It's clobberin' time!

by Hawk42 on Jan 30, 2008 11:47 AM MST reply actions 0 recs

yep

without parker....equal to us without amare, nash, or marion. I think the spurs missing parker is like the spurs missing duncan (almost). Too bad, we play them so rarely, it sucks that one of the few times we do, its (like TexSun said) a lose-lose situation

by jasonsuns1 on Jan 30, 2008 8:57 PM MST up reply actions 0 recs