Thursday night (DET/PHX)

[Mr. S£im Citrus]

Watching this game tonight made me realize a few things:

• Nobody in the game moves without the basketball better than Richard Hamilton.
• Ben Wallace may be the most intense player in the entire league; anybody who subscribes to the opinion that you have to have an offensive game to be a star needs to watch this guy work.
• The Phoenix Suns can't get a stop against a good team when it counts. They just can't.
• That Wallace tip dunk off the Prince miss in the fourth was positively sick.
• Kevin Harlan is my favorite play-by-play man in all of sports.

 

[LPKingsFan]

Agreed. However, to give the Suns credit: I didn't like it at the time, but I'm becoming of the opinion that Nash was worth the contract, worthy of MVP, and a legit superstar. Even without Amare, he makes random role players like Raja Bell, James Jones, and Boris Diaw look like Joe Johnson and Quentin Richardson. I've grown to respect his game a lot more, but maybe that's because he's not in Dallas anymore...

 

[Mr. S£im Citrus]

The question in the minds of many last season was never whether or not Nash was worth the money right now, but whether he will continue to be worth it four years from now. I just don't see Phoenix as being able to break into the title seen in the "immediate" future, and by the time the core of the Suns (which, with the departure of Johnson, pretty much consists of Stoudemire and Marion, and perhaps now Diaw) is ready to become a serious threat, I suspect that Nash will be completely broken down and worn out.

I may want to give Nash some credit for Diaw's development, not nearly as much as you seem inclined to. He's always had the talent, and followers of European basketball could have told you that he was poised for a breakout season.

 

[SacTownKid]

Well, its not like Diaw and James Jones were bad players to begin with. In fact they were quite good with a lot of upside.

Still Nash is a very worthy MVP, no doubt.

 

[4cwebb]

Even though Detroit won this game, and apparently did it by shutting down the Suns' offense in the last two minutes of the game (that's my guess --- didn't listen or see the game), I was impressed that the Suns without Amare could put up 104 on Detroit at all, much less with two minutes left in the game.

 

[Kings113]

Oh yeah, I love Harlan.

As far as Phoenix, I knew they'd lose.

 

[thesanityannex]

That Wallace tip dunk off the Prince miss in the fourth was positively sick.

that was the loudest dunk i've heard.

 

[Kings113]

Yeah, that was crazy..