Hilarious suns whine on Valley of the Suns
Basically rehashes everything and makes an excuse for every failure....
A championship never seemed closer to the Phoenix Suns than on May 14, 2007, a day that should have been celebrated for finally slaying the San Antonio dragon in enemy territory.
With the Suns poised to forge a 2-2 deadlock in a best-of-seven series that felt like a championship bout, it seemed like Phoenix had finally broken through after injury excuses (Joe Johnson’s face in 2005, Amare Stoudemire’s knee and Raja Bell’s calf in 2006) and playoff inexperience doomed the team in prior years.
Yeah it all went wrong when you failed to actually TIE the series at 2 apiece, that was pretty close to winning a championship!...Anyone would think that the big Robert Horry decking Nash thing was in Game 7...of the finals...
Followed up immediately by playing of the injury card to cover seasons 2005 & 2006.
Then you get another 1000 words on how David Stern followed the "letter" of the law instead of the "spirit" in handing out suspensions blah blah blah.
hahhaha..the spirit of the law. Go watch a super hero movie for gods sake.
then there is this absolute zinger
There’s no saying the Suns would have won Game 5 at full strength (or even with just Diaw, which I believe would have been the case) or even a Game 7 against the playoff-tested Spurs not to mention the later two series San Antonio won to take home the crown.
But to this day, a legitimate case can be made that Cheap Shot Rob cost the Suns a championship.
So you can't guarantee that the suns would have won game 5...(they didn't win game 4 by the way....and were down 2-1 in the series at that point so it's not like they were red hot favorites..) but you can certainly make a good case that they would have won THE ENTIRE SHOOTING MATCH if not for that one play....
good lord. It gets better last years double OT loss after TImmy Nails the three to smash it up...
If the Suns rotated out to Duncan is this a different series? Who knows the way Tony Parker carved them up all series long and who knows with the way the Suns badly missed Marion with Grant Hill ailing, but we do know it would have been closer to being the seven-game showdown all of us were expecting.
EXPECTING EXSHMECTING......Who was expecting??? I wasn't i was sure that Shaq was goign to get his pants handed to him because he'd refuse to do anything other than stick his arse under the ring on D and would miss crunch time free throws, and yeah it pretty much panned out that this is exactly what happened.
But its not like the series was close, after that...you know getting eliminated 4 games to 1 sounds so much worse than ...4 games to 2...
Why are suns fans so incredibly wound up in the idea that they have been cheated out of a championship? The world gives you nothing teams that play as a single entity for each other figured it out long ago....
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Charles Barkley would have been called for palming the ball against David Robinson the Spurs could have beat Michael Jordan and the Bulls to win it all…back in the day…whenever that was. We were screwed!
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by Big50 on Feb 24, 2009 4:59 PM CST reply actions 0 recs
+1
Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. - Confucius
by raynorschiene on Feb 25, 2009 9:04 AM CST up reply actions 0 recs
Not to mention
If not for Rod Strick9’s no look pass……the no call on Big Dawg Carr against the Jazz…..blah blah blah…..and countless, countless others. Shoulda, woulda, coulda. At one time or another we’ve all thought if only this did or didn’t happen. This foul called or not, this shot sunk or not. It last a few days or maybe the whole offseason, but forever? Please. I must admit, Sons fans (for the most part) have to be cryingest bunch of cryin’ ass, diaper wearing babies. I love it, makes me feel all tingly inside.
Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. - Confucius
by raynorschiene on Feb 25, 2009 9:34 AM CST up reply actions 0 recs
Cry me a river Suns fans.
In the words of Jason Kidd against Chris Paul’s whining ass during a game in Paul’s rookie year, “Shut up and play better!”
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by dfjmed on Feb 24, 2009 6:05 PM CST reply actions 0 recs
Yeah, I read this. Priceless – but it’s understandable, considering the Spurs ruined their franchise. That will be a cherished memory for the rest of my life.
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by LatinD on Feb 24, 2009 6:29 PM CST reply actions 0 recs
me too
i feel like shang-tsung or something. we just stole all of arizonas souls for like 5 years in the playoffs
What the Bowen giveth Horry taketh away. --LatinD (2008 Playoffs Round 2, Game 1)
the Spurs do not defeat you so much as they grind you into tiny shards of psychological wreckage.
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by Hamer_SpursFan on Feb 24, 2009 10:29 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs
i still cant get over that "rotate to duncan" line
like shaq every closed out on a 3 point shooter in his entire life…
" Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes, that way when you criticize them, you're a mile away and you have their shoes. "
by Bushka on Feb 25, 2009 12:03 AM CST reply actions 0 recs
I like that he refers to Horry’s cheap shot as a “forearm shiver.” What the fuck? Does this guy even know english? The hip is not anywhere near the forearm.
I'm comfortable winning -- Emmanuel Ginobili
by pollackj on Feb 25, 2009 12:47 AM CST reply actions 0 recs
actually...
The only thing this does, is identify our mystery author as a fan of professional wrestling. Back in my day, I used to watch a healthy amount of that stuff, and the words “forearm shiver” were used by spastic commentary guys no less than 38 times an episode.
It’s like a fish story. Every time they tell it, Horry’s actions become even worse. By the time most Suns fans have resigned themselves to knowing that they won’t ever win a championship in the alloted time before Jesus comes back, Horry will have been guilty of choke-slamming, jack-knifing, and Peoples’ Elbowing Steve Nash.
Que Sera…
"I like to use my pump fake to make them come hard, that's when I use my penetration." -Manu Ginobili
by scrappy-doo on Feb 25, 2009 1:01 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs
And don’t forget JYD’s Butt- Butt
Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. - Confucius
by raynorschiene on Feb 26, 2009 12:45 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs
The SnukaFly or whatever it was called. That’s got to be up there.
We specialize in misinformation around here. Facts and stats just get in the way.
by Wayne Vore (ATS) on Feb 26, 2009 3:12 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs
I'll admit
it would have been much more entertaining if Horry had given Nash a Last Ride through the scorer’s table.
by Azreous on Feb 26, 2009 4:12 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs
Bushka, agreed on everything, in addition
If the suns were a better team, they would have won game six with a rested Steve Nash and Amare Stoudemire, whom were sitting for game with suspensions. Instead the suns got theyre ass kicked ( they were down by as many as 15 in the 3rd i believe) and the game was only somewhat close at the end because of a little nash magic, and a shitload of garbage time freethrows.
by alamobro on Feb 25, 2009 2:04 AM CST reply actions 0 recs
Not to nitpick, but Nash didn’t get suspended. Diaw and Stoudemire did.
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by pollackj on Feb 25, 2009 5:37 AM CST up reply actions 0 recs
HAHA!
isn’t it funny how Diaw will never have to worry about getting suspended in the playoffs ever again? The Bobcats don’t go to “play-offs”…
"I like to use my pump fake to make them come hard, that's when I use my penetration." -Manu Ginobili
by scrappy-doo on Feb 25, 2009 12:58 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs
Ah yes my bad. It certainly was boris and not Stevie…still though. Youd think with Boris AND stoudemire rested, they would have won they game, being the " better team" and all.
Poor suns ……….. =’ (
by alamobro on Feb 25, 2009 11:43 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs
funny how I don't hear us Spurs fans whining
about Timmy’s injury in 2000, or GiBlowMe’s bonehead foul in ’06. Things happen. I wrote a big thing awhile back about how much luck and intangibles go into winning a championship. Suns fans have always displayed an almost prodigious inability to get over things that “cost them a championship”.
The one thing that always gets me about this argument they present, is that they out and out PRESUME that were it not for what the Spurs had done to them, they would’ve won championships in each of those years. The remaining teams they would’ve had to play notwithstanding, I honestly think that some Suns fans are not only completely vindictive against our Spurs, but acutely unable to grant any other team in the league its due.
’03: They had Marbury on the team. That alone guarantees them an out at some point during the series.
‘05: They would’ve had to play the Pistons. The Pistons actually play defense, too! Next!
’07: Shut Up!
’08: Shaq=Fat!
The Phoenix Suns are by far the least mentally tough team that has ever had even a semi legitimate shot at the ‘Chip, and yes, I am including both of the Mavs’ epic collapses in that argument.
"I like to use my pump fake to make them come hard, that's when I use my penetration." -Manu Ginobili
by scrappy-doo on Feb 25, 2009 12:56 PM CST reply actions 0 recs
One critical difference
Not that it takes anything away from your point, which is valid, but you guys have four chips to show for the past decade, and we’ve got none for the past 40+ years. It’s a little bit more difficult to complain about those missed opportunities when so many others have come through.
That said, some fans certainly think the suspension was the only thing that stopped the Suns from winning that series, which is ridiculous. It might have played a part in game 5 (when we got out to that double-digit lead in the first half, but everyone was forced to play too many minutes and Nash and Marion were burnt out down the stretch), but there were no excuses for game 6, period. We just got beat.
by Azreous on Feb 26, 2009 4:09 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs

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