Lets blame the world

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....