NJNJ Posted January 20, 2010 Report Share Posted January 20, 2010 http://www.blogcdn.com/nba.fanhouse.com/media/2010/01/nash-amare.jpg The Suns dropped their fourth in a row on Monday, to a Grizzlies team that they now find themselves even with in the loss column in the standings. After jumping out to a 14-3 start to the season, the team has lost 15 of its last 25 games. And with more problems than apparent solutions at this point, it's fair to wonder whether or not the team can fix things in time to hold on to one of the eight available playoff spots in the uber-competitive Western Conference. Phoenix's habit of blowing leads has been the hot topic around this team for the past couple of weeks, and why not? In the Suns' last three home games, they've had first-half leads of 16, 13, and 24 points. And all three times, the opposing team managed to come back to take the lead. Now, the Suns did win two of those games, but that was at home; on the road, things usually end differently when you allow a team to come back on you like that, as was the case in both Indiana and Atlanta this past week. The Suns led the Pacers by 24 points in the first half, before allowing 70 points in the second half and eventually losing by eight. For those of you not great with numbers, that's a ridiculous 32-point turnaround from late in the second quarter through the end of the game. Less than ideal, to say the least. The next game in Atlanta, the Suns once again held a double-digit first half lead, this time going up 12 on the Hawks early in the second quarter. By now, you shouldn't be surprised to learn that Phoenix gave back all of this lead and then some, to trail by as many as seven points late in the third. But the Suns fought back this time, only to lose on a long three-pointer at the buzzer from Jamal Crawford. At least the team competed for all 48 in that one, so that should have been a positive that they could have carried over into the following game in Charlotte, right? Wrong. CONTINUE READING Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Warren2ThaG Posted January 20, 2010 Report Share Posted January 20, 2010 Probably 7th or 8th. They need a better coach though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sun Tzu Posted January 20, 2010 Report Share Posted January 20, 2010 Probably 7th or 8th. They need a better coach though. Coaching wasn't a problem with us at the start of the season when we were over achieving but right now our coaching may start to become a problem. We needed to alter our starting line up so that we didn't have a defense-less team starting after half time to defend the huge lead we built up before half time, but it took about 40 games for Gentry to realise that. I didn't watch the Grizzlies and Suns game till the last quarter but we did go with a different line up with Lopez and Barbosa starting instead of Jason Richardson and Channing Frye. I surely hope we can at least come to senses and work out a trade to deal J-Rich out of Phoenix or at least work better on our rotations. Right now it seems as though we are going downhill but I do have a little bit of faith in the Suns to make the playoffs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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