Here Come the Suns
Ironically as I was checking up on game 4 of the Western Conference Finals the Beatle’s song “Here Comes the Sun” was playing on my computer. I couldn’t imagine a better song coincidentally playing while Phoenix gave the Lakers all they could handle awhile evening the series to 2-2 tie.
I guess what really substantiates this series will be if either team can step up and win on the road. I know it sounds cliche, but in what I consider this years playoffs to be one of the largest snooze fests in NBA playoff history, and this post season could use a big road win to make things lively again for the first time since round 1.
Based on games 1 and 2 at the Staple Center, it seems somewhat unlikely that the Suns can win there, but they have to win there if they want to advance. I hope they win there, for the sake of the NBA playoffs having a resurgence, revival, and possibly again have a pulse.
Kobe, wanna play game 5 here????
When analyzing games 3 and 4 it seems to be the exact scenario for the Lakers in US Airways Arena. Kobe Bryant put up insane numbers, and absolutely dominated but his insatiable appetite for individual statistical greatness didn’t amount to a Lakers victory.
The glaring discrepancy: Lamar Odom was the lone bench player worth squat during game 4, meanwhile Phoenix’s bench lambasted the Lakers with nine 3-pointers and 54 points. That’s what I consider making up for crappy performances by the Suns in games 1 and 2.
So what do we expect for game 5? Will Phoenix’s bench continue to terrorize the Lakers’ bench? Phil Jackson is a great motivator, and the Lakers are on their home court, both of which would make one think that the Lakers indeed possess the uppe hand.
Perhaps Channing Frye has finally awoken for good in these playoffs, perhaps he will shrivel under the pressures of the Staples Center. But if Frye and his shot are on, it creates major problems for the Lakers defensively.
However, what sports fan does not want to root for Steve Nash to make it to the finals? Toss out all other aspects to this analysis, and take the collective consciousness of all NBA fans, put it in a blender, then a centrifuge. What percentage of this mental mush would be rooting for Nash and the Suns versus the Lakers?
Nash has never been there.
Kobe is a great player, but his arrogance tarnishes the ability of most NBA fans to root for him to make it there, when deciding between him and Nash.
Nash has never been there.
Karma alone is on the side of the Suns.
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Wed, May 26, 2010 by Adam Sedie
NBA Playoffs, News, Opinions