Still though, I'm not going to give interm head coach Alvin Gentry too much credit. Porter was fired last Sunday and we had a back-to-back on Tuesday and Wednesday. There's been no time for Gentry to do any real "coaching". Basically he just handed the whole offense (and maybe defense too) to Nash and let the Candian go wild. Hell, I can do that. Everybody can. And doesn't somehow invalidate all of D'Antoni's supposed genius? IMHO, all he ever did was relent control and pass the responsibilities off to Nash.
And of course a PHX post today would be incomplete without mentioning Amare Stoudemire... who will now be out for the rest of the season after undergoing surgery for a detached retina. Of course this news came at pretty much the worst time possible. After being circulated in trade rumors for the better part of the last three weeks, the Suns let the trade deadline expire last Thursday without making a single move. Now without Amare, we'll have to slide Grant Hill and Matt Barnes up to the 4 and even give Lou Amundson some extra minutes. Ugh. That's just bad. Against some teams (i.e. Thunder last night, a KG-less Celts tomorrow) that'll be okay, but against any of the real big teams (Lakers, Jazz, Spurs) we're absolutely going to get killed.
I hear Mikki Moore has been waived by the Kings though. If so, I really, REALLY hope Kerr and Co. put on the full court press to sign him for the stretch run. While he might want to sign with a contender (SAS or BOS always like to pick up some vets) it is a contract year for Mikki and I don't think any team can offer him 25+ minutes like the Suns can. And if Jason Kidd can make him a 10/5 guy, I'm sure Nash and the SSOL offense can make him a 10/5 guy in ~25 minutes of play as well.
Ah well, I'm going try and not worry too much. In the words of ex-coach D'Antoni...
“If we play our game we’ll be fine.”
“Steve Nash will figure it out.”
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lol @ “Steve Nash will figure it out.” didn't work so well against Rondo/BOS. Though after seeing DEN get routed I don't feel quite as bad. ;)
Random... but was chatting w/ Brent and he mentioned a good point about Amar'e non-trade. Since all the info coming out is that this was a cumulative injury (not just the Clips game Thu.) Since it was injured in pre-season, any team would check (AND he was already doing monthly team checks so that's valid) so any trade we might have done would very likely have been invalidated like Chandler's due to the injury... So...? All in all, we didn't necessarily miss out on not trading Amar'e.
Still sucks for us this year... but ya know, not as bitter about non-trade. ;)
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