Dirk is finally playing like a 7 footer and posting up, but he needs to develop his game in that area.

Suns are playing really well now and Dallas is only own 2 going in to the 4th thanx to the heroics of Michael Finley.

Nash's 10th assist was an incredible behind the shoulder left handed pass to the matrix. It was beautiful.

This is almost a must win for Dallas. If they win this they have the suns under PRESSURE!!

I made the prediction that Dallas would beat the suns. One key for me would be the depth of dallas and Jason Terry, who was blowing by nash in the 4th quarter... The suns don't play D. That is not going to cut it with a team like the mavs, who can also score, but now you have dampier scoring down low and Dirk taking marion in the post, this changes the game, big time...

The Suns depth will be tested. Joe Johnson was playing some backup PG fdor them.

http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/playoffs2005/news/story?id=2058372

Posted by Killa4luv:

On another note if dampier didn't respond well it would have been called poor leadership.

Results oriented analysis sux. The ends always justify the means in sports, I think its kind of stupid.

I don't think it matters that much because Dampier deserved to have his ear chewed off after game 1 and Dirk showed that he is a leader by saying something. Regardless of the fact that Damp played well in game 2 , dirk still showed that he can be a vocal leader on a team that needs a real leader. Think of a guy like Allan Houston in his prime. He would never open his mouth. Dirk felt obligated to say something and that by itself sends the message to the rest of the team that they need a much stronger effort out there.

Posted by fishmike:

the Suns have gotten good matchups so far. I think they are lucky they avoided the Rockets. JVG teams play good transition D and James is a good defender at PG.

Running teams have always had problems with good half court defensive teams, especially in the playoffs. What running scoring team has won a title? The last was probably the Lakers, but they had some pretty good halfcourt players also, and some guys that played D as well.

Didn't the Mavs beat the Rockets

great now when the Suns lose they are going to use losing Joe Johnson as an excuse!

Posted by Killa4luv:

Posted by gunsnewing:

great now when the Suns lose they are going to use losing Joe Johnson as an excuse!

Yeah and that fake flagrant foul. That was not a flagrant foul. I am tired of refs calling a flagrant every time someone falls hard.

When I was watching the replay of that foul I immediately thought back to the Knicks/Heat rivalry. I remember guys falling like all the time, imagine if they called a flagarant everytime that happened back then.. those games would have taken 5 hours a piece.