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I think thats a bit much. I say one shot and the basketball like a defensive 3. Plus it adds a foul to the penalty. That way, the best freethrow shooter on the court can take the shot and you risk giving up 3-4 points. You should only be able to punish a team with Hack-a- ______ if they are giving him the ball to score on you.

You keep saying this but it is complete and total bullshit. A Suns team without Amare Stoudimire and Raja bell and Kurt thomas 2 years ago was a championship caliber team? They made the WCF 2 years ago. That's a "championship caliber" team when you can do that in the West. In the last 4 years they won 55, 61, 54 and 62 in backwards order. They had a back to back MVP and 2 other guys that made all-NBA teams during that run. They also had the 6th Man of the Year last year. They've had a former Coach of the Year pulling the strings during that whole run as well. You can cite bad luck all you want, but that's a "championship caliber" organization by any stretch of the imagination. Fundamentally though everyone has agreed that the Suns not playing playoff level defense has been their downfall and the fact that they've had that much talent and zero results has a lot more to do with their style of play than you're willing to admit because you're convinced that they're good enough defensively but "shit happens" and they get screwed every year. Like I said before as a Knicks fan during the Jordan era I know what it's like to see your team lose to the same guys every year even when you were the better team and should have put them away (The Charles Smith Memorial Game). However history doesn't care about the coulda, shoulda, woulda. It just shows the actual results, and for the Suns their results don't look good for a team with that much talent on paper. I am saying, I get a feeling that if Duncan, Ginobli and...well...uh...Oberto, got hurt on the way to the finals last year and Cleveland won, I don't think "Cleveland is just a superior team" would come out of anyones mouth. This is the first year that San Antonio beat the suns without a MAJOR piece being injured. Congrats to them. And they exploited a weakness and won. But to pretend that the reason the Suns haven't advanced. And really how can you argue they weren't a good defensive team the last two years? Really? I mean, they were better without Amare because Amare sucks ass defensively, and they were damn good last year. Dumb talking heads say "The suns give up over 100 per game...they are HORRIBLE DEFENSIVELY" mostly because they are fucking morons. yes, the suns defense was bad this year and it was bad 3 years ago. That "they didn't win because they don't play defense" crap didn't fly the other years. Major injuries to major contributors, for any other team, people say 'well, so and so was injured". With the suns its "SEE, that style can't win!!!!!! Sure they lost their leading scorer, rebounder, shot blocker, 3 point shooter, best perimeter defender, best low post defender, but its not that...its their STYLE OF PLAY". You honestly don't see how funny that is?

In other news, confirmation tha Karl Malone is a fucking dick hole grows even more. Demetrius Bell, the 7th round pick of the Bills in the last draft is Karl Malones son(who of course he doesn't acknowledge and told him he has to make his own money since it is too late to be his father) and his mother was... THIRTEEN MUTHERFUCKING YEARS OLD WHEN SHE HAD HIM. Malone was in COLLEGE. And impregnated a 13 year girl. After impregnating a girl while he was in High School with twins and not acknowledging them until one of them became a basketball star. FUCK that fucking guy.

You keep saying this but it is complete and total bullshit. A Suns team without Amare Stoudimire and Raja bell and Kurt thomas 2 years ago was a championship caliber team? They got depleated by injuries and lost in 6 to the Mavs. You keep pretending it was some indictment against the Suns style of play when they were playing the "record wise" best team in the league at full strenght missing their starting 2 guard, power forward and Center. They had one of the better defenses in the League last year and the year before that. "They play no D" comes from people stupidly looking at their opponents points per game and ignoring real defensive stats. They were bad his first year as a coach and this year when they happened to trade the teams best defender. I know you don't like the Suns, fine. And yes, the suspensions last year was their fault, but to pretend that had nothing to do with that series outcome last year is just being silly. Losing a series to the NBA champions is not indictment on the coaching. They lost a close game because San Antionio played Hack a Shaq. TWICE in this series they lost games simply because of that. What should be a 3-2 series right now is over because one guy couldn't hit freethrows. San Antonio couldn't stop their offense so Pop suprisingly went to the Hack a Shaq, something I never guessed he would stoop to, but you have to do what you have to do to win.

Yeah, Horford was easily the best rookie for the majority of the year. Durant was a monster in at the end, but that doesn't hide the fact that for most of the season he was shooting 38 percent from the field and averaing 20 points while playing bad defense. He is going to be amazing, because kinda figured some things out towards the end of the year, but Horford was clearly the better rookie.

I think Avery would work in Phoenix, although Amare would be in for a shock when he wouldn't be allowed to be the worse big man defender this side of Eddy Curry. He would have to let Nash run the offense, he would preach the defense (which is only bad because the bigs don't show on pick and rolls). But I do think making D'Antoni the scape goat is silly. He didn't miss 17 freethrows last game and he didn't blow all those freethrows in game one. That, literally, was the difference in the series.

Oh, and I have been going to this private Sniper range just north of Atlanta. I want a sniper rifle now. And I still have my .32 and .22 that Agent was picking at me for one time. I still love the .32 for the pussy ass recoil and how accurate I am with it.

I am down to only a couple of swords - one that I bought and one that was made for me a long time ago. (I was going to as EHME did he mean real sword or those bullshit things that people usually have and say "i bought a sword" I see now that you mean a real one that can cut someone the fuck in half. those things are so awesome and beautiful) A couple of hundred throwing knives... I had a few guns a few years back but they are at my moms house now. She got a divorce and most of the gun in the house was his so she has my shotgun and a few others. The other two 9mm are lonely. they were all buddies.

Oh fucking BOOOOOO

The character models are almost last generation. the lighting and reflection effects is where they put their money. They are amazing. Driving around can be beautiful. But its that soft filter on the whole screen making it look even better. It is some little things SR2 could do to make their game look just as good if not better(although its going to be tough to match the lighting of the cars and such. Its a pretty game and ugly game at the same time. I don't see how any reviewer could give the graphics a 10 though.

Technically...it would be pretty hard to turn the corner when going at those high speeds. Anyway...it took me a while to figure out that I was supposed to be hitting the left trigger and the right bumper at the same time. I was just hitting the Left Trigger and slowing down...but not turning very well. OR just the right bumper and spinning out. Now...after several hours of doing that I know how to make turns! Turning at a slow speed is over the top. Also, I have been spoiled by SR's regenerative health system. Having to go get a hot dog every time i get in a fight is annoying. But all my post have been complaining so far. Its a pretty cool game. Just nitpicking.

Fuck who goes to Phoenix, its about Atlanta should be throwing money at Mike D'Antoni's feet before the Raptors scoop him up. And yes, I realize that San Antonio was just exploiting a weakness...cause...you know...I kinda said that in my post. But my point is, to say one is a "BETTER" team because you have guys that can waste fouls by hacking a guy off the ball so he can miss freethrows is silly. Purposely fouling a guy off the ball to stop the game in the middle of the quarter isn't a basketball play, its an exploitation of a rule. A rule that is going to be changed this offseason just because of this series. i am not blaming them though. Shaq should stop being a bitch and shoot them underhanded if he can't bend his wrist and that "I won't shoot like a girl" crap is dumb and just cost his team a series. But when it comes down to it, at least 2 games in this series was lost due to exploitation of a rule. That said, they still SHOULD have won games 1 and 5, despite the exploitation of the rule. It just came down to the Spurs getting more chances to score.

Except the spurs won 2 of their four wins base soley upon Hack a Shaq. That literally was the difference. I don't see how you can say a team was clearly better when they basically won on fouling a guy off the ball in non basketball plays. Not that I blame them. It was sound stragedy and they won, but to say they were CLEARLY the better team becaues Shaq missed freethrows is a little silly.

Seriously, how do they know its more than one person? I mean...wouldn't everything about this suggest one person doing it?

I am also still pissed that the Suns refused to go over the cap for: Luel Deng Rajon Rondo Kurt Thomas Sergio Rodrieguez Rudy Fernandez (although I realize they might have picked different players) But said: Lets go over the cap for SHAQ!

They need to keep Skinner as he is a good back up big and they need to figure out what they are going to do on the defensive end. They need a MONSTER at the Center position to make up for how horrible Amare is defensively. Diaw did a incredible job tonight offensively and defensively much like last game. He simply is not a bench guy and is only effective as a starter. They are going to have to move Hill to the bench, although HIll was huge all season, you can't count on him the whole year, so you might as well have a guy that is going to be there and plays well.

You know what you sound like? Kings fans after 2002. The average Kings Fan, to this day, keeps making excuses for why we lost, and we still don't want to accept that the Lakers were the better team (and man, did that hurt me to have to type). Because the Lakers were better than those Kings team. It would be a apt comparison if there was this one year where the second most important player on the team broke his face, or if Chris Webber and Vlade Divac got suspended this one year for taking a step on the court. The Spurs have played the complete Suns team one time out of the three. No way the Suns would have won the first one, because the Spurs were the best team then. The last two season, they have been evenly matched. Simple as that. The scores and the series have said as much.

To be fair, D'Antoni didn't have a bench this year like he has had. The bench guys that didn't play this series: Sean Marks, Eric Piakowski, DJ Strawberry, Linton Johnson. Seriously, which one of those guys were supposed to get more playing time?

You have everything that happened right there in front of you. Even with their story, they were in the wrong. They were unmarked, plain clothes guys with guns telling guys to stop in a bad neighborhood. Saying "They tried to hit me with a CAR!" was an attack on a "police officer" when they didn't know it was a police officer is just plain fucking silly. Its dumb shit like this that got that grandmother in Atlanta shot and killed where the police officers were completely in the wrong.

Could be great, although Lakers - Spurs wouldn't be anything to hate anyway.

Because nothing happened in the series last year out of the ordinary. And Shaq not being able to shoot freethrows means that obviously the Spurs are superior and in no way are they evenly matched with the team that was 3 close games and a blow out for both teams. Niether was the was the series that was tied up 2-2 last season before the suspensions and the last two games also came down to the last possessions. Yeah....no way are they evenly matched.

Well thats just a crock of bullshit. I have never said the Suns were the better team. I said they were two evenly matched teams, which they were and which they still are.

Yeah he had some turnovers. But turnovers happen. 17 missed freethrows is what cost them the game. And missed freethrows cost them game one. We all know who was missing the freethrows.

That was a bad pass. Right into bowens hand honestly. Good game, good series. Its sad that they lost because Shaq couldn't hit freethrows, but oh well. If someone doesn't force that fucker to shoot underhand this offseason, I have to question the balls of everyone on the team.

The end of this game is going to take 30 minutes.