Ep. 302: The Moon’s Out
The Basketball Jones — The Fix — Episode 302 (.mp3)
On today’s show, Skeets and I discuss the end of the Suns: Is the window closed? Should coach D’Antoni get canned? What happened to Steve Nash? We also hear from Amare Stoudamire, compare this year’s playoffs to last, and much, much more. Tell your friends.
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Mike D’Antoni in Toronto.
PLEASE make it happen guys!!
Amare called D’Antoni this morning at 6AM so he doesn’t drop out of coaching.
Is it time to write an obit for these Suns?
oh i get it, the moon’s out!
i agree. mike d’antoni in toronto. get it done.
Skeets, I’ll up Tas and bet you $10M that D’Antoni stays in Phoenix. There’s no way they get rid of one of the League’s best coaches.
Note to Ray: Jazz-Rockets was the only seven-game series last year.
JD; great drop with the Common People…everyone who hasn’t should check out that version of the song done by Bill Shatner. Brilliant.
“You’ll never watch your life slide out of view…and dance, and drink and screw…because there’s nothing else to do.”
This is entirely Steve Kerr and Robert Sarvers fault(s). Colangelo had set up a team with an identity and style, and Sarver wouldn’t allow it to gain depth through the draft. Then Kerr literally shits on it with the Shaq move.
More than anything, I missed the old Phoenix suns. I remember tripping balls, watching game 5 of the Suns/Clippers Double OT game a few years back, and falling in love with Diaw, Bell, Marion, and Nash. They were warriors–this team was just a group of guys.
RIP
Skeets, you’re also one of the biggest bandwagoners out there. What do you have against the Spurs?
in david thorpe’s chat.
any way to get nash to toronto? maybe in a sign and trade with calderon? what about in a deal around ford?
maybe it was jerry colangelo’s fault that the Suns franchise was in a lot of debt meaning that Sarver didn’t have as much room to manoeuvere.
after all, why did he want to sell the franchise.
having said that some blame goes to sarver. selling draft picks for cash when you can stash guys like rodriguez and fernandez in europe for a couple of years is criminal.
Skeets, you’re also one of the biggest bandwagoners out there.
Explain.
You like the Raptors only cause everybody loves Chris Bosh
:p
Nice show. I like.
Reality hurts, as a huge Nash-lovin hoser, that was gad awful last night.
I saw the writing on the wall after halftime of Game 2. Suns looked like they had shaved each others nuts at the break: Awkward and confused. Mostly due to Spurs D.
Spurs deserve it, they wanted it and were clutch.
Wish the Suns could have played well all at the same time. At least one Sun pooped the bed bad during every loss.
D’Antoni will stay for the start of next year at least.
actually we should hate cbosh taht guy s a softie compared to dwight maybe cuz hes too busy smoking weed instead of working out like dwight
Alex, that’s just irresponsible. Everyone knows Bosh doesn’t smoke pot — he’s a talented, articulate, hardworking meth addict, and I’ll thank you to refer to him as such.
I agree with 3 Second Will’s praise of JD’s Pulp inclusion. Well played, sir.
And KD’s eulogy for the Suns in BtB this morning was one of the more beautiful pieces of sportswriting I’ve read in a while … I was impressed, depressed, gladdened and saddened, all at the same time. Alas, poor Steven. We hardly knew ye.
does ANYONE think getting shaq was d’antoni’s idea?
it was kerr’s, as a way of repaying the spurs for the 2 rings he got with them.
Maybe someone can confirm this, but didn’t the Suns own draft picks that turned into Luol Deng and Nate Rob which the suns basically gave away? Wonder what other picks they sold/gave away…
They could have had Deng, Linas Kleiza, Jason Maxiell, Nate Robinson, Jarrett Jack, Rajon Rondo, Jordan Farmar, Kyle Lowry, Sergio Rodriguez … among others.
And note: I can’t remember if I said this on the show or not, but I DIDN’T have the Suns going to the Finals. I had the Lake Show.
I hate the talk of ‘The Big Three’ in Detroit.
Tayshaun Prince has been the best player for Detroit and the mindless repetition of ‘The Big Three’ denies him his due. Prince hasn’t the 4th best player on Detroit but he has probably been the 4th best player in ALL of the playoffs behind Dwight Howard, Chris Paul, and Kobe Bryant. Prince is playing perimeter defense better than vintage Bruce Bowen and is shooting a higher adjusted FG% than Dwight Howard. The coaches at Team USA have Prince as the second best SF in the whole country yet somehow people continue to focus on the Big Three. I really like Detroit but it’s crazy how Prince doesn’t get respect.
If you swapped Tayshaun Prince for Shawn Marion in Phoenix the past two years Steve Nash probably has 2 rings. He’s a fanastic player and doesn’t get his due because he’s more focused on being a glue guy than a star. The glue the Pistons needed to fix this series was an elite player stepping up and that’s what they have in Tayshaun Prince.
We knew that the Mailman was a deadbeat dad but how many knew that he was a child molester?
ttp://sports.aol.com/fanhouse/2008/04/30/report-mother-of-buffalo-bills-player-was-12-or-13-when-karl-ma/
Report: Mother of Buffalo Bills Player Was 12 or 13 When Karl Malone Got Her Pregnant
Shouldnt Karl be getting his firm muscles and finely trimmed hair fondled by a couple of dozen inmates who enjoy welcoming child molesters to jail in their own special way?