Dallas Finally Succumbs

The Suns just moved into first place in the league with a Dallas loss to the Chicago Bulls last evening. It's about time someone took initiative. This was the first game, other than Suns games, that I was actually engaged with.

I want to make an apology to Luol Deng who got a mouthful from yours truly for missing a couple easy layups in the fourth quarter. So now that means since we beat the Bulls already, we also indirectly beat the Mavs. Silencing critics one day at a time over here.

Dallas lost by 11 points last night. Earlier in the year they lost by 22 points to the Jazz, 10 points to the Pistons, 18 points to the Clippers and 31 points to the Rockets! The Suns, however, have never lost by a double digit number and have a the best point differential in the league. There is no way that you can say the Mavs are a superior team to the Suns, in fact, the reverse is true. The Mavs are the inferior team, they are playing at their peak level, and losing by double digit numbers.

The Mavericks are not the best team in the league. The Suns potential sees no bounds.

I love it when the ignorant masses shout out such cliche blanket statements dismissing the Suns as, 'the way they play, they will be too tired in the playoffs.' Well, in 04-05, with no bench to speak of we lost a key starter to a broken eye socket that put us away only after taking out the Mavs.

Last season, without Superstar franchise player Amare Stoudemire, and our key post defender Kurt Thomas, the Suns overachieved and beat the Lakers, Clippers and were giving Dallas all they could handle until a freak Raja Bell injury. But I guess when starters get hurt that really means they got too tired. Everybody is tired by the playoffs and the Suns will be the best conditioned bunch out there come June. Health equals title.

'Dallas plays better defense and the Suns have none.' Well I guess Avery Johnson is just that charismatic. Sure he can talk about their D all day and night and convince the ignorant who don't check the numbers but they have the sixth best D in the lig, while the Suns have the eighth. Not a lot of space there, but considering the Suns have the best offense in the lig, and in years, to Dallas' third place standing it basically makes it a wash.

When you think about it, though, it's much easier to become more dominant offensively than defensively. The Suns could score more points easier than the Mavs can get better on defense. Sure, Coach D'Antoni could babble incessantly about their astonishingly great D, but that's just not his style.

With that loss, Dallas comes back down to Earth and the Suns are flying high on a 15 game winning streak that we can use to put a little distance between us and the Mavs. With a game at Milwaukee tonight, a team missing starters Michael Redd, Charlie Villanueva and Mo Williams, we should have zero problems taking care of business.

Of course, that's what we thought when we played the Knicks. We need to respect every team and know that there is enough talent on any team to come out, play hard, and steal a win. Nash knows it and won't allow the Suns to have a letdown tonight.

With that said, I think we can easily blow them out of the water.