The Team is Royalty: Suns Usurp LeBron's Throne

The Cavaliers were simply dismantled last night as the Phoenix Suns rolled on the east's best team for a 109-90 whooping of the Cleveland Cavaliers. The Suns played the epitome of team basketball and it was the big three who easily took this game from the Cavs.

Steve Nash is amazing. He is by far the best team player in the league if not for the best player. He only scores four points and leads his team to a blowout, of course he did have 21 freaking assists, one shy of a career high.

Steve made every pass look so easy and his teammates were knocking down their shots in rhythm with great consistency. This is what inspired basketball looks like. Every player on the team knows the system inside and out and are doing exactly what they need to do.

Oh yeah, Steve's horrible defense forced at least two turnovers that I can remember, one being an offensive foul and the other a steal. I guess you can say that he also locked down Eric Snow and Damon Jones, if that's possible.

So much for the Cavs "stellar" defense because it was the Suns frontcourt who showed the boys from back east how we do things out west. I didn't hear the game cast because I was at the game but I'd imagine last night woke a lot of people up who said the Suns don't play defense.

This is the improved defense that we have been watching all year.

Amare Stoudemire is crashing the boards like never before and he is a presence in the paint, patrolling for unlucky passerby's who think they can get a shot off. Take that shit elsewhere is Amare's message while he was blocking five shots, altering countless others and snagging six offensive rebounds.

Thank you Amare for taking off that arm-pantyhose. I really do appreciate it. You da man.

Amare and Shawn really stopped the Cavs from doing anything. Shawn grabbed 11 rebounds, snaked four steals and added a block while having the dubious task of guarding the anointed one, whatever that means.

Lebron played great but the Cavs just have too many weaknesses on the floor whereas the Suns are a threat at every position. Numerous times I saw Zydrunas Ilgauskas get frustrated by Phoenix's double team and throw away a turnover or put up a brick.

Then you have Eric Snow being the only man open and he has to take that shot. That is not what a team wants. Brick brick brick.



We have some firepower on this team.

They say you can never have too many shooters. Well we had Raja Bell, Leandro Barbosa, James Jones and Kurt Thomas, all shooting the ball very well and helping Nashty look too good. Leandro has a cornucopia of confidence right now and he is clearly our backup do-everything guard.

James Jones has emerged from his funk and in true form has upped his value exponentially with great shooting, defense and hustle. He was actually taking guys off the dribble last night and creating his own shot.

I was listening to Ron Wolfley on KTAR this morning and he summed it up nicely:

They lit it up like Oprah's oven.

This team is something else. It is eight men clicking in unison and they have the Phoenix basin (it's not really a valley) excitable. Everyone wants the playoffs to start tomorrow yet we have a long way to go and the Suns potential is somewhere in the stratosphere.

We haven't even had a glimpse of their ceiling.