Time to get in shape

Here's ten things I thought about during last night's loss.

1. Even people who don't watch basketball want to know if Kobe is getting traded. Some dude at the gas station asked me about it. I think he was a terrorist.

2. Tons of people complimented me on my KJ jersey yesterday. One Spurs fan at work yelled Phoenix sucks! F-cking guys on the Back Office team. KJ will be in Phoenix when Jerry Colangelo gets added to the ring of honor Sunday.

3. Raja is off. Doesn't have his legs yet.

4. The team got in at 4 am from Seattle. The early season can be tough for good teams because they play lot of TV games and they have home/road back-to-backs.

5. The defense was awful. Once the Laker bench got hot, there was no way PHX was coming back.

6. Kobe hates playing against PHX despite his big scoring nights. When his teammates play well, he's told to be a distributor and he goes cold. As he misses shots trying to heat up and stretch a lead, the Suns comeback. Didn't happen last night because his teammates were so ridiculously hot they didn't need his offense.

7. DJ Strawberry does look like an NBA player. He moves really well and he has a ton of energy. If he can learn from Grant and Marion, he could be a real steal.

8. Sasha Vujacic needs to be bitch slapped.

9. Coach D'Antoni talking shit to Phil Jackson is awesome. People forget dude was a legend in Italy. He's probably fought a guy or two in the discotheques of Milan.

10. It'll be a good 15-20 games before we know what kind of team this is. I look forward to seeing how they gel over the 1st quarter of the season.