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Pick and Roll: Is Alvin Gentry a long-term solution?

For this week’s Pick and Roll, Mark and I discussed new Suns Coach Alvin Gentry. We asked ourselves if Coach Gentry could be a long term solution to lead the Suns. We seem to agree on Alvin, the man, not sure [...]

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Reflections on a sad night, despite the win

The Suns beat the Bobcats 112-102 last night in Phoenix. It was a solid victory as Nash, Shaq and Richardson, each scored more than 20 points each. Why then the game left me with a bitter taste? It was all about [...]

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Celtics too much for Suns. Boston cruises to easy win in Phoenix

(Photo: AP Photo/Paul Connors) Rajon Rondo scored 32 points on his 23rd birthday and Ray Allen added 31  as the Celtics beat the Suns 128-108  in Phoenix. It was the first loss of under Alvin Gentry for the Suns (31-24) and came against [...]

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Leandro now ready to fly

The Suns have been built to run and their game suffered terribly from the slower style of play Steve Kerr and Terry Porter tried to impose on the team against the will of their own players. While this is true for almost [...]

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There is joy in Sunsville !

(AP Photo/Matt York) All of a sudden, Suns basketball is fun again. The Suns unleashed all their season-long frustration on the Clippers, 140-100, last night in the first game under new Coach Alvin Gentry. They were hungry and looked like a [...]

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The Porter Era is over. Suns “back” to Alvin Gentry

The Terry Porter Era lasted a total of 51 games (28-23). Porter was the 8th coach fired in the NBA this season and the only one with a winning record. Porter, a real gentleman, was simply the wrong coach for [...]

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Pick and Roll: Rebuild now or take another shot

For this week’s Pick and Roll, Mark and I decided to focus on the Big Issue the Suns are facing right now: Rebuild now or take another shot with the current core of players. We seem to agree this is going [...]

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ESPN John Hollinger on the Suns rebuilding process. A mess, one could add

(Barry Gossage/NBAE/Getty Images) Amid all the talks about possible trades, players leaving, the coach being fired and so on it’s easy to forget we’re about to witness (probably) the end of an era. The Suns are looking like a franchise [...]

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ESPN John Hollinger on the Suns rebuilding process. A mess, one could add

(Barry Gossage/NBAE/Getty Images) Amid all the talks about possible trades, players leaving, the coach being fired and so on it’s easy to forget we’re about to witness (probably) the end of an era. The Suns are looking like a franchise [...]

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Suns trading everyone. Please stop the nonsense

This idea that now everything is possible and the Suns could trade anyone except maybe Steve Nash (not so sure) and the Gorilla is a nonsense. Trading Amare won’t give the Suns a chance to win the title. It could only [...]

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