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Bledsoe may be 5-18 but 6Rips,7asst and 2stls with only 2 turns is called contributing elsewhere.

This is s fun game so far. Bled playing badly, and Keef needs to die, but great to see Booker hit some 3s.

Remember when Aaron Brooks was a Sun? Yea, neither do I

Was our crowd just chanting "Let's go Bulls?"

It has been an exciting high-energy game. It sure would be nice to come away with a win.

We're going to lose cause they have Jimmy Butler....and we don't essentially.

Bledsoe playing too much hero ball down the stretch

Bledsoe sucked. Keef needs to go. The End.

Well that was winnable we just need to play better defense. Even with a bad offensive outing if we had just not given them so many open looks we would have been okay.

F*ck the fans at the game for chanting "Lets go Bulls."

I can't believe Seattle, a city with great NBA fans, lost their NBA team and can't get a new one, while Phoenix, a city where every Lakers or Bulls game is an away game, has one.

Mori Chu wrote:I can't believe Seattle, a city with great NBA fans, lost their NBA team and can't get a new one, while Phoenix, a city where every Lakers or Bulls game is an away game, has one.

Shhhhhh. Keep it down!

To be fair the Suns put out a pretty bland fan experience when it comes to arena atmosphere. We also hardly ever have a star player.

Despite the great start Bledsoe has had to the season, he still dislike him here. He just doesn't get it. On so many plays he just barrels into the lane, and you can tell that he's made up his mind what he's going to do before the play even unfolds. He doesn't look for his teammates, he is just going to plow into the defender and put up a contested shot and hope it goes in or that he gets fouled. It drives me crazy. I don't think I can have a starting PG on my team who plays like this after the Nash years. I want better.

I wish coaches in the NBA had any guts and could mold players into what they need to be. I think Bledsoe actually might have been capable of learning the right way to play, but nobody is ever going to make him do it and hold him to it. So he just keeps reinforcing the same bad habits. If anything he's learning to do it even more, because it nets him 20+ ppg and maybe All-star consideration this year if he keeps it up. Ugh.

I'm only 6 minutes into the first quarter but had to leave a comment. I thought this was a home game. Somehow they laid down the Suns court in Chicago. (And I thought the Lakers games were bad.)

The other day against the Lakers was the same. It is disgusting hearing people booing calls against the visiting team.

carey wrote:Not a good start.

That 1st quarter was the difference in the game. We pretty much outplayed them after that. Kieff sucks! We're much better without him.

Sunsfan4life wrote:BIG TUCK

EDC wrote:That board work!

That sequence was the best part of the whole game.

Because of the temperate weather, Phoenix gets a ton of "winter visitors" especially from the Midwest. So you're going to have some misplaced Bulls fans. But, yeah, it stinks when they are louder that the Suns fans.

Ultimately, though, you blame the franchise management for putting a mediocre product on the floor for the last decade or so and eroding the fan base. All the expensive seats belong to corporate sponsors who put their mothers and aunts there, or out-of-town guests.

Sunsfan4life wrote:Bledsoe may be 5-18 but 6Rips,7asst and 2stls with only 2 turns is called contributing elsewhere.

Good observation. Bledsoe isn't the problem. Sticking an ineffective Markieff back into the lineup so he could shoot 33% isn't helping things. But management doesn't have the guts to make a change.

LazarusLong wrote:Because of the temperate weather, Phoenix gets a ton of "winter visitors" especially from the Midwest. So you're going to have some misplaced Bulls fans. But, yeah, it stinks when they are louder that the Suns fans.

Ultimately, though, you blame the franchise management for putting a mediocre product on the floor for the last decade or so and eroding the fan base. All the expensive seats belong to corporate sponsors who put their mothers and aunts there, or out-of-town guests.

It's on the Suns. Just look at the Cardinals. They have no problem filling a stadium with Red. The Suns would be there too. I have seen it. This town is dying to support a quality Suns team but watching this team has been depressing for a while now.

Sports is an entertainment industry. It is the team's responsibility to build the atmosphere they want in their own building. Fans are the customers.