一點韌性也沒有
一直輸一直輸
太陽今日主場對爵士
一度領先12分
最後一節卻完完全全招架不住
我連recap都不想看了
最近三場Boris的平均得分超過16分
表現很好
但是太陽卻輸了其中兩場
沒關係
新的太陽還在磨合
但是Nash 的失誤過多到不行
團隊失誤很多很多
然後今日Boris在第四節
at the moment to step up
he did step up
他主動攻擊籃框得分
他切到籃下打亂了爵士的防守後傳球給三分外線空掉的Barbosa投三分
他搶到關鍵籃板
but
他卻在最後一分鐘太陽落後要追分的時候
來一個走步違例
traveling!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
damn!!!!!!!!!!
這場球感覺就是輸在親愛的他手上
好心疼
但是好氣
怎麼可以不小心走步!!!!!!!!!!!
虧他今天把頭剃的很乾淨
看起來很帥
很有朝氣
很年輕
我想
那一次裁判響哨
全世界太陽的球迷都恨死他了
好心疼!!!
"成也Boris 敗也Boris"
兩個星期前
太陽還是西區第一
兩星期後
太陽西區第六
正在為保住季後賽資格而做努力
unbelievable!!!
他們這樣一場一場的輸
贏球感覺變得好困難
雖然一直覺得他們活該
交易Shawn Marion
每輸一場 不在意一次 活該一次 對Shawn Marion的致敬又多一次
卻一次一次的相信
下一場
下一場
就會開始連勝
就回重返西區top 4
其實these Suns
Grant Hill
Boris Diaw
Raja Bell
Amare
Barbosa
Steve Nash(你失誤太多 我也把你算進來了...)
好吧 就連
Shaq(我怎麼會願意想到你呢?)
加上兩位新同學
還有板凳上的大家
都真的很拼很拼
但是就是贏不了漂亮的球
這到底是怎麼一回事?
這一切都是Steve Kerr的錯
怎麼辦?
(好像 現在我看更多球隊的球 好像 代表我沒有很愛太陽了 but somehow I still am 每一次輸球 心不那麼急 腦袋卻想不出個所以然來 誰可以告訴我發生什麼事了? 這growing pains and stuggles也太長太痛了吧 心不急 而是心疼 Boris&Grant)
看了Grant Hill的HOME COURT
原來 原來
他老婆是Tamia
好漂亮好漂亮的R&B singer
好酷好酷
而且 我越來越喜歡Grant Hill
他個性好溫和卻很有power
我想這就是characteristics吧
好吧
Grant Hill deserves a Championship ring ,too
just like Shawn Marion, and
(well,) Steve Nash (with unwillingness to admit that)
每一次看到球員和老婆一塊兒訴說他們的成家的故事
就會感覺好棒
上次看到Raja and Cindy Bell也是
princess-maria.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!BB45526229DE361A!956.entry
真的好可愛
很幸福 一起維繫一個家的感覺
也許吧
It depends.
想要冠軍
就別再輸球 拜託
at least hold on there
Grant and Boris!!!!
Bell paying dividends
Paul Coro
The Arizona Republic
Dec. 22, 2006 12:00 AM
The formula for the usual NBA standout is to be coddled as a teenage prodigy, own a blue-chip recruiting label, achieve stardom at a major college and become a first-round draft pick with the corresponding fat, guaranteed contract.
Suns guard Raja Bell had none of that. With every fork in his basketball road, Bell could have veered and wound up lost. Instead, he kept slamming the accelerator and didn't let up, even as he arrived as a prominent NBA figure in Phoenix.
"When I came out of college, I could've never dreamed that I'd be on a team as good as the Suns and get to play the role I play," Bell said.
That meant going undrafted out of Florida International. That meant starting out in the United States Basketball League doing his Florida team's laundry, carrying a Continental Basketball Association team's bags in Yakima, Wash., and eating at Denny's with his International Basketball League teammates in Sioux Falls, S.D., when the first NBA call came.
"It's been a blessing to be able to watch him take the small steps to his dream," Bell's wife, Cindy, said. "He's been able to appreciate every little thing and not take anything for granted. It keeps him very grounded with people, kids and every situation."
Before last season - his first with Phoenix - vaulted Bell into national notoriety with a career-best season, a playoff clothesline on Kobe Bryant and the pivotal shot of the Suns-Clippers series, Bell had to get off the bench in Yakima in 1999.
He was only there because a friend of Yakima coach Paul Woolpert scouted for Atlanta, where Bell was cut after one preseason game, and convinced him to draft Bell among a fourth round of no-names in the CBA draft.
"A lot of people in the CBA had never heard of him," Woolpert said. "The one constant is Raja. He knew he belonged in the NBA. There was no question in his mind. He had that sheer determination."
Dominoes fell right
Fortunately, James Cotton could not take the CBA grind and quit, leaving Bell as the team's only shooting guard. Even after he broke into the NBA with Philadelphia, Bell was out again in 2002. He was playing in Spain a year after he went from being a 10-day-contract Sixer to guarding Bryant in the 2001 NBA Finals."I wondered if I'd ever play in the NBA again," Bell said.
Fortunately, Suns center Pat Burke had left their Spanish team, Tau Ceramica, two weeks before Bell told their coach he wanted to leave. Normally, fringe players don't ask out of lucrative European deals and teams don't let them walk. Burke's absence put them in need of an American big man. Bell was let go and he hitched with Dallas when Greg Buckner's departure left Dallas in need of a stopper.
Fortunately, the Mavericks had a point guard named Steve Nash who wound up placing the call that convinced Bell to sign with Phoenix in 2005.
Who's fortunate now? Bell or Phoenix, which landed Bell with a midnight call that came before scheduled meetings with four other teams in Miami.
"Raja is really the heart and soul of our team," Suns coach Mike D'Antoni said. "He's a little nutty but we all are. His best attribute is his heart."
Bell's price, $24 million over five years, is arguably a bargain.
"For me to be where I've come from and have coaches coming to talk to me and my wife (Cindy) about their team was unbelievable," he said. "I did better than I ever thought I'd do. I'm slightly a victim of timing. But my existence in this league is the product of good timing. So if I'm going to take the good, I take everything else. I caught a lot of breaks to get here."
Bell bought a lakeside house for his parents - Roger (a University of Miami associate athletic director) and Denise (a teacher) slept on a sofa bed while Raja and his sister, Tombi, shared the Miami apartment's bedroom when they first moved from the U.S. Virgin Islands.
"To be able to give back to them is what I was in it for," Bell said.
This place, where Taco Bell gives him endorsements and ESPN.com carries his journal, never was certain. Only his passion for the game was and had been since he was a kid drawing lines in the street to run sprints or playing in "strength shoes" carrying extra weight.
That love is why he drove from Miami to Boca Raton to make enough in the USBL to cover his gas.
"It was just, 'Give me a uniform, a ball and a floor,' and I was good to go," Bell said.
That is how it was in Philadelphia. Jumaine Jones, Bell's teammate with the Sixers and now in Phoenix, said, "He's the same guy. He did the same things. Most people talk about how much better he got but, to me, he just got the opportunity."
That is how it was in Dallas. Then-Mavericks coach Don Nelson said, "I misread Raja Bell. I liked him very much but I saw him as a defender and a utility kind of guy. I just didn't think he'd ever develop the shooting touch he has now. Give him all the credit. He has made himself a player and a wonderful player. We always knew he was tough and could guard and run."
That is how it was in Utah. Jazz teammate Jarron Collins said, "He brings a lot of energy and tremendous passion to the court. At times, he shows a fire that results in people getting put in headlocks. Fans respect that. As a teammate, you respect someone that has that fire. He won't back down from anyone or any challenge."
Now, everyone knows. He is a respected defender, one of the league's more accomplished three-point shooters and tougher than tank armor. Since the playoffs, fans nationwide tilt their heads or squint their eyes in recognition of a celebrity in public.
He accepts the status among his fans warmly but longs to remain "normal." He is still the guy who eats at a pancake house with Cindy on game days and prefers going to a movie or staying at his central Phoenix house with his wife, who is expecting their first child, a son, in May after two years of marriage and a 10-year relationship that began when he transferred to Florida International. Cindy jokes now that he taught her to have patience.
Now, she returns the favor when his competitive fire is inextinguishable.
"I try my best to give him that calm in the middle of the storm," she said. "It doesn't always work but as long as I'm there."
www.azcentral.com/sports/suns/articles/1222bell1222.html
Win vs. Spurs would be 'huge' for Suns
Doug Haller
The Arizona Republic
Mar. 8, 2008 06:55 PM
Those theories will be tested Sunday afternoon in ways that they haven't in the past. As defending champs, the San Antonio Spurs present another obstacle, but also an opportunity.
If the Suns lose, they are following the same flight plan that has unfolded since they acquired O'Neal. They have lost six of their past nine games, sliding into sixth place in the Western Conference postseason race.
But if the Suns win, perspective changes slightly. After all, any team that beats the Spurs, who have won 15 of their past 17, has a license to believe that better days are ahead.
"Big," is how Mike D'Antoni classified the 12:30 p.m. tipoff at US Airways Center. "Because it turns the mood around a little bit. . . . It would be huge if we could win."
The Suns coach made no promises, but the frustration stemming from Friday's 126-118 home loss to Utah had evaporated by the end of Saturday's light practice.
Despite the Suns' stumbles, D'Antoni remains encouraged. Yes, the game film revealed defensive flaws, but it was nothing that D'Antoni said couldn't be fixed.
He said the Suns lack mental discipline. Knowing when to help. Remembering the game plan. Avoiding fouls during the shot clock's final seconds.
Against teams such as Utah, Dallas and San Antonio, success boils down to four or five shots, D'Antoni said. And recently, the Suns have made those opportunities much too easy for opponents.
"Sometimes we play too hard," D'Antoni said. "We get too anxious, and we overrun things and get ourselves in trouble. We're not a great defensive team. We know that, (but) sometimes you try too hard. We get ourselves into a position where you think, 'You know what? It would've been better if you just laid back there.' "
The statistics are ugly: Since O'Neal's insertion, the Suns have given up 113.2 points per game. Opponents are shooting 50.4 percent. On Friday, the Jazz made 12 of 16 shots in the fourth quarter. All four misses came in a two-minute span. Over the final 6:29, Utah did not miss a shot, sinking 6 of 6 from the field and 10 of 10 from the foul line.
Still, the Suns saw improvement. Two days after O'Neal's arrival, assistant coach Dan D'Antoni said it would take at least a month before everyone felt comfortable. He hasn't changed his mind. The Suns still are thinking instead of reacting, he said. "And anybody in sports will tell you that if you're thinking about what you're doing, you're done."
In the past, the Suns had to rush in and help stop a slasher or penetrating guard. With O'Neal in place, they have yet to fully realize that it's all right for an opponent to attempt a running floater over a 7-foot-1 center. On Friday, after guard Leandro Barbosa fouled a Utah player near the basket, D'Antoni told him: "Don't do that. You take him to the big man, and you let him go."
D'Antoni's assessment: "Our defense was horrible early because everybody was thinking, 'Where do we go? What do we do?' We were confused. Since then it has steadily improved. I think (Friday) night was definitely our best game. By far."
The statistics don't agree, nor do the results, but the Suns seem to accept that, as long as they progress. As guard Steve Nash pointed out, they are not a finished product.
"We need to play out these last 20 games and see where we stand," he said. "We know we're going to be a lot better 20 games from now. . . . We just hope we're still in the playoff picture as we go through these growing pains.
www.azcentral.com/sports/suns/articles/0308suns.html
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