You Can Never Go Home Again

The Suns are the better team. Much better, as it turns out.

Is there really anything else to discuss?

Do you want to talk about all the missed free throws? I don’t.

What about our awful switching pick and roll defense that leaves Tim Duncan or Antonio McDyess guarding Steve Nash one on one about 35 times a game? Didn’t think so.

Goran Dragic’s fourth quarter? Next.

The fact that the Suns go 10 deep and we go about 3 1/2 deep? Pass.

Or there’s this little nugget: in the fourth quarter, the Suns had 21 possessions. They scored on 15 of them, got fouled on 2 of them, and got stopped on 4 of them. 4 stops in the 4th quarter of a must-win game. I’ll be moving on from that now.

We can look back at the 3 games we’ve lost and second guess some choices, nitpick others, and wonder about some big “if”s and “maybe”s. But sometimes you just run into a better team. These Suns are a better team. They’ve beaten us 5 times out of 6 chances this season, and they’ve controlled every game in this series. They are getting contributions from every player, and they are playing like a team, perhaps a great team. They deserve this series, and at this point, it’s only a formality.

I’d like to believe that if any team can rise from a 0-3 deficit, it’s the Spurs. Maybe the Spurs teams of the past might have had a chance. But not this Spurs team. We just don’t have the talent, the depth, or the mettle to do it. I’d like to think we can win Game 4 to avoid the sweep, but who knows at this point.

Tune in Sunday night; it may be the last Spurs game of the year.