“It is the story of our season. We let another game slip away.”
Shaq uttered those words two nights ago in Miami, but he may as well have made a recording to use after Friday night’s 116-112 defeat, the toughest loss to swallow to this point.
The Suns’ defense has so struggled to get stops the past [...]

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Rockets 116, Suns 112

The road trip from hell continues with a stop in Houston, as the Suns continue to distance themselves from the rest of the Western Conference pack, and not in a good way.
Phoenix enters play today 2 1/2 games behind the Mavericks for the final playoff spot and trails Houston and New Orleans [...]

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Suns fans, if not Suns players and management, have been clinging to the hope of “if only they reach the playoffs, Amare will return to save the day.”
Not that they were even a playoff team with STAT in the lineup, but you would at least think the Amare, Nash and Shaq Big Three would give [...]

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Welcome to the very first ValleyoftheSuns.com podcast, for which I’m joined by Ben York and Mark McLane from Fanster.com’s Deep Purple. In this episode, we provide our thoughts on the “Seven Seconds or Shaq” system, who most needs to step up in Amare’s absence and make our guesses on if the Suns will reach postseason play.

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The Suns did just about everything they wanted to do offensively Wednesday night in Miami.
They hit 55.8 percent of their shots, a season-high 14 triples at a 50 percent clip, every starter reached double figures and four scored at least 19, the Suns ran, they got easy buckets from Shaq, the ball movement was crisp, [...]

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Heat 135, Suns 129

 
 
 
 
 
 
The Shaq Homecoming tour continues tonight in Miami when the Shaqtus faces his third former team in three games by making his first visit back to South Beach since The Big Trade.
It will be interesting to see how Heat fans react to the Diesel, because on one hand he brought the city [...]

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