I very much appreciate the readership and support.

I agree Tempe reader; some of the sentences were long and awkward as a result of my not doing the editing job I normally would have due to time constraints.

Not to mention, I still do not completely have the rhythm of the piece down as a result of "Coach's Corner" being a new feature.

As a result, if you could cut me some slack that would be great.

As far as "Diamond Dave" this was simply an allusion to the sub-heading: "Runnin' with Amar'e" which of course is a play on words referencing the first track, "Runnin' with the Devil," off of Van Halen's legendary self-titled debut

Not to mention, Van Halen also had a minorly well known song and video that you also might of heard of off of thier somewhat well known multi platinum selling 1984 album known simply as "Jump."

And, no, the earth did not literally shatter when this album came out, but it did, however, do earth shatteringly well in sales receipts.

Thanks for reading!

Coach C

While not traditionally accurate – by your lofty standards – Corey is using the word "literally" in an oft-accepted fashion. This allows for the word to mean "in effect; in substance; very nearly; virtually." Obviously, those words somewhat contradict the hard defintions of "literally," which include "accurate" and "without exaggeration."

Besides, since "literally" is an adverb, it cannot modify the noun "mistake"; rather it is modifying the adjective "huge" and is appropriate in the sentence. For clarification: "The teams that passed on Blair made huge mistakes, both literally (because he's a large man) and figuratively (because his talent was overlooked and he would make a fine addition to any team picking in the first round)."

Maybe my example sentence was a run-on, but I had to literally teach you how to interpret a blog article about the Phoenix Suns. Switch to espresso and remove the dash of cynicism.

For example, this run-on gem is one single sentence:

"The Human Highlight Film part 2, or “The Sequel” as I like to call him, kept up this kind of effort all night, putting the exclamation point on a 28-point, 14-board performance with an earth-shattering dunk that would have to have made even “Diamond” David Lee Roth proud with six and a half to go, off of — what else — a Nash and Amar’e classic pick and roll."

Now, what does Roth have to do with our Suns? I'll tell you what: nothing. And despite a nice dunk, the earth did not shatter. And periods are your friend. Use them. Often.

And this statement, again devoid of a much-needed sentence break, really made me pause and stare into space for a moment:

"The Suns also out hustled everyone on The Spurs except for DeJuan Blair, San Antonio’s second-round pick out of Pittsburgh and 2008-2009 co-Big East Player of the Year (with Hasheem Thabeet), who apparently wants to prove to every team that let him slip past the first round that they made a huge mistake (both literally and figuratively)"

Maybe I need another cup of coffee, but how have all these teams made a huge mistake both "literally and figuratively"?

Seriously. Explain it to me. I'm trying to make sense of it. I understand the concept of a mistake. I do not understand the author's intent here, suggesting one can "make a mistake" in the literal sense. Chisel and hammer perhaps?

Anyway, to be fair, I do love reading free content about my favorite team, and it's not like I've contributed jack shit to this (usually great)site, so I shouldn't nit-pick. I just abhor sloppy writing, even sloppy writing per free blog articles.

Eh, I'll shut up now. Go Suns!