4. Keef Calls Out The Fans
To be fair, the Morris twins had been complaining about the fans at US Airways Center after the win against the Thunder two nights before. But that was off-the-record locker room talk. When Markieff Morris went on the record in calling out the home crowd after the Spurs rout, he came off as a really sore loser who didn’t deserve the crowd’s support.
“I don’t think we have a home-court advantage,” Morris told Paul Coro of the Arizona Republic. Keef publicly questioned whether or not the fans were as behind the team as they should be, going on to say:
"“They don’t boo but they don’t cheer that much either. We feed off, for the most part, off the energy of each other. I know we’re a lot better than that. I know Phoenix fans are a lot better than that. Like I said, we have a lot of genuine fans that cheers for us – the ones that are in the first row, in the second row, in the third row. Once you go up, you feel like people was just at the game, just watching.”"
No matter when he said what he said, calling our your own fans is generally a bad idea (even if he was 100 percent right). But when the team has been good in the past, the fans have shown up and been LOUD. For the fair-weather fans to show up, the Suns need to get there again. Until then, it’s a good idea not to alienate the fan base this team should be trying to impress in the first place.
Next: No. 3