Pick one. Just one.

Welcome back to the fold Pheonix. I still don't like the Shaq trade, but... This was one of the best games of the season. The talking heads love to say the Phx Suns can win two ways, and now they are really dangerous. Fair enough, but let's not call this a novel ideal. How many one dimmensional teams win championships? The Detroit Pistons were the last one dimmensional team that won the championship, and they could do it because they spread the ball around among five solid starters. If you think the Spurs are one dimmensional you don't know shit about basktetball. Tony is fast, and always has been. To say the Spurs have to play slow ignores that they have two of the best guards in the league. That doesn't matter though because the Spurs play their style, and don't play to other teams' styles. Wow, I am starting to sound like Dusty. The point is the Suns being able to play two types of basketball is not that big of a deal. Teams that can play one type of ball, other than teams that just ugly up the game to stay close and don't win in the playoffs. Look at most championships teams, they played their style of ball... not two styles of ball. That being said they beat the Warriors convincingly tonight. They beat them when Baron scored damn near forty. They beat the Spurs and Shaq looked good in that game. If the Suns get out of the West they win because they can play the slower style not the fast one. They were better at that style with Marion, and only one team plays like the Warriors... That of course is the Warriors because only one team is coached by someone who once ran the USSR. The Suns are repeatedly saying that they are in training camp mode. 18 games to the playoffs guys. Training camp was over for most teams a little while back. The point is great teams don't play two styles of ball to win games. They make the other team play their game, and have enough parts that can do enough different things that they can keep their style despite mismatches. What style are the Pheonix Suns going to try to win with in the playoffs. I don't think they can switch back and forth between styles and win. Using a 20 million dollar a year guy to win one type of game means it better be the one type of game that matters.

A quick side note, there may not be anything better than the players deciding to mess with Craig Sager's suits. Sager's hankercheif was actually taken out of the pocket and used to wipe sweat from Amare by Nash. How many people that make the amount of money that Sager presumably makes would laugh about people defiling their wardrobe, even if they wore crazy shit to stand out?

The Captain signing off...