Monday, December 15th, 2008 at 9:00 am  |  43 responses

More Emotion from Steve Nash

The Suns’ leader barely recognizes the team he’s on, and credits Mike D’Antoni with the Knicks’ early-season success.

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  • Torrance Posted: Dec.15 at 9:26 am
    Nash is a cool guy. I feel sorry for him watching his team collapse around him. He’ll never win the chip, but at least he got individual trophies to show…

  • James The Balla Posted: Dec.15 at 9:26 am
    first

  • James The Balla Posted: Dec.15 at 9:33 am
    Hey Steve Nash, Raja Bell, and Dantoni deserve it for being d1cks. Steve Nash is a pr1ck. Maybe he should suck up to Kobe and become back up point to Derek and have a shot at a ring!! Thats what you get for defending Raja bell will a stiff arm to Kobe!! No ring … im laughing hysterically!!

  • 王骁男 Posted: Dec.15 at 9:45 am
    See what will be happend in the future of the season between Richardson and Nash. chemistry!

  • Cheryl Posted: Dec.15 at 9:47 am
    Nash will be the next to go.

  • Co Co Posted: Dec.15 at 9:50 am
    Hasn’t Nash built his career off of “making other players better”? Well, now seems like the perfect opportunity for him to validate that.

  • WhaHuh Posted: Dec.15 at 9:56 am
    thus the flaw of “making players better” it doesnt happen

  • youngmuggsy Posted: Dec.15 at 10:03 am
    Is that why he’s been passing the ball to the other team so much?

  • Russ Bengtson Posted: Dec.15 at 10:11 am
    Either Nash or Amare’s getting dealt next, and I don’t see the Suns trading Amare quite yet. (Nash for Chris Duhon and Jared Jeffries works under the cap, by the way.)

  • Bryan Posted: Dec.15 at 10:12 am
    There’s too many alpha dogs on this team now. Nash can’t keep everyone happy and I don’t like Matt Barnes’ attitude at all he acts like he’s the best player on the floor and he’s garbage.

  • ciolkstar Posted: Dec.15 at 10:12 am
    Nash built his his career off D’Antoni’s system and his high shooting percentages. The ability to “make other players better” isn’t a myth, but it doesn’t exist in a vacuum. There needs to be some chemistry and a system/style that allows one to “make others better”

  • Jess Posted: Dec.15 at 10:16 am
    Nash can make his way north of the border and play for his coach from the canadian national team….this will work…

  • youngmuggsy Posted: Dec.15 at 10:18 am
    3.7 turnovers per game and no defense whatsoever from their starting allstar point guard, thats their problem.

  • Roy Posted: Dec.15 at 10:31 am
    free Steve Nash… :D

  • Ulee Posted: Dec.15 at 10:42 am
    Dear Steve Nash, sometimes mommys and daddys break up and mommy leaves … and then some of the kids get sent to live with Aunt Charlotte … it’s pretty common. Daddy will just throw extra money at you and you will feel all better …just as long as your new stepbrother (Richardson) doesn’t outshine you … lol

  • Todd Spehr Posted: Dec.15 at 10:50 am
    Apparently it looks like Nash will opt out after this year – at least that’s what “a friend of Nash” told a newspaper over the weekend. Take a bow Steve Kerr…

  • Ulee Posted: Dec.15 at 11:03 am
    Hey Hey hey @Russ, we (Knicks) just got Chris Duhon and we’re not giving him up for an aging player that can’t adapt to change and has to sit out part of the quarter to rest his back.

  • From out of Nowhere Posted: Dec.15 at 11:19 am
    Somebody give Nash a “cheer up, emo kid” shirt. Take a look at Dwyane Wade’s situation with the Heat – how many of his current teammates played with him on the 2006 championship team? Last season, his team was the worst in the league, and he couldn’t do much to change that. Also, unlike the Heat, the Suns made the playoffs last year, and have a better shot of making the playoffs this season than the Heat. Sure, D-Wade could move to another team in 2010, but do you hear him whining?

  • From out of Nowhere Posted: Dec.15 at 11:21 am
    Btw, I do realize that Wade has a ring and a gold medal, but still…

  • H to the Izzo Posted: Dec.15 at 11:23 am
    From out of Nowhere:DWade can’t see his career coming closer and closer to ending,also.

  • Z Posted: Dec.15 at 12:16 pm
    How is that NOT throwing Porter under the bus?

  • Myles Brown Posted: Dec.15 at 12:19 pm
    FREE STEVE NASH.

  • Z Posted: Dec.15 at 12:25 pm
    News (at least to me) : Steve Nash isn’t the worst defender at the 1. Calderon is. I’ve been paying close attention to his matador defense this year and, well, it’s just freaking awesome. He’ll raise both hands to entice the drive from the point guard and duck out out of his way at the last second to let the charging guard go through. That, my friends, is art.

  • underdog Posted: Dec.15 at 1:46 pm
    Who the hell needs Jared freakin’ Jeffries!?

  • Jukai Posted: Dec.15 at 2:42 pm
    Just a note: Nash, T-Mac, and Iverson can all opt out of their contract in 2009. I can see another Boston situation unfolding. A very old, very injury prone Boston situation.

  • Jukai Posted: Dec.15 at 2:42 pm
    Also, even I have to say that Nash has to stop freaking crying.

  • Tarzan Cooper Posted: Dec.15 at 3:13 pm
    steve nash was a very good offensive player who dribbled the ball until someone was open, then passed it to them(they all knew to shoot when nash passed to them). i could avg. 12 assists a game doing that. nash owes his mvps(WHAT A JOKE!) d’antoni, marion, and amare.

  • Dark Posted: Dec.15 at 3:33 pm
    Chris Duhon went form career backup to double double machine in the D’Antoni offense. I think that says something about those Nash MVPs.

  • EC Posted: Dec.15 at 4:06 pm
    I agree completely with Tarzan and Dark. Nash owes his mvps to Mike D, Marion and Amare and most of all the media that hyped him beyond belief and made uneducated non b-ball fans believe he was the best thing since sliced bread and the best ball player in the world when he wasnt even the best on his own team. Pathetic

  • Moose Posted: Dec.15 at 4:34 pm
    Nash, play with your own team and compete for who’s employing you.

  • kracka0476 Posted: Dec.15 at 4:55 pm
    Nash for Marbury!!!!

  • Jukai Posted: Dec.15 at 5:53 pm
    Am I really reading all this crap correcting? Mike D made Nash, the coach who never made it to the NBA finals, the coach who refused to teach his players defense, who refuses to play with a lineup of more than seven people? MARION made Nash, the guy who once he left Nash can’t seem to get a shot or play a lick of defense on a real team? Amare made Nash? We’re talking about the same Amare who can’t seem to score a point once another body is in the paint?
    Christ, recently I know how Kobe fans feel.

  • Jukai Posted: Dec.15 at 5:57 pm
    I guess since Iverson can’t win in Detroit, it was Larry Brown, Eric Snow and Aaron McKie that really got him that MVP.

  • EC Posted: Dec.15 at 6:41 pm
    Iverson has a bad start with a new team for the first time in his 12 year hall of fame career and you’re going back to his philly days when AIs been nice everywhere with everyone every year. Nash had a few good seasons and has been irrelevant the rest of his 12 year career, and the reason he was relevant is because of his team and style of play. Look what happened when mike left and the style of play changed. Its a fact Nash is a product of system or else he wouldnt need Mike or the run and gun style to be good

  • Caleb Posted: Dec.15 at 7:19 pm
    Nash may be the product of a system to an extent, but people act like anyone can just step into that system and become steve nash. It takes talent to run things effectively as nash did.

  • Jukai Posted: Dec.15 at 8:32 pm
    Bad start? So wait, we can attribute Iverson’s lack of playing to a “bad start” (and please note that Iverson was the go-to-guy always-had-the-ball in both Phili and Denver, that’s a style of play, now that he’s out of that style of play, he is suffering) but we can’t attribute that to Nash? Really?
    Did anyone think that Nash maybe just needs time to get adjusted? Did you notice in the last eight games, Nash is averaging 18 points and 9.75 assists? He isn’t GOING to average twelve assists anymore simply because the team is taking less shots and Shaq stops ball movement like a black hole. That doesn’t mean it was all D’Antoni’s style.
    Christ and a half.

  • Dark Posted: Dec.15 at 8:47 pm
    Nobody said Nash was a scrub, but he’s no MVP (2-time?!?!). He’s back to borderline All-Star, where he should be. The D’Antoni Suns were just a perfect storm of players and coaching style.

  • Jukai Posted: Dec.15 at 9:37 pm
    I don’t believe he should have been a two-time MVP. I believe Kobe or Lebron should have taken it the second year. That being said, the first year was legit for Nash, but… borderline all-star? You kidding me? Are you that ridiculously biased?

  • Z Posted: Dec.15 at 11:10 pm
    OKAY, everybody needs to effin relax.
    Nash is (was?) not a borderline all-star. That’s ridiculous, he was the truth for the last couple of years. He might not make it this year though because the competition is fierce at the guard spots out West.
    Nash did not make Marion or STAT. Marion was 20-10′ing before Nash moved to the desert and STAT is an elite big. Throw him on any team and he’ll get his. I think they both benefited from each other.

  • Z Posted: Dec.15 at 11:11 pm
    Oh and Mike D will make a pg look good. The rotation is so short, there’s no real back up pg and you get to dribble the ball for like 95% of the possession. You’re bound to drop some dimes (and maybe even assists if you’re Steph).

  • Jukai Posted: Dec.16 at 1:59 am
    When Z has to defend Nash, shnit’s bad.

  • Dark Posted: Dec.16 at 2:52 am
    Yes, when it is tough for a player to make an All Star squad – as it is now, and as it was when Nash was in Dallas – that would make him a borderline All Star in my book. Anyways, don’t mean to hate, I still think the guy’s a great player.

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