With the long layoff, they will no longer be in the groove. You could put a bunch of high school kids in Laker uniforms, and Phoenix would panic and lose.

As much as it pains me to say it, I hope you're right. I don't want to hear any more stories about Los Suns and their idiot owner.

I think the Lakers will ultimately prevail, but not in a sweep. In fact, i'll put a c-note on the Suns winning at least 1 game. You in?

I guarantee the suns will win atleast 1 game... They have enough shooters to get hot one night and win, especially at home

What long layoff? Isn't LA about to sweep as well???

I also think the Suns will make a series out of it, but agree that LA will prevail in the end.

Oddly enough, I think SA would have been a tougher matchup for LA than the Suns, even though Phoenix turned out to be the better team.

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4-2 Lakers

Phoenix is better than Oklahoma City -- don't see why they'd just roll over in 4.

Mass, i believe REGARDLESS of the sweep the earliest the NBA WCF can start is may 18th by contract rules.

so it's a long layoff regardless of the previous series.

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I think his point is that La is going to have the same long layoff.

To analyze a Suns/Lakers matchup in the playoffs you have to look at the actual matchups.

Steve Nash will present a tricky situation for Phil because if you try to guard him with Fisher/Farmar you get burned on defense and you don't pressure him enough on offense. If you put Kobe on him, then you wear Kobe's legs out too soon in the series or you force your offense to work through someone else. Nash certainly won't be guarding someone who will make him work, which makes him actually pretty fortunate. He's the best offensive PG in the league and you're not even exposing his defensive weaknesses.

The Suns have bodies to throw at Kobe and Grant Hill will probably have the lion's share of the task -- but that is obviously a matchup that favors the Lakers. Again, Kobe could be gassed by trying to guard Nash at the end of games -- but we'll see what approach the Lakers take.

In the post, if the Suns get Robin Lopez back in time, they may actually be able to frustrate the Lakers. No doubt Gasol will get his -- but Odom and Bynum will probably be less successful. I'm guessing Odom spends a lot of time guarding Amare.

Phoenix's bench is way better than the Lakers and that was the difference in the San Antonio series. If Phoenix's starters can just play even with the Lakers starters, their bench can probably win the series for them.

Beer....nah.

I think he meant the series is about to start if LA can complete the sweep tonight. Even if they win tonight, it actually won't start any earlier.

Right mass?

Suns in 7

Go Suns

There's a zero percent chance that Kobe guards Nash for any sort of legit amount of time (might get caught on a switch for a posession or two.)

It'll be the Fisher, Farmar, Brown trio.

I'm glad the Suns won because I thought San Antonio presented more problems. Not that worried about Phoenix, assuming the Lakers win this series.