Six immediate reactions to a heating-up series that will suddenly go at least six games:

• First things first, since it's obviously what everyone wants to know about: The suspension question. By the letter of the law, Stoudemire and Boris Diaw have to be hit with one-game suspensions for leaving the bench after Horry cracked Nash. This is a virtually iron-clad NBA rule, except for the time back in 2002 that Doug Christie was attacked in the tunnel by Rick Fox in a Lakers-Kings exhibition game and several Kings players left the bench to assist him. The league ruled that time that no one, in the heat of the moment, knew exactly who Christie was tangling with, resulting in some unexpected pardons. In this case, Stoudemire clearly strayed into the court for a brief moment and even Suns coach Mike D'Antoni couldn't stifle a postgame laugh when Phoenix tried to suggest that Stoudemire was heading to the scorer's table to check in after the foul.

However . . .

Stoudemire and Diaw never made it near the scrum, as Suns assistant coaches scrambled them back to the bench. Nor did Monday's incident ever become an actual brawl, with referees Joe DeRosa and Javie getting between Nash and Horry before it could escalate. There is also a growing perception, most of all, that Bowen was shown a good deal of leniency by the league office after being accused of intentionally kicking a dunking Stoudemire in Game 2 and kneeing Nash in Game 3 . . . and going unpunished in both cases. Doesn't the league have to balance that against the notion of "staying consistent" on leaving-the-bench suspensions?

"That would be terrible if that silly play at the end of a game, when the game is really over, if that causes a detriment to the rest of the series," Nash said afterward. "That would be ridiculous."

He then tacked on a pretty shrewd argument about literal interpretations when he pointed out that cheering subs technically leave the bench when they stray onto the court to celebrate big plays.

 

dakle suma sumarum:

 

spursi: trebaju bit zabrinuti jer su i sa losom izvedbom nasha i foul trouble amarea izgubili tekmu...sta su nadskakani... jer su ostali iznenadjeni na udvajanje, a i barry i finley i parker su imali dobre pucacke veceri... jer su izgubili zivce, citaj horry i kontrolu nad sobom i serijom... i zato jer su definitivno pokazali da su dirty sta bi moglo imat utjecaja na sudjenje i kaznjavanje za ubuduce...

 

sunsi: obrnuto, tribaju bit sritni sta su sa losom igrom veci dio tekme prakticki bez barbose, nasha vecim djelom i ponovo glupim faulovima amarea, dosli do pobjede... zadovoljni karakterom jer triba imat muda ono okrenit kad si u banani... tribaju bit zadovoljni sta su pokazali da mogu nadskakat mighty spurse i sa tvrdom igrom pobjedit ihu gostima... svakako napravit adjustment, prije samog nasha, svakako amare... on gori od zelje pogotovo sta su ga na zub uvatili... ali svaku jebbenu tekmu foul trouble, neshvatljivo... a i nash mora izbjegavat one zamke te ne jurit posto poto na polukontru nakon kosa spursa...

 

ostale 2-3 tekme mogu na obe strane...