After watching my Mavericks suffer another first round exit, I had already made up my mind that 1) there was no way on God’s green Earth I would be rooting for the Spurs and 2) if I couldn’t watch Dirk get his long overdue championship ring, then the next best thing would be seeing Steve Nash in Phoenix get his. And as I watched the final twelve minutes of the Suns’ masterful elimination of the San Antonio Spurs, I wondered to myself, if the Mavericks would’ve won the series and faced Phoenix in the second round, would we have had a fighting chance? With the way Steve Nash has played so far, I really don’t think so.
Never have I seen anyone – not even my beloved Dirk – play with the passion and fire I saw in Steve Nash’s one good eye during that final fourth quarter against the Spurs. Even being half blind, Nash was the driving force that led the Suns to victory in the game, slashing to the basket, setting up his teammates, and even nailing a three pointer. The Suns won because Steve Nash refused to let them lose.
What Steve Nash did in Game 4 against the Spurs was unbelievable, even for a two-time MVP and future Hall of Famer. During that fourth quarter flurry by the Suns, the AT&T Center was truly “where amazing happens.”
Let’s hope the “aged” Nash can continue to carry the Suns past the lackluster looking LA Lakers and into the NBA Finals, where we’ll see the undersized Canadian one-eyed monster finally lead his crew to glory on the NBA’s biggest stage.
It’s just too bad he’ll be wearing the wrong team colors when he gets there.
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