Los Suns

Our seats in row 111

Thanks to some free workplace season tickets, Jonathan and I attended our first Suns game at the U.S. Airways Center on Tuesday night. They played the Utah Jazz in a preseason game, and unfortunately lost. I enjoyed watching and of course heckling, but I'll admit, I wasn't too impressed with their overall performance. Not being an NBA aficionado I suppose I can't say much, but it seemed obvious that too many fancy dancy moves and poor attention to teammates cost them quite a few missed passes early on.  And, I'm guessing it doesn't take an avid NBA fan to feel the pain of the high number of missed shots.  At one point an air-ball was thrown. An air-ball for crying out loud! At their pay level the ball better at least hit some part of the hoop/rim or backboard.

You can tell the game started a little rough for the Suns in the picture below.

 Lopez's feet haven't even left the court, meanwhile the Jazz player is about a foot and a half off the ground. Ouchie. During timeouts and breaks we were kept entertained with by the much loved Suns gorilla and scantily clad dancers.  My favorite part of the game had to be the strange over sized ref who ate one of the Gorilla assistants. She wasn't a cheerleader,or a dancer, but rather one of those fan-prize-hander-outers who works to give out freebies while the little chickadee dancers gyrate nearby.

Below are a few pics of the famed Steve Nash as well as some dunking gorilla shots.  He's a little blurry, but look close enough and you'll see a blurry flying primate.

Better luck next time Suns.

pretty impressive for a gorilla!