The Phoenix Suns took a big L last night. Getting battered by a San Antonio squad that have gone through one of the worst Rodeo Road Trips in recent memory. Because of that. San Antonio have done exactly what I predicted and got pulled into the bloodbath that is the battle between Oklahoma City, Phoenix and New Orleans. But San Antonio found themselves last night. Blindsiding Phoenix. But Markieff Morris looked at that loss differently. He doesn’t blame the team for not being on point, nor praising San Antonio for catching fire. Oh no. According to Paul Coro of AZCentral, he blames the Phoenix fans for poor atmosphere.
“I don’t think we have a home-court advantage,” Markieff said. “It does not feel like a home-court advantage at all. Some games are going to be bad. You can’t win every game. That comes along with sports. Nobody wins games. We need the support. We need, as a team, to know that our fans are going to be behind us and I don’t feel like this year they’re behind us enough.
“I feel like we do have those genuine Suns fans but, for the most part, I feel like we had more San Antonio than Phoenix fans tonight.”
“They don’t boo, but they don’t cheer that much, either,” Markieff said. “We feed off, for the most part, off the energy. I know we’re a lot better than that. I know Phoenix fans are a lot better than that. Like I said, we have a lot of genuine fans that cheers for us – the ones that are in the first row, in the second row, in the third row. Once you go up, you feel like people were just at the game, just watching.“
That’s quite a statement. The Suns are a decent team. Whether they deserve to be in the Playoffs is a different story. They clearly need that spark that OKC have had after the All-Star break. It seems that out of the four teams in that scrap. Only OKC have come out the blocks wanting it. The Spurs have played below par. New Orleans keep getting injured. And Phoenix clearly made too many trades because chemistry is slacking there.
