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Yes, I can now see the sports headline on Monday. The San Antonio Spurs, being the much superior team that they are, will definitely sweep the Phoenix Suns on Monday.

Every sports analyst thought that this series will go the distance, and the winner of this series will go to the NBA Finals. And the Spurs will definitely make it to the NBA Finals two years in a row.

Seeing how the Suns lost two commanding first half leads in San Antonio pains me. Most especially the first one, wherein Michael Finley and Tim Duncan hit two of the biggest threes to send the game into two overtimes. Then, it was Manu Ginobili who put the dagger into the heart of the Suns, with an off-balanced lay-up over Raja Bell.

Perhaps, San Antonio was just sleeping on the Suns in the first one-and-a-half games. They woke up from their slumber in the second half of Game Two, and completely dominated Phoenix from thereon.

Shaquille O’Neal is just all talk. He has become a complete liability. He is not dominating in offense and has no defense to speak of at all. In the just concluded Game Three, where the San Antonio thrashed Phoenix, 115-99, Shaq was exposed on not being able to defend the pick-and-roll.

Down 0-3, the Suns will go home early and loose to their play-off tormentors again. Before, I used to believe in them, that they will come back. But, I have realized they are not the same team. Steve Nash is tired, and O’Neal is old and nonsense. Those are their two leaders, the others feed off them. And both, well, they just don’t have the heart. (photo courtesy of yahoonba.com)