It's the most wonderful time of the year!  We're nearing Christmas, we're playing on our home court, and we're playing against a team that went 23-59 last year.  Merry Christmas?

Not so fast.  This team, similar to the Kings, is enjoying some early season "success", compared to last year.  They're sitting (kind of) pretty at 13-14, good for tied for the 9th seed in the (not so) Wild Wild West.  They are a young team that plays with fire, and while we should theoretically run them out of the stadium with our veteran leadership, this team has given us problems in the past.

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The Suns, for the first part of the 2009-2010 season were the feel good team of the NBA.  It took them less than one week to come crashing down to earth and send every self-righteous ESPN/Yahoo! Sports/blogger-type analyst typing away at some headline along the lines of: "Suns Rise Like A Phoenix, Then Come Crashing Down To Earth".

Rightfully so.  The 14-3 Suns lost, after a few days rest, to a 3-14 New York Knicks team.  A very motivated, angry D'Antoni led Knicks team, but still.  The records don't lie.

However, at this point in the season, there are a few other teams at very similar (I'll be focusing on the ones that have the same records...for now) points in this season.  These teams are: the Cleveland Cavaliers (15-7) and the Dallas Mavericks (15-7).

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[An article I published on BlazersEdge that I thought many of us Bright Siders would appreciate it.]

Yes, you read that right.  The Portland Trail Blazers, though entirely different than the Suns, are essentially the 7SOL Era Phoenix Suns v. 2.0.  Allow me, a humble Suns fan, fellow SBNation devotee, (Bright Side of the Sun), and basketball fanatic, to address questions you may already have brewing:

"The Trail Blazers are last in offensive pace, whereas the Suns are among the leaders of that pack.  How can this be?"; "The Trail Blazers are stacked with young talent, and the Suns are relying on a few aging (which is debatable) veterans for success...where's your argument?"; "The Trail Blazers have not made the same terrible mistakes that the Phoenix Suns' front office have made over the past years, as far as draft day deals are concerned.  How do you figure?"

Answers to these questions (and more) after the jump.

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Yes, you read that right.  The Portland Trail Blazers, though entirely different than the Suns, are essentially the 7SOL Era Phoenix Suns v. 2.0.  Allow me, a humble Suns fan, fellow SBNation devotee (Bright Side of the Sun), and basketball fanatic, to address questions you may already have brewing:

"The Trail Blazers are last in offensive pace, whereas the Suns are among the leaders of that pack.  How can this be?"; "The Trail Blazers are stacked with young talent, and the Suns are relying on a few aging (which is debatable) veterans for success...where's your argument?"; "The Trail Blazers have not made the same terrible mistakes that the Phoenix Suns' front office have made over the past years, as far as draft day deals are concerned.  How do you figure?"

Answers to these questions (and more) after the jump.

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Well, Suns fans, here we sit at a precipice: our beloved 14-3 Suns team was drubbed by the 3-14 New York Knicks in a game that should have been a definite win.  But, as we've found out, you can't overlook any team in the league (even if it is a struggling Hornets team without Chris Paul).  Then, we played a game the very next night, against a team that, depsite some early struggles to integrate the Shaquille "Win a Ring for the King" O'Neal, is a very legitimate title contender.  Oh yeah, we played on their court too.  Where they went for 30 consecutive victories last season.  Ouch.

What the Suns cannot do is drop a game to a streaking Kings team, who, while spending the entirety of last season in the dregs of the league, have found a mini-resurgence with the help of their 4th overall draft pick (and strong Rookie of the Year candidate), Tyreke Evans.

More after the jump...

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After seeing the way this Suns team has performed over the first 13 games of the season, many people would say that the Suns are a fourth quarter kind of team.  A "let's get it together and win" kind of team.  A scrappy, rebounding, chip on the shoulder kind of team.

And you would be right.  More after the jump...

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As everyone in the known basketball world knows, Sasha Pavlovic does not hold a basketball playing spot on the Suns' roster.  Steve Kerr has come out and said it, and both Pavlovic and his agent have accepted that fact.  Now, after news that Pavlovic had no spot on the Suns' roster (as if he ever did in the first place...we all knew the trade was strictly financial), the trade speculations began.  Here's my take on what I think we should do with Mr. Pavlovic.

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