· Both were ousted after five games in the 2008 playoffs, leading to the firing of their coaches, and the end of their respective eras.
It's really uncanny how these teams are linked.
The Mavs were undone by the calls going against them against the Heat, and the Suns have been undone by so many calls going against them against the Spurs.
The Suns' fatal flaw during their heyday was their lack of commitment on the defensive end.
This led to several problems, which eventually led to the end of the seven-seconds-or-less era.
When your team is based around offense and nothing else, players like Stoudemire and Marion get greedy. With a distributor like Nash at the helm, both players wanted to be the person who got the ball.
Whether it was Nash feeding it inside to a Stoudemire who was breaking to the rack, or Nash was kicking it out to Marion for a wide open jumper, the system worked.
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