1) Does Nash help Amare? Does Amare help Nash? or are their fates intertwined?
Answer: 7 foot monster + any pure point guard + D'Antoni system = inevitably great numbers. No, they just do their jobs and are used to each other.
2) Did Nash deserve either of his MVP awards?
Answer: No, he didn't deserve them, at all. Product of the system, plays no defense. More “valuable” than Shaq, a travesty. Yes they’d be hooped without him but it’s because he exclusively runs their offense, that’s a different type of MVP.
3) If you were rating point guard performance this season, where would you rank Nash?
Answer: I won't rank him, I wouldn't pay him his salary to play no defense therefore I can't even put him top 5.
4) If you were starting a team where and could choose any point guard where would Nash rank?
Answer: Read number 3.
5) So is Nash overrated?
Answer: Yes.
These are the only stats that matter.
Dallas Steve Nash - 14 to 17 ppg, 7 to 8 apg, 47 percent from the field, 40 to 45 percent from three, 2.68 - 2.93 turnovers.
Phoenix Steve Nash - 17 to 18 ppg, 10.5 to 11.5 apg, 52 percent from the field, 43 to 47 percent from three, 3.27 - 3.78 turnovers.
So he's open and he has the ball in his hands more, not exactly hard to figure out why he drops so many dimes. Let's not even get into the D'Antoni shot clock rules. That's 2-3 apg right there.
It wasn’t Steve Nash that did that to Phoenix, it was Mike D’Antoni and his group of atheletic freaks. The way Barry Bonds is criticized for hitting the spontaneous veteran production steroid switch Steve Nash should get the exact same critique for moving to that bush league one dimensional team.
Here's the bigger question, of the top pure pg's in the league name which ones wouldn't avg 10-14 assists per game in that system?
They should save whatever they're paying him and go get Calderon, spend the money on a big perimeter defender who can get to the line consistently and stop selling offense to people that are too mindless to realize that D'Antoni/Nash combo is going to result in a big fat loss to a defensive team every single season in the playoffs in a big, fat sold out arena, which is obviously the only thing their ownership cares about.
Everybody has different views on this whole thing but I hold Steve Nash in the same light as Peyton Manning (considering they play defense equally well), top five but far from number one, right guy, right time, right system. He was never better than Jason Kidd and he sure as heck isn’t better than Chris Paul.
Anyone that would want Steve Nash in his prime over even Chancey Billups doesn’t want a ring.
The Suns are TERRIBLE against the top defensive teams that have quicker point guards that are able to penetrate and exploit this guy. That's why they keep losing to the Spurs, Steve Nash. Here's some recent proof and no joke these were the first 5 games I looked up, I didn't even know the Hornets swept them, it's just science and common sense.
http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/boxscore;_ylt=ApPQMfq.B_k5oPUAFzhsTHyLvLYF?gid=2008032602http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/boxscore;_ylt=AuBaAci.7XRuIArjtd2ooKeLvLYF?gid=2008020621http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/boxscore;_ylt=AtIPOShzIrklLvY4zACzVK6LvLYF?gid=2008022703http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/boxscore;_ylt=Andwlq9TNE5sBWbOGlGtlT.LvLYF?gid=2007121503http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/boxscore;_ylt=AmVBsZDObjS2UysoiLwvhImLvLYF?gid=2007101321If they play New Orleans or Boston they're done and he's the reason why, those words should never be uttered regarding a supposed MVP.