Suns beat the Wizards and are now 6-1 to start the year
Nash is just awesome. Definitely the best passer in the league. Others may come close in terms of Assists numbers and of course you can point to the Suns pace and so forth, but in terms of seeing angles and being able to execute the sheer amount of different types of passes from every spot using either hand with equal accuracy is just incredible with him. If you´d cut a tape of just him passing, dribling and doing layups you couldn´t tell wether he´s right or left handed.
And another late-call here : Just finished watching the Rockets-Lakers from a few nigth ago and found again that the Kobe/Battier matchup is propably the highest quality offensive/defensive matchup in the league.
That game Bryant hit so many amazing shots and displayed such great footwork for so many great moves while Battier was on him like glue every single time getting as close as you possibly can get without fouling and he hardly ever gets caught out of position.
Really, really fun to watch those 2 go at it.
Bryan´t seems to go into the post alot more this year, doesn´t he ? Just read about him taking a lesson with Olajuwon (although what you learn in 2 hours is kinda limited really) over the summer and working on that facet a lot and the 2 games i´ve seen back that up as well as the numbers (only 13 threes in 6 games but a ton of FTs).