Mike D’Antoni needs to pace himself. The NBA season is only nine games old, but he’s already making impassioned pleas to Suns fans to get louder. Mike, there are 73 games to go. Does it really matter if your stadium’s jumping a month into the season when you’re beating the Charlotte Bobcats by 17? Or are you just trying to drown out certain people?

“[T]he crowd is worse than we are. They are deader than we are. Are they waiting until April to yell at us? Well, we are yelling at them.”

“The whole atmosphere - us, them, everybody - was just kind of down and blah,” D’Antoni said. “There’s no reason to be, because they’re going to have plenty of times (going) into the arena where there’s not much happening. Right now, there’s something happening. They should enjoy it, like we should enjoy it.”

One thing we enjoy about this Suns team is that they bring back the ’80s style of run-and-gun basketball. But you can’t expect the crowd to cheer that type of constant action like it was 1986. People don’t do nearly as much coke anymore.

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