The Phoenix Suns are fighting to stay in the top 8 in a highly competitive western conference, but obviously a blowout loss to the Spurs doesn’t help their situation. After the loss last night, Suns F Markieff Morris had some choice words for a Suns fan base that seems to have fallen off.
“I don’t think we have a home-court advantage,” Markieff said. “It does not feel like a home-court advantage at all. Some games are going to be bad. You can’t win every game. That comes along with sports. Nobody wins games. We need the support. We need, as a team, to know that our fans are going to be behind us and I don’t feel like this year they’re behind us enough.
“I feel like we do have those genuine Suns fans but, for the most part, I feel like we had more San Antonio than Phoenix fans tonight.” …
“They don’t boo, but they don’t cheer that much, either,” Markieff said. “We feed off, for the most part, off the energy. I know we’re a lot better than that. I know Phoenix fans are a lot better than that. Like I said, we have a lot of genuine fans that cheers for us – the ones that are in the first row, in the second row, in the third row. Once you go up, you feel like people were just at the game, just watching.” …
“I speak for me and my teammates,” Markieff said. “It depends on who’s playing here. When we have the LeBrons and the D-Wades, we need to be heckling them. We need the fans to win games. We need the energy from them to win a lot of games, and we need that every night, not just certain nights.”
Afterward, Morris went on Twitter to clarify that he and his teammates still love their fans.
I no the @Suns fans are going to get mad for my comments tonight but, everything we do on the court is for you guys!!!
— Keef Morris (@Keefmorris) March 1, 2015
We can't protect home court without the best fans in the NBA!!!
— Keef Morris (@Keefmorris) March 1, 2015
[h/t ProBasketballTalk]