Reddit reviews Seven Seconds or Less: My Season on the Bench with the Runnin' and Gunnin' Phoenix Suns

Dead wrong about the SSOL Suns being potentially uninteresting. There is actually a great book about the team, called Seven Seconds or Less: My Season on the Bench with the Runnin' and Gunnin' Phoenix Suns. It's possibly my favorite book of all-time.

I'm not much of a book reader, but this one was captivating, especially as an NBA junkie who grew up watching the SSOL Suns. The season the author chose to follow was especially interesting because it was the year where Amare basically sat out the entire season. For context, if you didn't get a chance to follow the team, while Nash ran the offense, Amare was the second-most important player on the team, as he was an offensive juggernaut, their main scorer, and one of the NBA's star young big men at the time. In addition to the main players, like Nash and Coach D'Antoni, the book also goes into details about the personalities, styles, and characteristics of a lot of the role-players and assistant coaches, too, like Shawn Marion, Boris Diaw, James Jones, Raja Bell, Tim Thomas, and Alvin Gentry. Totally awesome book.

Yup - I loved reading SSOL - Seven Seconds or Less - as it perfectly described the day-to-day life of this team a decade ago.

(The title comes from the Suns' gameplay - the idea was to always make a basket within the first seven seconds of the shot clock).

A writer got to spend the entire season with the Suns that year and wrote one of my favorite books on his experience. It really goes in depth with the team, describes most of the key players' and staffs' personalities including Nash, Amare, Matrix, and D'Antoni, as well as covers their surprising playoff run.

Have you read this it's a great read specially about that playoff series but you get great behind-the-scenes look at the Suns team

I might be biased, but I thought Seven Seconds or Less was a very good read.

I like books where the author spends a season with a team and Seven Seconds or Less about the Nash/Marion/Amare Suns is a really fun read.

Not from this decade, and it's a lot longer and more serious material, but I highly recommend The Jordan Rules as well.

https://www.amazon.com/Seven-Seconds-Less-Season-Phoenix/dp/0743298136

Fair question, and one that is worth exploring, with the right personnel.

However, in general the best defensive players are not ones that fit in a Nash run offense. You want to pair athletic guys that can run and finish from a Nash dish and that can hit the 3 on a fast break.

If an individual can figure out how to take the best of the offensive techniques from 7 seconds or less and pair them, effectively with a solid defense, I think Nash can. Having Kobe on board only heightens the chance of success.

• The Last Shot - one of the best books i have ever read.
  
• Unfinished Business - same author as
  
• :07 Seconds or Less
  
• The Breaks of the Game - i have never read it, but all i hear is good things.
  
• and of course, The Book of Basketball - good book, a bit hefty.
  
  i tried to pick things that you could easily find online and off.

Wish they had a Rockets reporter. If we know anything about D'Antoni, it's that he allows extensive behind-the-scenes access.

After reading Seven Seconds or Less years ago, my guess is that there's too much influence from a dickhead owner.