Sing it in your head. It’s catchy, despite the bad grammar.

Working at the new job has been positive overall, with a couple of exceptions. I’ve only got every third weekend off, and working nights means I miss the vast majority of Suns games … okay, change that to “with one exception,” because I miss my weekends more than I miss the Suns these days. Last night was a prime example, as I settled in to watch Phoenix for the first time in a couple weeks thanks to a early night at the office.

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I have no idea what to do about the Phoenix Suns.

Look, it’s one thing to identify this team’s shortcomings. This column has already dedicated space to that very subject in the past couple months. And it’s easy to play around with the various trade machines out there looking for a blockbuster deal that fixes our shortcomings (Nash/Amare/Hill to HOU for Brooks/Landry/McGrady’s expiring contract! It’s the best deal ever and I’m sure Houston would accept!), except those deals rarely come to fruition — unless you’re trading with Chris Wallace.

Let’s address two fundamental points I picked up watching the Suns wither in crunch time at home:

- The Suns (16-4 at home before last night) of the past would have beaten the Bulls (5-16 on the road before last night) in their sleep. Yes, the D’Antoni days featured frequent upsets at the hands of the NBA’s mediocre and abysmal teams. But the one constant was offense — no matter how bad their effort was on the defensive end, you knew that Phoenix was going to put up 115 points. Whether that was enough or not was another matter. Last night, the Suns allowed themselves to be tricked into playing the Bulls’ style, but here’s the irony: the Bulls played like the Suns last night. They took advantage of missed shots to open the break, ran a high pick-and-roll between Rose and Noah late in the fourth quarter and fired away on open mid-range and three-point jumpers. Meanwhile, Kirk Hinrich shut down Steve Nash on the defensive end, yet Alvin Gentry seemed reluctant to make adjustments. An easy one would have been fewer plays where the big (either Frye or STAT) showed instead of setting a screen, and more plays where those two set Kurt Thomas-esque picks — forceful and crazy-eyed. Doing so would have given Nash more space to operate and made Hinrich think twice about pursuing so closely on the perimeter. Instead, Nash had a quiet game and disappeared down the stretch.

- This team is bad defensively. I know, more sterling insight. But I find myself torn between two schools of thought. This team has the athleticism (besides Nash) to be above-average defenders, and they do a pretty good job of contesting shots in either one-on-one situations or when playing a decent zone. But they don’t have the awareness or communication to ever be among the league’s elite (or mediocre) on the defensive end. Gentry’s commitment to going underneath the pick in SnR sets simply cannot work with the personnel he has: Nash goes too far underneath and gets caught in the big’s roll, Lopez doesn’t show far enough out on the perimeter to prevent the smaller player from turning the corner, and Amare — well, let’s just say defensive awareness has never been one of his strengths.

There are still some positives on this team: Dragic, Dudley, Hill, Lopez and Amundson are all above-average defenders, and when you toss in Amare and Barbosa’s athleticism, this team can get stops on a good night. But it’s not enough, as we’ve clearly seen since the Suns’ 14-3 start.

As good as Nash has been, one wonders if his extension has doomed this team to an even longer rebuilding period than we would have had if we’d cut our losses and traded away the core in the offseason. Even if the Suns emerge from this malaise and sneak into the playoffs, the Lakers, Nuggets and probably Mavericks are all vastly superior teams, and the Spurs and Thunder would waste little time sending us home in the first round as well.

Maybe it’s for the best that I don’t get to watch every single game these days. The answers might be that much more befuddling if I did.