Game 27: Phoenix Suns (14-12) @ Portland Trailblazers (6-19) l Tuesday l 8:00pm l AZFamily

enigmatics · Post #101 » by **enigmatics** » Wed Dec 20, 2023 5:14 am

grumpysaddle wrote:Yeah it's on the players playing like **** to get themselves motivated but it's also on the coach to light a fire under their derrieres. Only fire I'm seeing is a lighter to a fart.

They're a collection of parts that's don't fit - from the players on down to the coaches and they don't have a guy who can calm the situation down out there on the court.

Sunlight · Post #102 » by **Sunlight** » Wed Dec 20, 2023 5:17 am

I no longer recognize this as the Suns team to support. Aliens without an identity. For a long time they built a brilliant TEAM from their own picks and then everything was gone. I'll be back in 2030 or if Durant and Booker are traded and the new build starts quickly.

grumpysaddle · Post #103 » by **grumpysaddle** » Wed Dec 20, 2023 5:18 am

If no one got fired after the Wiz game... Well.

SkyBill40 · Post #104 » by **SkyBill40** » Wed Dec 20, 2023 5:21 am

With every Suns game comes...

grumpysaddle · Post #105 » by **grumpysaddle** » Wed Dec 20, 2023 5:22 am

We play exactly one quarter's worth of basketball every game. Just sad.

grumpysaddle · Post #106 » by **grumpysaddle** » Wed Dec 20, 2023 5:23 am

Why do we never full court press?

Revived · Post #107 » by **Revived** » Wed Dec 20, 2023 5:24 am

Where’s sunsbg at to tell people they’re too pessimistic about the Suns?

Mulhollanddrive · Post #108 » by **Mulhollanddrive** » Wed Dec 20, 2023 5:26 am

Don't underestimate the tank

Revived · Post #109 » by **Revived** » Wed Dec 20, 2023 5:27 am

MrMiyagi wrote:Matt Ishbia gave us fans what we really want: a reason to stop watching.

Screw Sarver but maybe he was right in not wanting to go all-in on KD?

Apparently even James Jones didn’t want to do it and Ishbia had to call and force him to do it.

Sure Ishbia is crazy rich but he’s also gonna be one of those owners that meddle in everything. Sarver at least learned to not do that in the last 5-6 years (around the same time we started becoming good ironically enough). Getting David Tepper vibes.

garrick · Post #110 » by **garrick** » Wed Dec 20, 2023 5:27 am

On the bright side we do have our pick this year so it's the year for tanking.

Do we do pick swaps on the 2024 pick?

SkyBill40 · Post #111 » by **SkyBill40** » Wed Dec 20, 2023 5:29 am

Ball game.

There needs to be a players only meeting tonight after this. And we'd better get right going forward as we're nothing close to a playoff team at this point and even putting us in the contender conversation is just asking to be insulted.

sunskerr · Post #112 » by **sunskerr** » Wed Dec 20, 2023 5:30 am

Yeah this is a bad loss. Im probably one of the most passive people here but this isn't good. No other way to put it. Nobody on the Blazers played special and our best players did their thing, and we lost.

Mulhollanddrive · Post #113 » by **Mulhollanddrive** » Wed Dec 20, 2023 5:30 am

If I tried to coach this team to lose this is what it'd look like

KLEON · Post #114 » by **KLEON** » Wed Dec 20, 2023 5:32 am

sunsbg · Post #115 » by **sunsbg** » Wed Dec 20, 2023 5:32 am

Superteam.

Good we don't play the Pistons anytime soon.

MrMiyagi · Post #116 » by **MrMiyagi** » Wed Dec 20, 2023 5:33 am

Big 3: 0-2
Book/KD: 8-4
Book/Beal: 1-0
Beal/KD: 1-2
KD: 2-4
Book: 2-1
Beal: 0-0

Total: 14-13

KLEON · Post #117 » by **KLEON** » Wed Dec 20, 2023 5:33 am

Mulhollanddrive wrote:If I tried to coach this team to lose this is what it'd look like

Exactly

grumpysaddle · Post #118 » by **grumpysaddle** » Wed Dec 20, 2023 5:34 am

Ball was moving and swinging around and there was a ton of off-ball movement in the 1st quarter. Got a big lead and then did the absolute opposite for the remaining 36 minutes. This is a problem top to bottom. Vogel's gotta go. We don't have enough time in whatever window we supposedly have to f*ck around this much.

Son of Ra · Post #119 » by **Son of Ra** » Wed Dec 20, 2023 5:34 am

I think it's time someone went through the archives to find the "Oh no we suck again" gif/image written in the Sun's font...

sunsbg · Post #120 » by **sunsbg** » Wed Dec 20, 2023 5:35 am

Revived wrote:Where’s sunsbg at to tell people they’re too pessimistic about the Suns?

I've been pretty pessimistic most of the time too. You probably mean my optimism about Beal playing more than 3 games out of 20. I'd have to sincerely apologise for that to you.

Don't see the people who thought breaking the bank for injury prone aging superstars is a good idea though.