Game 46: Phoenix Suns (26-19) @ Orlando Magic (23-22) l Sunday l 4:00pm l AZFamily

[kennydorglas]

Im not signed for this streetball fiasco.
If that was the plan, I wish we had the twins and just traded sheandre.
This is absolute trash

[Calvin Klein]

KD probably doesn’t even know what day it is…he looked completely gone

[KLEON]

Just as I was saying Kd defense has been great of recent he does this . Beal I'll give u a pass because of your broken nose but only Book showed up tonight. Why does KBD always have 2 to 3 beyond dumb turnovers every game, I'm really starting to think he's on something

[Golanator]

KD probably doesn’t even know what day it is…he looked completely gone

My guy was tweeting at his haters an hour before tip. Definitely didn't give a **** about this game against the "lowly Magic" and it showed.

[schnakenpopanz]

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Ishbia right now.

[MrMiyagi]

Big 3: 9-6
Book/KD: 9-6
Book/Beal: 3-1
Beal/KD: 1-2
KD: 2-4
Book: 2-1
Beal: 0-0

Total: 26-20

[Golanator]

Big 3: 9-6
Book/KD: 9-6
Book/Beal: 3-1
Beal/KD: 1-2
KD: 2-4
Book: 2-1
Beal: 0-0

Total: 26-20

No Nurk: 0-4

Might be the most important dude we have it appears

[Ghost of Kleine]

turnover, turnover, turnover, turnover

but we don't need a point guard...

It's always been amazing to me just how poorly a job James Jones has really done each and every sason and trade deadline at actually addressing our positional depth issues. We've only clearly needed a backup point guard ever since trading Payne, knowing we'd also intend to move Paul as well in the Beal trade, yet didn't make any real moves to add one the entire offseason and he probably won't either at the trade deadline either. Downplaying our repeated glaring needs and saying our personnel needs more time to gel is all even though it's been a consistent issue all season. The same applies to needing a legit athletic long shotblocking 4/5 that could first compliment and cover for Ayton's lack of assertiveness defensively, etc. And STILL obviously a glaring need as the opposition has casually strolled up to the rim with little or no defensive resistence at all getting tons of high percentage shots, multiple shot attempts by dominating the paint in both offensive and defensive rebounds, and generally bullying us with size, physicality and or athleticism.

Worst of all is by now the entire rest of the league (especially playoff teams) have a very simple template to beating us. Just about every team in the nba knows that all they really need to do to beat us is to play physical and bully us. They also know that they'll get away with it because the refs simply won't call fouls on them for playing more aggressively AND because the NBA league office (Silver) is sticking it to Ishbia and the suns for trying to challenge the new luxury tax restrictions and trying to still build a super team disregarding the nba's agenda to try and prevent this strategy.

[Golanator]

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So he recognizes the problem. Will he fix it?

[SkyBill40]

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So he recognizes the problem. Will he fix it?

I don't put much credence in his statement. He'll have another game full of turnovers just like this one. Count on it.

For as long as he's been in the league and how much "basketball IQ" as he's touted to have, I'd expect a lot smarter play than what we're getting.

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[Ghost of Kleine]

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Ishbia right now.

Isiah Thomas is just watching all this like..................................


His diabolical master plan to encourage Jones bad decisions will ultimately get him fired (even though he should've been replaced a long time ago already)!!! opening up a position for Ishbia to conveniently hire Thomas as interim GM that will ultimately become permanent. Then Ishbia can enact his diabolical masterplan to eventually convert the majority of our team and front office to players and front office and coaching options from Michigan.
Step 1-
Trade for Miles Bridges (Michigan Native).

Step 2-
Fire Jones for not properly addressing our bench depth and generally poor asset management in casually giving away all of our cost controlled tradable assets (draft picks) because he honestly just doesn't want to be bothered with the draft or player development in general. So now we have no young desirable upside prospects/ contracts to sell teams on in a trade. This will create an open position for Ishbias' BFF Thomas to quickly step into as our new GM.

Step 3-
Give Vogel the entirely wrong personnel that has little to no defensive acumen, minimizing his success trajectory as head coach, then fire him in the offseason and hire Tom Izzo. Maybe a brightside to this would at least be IF he considers beringing in Bill Laimbeer as our defensive asst big man coach. And maybe then Laimbeer could transform our bigs from soft, passive finesse players to tougher physical gritty smashmouth type players??

Step 4-
Maybe trade for Draymond Green, then identify all available Michigan college players currently unsigned Marcus Bingham Jr, Gabe Brown, and Cassius Winston to fill out our bench with former Michigan alumni.

Step 5-
Find a way to cleverly change the franchise name to the Michigan Suns or Phoenix spartans?.....lol

[SlovenianDragon]

Im not signed for this streetball fiasco.
If that was the plan, I wish we had the twins and just traded sheandre.
This is absolute trash

I dont think Markieff and Marcus Morris would have helped us tonight...

[Ghost of Kleine]

This type of collapse is embarrassing but becoming a recurring theme. We have literally no ability to close and make stops when necessary. All the offense in the world is meaningless if you can't hold a lead you establish.

We so very badly need a team implosion and rebuild, but we're stuck with this craptacular roster because our damned owner was impetuous and traded away nearly all our picks for a decade.

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Freaking spot on man! (Unfortunately for us)!
Ishbia had new owner syndrome being too eager to make a big splashy move, But even worse was Jones annually making no move and systematically offloading any available assets in gross overpay deals just so he wouldn't have to actually do any legitimate Gm work towards scouting, player development, trade deadline moves, aside of course from creatively giving up more unecessary assets to reacquire former players (Craig) that he himself let walk instead of actually resigning and retaining those assets. The only question remaining is would Isiah Thomas truly be a worse GM than Jones if brought in, knowing all the unecessary damage he's caused by offloading every available asset he could in order to minimize his managerial obligations?? It's likely gonna be a long decade for us once again.

[Revived]

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Ball security and pace…seems like two things that maybe having an actual PG could help with?

[SunsRback4Good]

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Ball security and pace…seems like two things that maybe having an actual PG could help with?

We don’t need a pg they are extremely overrated . The Warriors build a dynasty without a true pg. Curry is a scorer not a pg and they were just fine. PG.. PG… PG… that’s all you guys b**** and moan about. How exactly did a pg help suns in in mid 2000’s with Nash when we couldn’t make the finals? The great CP3 took us to finals due to barrage of injuries to other teams in 21. But but we need a pg lmaooooooo. I’m sick if tired of nonstop complaining over the suns if you want to complain write a letter to JJ & Matt don’t dare complain here cause nobody is listening & nothing WILL CHANGE!

[sunskerr]

We might need a point guard. But for sure we just need better players OR the coach needs a change.

-Yuta, KBD, Eubanks Goodwin all coming off solid seasons
-but is it a coincidence that all 4 look like they are not NBA players now that they play for Vogel?
-If they are trash, well then we just need better players.

Not saying the solution/problem is any of these things for sure.

[KLEON]

Joe Ingles on that Boris Diaw diet

[sunsbg]

So around .500 record with Big 3 playing. Next season these guys will be on 50M+ contracts.Saw a thread on another team's Reddit laughing at our team's salary situation.

[dremill24]

KD shoulda gotten that 'DNP-Old' treatment tonight.

[Frank Lee]

It’s not gonna be any better next year