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Ghost of Kleine · Post #81 » by **Ghost of Kleine** » Mon Mar 4, 2024 5:10 am

Loved the better effort and the fight by the team not just folding and giving up! regardless of the loss, therev was definitely some positive aspects to build upon further. Nurkic is playing like a BEAST!!! Love his effort, physicality and dominant play! I really hope he retires with the team. They really played tough despite the loss and gave the #1 team in the nba a real scare for a bit!

sunsbg · Post #82 » by **sunsbg** » Mon Mar 4, 2024 5:12 am

lilfishi22 wrote:
KLEON wrote:
sunsbg wrote:
... and did the Celtics took care of the Warriors. Beat Mavs handily and now this trashing. We play these monsters twice in a week or so. Let's hope Mavs and Warriors keep dropping games. They play each other three times until end of regular season.

I aint scared

Pretty much all the teams in that 5-8 in the West have consistency issues of their own. I don't really see any one team really breaking away from this block nor join that 1-4 either. It's obviously not where I'd hoped we be but here we are

My concern was/is that Warriors playing well lately and having one of the easier schedules will replace us in 5-8 with our brutal schedule, especially after latest injuries. 5-8 is fine for us I guess. Expected more out of this group than fighting for last playoff spots with other old teams like Lakers/Warriors. Unfortunately both future and present belongs to young teams like BOS and OKC.

Post #83 » by **lilfishi22** » Mon Mar 4, 2024 5:16 am

Ghost of Kleine wrote:Loved the better effort and the fight by the team not just folding and giving up! regardless of the loss, therev was definitely some positive aspects to build upon further. Nurkic is playing like a BEAST!!! Love his effort, physicality and dominant play! I really hope he retires with the team. They really played tough despite the loss and gave the #1 team in the nba a real scare for a bit!

It is pretty awesome to watch a 31 rebound performance live and for it to be one of the Suns

Interesting little stat, over the last 10 years, there have been MORE 70+ point performances than there have been 30+ rebound performances

SkyBill40 · Post #84 » by **SkyBill40** » Mon Mar 4, 2024 5:16 am

TeamTragic wrote:
SkyBill40 wrote:We had it until our defensive intensity left the building.

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Dude we have Saban Lee and Drew Eubanks

Duh.

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Post #85 » by **bwgood77** » Mon Mar 4, 2024 5:21 am

Why are we playing Eubanks over Bol? Was Bol healthy? His length on D and his finishing inside could certainly have been useful...hopefully we will start using it.

Golanator · Post #86 » by **Golanator** » Mon Mar 4, 2024 5:23 am

Nurk is a beast. Good to see Beal back and playing well. Not much else to take from this one.

garrick · Post #87 » by **garrick** » Mon Mar 4, 2024 5:40 am

bwgood77 wrote:Why are we playing Eubanks over Bol? Was Bol healthy? His length on D and his finishing inside could certainly have been useful...hopefully we will start using it.

Vogel is like Monty or Mike D.

He doesn't trust younger unproven players and blindly sticks with his rotations. I think that Eubanks did do well in spurts but this guy is looking more like a 3rd string backup rather than the elite backup center we expected to start the season.

Stix · Post #88 » by **Stix** » Mon Mar 4, 2024 5:50 am

I mean hey, we got Beal for nothing... all is good.

sashaturiaf · Post #89 » by **sashaturiaf** » Mon Mar 4, 2024 5:52 am

Stix wrote:I mean hey, we got Beal for nothing... all is good.

We woulda lost by 20+ without Beal today.

Stix · Post #90 » by **Stix** » Mon Mar 4, 2024 5:53 am

sashaturiaf wrote:
Stix wrote:I mean hey, we got Beal for nothing... all is good.

We woulda lost by 20+ without Beal today.

What's the difference? A loss is a loss. Might as well be last years Wizards then.

sashaturiaf · Post #91 » by **sashaturiaf** » Mon Mar 4, 2024 5:56 am

Stix wrote:
sashaturiaf wrote:
Stix wrote:I mean hey, we got Beal for nothing... all is good.

We woulda lost by 20+ without Beal today.

What's the difference? A loss is a loss. Might as well be last years Wizards then.

Yeah I'm sure those future 2nd round picks we gave up for Beal would have served us so much better

Get offline you miserable git

Stix · Post #92 » by **Stix** » Mon Mar 4, 2024 6:08 am

sashaturiaf wrote:
Stix wrote:
sashaturiaf wrote:
We woulda lost by 20+ without Beal today.

What's the difference? A loss is a loss. Might as well be last years Wizards then.

Yeah I'm sure those future 2nd round picks we gave up for Beal would have served us so much better

Get offline you miserable git

Ghost of Kleine · Post #93 » by **Ghost of Kleine** » Mon Mar 4, 2024 6:24 am

Crazy ish from the other night! (Thursday)

Read on Twitter

DirtyDez · Post #94 » by **DirtyDez** » Mon Mar 4, 2024 6:35 am

Going to be an interesting off-season. History proves it’s better to pull the plug too early than too late.

Mulhollanddrive · Post #95 » by **Mulhollanddrive** » Mon Mar 4, 2024 7:02 am

17 turnovers from our 3 best players
Lost 4th quarter
Opposition above 115

Vogel doesn't make our team better, whenever I hear him talk he's a glorified cheerleader

Revived · Post #96 » by **Revived** » Mon Mar 4, 2024 7:43 am

DirtyDez wrote:Going to be an interesting off-season. History proves it’s better to pull the plug too early than too late.

Yeah too bad Matt dumbass Ishbia hasn’t learned sht from history otherwise he wouldn’t drop everything to form a clusterfck of an old brittle “big 3”.

Robert Sarver has to be smiling the hardest of all people in the United States. And he deserves too. He cashed out at a great time and the has been massive disappointment every month since the sale.

Sucks to say but many Suns fans miss Robert Sarver. And we rightfully should because Ishbia knows absolutely nothing of forming an NBA team. He’s the young kid from the Succession show, that’s all he is.

How long before we can get someone to report sexual abuse or racism from Ishbia and oust him?

Revived · Post #97 » by **Revived** » Mon Mar 4, 2024 7:45 am

Read on Twitter

Looks like playing a 36 year old Durant for almost 36 mins a game while asking him to do a **** ton on defense and manage top 2 scoring load team wise is taking its toll…what a surprise.

garrick · Post #98 » by **garrick** » Mon Mar 4, 2024 8:04 am

Revived wrote:

Read on Twitter

Looks like playing a 36 year old Durant for almost 36 mins a game while asking him to do a **** ton on defense and manage top 2 scoring load team wise is taking its toll…what a surprise.

It wasn't even just this year.

Boston exposed him in the playoffs where he really struggled against their tough coverage and he could no longer get to his spots like he used to. This is why I was so opposed to giving up so many 1st round picks for him because he was no longer a top 5 player although still very good.

He's still good but he needs to be coming off screens instead of trying to beat the defenders off the dribble.

Post #99 » by **lilfishi22** » Mon Mar 4, 2024 8:09 am

Revived wrote:
DirtyDez wrote:Going to be an interesting off-season. History proves it’s better to pull the plug too early than too late.

Yeah too bad Matt dumbass Ishbia hasn’t learned sht from history otherwise he wouldn’t drop everything to form a clusterfck of an old brittle “big 3”.

Robert Sarver has to be smiling the hardest of all people in the United States. And he deserves too. He cashed out at a great time and the has been massive disappointment every month since the sale.

Sucks to say but many Suns fans miss Robert Sarver. And we rightfully should because Ishbia knows absolutely nothing of forming an NBA team. He’s the young kid from the Succession show, that’s all he is.

How long before we can get someone to report sexual abuse or racism from Ishbia and oust him?

Who?

sunsbg · Post #100 » by **sunsbg** » Mon Mar 4, 2024 8:17 am

Sarver ? Noooooooo.....masochism has limits too.

FWIW Ishbia thought he can buy a championship before the league applied big restrictions in that regard.

If the team makes the playoffs with upcoming schedule it means they are in good form and capable of knocking out one of those less experienced teams like MIN and OKC. Beating the top tier teams like DEN and BOS in 7 game series, I doubt it.

Who will score more combined points?