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POA defender is still more important to this roster than a traditional PG.

Booker and Beal are playing outside of their most optimal roles, but a significant part of that could be mitigated by lowering their defensive workload.

The next deadline is the earliest I could imagine Ishbia taking that approach, and things would probably have to get even worse on the court to make it happen.

Who would want Herro that could offer what the Suns need, either a PG or wing defense? Maybe Brooklyn would give us Ben Simmons, pg and wing defense 😆 There's a very small part of me that still believes in him and Lonzo Ball. I love defense pass first guards man. I think he's more likely a defender...

Clearly that would be a downgrade and would make everyone insane, but at least it would dramatically improve flexibility.

And if they're not going to push for a title, Ishbia needs to have a little more foresight.

I just think it’s gonna be tricky…I tried to look at it this morning and I just don’t know who the team is. He’s got the no trade clause and he makes 50 million dollars. Not easy to find a trade partner. The teams I settled on that might want him were Orlando, Atlanta, Miami, Philly, New Orleans, C...

My point has always been that it's not impossible.

Actually, I think it's the most likely big move which is why I get triggered by people pushing it aside. Sort of like when someone says the Suns don't have a draft pick for a decade.

And Beal would have to agree. Right. He never would agree. I still don't understand this line of thinking. He's a third option on an unbalanced team, so he has to do more role player stuff than he probably enjoys without getting the payoff of a title chance. If he thinks it's not going to work here...

Godron had some juice in the first half. Definitely going to need it again.

Get ready for a lot of touch fouls in the 3rd quarter.

Good challenge. Same play with Nurkic trying to draw a charge on Gobert in the first quarter. Defender was moving both times. The Nurk one was much more obvious…I can see what they saw here, Morris kinda leaned into it, but Booker was kinda careless going into him As was Gobert dribbling in the ope...

Good challenge. Same play with Nurkic trying to draw a charge on Gobert in the first quarter. Defender was moving both times.

I'm skeptical of the quick recovery, but it would be great if he hit some shots tonight regardless.

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I'm impressed with how well that guy ate the punch, and the most likely context is that everyone involved is an asshole.

It's corny.

Good thing Tony Brothers isn't on duty or the Wolves would be allowed to bludgeon the Suns again. The NBA is probably saving him to slow down the Knicks and Nuggets series'. Also, how about we keep at least this discussion a place discuss basketball games instead of bullshit no one actually cares ab...

Between Brunson benefitting from a ridiculous whistle in the first half and an error ridden ending, Sixers suffered from some terrible officiating.

I waited until I was in full gut-feeling mode.

Celtics in 5
Knicks in 7
Pacers in 6
Magic in 6

Thunder in 6
Nuggets in 7
Wolves in 7
Mavs in 5

Celtics in 5
Knicks in 6

Nuggets in 4
Mavs in 7

Celtics in 6
Mavs in 7

Celtics in 6

Suns are favorites to win the series, but underdogs in game 1. That seems quite unusual.