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by Scarecrow33
Thu May 09, 2024 8:38 am
Forum: Suns/NBA
Topic: 2024 Suns Offseason: Where do we go from here?
Replies: 405
Views: 7159

Re: 2024 Suns Offseason: Where do we go from here?

I have no idea what can or should be done given the various restrictions the team is up against.

I feel like we doubled down on the new buggy whip factory the day before Henry Ford launched his first assembly line.
by Scarecrow33
Tue May 07, 2024 10:28 am
Forum: Suns/NBA
Topic: 2024 Playoffs: Around the League Round 2 (Conf Semis) News Thread
Replies: 111
Views: 1870

Re: 2024 Playoffs: Around the League Round 2 (Conf Semis) News Thread

I love Beale but nobody is trading for our 3rd best player and taking on the 7th highest salary in the league.

Of course we can hope that BB will give up millions of dollars to bail us out, just as we all would do if our places were switched. ;)
by Scarecrow33
Thu May 02, 2024 9:19 am
Forum: Suns/NBA
Topic: 2024 Suns Offseason: Where do we go from here?
Replies: 405
Views: 7159

Re: 2024 Suns Offseason: Where do we go from here?

The notion that playing a point guard means taking the ball out of the scorers' hands is ridiculous on it's face. Getting the ball to scorers in position to score is the job description of a point guard. Some teams manage effective ball distribution without a specific player being the floor general....
by Scarecrow33
Tue Apr 30, 2024 8:53 am
Forum: Suns/NBA
Topic: Are The Suns Cursed? Book it!
Replies: 18
Views: 517

Re: Are The Suns Cursed? Book it!

It's more likely Phoenix as a sports town is cursed.

I may have to switch to hockey for a few years. At least there's the Coyotes,... in Salt Lake City. :roll:
by Scarecrow33
Tue Apr 30, 2024 8:41 am
Forum: Suns/NBA
Topic: 2024 Suns Offseason: Where do we go from here?
Replies: 405
Views: 7159

Re: 2024 Suns Offseason: Where do we go from here?

This team should have been dominant at least occasionally. I don't remember them dominating anybody. You could argue they dominated Minnesota but we now know that was vapor. The problems this team had in October they still had 2 nights ago. They kept selling us on, "Well the Big 3 has not had e...
by Scarecrow33
Mon Apr 29, 2024 8:34 am
Forum: Suns/NBA
Topic: Game Day - Playoff Edition - Game 4: Wolves (3-0) @ Suns (0-3), Sun 4/28/24
Replies: 220
Views: 2536

Re: Game Day - Playoff Edition - Game 4: Wolves (3-0) @ Suns (0-3), Sun 4/28/24

Everyone on the roster kept doing this kind of overpassing all season. Unselfish to a flaw. So bizarre. It was only fitting that the same thing basically ended the season. https://streamable.com/wx27mh Of the many frustrating things about this season, this is the most frustrating. It was a tendency...
by Scarecrow33
Fri Apr 26, 2024 9:56 am
Forum: Suns/NBA
Topic: Game Day - Playoff Edition - Game 3: Wolves (2-0) @ Suns (0-2), Fri 4/26/24
Replies: 255
Views: 2481

Re: Game Day - Playoff Edition - Game 3: Wolves (2-0) @ Suns (0-2), Fri 4/26/24

I don't see the Suns winning unless Booker has a monster game. I don't see Booker having a monster game. From https://www.brightsideofthesun.com/2024/4/24/24138845/disconnected-and-flustered-its-time-for-devin-booker-to-get-right-or-phoenix-suns-will-stay-home at BSOTS. "Jaden McDaniels has don...
by Scarecrow33
Fri Apr 26, 2024 8:42 am
Forum: Suns/NBA
Topic: 2024 Playoffs: Suns-Timberwolves Round 1 News Thread
Replies: 172
Views: 4368

Re: 2024 Playoffs: Suns-Timberwolves Round 1 News Thread

It's not about the PG. We can't defend a statue. Yeah, I don't know why Frank doesn't just tell them to play better defense. ;) We all know playing defense in the NBA is about making the effort, being in your stance, staying low, keeping your hands up, keeping your head on a swivel. One problem is ...
by Scarecrow33
Fri Apr 26, 2024 8:19 am
Forum: Suns/NBA
Topic: 2024 Playoffs: Suns-Timberwolves Round 1 News Thread
Replies: 172
Views: 4368

Re: 2024 Playoffs: Suns-Timberwolves Round 1 News Thread

As a franchise we have been blessed with some of the best point guards to play in the NBA for the last 30 years at least. I haven't been on the "We need a PG no matter what" bandwagon. I was anxious to see what point-book or point-beal could do. I figured they could figure it out. Now I k...
by Scarecrow33
Thu Apr 25, 2024 10:48 am
Forum: Suns/NBA
Topic: 2024 Playoffs: Suns-Timberwolves Round 1 News Thread
Replies: 172
Views: 4368

Re: 2024 Playoffs: Suns-Timberwolves Round 1 News Thread

This is the one I want to focus on: "6. Lack of chemistry…they still look like they’ve never played with each other at times." It's almost like negative chemistry. Since the earliest games everyone defers to someone else. Almost like they are trying to avoid making any mistakes but play so...
by Scarecrow33
Thu Apr 25, 2024 8:58 am
Forum: Suns/NBA
Topic: 2024 Playoffs: Suns-Timberwolves Round 1 News Thread
Replies: 172
Views: 4368

Re: 2024 Playoffs: Suns-Timberwolves Round 1 News Thread

As a franchise we have been blessed with some of the best point guards to play in the NBA for the last 30 years at least. I haven't been on the "We need a PG no matter what" bandwagon. I was anxious to see what point-book or point-beal could do. I figured they could figure it out. Now I kn...
by Scarecrow33
Wed Apr 10, 2024 11:34 am
Forum: Suns/NBA
Topic: Game Day: Suns (46-33) @ Clippers (51-28), Wed 4/10/24
Replies: 134
Views: 1701

Re: Game Day: Suns (46-33) @ Clippers (51-28), Wed 4/10/24

I won't be watching this team anymore this season. Our stars gave out a golden shower on fan appreciation night. We need to trade Booker and Durant, carefully, so we get whatever value is there for them. Booker's terrible games at the worst moments across a few years show he is not the guy to bring ...
by Scarecrow33
Wed Apr 10, 2024 8:53 am
Forum: Suns/NBA
Topic: Game Day: Clippers (50-28) @ Suns (46-32), Tues 4/9/24
Replies: 191
Views: 1975

Re: Game Day: Clippers (50-28) @ Suns (46-32), Tues 4/9/24

Can you imagine Kobe or MJ responding with "Chillin'" after a loss like that? Ishbia has more work to do now than when he bought the team. We probably need to keep Beale because of his contract and I like him better than KD or Book anyway. At least Beale occasionally sounds like a responsi...
by Scarecrow33
Sun Apr 07, 2024 3:50 pm
Forum: Suns/NBA
Topic: Game Day: Pelicans (45-32) @ Suns (46-31), Sun 4/7/24
Replies: 32
Views: 730

Re: Game Day: Pelicans (45-32) @ Suns (46-31), Sun 4/7/24

Entry pass to Nurk = Pels fast break.
by Scarecrow33
Wed Mar 27, 2024 9:17 am
Forum: Suns/NBA
Topic: Game Day: Suns (42-30) @ Nuggets (51-21), Wed 3/27/24
Replies: 161
Views: 4602

Re: Game Day: Suns (42-30) @ Nuggets (51-21), Wed 3/27/24

Facing Jokic and AG without Nurk sounds like a long and unpleasant evening. Ewbanks needs to have the game of his life. :roll:
by Scarecrow33
Wed Mar 20, 2024 10:50 am
Forum: Suns/NBA
Topic: At this point, where is your level of care/concern for our team? In the present, as well as moving towards the future.
Replies: 34
Views: 852

Re: At this point, where is your level of care/concern for our team? In the present, as well as moving towards the futur

I'm concerned because I don't know why they continue to play like crap with only brief flashes of competence. I wasn't too concerned for the first half because Big-3-Injuries and all that. But I was bothered because ALL these guys we brought in to help, (except for Grayson, and to a lesser extent Go...
by Scarecrow33
Wed Mar 20, 2024 10:03 am
Forum: Suns/NBA
Topic: Game Day (Early Start!): Suns (39-28) @ Bucks (43-24), Sun 3/17/24
Replies: 111
Views: 1996

Re: Game Day (Early Start!): Suns (39-28) @ Bucks (43-24), Sun 3/17/24

By my calcs, KD makes $565,944.30 per game. (yearly contract payout / 82 games) Therefore he made $141,486.07 for the 4th qtr of this game. Ishbia did not get his money's worth. :oops:
by Scarecrow33
Wed Mar 20, 2024 8:30 am
Forum: Suns/NBA
Topic: Game Day: 76ers (38-30) @ Suns (39-29), Wed 3/20/24
Replies: 196
Views: 2591

Re: Game Day: 76ers (38-30) @ Suns (39-29), Wed 3/20/24

I see Philly is borrowing a page from the Buck's playbook, having the MVP big man sit out with a leg injury so the 3 point shooters can bury us. :roll:
by Scarecrow33
Sun Mar 17, 2024 1:34 pm
Forum: Suns/NBA
Topic: Game Day (Early Start!): Suns (39-28) @ Bucks (43-24), Sun 3/17/24
Replies: 111
Views: 1996

Re: Game Day (Early Start!): Suns (39-28) @ Bucks (43-24), Sun 3/17/24

To paraphrase Dennis Green, These Suns are NOT who we thought they were. Everybody gets fat shooting 3s against us yet our big 3 rarely take open spot ups early in the clock. We commit so many careless live ball turn overs that get turned into points against us, it's getting hard to watch. To lose t...
by Scarecrow33
Tue Feb 13, 2024 8:58 am
Forum: Suns/NBA
Topic: Suns sign Thaddeus Young
Replies: 66
Views: 1672

Re: Suns News: Week 17 (2/12/24 - 2/18/24)

Looks like Thad Young has more going on than just basketball. https://reformventures.com/ Don't know what kind of legs he has left at 35 but his brain looks to be in good working order.