Game Day: Suns (17-32) @ Rockets (34-13), Sun 1/28/18

[bajanguy008]

at least this is what we initially saw out of the guys when Triano took over. battling back and not getting blown out, Book n TJ doing their thing

[specialsauce]

Benders game consisted of him catching the ball on one side of the paint, dribbling to the other side looking for the closest person to pass it to. He’s allergic to the ball. Even Eddie Johnson was making fun of him.

[Bucktastic365]

Well, that was basically a rinse and repeat performance from the team. Book and Warren do their thing, chandler gets putbackes, and NOBODY save Josh can keep a player in front of them. THAT is the downfall of this team

[bajanguy008]

Booker was wincing at the end of the game, went to the locker room with under a min left....

[England Sun]

Wow. The first half of a game I’ve managed to watch all season and it is the second half of this game.
Booker....could watch him all day.
TJ......offensively a great scorer.
Chandler....double double machine, without actually playing much D.
The rest.....
Don’t mind Jackson going 0 for when he is getting into some nice spots and also actually playing nba defence. Hope he shakes that off and gets some shots to go next game. Then spend summer taking 20,000 shots to improve.
Bender.....wow, my dead gran has more drive!!
Cannan....We must be really bad at the point for this guy to be getting regular minutes.

[In2ition]

Yeah, Booker didn't look right after he took that fall. His 3 was way off to the right, and he couldn't get elevation on his short corner pull up.

[England Sun]

Yeah, Booker didn't look right after he took that fall. His 3 was way off to the right, and he couldn't get elevation on his short corner pull up.

Might be the perfect time to rest him with Memphis and Dallas to come.

[Superbone]

I’m about a half hour behind but I can’t stand listening to these Rocket announcers.

Yea my third time hearing them. Clyde is not "terrible" but Matt Bullard is whack and the main commentator calls wrong players/names every two possessions smh

It's more that their players can do no wrong and our players were at fault every single time.

[Superbone]

Booker was wincing at the end of the game, went to the locker room with under a min left....

He took a very tough spill over Ryan Anderson.

[Wally_West]

https://twitter.com/sbordow/status/957756027209961472

[n4th4n]

https://twitter.com/sbordow/status/957756027209961472

Perfect timing.

[1tinsoldier]

https://twitter.com/sbordow/status/957756027209961472

Perfect timing.

yes, we can keep the losing streak alive

[1tinsoldier]

Booker....could watch him all day.
TJ......offensively a great scorer.
Chandler....double double machine, without actually playing much D.
The rest.....
Don’t mind Jackson going 0 for when he is getting into some nice spots and also actually playing nba defence. Hope he shakes that off and gets some shots to go next game. Then spend summer taking 20,000 shots to improve.
Bender.....wow, my dead gran has more drive!!
Cannan....We must be really bad at the point for this guy to be getting regular minutes.

spot on, England, except for Chandler who's much more often a single single machine without playing much D

[Cap]

Chandler's averaging 9.5 boards, but has only three double-doubles this season (out of six double-digit scoring games).

FWIW, all six of his double-digit scoring games are losses.

[England Sun]

Booker....could watch him all day.
TJ......offensively a great scorer.
Chandler....double double machine, without actually playing much D.
The rest.....
Don’t mind Jackson going 0 for when he is getting into some nice spots and also actually playing nba defence. Hope he shakes that off and gets some shots to go next game. Then spend summer taking 20,000 shots to improve.
Bender.....wow, my dead gran has more drive!!
Cannan....We must be really bad at the point for this guy to be getting regular minutes.

spot on, England, except for Chandler who's much more often a single single machine without playing much D

Lol!! You are right, but I only had this half to go on. There should be no excuse for him not to get a double double with the lack of rebounding drive from those around him.
However, his lack of D is disturbing.
Points wise I can see why he doesn’t score as much as he should because we seemed to be clearing out for an iso most of the time and stationary for the rest.
I can’t see Booker wanting to stay around too long with what he has around him at the moment.

Really disappointed with Bender and Cannan particularly.
Chris` wasn’t much better, not Daniels.
Sad really.

[specialsauce]

Several times tonight Warren put his head down and ignored a wiiiiiiide open Bender at the 3 point line to take a contested fadeaway 2 pointer. His lack of passing ability/willingness is a real concern and one of the main reasons I don’t like him as a starter. Better fitted as a microwave off the bench

[TOO]

Several times tonight Warren put his head down and ignored a wiiiiiiide open Bender at the 3 point line to take a contested fadeaway 2 pointer. His lack of passing ability/willingness is a real concern and one of the main reasons I don’t like him as a starter. Better fitted as a microwave off the bench

Some people elsewhere think this man is just a notch below KD/LeBron etc..

[Mori Chu]

Well, we didn't lose by 40. And Booker now not only gets 30 points every night, but also 10 assists apparently. Pretty amazing numbers for him. I do wish we had anybody who would consistently show up to play other than Booker and Warren. Josh Jackson in particular was embarrassing; 0-13 shooting, including 0-6 from 3 (why is he shooting them??). 2 points, 4 boards. Pretty horrendous. Hope it doesn't wreck his confidence.

[Superbone]

Let’s play a game; who’ll get kicked out today?

Who picked Greg Monroe? Anybody?

[1tinsoldier]

England, i assume the suns have done the right thing with Booker and told him he's the man, and they'll treat him right. they reportedly they gave him a say in their decision making. another sign may be the news that mgmt is talking about accelerating the timeline, which may be another step in circumventing his potential frustration. it's a lesson suns mgmt should have learned after a series of bad breakups.