Game Day: Suns (43-10) @ 76ers (32-21), Tues 2/8/22

[LazarusLong]

Damn impressive win.

[Vladimir_Taltos]

You know what absolutely blows my mind...how does Deandre play 30 minutes...and have 0 free throws...not even one...as a statistic that blows my mind...

He plays to avoid contact

That's whack...12 assists and not 1 +1...whack...

[Uncle_Gene]

YYYEEEEEESSSSSS SSSIIIIIRRRRRR !!!!!!

[ShelC]

They're a team that's physical but not dirty. Thybulle bothered Book a bit tonight, Harris had 30 which must be a career high because he's usually a ghost. Embiid kind of plays on his own while others watch. Not a ton of ball movement. He got his, but we made him work.

Mikal is having the quietest stretch of breakout games it seems. 23 on 9-14 and his post ups/midpost shots are near automatic now. Cam was ice cold, maybe hit the wall a bit on 1-8 shooting. Hopefully he can get it back for the Bucks.

Heavy minutes on Paul, Mikal and Book - hope they rest up for Thursday.

[Flagrant Fowl]

Doc Rivers is a great game plan coach, but a bad in-game coach. The Sixers will be lucky to reach the ECF if they don't get a real PG in the next two days.

[LazarusLong]

Payton had 6 pts, 3 assists .... and 0 (zero) turnovers.
He wasn't spectacular, but he was steady in tough game. Props.

[LazarusLong]

Maxey, Curry and Korkmaz were a combined 7-29, including 1-11 from the arc.

76ers would be scary if they had shooters ...

[The Bobster]

14 wins in last 15 games.

[Nodack]

W

[MightyMoog]

14 wins in last 15 games.

43 wins in the last 50.

[specialsauce]

Paul played 42 minutes.

That’s my take away from this game.

I don’t care about the win.

[Mori Chu]

What a game. One of our best wins of the year, considering strength of opponent and difficulty being on a back-to-back on the road. Book with 35 big points; really playing well lately. CP3 with 16 and 12, really seemed to pace himself; didn't do too much in the 1st half but began to assert himself in the 3rd quarter. Bridges was awesome, scoring 23 points on 9-14 shooting. He was super aggressive and drove to the basket several times, even had some fadeaways and turnarounds over defenders. We will be a really scary team if he can keep up anything close to this level of play. Crowder had a rough night shooting 0-6 but he gave us 14 (!) rebounds. Ayton was a bit quiet tonight, but he had a really hard defensive assignment. I thought overall Ayton and JaVale did a pretty good job slowing Embiid down, though they can't really stop him. JaVale had 15 points, 12 rebounds, and 2 blocks; he's been such an amazing offseason acquisition. I honestly think we would have won the title last year with that exact team plus JaVale. We are so lucky to have him.

Sixers probably would have beaten us if their shooters had hit a few more. Seth Curry was 1-9 (!). Maxey 5-16. Green 1-4. Korkmaz 1-4. Other than Embiid and Harris nobody really had it going. I can live with Embiid getting 34 points if we can mostly contain the other guys. And both Ayton and McGee can handle Embiid 1-on-1 instead of needing to constantly send double-teams at him, which is probably why Philly's shooters were so well guarded.

[specialsauce]

Y’all are way too happy about us running our guys into the ground to get a regular season trophy

[3rdside]

Tend to agree - Paul is playing the most minutes for 8 years, there’s no reason he should be doing that

[Flagrant Fowl]

Y’all are way too happy about us running our guys into the ground to get a regular season trophy

You're way too scared of an injury that is impossible to predict instead of enjoying possibly the best Suns team ever.

[specialsauce]

Y’all are way too happy about us running our guys into the ground to get a regular season trophy

You're way too scared of an injury that is impossible to predict instead of enjoying possibly the best Suns team ever.

I have bigger long-term goals for this team. Running them unnecessarily into the ground for regular season victories is ridiculous. There are no trophies for the best regular season team.

[Shabazz]

Damn impressive win.

For sure. Especially considering Cam and Jae were 1-14 and CP3 wasn't great. This team has different guys step up whenever we need it.

[Flagrant Fowl]

Y’all are way too happy about us running our guys into the ground to get a regular season trophy

You're way too scared of an injury that is impossible to predict instead of enjoying possibly the best Suns team ever.

I have bigger long-term goals for this team. Running them unnecessarily into the ground for regular season victories is ridiculous. There are no trophies for the best regular season team.

And how are you contributing to those bigger long-term goals? I'm going to side with Chris Paul and the Suns since they're the ones actually playing the games.

[Split T]

The big minutes on Chris Paul are not sustainable, but I don’t really think it’s adding injury risk. Sure, there’s a slight increase because he’s playing more, creates more opportunity, but he could get hurt in practice just the same. Paul got hurt in the playoffs last year but that had more to do with increased physicality and just dumb luck than it did any sort of wear and tear. Same with Booker.

I also think the 1 seed will be quite important. I don’t want to play GS 4 times on their home court.

[Superbone]

Another quality win for YOUR Phoenix Suns on the back end of a back to back on the road against a top East team. The Philly Kid had a great game too. What a team!