Game Day: Suns (61-14) @ Warriors (48-28), Wed 3/30/22

[dragickingdom]

Watched the Tom Chambers interview with Devin Booker and you could tell he was embarrassed by his performance tonight. You could just tell by the look on his face when Tom brought up how dog shit both him and Thompson were shooting tonight.

[Superbone]

It seems like Mikel and Paul were the only ones unaffected by the Warriors defense.

[dragickingdom]

Feels like one of those games where they are gonna make all their 3s and cause the Suns some trouble. Jordan Poole especially.

No it doesn't.

You sure?

He made all of them but not the rest of them.

Sounds like your quoting Yogi Berra.

[AmareIsGod]

It was the Klank Thompson and Devin Bricker show tonight. Oof.

[Superbone]

That perfect record about to get tested!!

It was indeed. 46-0.

[Superbone]

Lmao! What are you doing POOLE???!!

Book baited him into it.

[Superbone]

Well I not doing any cartwheels over this win
Book n DA seemingly not comfortable against these guys which isn't cool

I think it’s good for them before the playoffs start. They’ll be able to watch the film and figure out how to handle this style of handsy defense. Hopefully, they’ll have some tricks up their sleeves the next time.

[Superbone]

Feels like one of those games where they are gonna make all their 3s and cause the Suns some trouble. Jordan Poole especially.

No it doesn't.

You sure?

He made all of them but not the rest of them.

Sounds like your quoting Yogi Berra.

Heh. I meant the rest of his teammates.

[Split T]

Almost at halftime, this game has been rough…thank goodness for bridges as we have been awful otherwise on offense…also thank goodness for Klay as he’s been awful

[Split T]

Well I couldn’t handle watching this game…we were so bad…obviously a lot of credit to the warriors for making us uncomfortable, but we were just bad…a couple minutes into the 2nd half I skipped forward to clutch time and watched from there. Glad we got the win, but that was ugly.

Booker was awful and somehow fouled Poole 3 times in the final 2 minutes. Thank goodness for Bridges as he was our best source of offense and then CP3 hit some big shots to close. I don’t know what Ayton’s deal was…he missed so many easy shots he normally makes…watched Klay push him like 6-7 feet on a box out once too. Suns, outside of Bridges, just didn’t match the warriors energy or intensity.

I will say, the warriors make so many off ball screens and cuts with back door passes. Lots of read and react plays and that’s tough to defend. Of course it’s sometimes tough to pull off as the warriors threw the ball away a lot and had a costly turnover on a misread but Porter at the end. Their defense seems to muck us up as good as anyone. Does show the importance of a guy like Bridges though. Defense will be designed to stop Booker and Paul, so if Bridges can do this it will help greatly. Of course I don’t imagine we’ll see Booker and Ayton play this bad again. Ugly win, but glad we got it….

Best road record of all time is still in play. Let’s get the franchise record and let the Grizzlies know they can’t hang with us on Friday.

[The Bobster]

Suns are 121-35 since the start of the bubble.

That's a 64-18 pace over 82 games.

[Split T]

3 games left I really want…Memphis on Friday to ensure we don’t have a losing record against any team and to pay them back for winning on that Morant travel…. The Clippers game next week because I don’t want them getting confidence for a potential 1st round matchup and they also beat us once, can’t let them win twice this year. It would also tie us for the most road wins ever, assuming we get the grizzlies and thunder in our next two. Last one is the Jazz game…need to pay them back and set the all time road wins record…also I’ll be at the game. Get those 3 and I’m almost certain we go into the final Kings game at 67-14…start Iffe in that game for all I care, just make sure Bridges keeps his iron man streak.

[Nodack]

And like always they clutch it out late. They didn’t need the win. They already clinched the best record. They wanted the win and took it in the end when it mattered most like they always seem to do. They are known to be sore losers. As bad as people were playing and how close the score was, I had a strange calmness the whole time. I thought it might be because the Suns already clinched and the win meant nothing come playoff time other than bragging rights to having the most wins ever in Suns history. I think it had more to do with seeing them win in crunch time over and over all year long. You all saw the stat. If they are leading going into the fourth quarter it’s a done deal 100% of the time this year. Incredible.

I don’t know the minutes played. The announcers made note that Paul and Booker were held out of the fourth quarter longer than usual so, maybe we are entering a new playoff prep mode.

[ShelC]

[Flagrant Fowl]

I have no idea what Green and Crowder were talking about, but it seemed like Crowder was smiling the whole game while Green was yapping. The officials didn't seem to appreciate it much either.

[ShelC]

Thought I caught Dray yelling "He's soft" towards Jae when they were getting into a bit. If Dray wasn't bothered by Jae, he wouldn't have been saying anything. Love that we have a guy like Jae on the team to get under people's skin.

Ugly game, glad we won. Thought Book looked tired for the first time in a long time and had one of those games where his shots were just rimming out. Happened to a few other guys too like Cam, Shamet and DA. Kinda wish Book had a big game with all of the MVP talk and it being a national game against the Ws. Getting to the line 12 times is a major plus tho. Another great offensive game from Mikal. His midrange game is near automatic at this point and is a huge weapon going into the postseason. Ws defended DA well inside crowding the lane and making him catch the ball out further at the top of the key. He still had 16 and 16 and was impactful I thought.

Poole going off is frustrating and they didn't have Curry but I don't think rest of their team can hang offensively. Aside from Poole, we were really hounding everyone on D. Dray and Looney aren't threats, Klay still looks a step slow, Wiggins is usually 6-16, and GP gets some hustle points and 3s. We were working them on offense early on, then their defense turned up but we also missed a lot of shots we normally make. How many times have we shot 41% this season?

They're dangerous but whatever. I think we match up well, especially when we get CamJ back in the mix.

[Indy]

Book is a career .456 and .356 shooter, but against Golden State, he is at .398 and .298. This year alone he is at .286 and .200 against them.

[Wally_West]

Book is a career .456 and .356 shooter, but against Golden State, he is at .398 and .298. This year alone he is at .286 and .200 against them.

That doesn’t make feel good about a potential 7 game series…

[Indy]

Book is a career .456 and .356 shooter, but against Golden State, he is at .398 and .298. This year alone he is at .286 and .200 against them.

That doesn’t make feel good about a potential 7 game series…

Yeah. I wonder if there is something about Green and Book. They are close.

[ShelC]

Book ain't got no friends.