The media doesn't hold teams accountable; this is gossipy drama stuff that distracts from basketball. I don't think the Suns coaching staff or players need to let the media turn every interview into a drama tea spilling session. They can and should focus on playing basketball. If they are having any conversations to clear the air, they can do that privately.
A lot of fans eat that stuff up though, and media outlets are always looking for "a big story" to draw traffic to their web sites or get people to tune in to their channel.
I think most of the hard core fans would rather hear about who looks good in practice and what the teams is doing to fill holes than whether a player is getting along with the coach. (although I see plenty of us here interested in that too)
The media doesn't hold teams accountable; this is gossipy drama stuff that distracts from basketball. I don't think the Suns coaching staff or players need to let the media turn every interview into a drama tea spilling session. They can and should focus on playing basketball. If they are having any conversations to clear the air, they can do that privately.
A lot of fans eat that stuff up though, and media outlets are always looking for "a big story" to draw traffic to their web sites or get people to tune in to their channel.
I think most of the hard core fans would rather hear about who looks good in practice and what the teams is doing to fill holes than whether a player is getting along with the coach. (although I see plenty of us here interested in that too)
Conflict and controversy sells. Just watch the news. Or reality TV. (NO THANKS!)
Gotta call BS on that one Monty unless you’re talking about guys for spots 13-17.
Re: Phoenix Suns Training Camp 2022
Posted: Wed Sep 28, 2022 10:04 pm
by Superbone
Re: Phoenix Suns Training Camp 2022
Posted: Thu Sep 29, 2022 1:08 pm
by Split T
A revengeful from Ayton, but Landale had the best answer…wasn’t someone complaining about him not being humble? Haha
Re: Phoenix Suns Training Camp 2022
Posted: Thu Sep 29, 2022 1:28 pm
by Split T
Re: Phoenix Suns Training Camp 2022
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by Split T
Re: Phoenix Suns Training Camp 2022
Posted: Thu Sep 29, 2022 2:47 pm
by Split T
Good stuff to hear:
Re: Phoenix Suns Training Camp 2022
Posted: Thu Sep 29, 2022 3:22 pm
by ShelC
I feel like we've said that and even seen it at times during the season for some stretches with Mikal and Cam bringing the ball up and running offense but it never really sustains. We need them to be more aggressive halfcourt scorers, not just bringing the ball up and running some screen and rolls.
I feel like we've said that and even seen it at times during the season for some stretches with Mikal and Cam bringing the ball up and running offense but it never really sustains. We need them to be more aggressive halfcourt scorers, not just bringing the ball up and running some screen and rolls.
I agree we need them to be more aggressive, but I don’t think we’ve ever seen this or heard this before. The closest we’ve seen it is when Crowder brought the ball up against the Pelicans, but that was just to avoid the ball pressure on CP3. I can’t ever recall Mikal or CamJ bringing the ball up as part of some sort of strategy.
Re: Phoenix Suns Training Camp 2022
Posted: Thu Sep 29, 2022 3:49 pm
by Wally_West
And so it begins…basketball szn is here.
Re: Phoenix Suns Training Camp 2022
Posted: Thu Sep 29, 2022 4:01 pm
by Superbone
Man, I'm learning Paul has a LARGE family. Seems like I hear about a new family member every interview.
I got married and ended up playing with jock more than I'd like. Booker is just dating so he doesn't need to be doing that. Kendall seems like a satisfactory provider of those kinds of services.
Gotta call BS on that one Monty unless you’re talking about guys for spots 13-17.
You only have so many minutes and so many dollars. Why do you call BS? Guys can call and be like "yo, coach. I'd love to play with CP and Book and ya'll. Damn, that looks like a good time" and it never amount to anything more. He's been in the league and is well known amonst players. Not unfathomable.
Re: Phoenix Suns Training Camp 2022
Posted: Thu Sep 29, 2022 4:45 pm
by bajanguy008
Yup
We will be trolled relentlessly
If you don't get a laugh over some of the ridiculousness it might be best to not check too much social media
And as we all know we gave people plenty of stats to choose from it they wanna mock us
Not only that, the fall back will always be Suns gonna just get punk in playoffs again so regardless of how we play it's not going to matter
If you don't get a laugh over some of the ridiculousness it might be best to not check too much social media
And as we all know we gave people plenty of stats to choose from it they wanna mock us
Not only that, the fall back will always be Suns gonna just get punk in playoffs again so regardless of how we play it's not going to matter
Thankfully, there are games to be played. Wins aren't determined over social media. It's just noise.
I feel like we've said that and even seen it at times during the season for some stretches with Mikal and Cam bringing the ball up and running offense but it never really sustains. We need them to be more aggressive halfcourt scorers, not just bringing the ball up and running some screen and rolls.
I agree we need them to be more aggressive, but I don’t think we’ve ever seen this or heard this before. The closest we’ve seen it is when Crowder brought the ball up against the Pelicans, but that was just to avoid the ball pressure on CP3. I can’t ever recall Mikal or CamJ bringing the ball up as part of some sort of strategy.
There were times last year where CP would throw the ball to one of them in the backcourt to keep it and run offense. We were using Mikal in that ballhandling role a bit but it was never anything consistent.
