Re: Suns News: Week 9 12/10-12/16
Posted: Thu Dec 13, 2018 10:18 pm
call the suicide hotline
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Re: Suns News: Week 9 12/10-12/16
Posted: Fri Dec 14, 2018 1:40 am
Hmm, Spencer Dinwiddie stays in Brooklyn, good for him.I did not like his surname anyway...
Re: Suns News: Week 9 12/10-12/16
Posted: Fri Dec 14, 2018 6:23 am
Re: Suns News: Week 9 12/10-12/16
Posted: Fri Dec 14, 2018 9:43 am
Article about TJ Warren's great, forgotten, season:
https://hoopshabit.com/2018/12/14/phoen ... ry-season/
https://hoopshabit.com/2018/12/14/phoen ... ry-season/
Re: Suns News: Week 9 12/10-12/16
Posted: Fri Dec 14, 2018 9:59 am
TJ really is just a scorer. His poor rebounding has actually gotten worse this year, possibly because he’s spending more time at the 3 point line. He’s been really efficient though. .52/.44/.86 is fantastic shooting numbers.
Edit: Just looked it up and his defensive rebound rate is actually at a career high. His offensive rebound rate is about 1/3 of his usual. So he’s not crashing the glass nearly as much. Possibly because he’s further away from the hoop now. Could also be a scheme change, or a little of both.
Edit: Just looked it up and his defensive rebound rate is actually at a career high. His offensive rebound rate is about 1/3 of his usual. So he’s not crashing the glass nearly as much. Possibly because he’s further away from the hoop now. Could also be a scheme change, or a little of both.
Re: Suns News: Week 9 12/10-12/16
Posted: Fri Dec 14, 2018 1:33 pm
Yes, but, on this team being "just" great at one thing puts you far ahead of most of our roster. Especially if that thing is scoring.
Re: Suns News: Week 9 12/10-12/16
Posted: Fri Dec 14, 2018 1:52 pm
I agree, I’m very happy with warren this year.
Re: Suns News: Week 9 12/10-12/16
Posted: Fri Dec 14, 2018 3:40 pm
Honestly all I could possibly have reasonably wanted for Warren was for him to spend all of this past summer chucking a million 3s to get that shot added to his arsenal. By all accounts, that is exactly what he did during the offseason, and it shows. His 3-point shooting is much improved. And that is a -great- improvement for him and makes him a much more dangerous offensive player. It's hard to overstate how helpful it is that he did this. The fact that he isn't an awesome rebounder or defender is not ideal, but he has really worked hard to improve on a big weakness of his offensive game. Now I find almost no fault with him on offense; he could be a more willing passer, but I don't really need that from him. His D might improve over the years; who knows. I think it's getting overlooked a bit given that we are a god-awful team. But I'm extremely happy with the way he improved his game this past summer.
Re: Suns News: Week 9 12/10-12/16
Posted: Fri Dec 14, 2018 4:56 pm
Agreed. I wish he would have drug Josh to the gym with him every day but I believe TJ largely worked out away from the team.
Re: Suns News: Week 9 12/10-12/16
Posted: Fri Dec 14, 2018 10:50 pm
It does get really tiring be a laughing stock
My Timeline is so hard to read sometimes and these things are just a regular
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My Timeline is so hard to read sometimes and these things are just a regular
Classic Suns...
Only the Suns....
What r the Suns doing....
Re: Suns News: Week 9 12/10-12/16
Posted: Sun Dec 16, 2018 3:36 am
curry, warren, and brogdon are having great shooting years.
Re: Suns News: Week 9 12/10-12/16
Posted: Sun Dec 16, 2018 8:59 am
Fun fact: TJ Warren has more than doubled his 3pt makes from last year already (43 to 20) Will almost definitely hit more 3’s this year than his first 4 season combined.
Re: Suns News: Week 9 12/10-12/16
Posted: Sun Dec 16, 2018 9:24 am
Another fun fact: he’s hitting 44.8% of his attempts, up from 22.2% last season. It was recently mentioned on a broadcast that if he keeps it up, it will be the greatest year over year improvement in NBA history.
Re: Suns News: Week 9 12/10-12/16
Posted: Sun Dec 16, 2018 11:24 am
TJ deserves a ton of praise and credit for putting in the work to do this.
Re: Suns News: Week 9 12/10-12/16
Posted: Sun Dec 16, 2018 12:58 pm
Yep, it's what we all wanted from him and he went out and did it in spectacular fashion.Marty [Mori Chu] wrote: ↑Sun Dec 16, 2018 11:24 amTJ deserves a ton of praise and credit for putting in the work to do this.
Re: Suns News: Week 9 12/10-12/16
Posted: Sun Dec 16, 2018 1:44 pm
Defense, rebounding, playmaking. He adds one of those and he’s an all star candidate. Add all 3 and he’s an all-nba guy.
Re: Suns News: Week 9 12/10-12/16
Posted: Sun Dec 16, 2018 2:31 pm
Well if he's gonna start at PF, then we definitely need the rebounding.
Re: Suns News: Week 9 12/10-12/16
Posted: Sun Dec 16, 2018 5:44 pm
Re: Suns News: Week 9 12/10-12/16
Posted: Sun Dec 16, 2018 5:47 pm
Best news I have heard in awhile. Hope the trend continues.
Re: Suns News: Week 9 12/10-12/16
Posted: Sun Dec 16, 2018 6:01 pm
Really cool how Ayton made a halftime adjustment.
https://theathletic.com/716723/2018/12/ ... ting-week/
https://theathletic.com/716723/2018/12/ ... ting-week/
“I feel great,” Booker said. “It’s the best I felt all season. I kept saying that before I came back, I wanted to be 100 percent healthy. Been playing through injuries all year and got a little contagious, so just wanted to make sure I was fully ready to go tonight.”
For Ayton, this was his first career matchup against Minnesota’s Karl-Anthony Towns. In the first half, Ayton picked up three fouls guarding Towns, which opened the door for veteran center Richaun Holmes to play big minutes. Between the two bigs, the Suns initially had no answer for Towns.
Towns poured in 21 points in the first half and appeared well on his way to a 40-point night until Kokoskov and Ayton made a few key halftime adjustments.
“First time playing him, he’s pretty quick,” Ayton said. “I could see why he’s one of the elite players in the game. He can play inside out. Big player as well. The second half, I really watched some film at half and really saw how he was scoring and what’s his bread and butter. I tried my best to cut off the baseline and the post and just do my work early when there’s plays for him, posting up and stuff like that.”
In the second half, Ayton stood his ground and performed admirably at the defensive end. Towns was limited to just seven points in the final two quarters of play.
“I think he came back ready,” Kokoskov said. “He was huge defensively covering space, covering, and his presence in the paint was huge in crunch time.