Game Day: Suns (19-53) @ Cavs (42-29), Fri 3/23/18

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Game Day: Suns (19-53) @ Cavs (42-29), Fri 3/23/18

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Time: 4:30 pm AZ (4:30 pm PT / 7:30 pm ET)
Place: Quicken Loans Arena, Cleveland, OH
TV: FSAZ/NBALP

The Cavs are coming off a monster win against the East leading Toronto Raptors. The Suns should be child's play for them. Prepare yourselves for another humiliating loss. Hopefully not as bad as what the Grizzlies experienced last night.

Go Suns!!!

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Elfrid has definitely checked out for the season.

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Elfrid is a trash can. Orlando has won that trade. LOLOLOLOLOLOL.
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At some point you gotta stop switching on D and have JJ fight through screens because there is 0.00% chance that Daniels covering Bron is gonna end well for us.
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Re: Game Day: Suns (19-53) @ Cavs (42-29), Fri 3/23/18

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Suns are playing well surprisingly

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Chriss is auditioning for that trade to Cleveland for Kevin Love.

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specialsauce wrote:Suns are playing well surprisingly
Cavs look bored, that's how bad the Suns are w/o Booker, nobody even takes them seriously.
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Yeah, never mind.

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Bender making a huge impact on the game. A whopping 1 rebound, 1 steal, and 1 TO is his statistical footprint in 12 minutes. For fucks sake.

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At least Marquese is having a good first half, though I’ve already given up on him so a good game mixed in with 20 of his typical bad attitude outings doesn’t do anything for me

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Had 4 free tickets to this game given to me back in November. Gave them back earlier this week. Already a better GM than McDonough.
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Dudley will be on the highlights tonight, jeez.

Bender, a little more arc on your shot...please for everyone's sake. Just a little. You have to be near perfect for you to make them with your current arc.
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Re: Game Day: Suns (19-53) @ Cavs (42-29), Fri 3/23/18

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Welp, that wasn't much fun.

Cavs announcers raving about how good Chriss and Len are going to be if they can get with the right team. I really hope Cleveland wants them this summer.
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Re: Game Day: Suns (19-53) @ Cavs (42-29), Fri 3/23/18

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Suns now with their second 10-game losing streak since in the last two months.

W-L record by month -
October - 3-4
November - 5-11
December - 6-9
January - 4-10
February - 1-10
March - 0-10

Last win at home - January 31 against Dallas
Last win against a team with a winning record - January 19 against Denver (23-22)

Remaining schedule -
March 24 - @Orlando
March 26 - Boston
March 28 - L.A. Clippers
March 30 - @Houston
April 1 - @Golden State
April 3 - Sacramento
April 6 - New Orleans
April 8 - Golden State
April 10 - @Dallas
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Re: Game Day: Suns (19-53) @ Cavs (42-29), Fri 3/23/18

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We are tanking, so long losing streaks comes with the territory.

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I wouldn’t say we’re tanking. That’s to say we’re losing on purpose. I think that we just suck. Last year we were tanking.

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specialsauce wrote:I wouldn’t say we’re tanking. That’s to say we’re losing on purpose. I think that we just suck. Last year we were tanking.
For Fultz?

Tanking this year makes a lot more sense.

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Cap wrote:
specialsauce wrote:I wouldn’t say we’re tanking. That’s to say we’re losing on purpose. I think that we just suck. Last year we were tanking.
For Fultz?

Tanking this year makes a lot more sense.
I'm not saying it made sense. I'm just saying we clearly tanked last year. We held out Bledsoe, Chandler, Knight, etc in an obvious push to lose games (I don't care that the FO says it was an "evaluation period," clearly the motive was not to win games).

This year we're losing with our main guys playing major minutes when healthy. We are trying to win. Warren and Booker's injuries seem legitimate. They're not healthy scratches or "rest days" like the rest of the tankers. We're just an awful team.

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specialsauce wrote:
Cap wrote:
specialsauce wrote:I wouldn’t say we’re tanking. That’s to say we’re losing on purpose. I think that we just suck. Last year we were tanking.
For Fultz?

Tanking this year makes a lot more sense.
I'm not saying it made sense. I'm just saying we clearly tanked last year. We held out Bledsoe, Chandler, Knight, etc in an obvious push to lose games (I don't care that the FO says it was an "evaluation period," clearly the motive was not to win games).

This year we're losing with our main guys playing major minutes when healthy. We are trying to win. Warren and Booker's injuries seem legitimate. They're not healthy scratches or "rest days" like the rest of the tankers. We're just an awful team.
We both are right.

We are tanking, but this year we need everything aligned to win on any given night, and to lose we just need to unbalance it a bit, so I would say that we are an awful team that doesn’t need too much disguise to tank, a little push here and there and we are doomed. But if we overplay our hand then 20+ blowouts happens and that is not good for the narrative of “not-awful-just-really-young” team, therefore we are still playing our “stars” big minutes.

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Re: Game Day: Suns (19-53) @ Cavs (42-29), Fri 3/23/18

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Can you give me an example of an intentional tank this year? Playing our roster is not tanking.

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