Game Day: Suns (9-11) @ Pelicans (6-15), Thurs 12/5/19

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Re: Game Day: Suns (9-11) @ Pelicans (6-15), Thurs 12/5/19

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Oubre 5/18 FG
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Series of some of the worst plays I've ever seen.

Bridges with a stupid ass foul on Reddick.

Saric with one of the worst loose ball fouls I've ever seen at a crucial time.

Booker falls asleep on D guarding absolutely nobody and Ball gets a wide open 3.

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Oubre 5/18 FG
He's too focused on his "swag."

I'm pretty done with him. He's bench fodder.

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We were up 20!!!!!

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Well this isn’t good.

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Oubre needs to get his head out of his ass, play within the fucking system, and not have consistent lapses on defense.

When he sucks as bad as he does, Cam should play. Cam's been on tonight and we're not playing defense anyway.

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16 point lead going into the 4th quarter and they still couldn't hold it.
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I swear Saric is the KING of giving up And 1's.

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Oubre lets yet another player blow by him. Saric picks up his 6th foul because of it.

WAKE UP!!!! PLAY SOME DEFENSE!!!

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what a pass by ricky!

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Oubre with a crazy block. Then a horrible shot that leads to a reddick 3. He's been taking too many Xanny bars.

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Oubre's not the brightest guy out there.
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Nice game by Booker. Johnson is looking good.

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The Bobster wrote:
Thu Dec 05, 2019 7:25 pm
Diallo is shooting 80% on his FG for the season. 100% on 3's. And 88% on FT.
Going for the 80/90/100 club

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Not much love in here for the 44/8/9 game Booker just dropped? I missed quarters 3 and 4, but looks like he went off. Too bad we let them back into the game, but finished strong in OT.

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Thu Dec 05, 2019 8:50 pm
Not much love in here for the 44/8/9 game Booker just dropped? I missed quarters 3 and 4, but looks like he went off. Too bad we let them back into the game, but finished strong in OT.
We needed every one of them.

it's clear he is capable of these games. It's time he becomes consistent. I need him to consistently be our best player. His story of his season has been 1 great game, 1 good game, 3 horrible games, repeat.

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Booker was great offensively tonight - they just got to dependent on him and stopped moving the ball, so the offense got stagnant.

Remember that ball movement we got earlier in the year? Where did it go?
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specialsauce wrote:
Thu Dec 05, 2019 8:54 pm
Split T wrote:
Thu Dec 05, 2019 8:50 pm
Not much love in here for the 44/8/9 game Booker just dropped? I missed quarters 3 and 4, but looks like he went off. Too bad we let them back into the game, but finished strong in OT.
We needed every one of them.

it's clear he is capable of these games. It's time he becomes consistent. I need him to consistently be our best player. His story of his season has been 1 great game, 1 good game, 3 horrible games, repeat.
I think horrible is going too far. I think he’s trying to find the balance between playing in the system and taking over. He’s spent 4 years just taking over by default because we’ve been so bad. I’m willing to live with a few games where he’s too complacent when he should take over. He’ll figure it out and learn when to take over.

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Split T wrote:
Thu Dec 05, 2019 9:06 pm
specialsauce wrote:
Thu Dec 05, 2019 8:54 pm
Split T wrote:
Thu Dec 05, 2019 8:50 pm
Not much love in here for the 44/8/9 game Booker just dropped? I missed quarters 3 and 4, but looks like he went off. Too bad we let them back into the game, but finished strong in OT.
We needed every one of them.

it's clear he is capable of these games. It's time he becomes consistent. I need him to consistently be our best player. His story of his season has been 1 great game, 1 good game, 3 horrible games, repeat.
I think horrible is going too far. I think he’s trying to find the balance between playing in the system and taking over. He’s spent 4 years just taking over by default because we’ve been so bad. I’m willing to live with a few games where he’s too complacent when he should take over. He’ll figure it out and learn when to take over.
Booker is being asked to play within a system by his coach so he is not entirely to blame. Williams need to let him off the leash more often.

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If Booker does not play to the level of the opponents best player night in and out, we are toast.

He is our franchise player. Expect franchise player expectations.

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