Game Day: Suns (1-0) @ Blazers (1-0), Fri 10/21/22

[Superbone]

Time: 7:00 pm AZ (7:00 pm PT/10:00 pm ET)
Place: Moda Center, Portland, OR
TV: BSAZ/NBALP

The Suns travel to Portland to take on the Trailblazers Friday night. Both teams are coming off wins in their season openers. The Blazers over the Kings in Sacramento and the Sun at home against the Mavs in a game in which they had to overcome a 22 point deficit.

https://www.nba.com/gamenotes/blazers.pdf
https://www.nba.com/gamenotes/suns.pdf

Go Suns!!!

Dis • cuss

[TOO]

Suns by 15.


Worked last time.

[Gladiator]

Set the tone early, especially defensively, and we should be fine in this one. Lillard is going to get his but make him work hard for it so he doesn’t have much in the tank down the stretch.
Go Suns!

[Mori Chu]

Will Bridges guard Lillard? We have to try to slow him down. Outside of him they don't have much I'm afraid of. I like Simons and I like their Payton II signing, but those guys won't beat us. Jerami Grant seems like an empty stats guy on this team. Who else do they even have? Justise Winslow? Nurkic? Josh Hart? This is not a playoff team.

[TOO]

Will Bridges guard Lillard? We have to try to slow him down. Outside of him they don't have much I'm afraid of. I like Simons and I like their Payton II signing, but those guys won't beat us. Jerami Grant seems like an empty stats guy on this team. Who else do they even have? Justise Winslow? Nurkic? Josh Hart? This is not a playoff team.

I like most of those guys lol. Lots of solid role players and Lillard. They'll push for a play in spot, and if Sharpe is as good I expect he will end up being, I like them.

[Drewsprocket]

Will Bridges guard Lillard? We have to try to slow him down. Outside of him they don't have much I'm afraid of. I like Simons and I like their Payton II signing, but those guys won't beat us. Jerami Grant seems like an empty stats guy on this team. Who else do they even have? Justise Winslow? Nurkic? Josh Hart? This is not a playoff team.

I like most of those guys lol. Lots of solid role players and Lillard. They'll push for a play in spot, and if Sharpe is as good I expect he will end up being, I like them.

There are no empty stat guys playing alongside a healthy Lillard. We said shit like that about Wood and he nearly kicked our ass.

[pickle]

I like Grant if he’s not pining for the second option role. Like Hart very much. Not that big on Nurk anymore. Used to think he was very nimble, but he’s clearly a bit of a poor fit for the modern game. Little seems interesting.

[pickle]

What’s going on… why’s there no activity here in the game thread… what am I missing?

[ShelC]

Wow beautiful basketball on both ends to start. The offense is really flowing and it's mostly been DA, Mikal and Cam making the plays. DA with a couple baseline jumpers and a 3 from the top of the key. Mikal posting up Dame and scoring then getting out on the break and Cam with a few jumpers.

Defensively we're just flying around and really making everything difficult for them. Everyone's been in sync so far.

[TOO]

Fouls fouls fouls fouls. Tony Brothers special.

[TOO]

2nd weak ass foul on DA. C'mon man, gonna be the same shit as last year?

[Flagrant Fowl]

The political ads on Bally Sports are insane.

[ShelC]

Full bench unit in to close the 1st with Payne, Okogie, Lee, Craig and Landale. Landale picked up 2 quick fouls but has played thru them. Offense has gotten bogged down again, Payne looks like he's got some juice tonight tho.

[TOO]

Paul looks cooked, we really have 1 dude who can reliably get his own shot now. Yikes.

[AmareIsGod]

Ayton!

[pickle]

Ayton showed great body control side stepping Simons on that last layup.

[ShelC]

Paul looks cooked, we really have 1 dude who can reliably get his own shot now. Yikes.

He's still got burst, just no lift. He's not even looking for his own shot because he can't get off the ground. But he still looks good getting up and down the floor and running the offense, getting steals and charges.

[Wally_West]

Ayton has been amazing so far. Those 2 fouls were such bullshit. If he was able to stay on we might be up 20.

[virtual9mm]

I like the Suns without CP3, Ayton playing a bigger role.

[The Bobster]

Paul looks cooked, we really have 1 dude who can reliably get his own shot now. Yikes.

He's still got burst, just no lift. He's not even looking for his own shot because he can't get off the ground. But he still looks good getting up and down the floor and running the offense, getting steals and charges.

Plus he has 5 steals in the first half.