Game Day: Suns (25-5) vs Thunder (11-19), 12/23/21

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Game Day: Suns (25-5) vs Thunder (11-19), 12/23/21

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Time: 7:00 pm AZ (6:00 pm PT/9:00 pm ET)
Place: Footprint Center, Phoenix, AZ
TV: BSAZ / NBALP

Suns try to continue winning and avoiding COVID in their last game before the big Christmas Day showdown with the Warriors.

Go Suns !!!

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Re: Game Day: Suns (25-5) vs Thunder (11-19), 12/23/21

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This OKC team is frisky right now. SGA is good enough to be the best player on the court for either team. I think the Suns will need to win this one with defense.
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Re: Game Day: Suns (25-5) vs Thunder (11-19), 12/23/21

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Josh Giddey - Aussie - having a stellar rookie season.

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Re: Game Day: Suns (25-5) vs Thunder (11-19), 12/23/21

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Payton fucking sucks.
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Re: Game Day: Suns (25-5) vs Thunder (11-19), 12/23/21

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Need to get Javale the ball in the post. Too many missed long shits and turnovers by our guards with this 2nd unit stint.
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I hate when Payne gets tunnel vision.
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Re: Game Day: Suns (25-5) vs Thunder (11-19), 12/23/21

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Does the main character from the new Dune play for OKC?
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Re: Game Day: Suns (25-5) vs Thunder (11-19), 12/23/21

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And just like that, the lead has disappeared.
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Re: Game Day: Suns (25-5) vs Thunder (11-19), 12/23/21

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Pretty inexcusable to let them take a lead into halftime.

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Re: Game Day: Suns (25-5) vs Thunder (11-19), 12/23/21

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Bridges 1/4
Booker 3/9
Payne 1/4
Shamet 1/4

Terrible shooting, bad defensive rebounding.
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Re: Game Day: Suns (25-5) vs Thunder (11-19), 12/23/21

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That sucked.
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Re: Game Day: Suns (25-5) vs Thunder (11-19), 12/23/21

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It's the efforts like that that really piss me off.

No passing, no rebounding, no defense.
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Re: Game Day: Suns (25-5) vs Thunder (11-19), 12/23/21

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Suns need some Red Bull after that second quarter. Flatter than week-old champagne ...
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Shamet and Payne were terrible, Bridges and Booker didn't get much accomplisher either.
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Re: Game Day: Suns (25-5) vs Thunder (11-19), 12/23/21

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We started well enough but the bench lost all momentum and the starters couldn't get back in sync. The Thunder play hard and smart, they tightened up the defense and the starters came back flat. The Thunder were really hitting the boards and just outworking us, which can't happen.

Monty's stretching the rotation sticking with Payton but he's just a drag.

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Re: Game Day: Suns (25-5) vs Thunder (11-19), 12/23/21

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The ghost of Ayton's vagina has returned. Several straight soft misses at the rim.
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Re: Game Day: Suns (25-5) vs Thunder (11-19), 12/23/21

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Dort is probably one of my favorite non-suns players.

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Re: Game Day: Suns (25-5) vs Thunder (11-19), 12/23/21

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The Bobster wrote:
Thu Dec 23, 2021 8:14 pm
Shamet and Payne were terrible, Bridges and Booker didn't get much accomplisher either.
I think Payne took your observation to heart and has acted on it ... 8-)
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Re: Game Day: Suns (25-5) vs Thunder (11-19), 12/23/21

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MightyMoog wrote:
Thu Dec 23, 2021 8:31 pm
Dort is probably one of my favorite non-suns players.
I'm guessing you're an ASU guy because I don't think he's much fun to watch at all.
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Re: Game Day: Suns (25-5) vs Thunder (11-19), 12/23/21

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Johnson having a solid game. 18 and counting ...
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