Game Day: Suns (38-34) @ Kings (43-29), Fri 3/24/23

[Flagrant Fowl]

Sucks to lose, but I'm not subscribing to the finger pointing. It's a talent issue with KD and Ayton out.

Even TJ Warren had a pretty good game if we ignore him getting cooked on defense in the second half.

[Flagrant Fowl]

Just barely started watching but it seems Monty was really fucking bad?

Nah, suns got in a battle with the refs and the kings took advantage and killed us in the 3rd

Gross. I just saw on twitter everyone criticizing Monty, book and Paul.

Booker deserves the most criticism for the horrendous stretch in the 3rd, but he got it together and played well through the end of the game.

I don't get the Monty criticism and everyone should know what Chris Paul is and isn't at this point.

[Wally_West]

Just barely started watching but it seems Monty was really fucking bad?

Nah, suns got in a battle with the refs and the kings took advantage and killed us in the 3rd

Gross. I just saw on twitter everyone criticizing Monty, book and Paul.

Booker deserves the most criticism for the horrendous stretch in the 3rd, but he got it together and played well until the end.

I don't get the Monty criticism and everyone should know what Chris Paul is and isn't at this point.

What was Book doing? Just forcing shit and hero shots?

[Split T]

Ya not sure why Monty would be to blame here. We just let the officiating get to us and the kings steamrolled us while we blamed everything on the refs. Now the refs did suck, but you can’t react the way they did. Just play.

If Ross and Warren could just play even below average defense we’d have something…they are just so bad…CP3 too. We had 3 pigeons out there against the best offensive team in the nba.

[Split T]

Just barely started watching but it seems Monty was really fucking bad?

Nah, suns got in a battle with the refs and the kings took advantage and killed us in the 3rd

Gross. I just saw on twitter everyone criticizing Monty, book and Paul.

Booker deserves the most criticism for the horrendous stretch in the 3rd, but he got it together and played well until the end.

I don't get the Monty criticism and everyone should know what Chris Paul is and isn't at this point.

What was Book doing? Just forcing shit and hero shots?

No he was the big culprit with the refs. He thought he got fouled, came down and fouled Sabonis needlessly and got a tech complaining at the refs. Pissed off the refs and then we were all butt hurt with every call that went against us.

[Flagrant Fowl]

Just barely started watching but it seems Monty was really fucking bad?

Nah, suns got in a battle with the refs and the kings took advantage and killed us in the 3rd

Gross. I just saw on twitter everyone criticizing Monty, book and Paul.

Booker deserves the most criticism for the horrendous stretch in the 3rd, but he got it together and played well until the end.

I don't get the Monty criticism and everyone should know what Chris Paul is and isn't at this point.

What was Book doing? Just forcing shit and hero shots?

Arguing with the refs. He had a great game otherwise.

[Wally_West]

That’s disappointing hearing about Book. Damn.

[Split T]

We’ve dropped to 5th…though maybe 6th would be best anyways

[The Bobster]

Give up 80 points in a half and you're fucked.

[Split T]

45 in the 3rd

[Mori Chu]

We looked good in the first half. Then I went to put my kids to bed and came back midway through the 3rd and it was already basically over. Wth happened? Looking at some of the stats, it's hard to win when 3 of your starters score 2, 4, and 6 points respectively. And I know we got a lot from our bench, but the bench guys also play pretty lousy defense. So it felt like we were trading baskets at best.

We really need KD and Ayton back.

[Split T]

We gonna get Embiid his MVP tomorrow when he drops 60 in 3 quarters and doesn’t have to play the 4th

[virtual9mm]

Anyone still thinking that Ayton is easily replaceable?

[Superbone]

I just knew that first half was fools gold.

[Superbone]

REFBALL!

Ed Malloy was the star tonight! What calls!

[virtual9mm]

Just barely started watching but it seems Monty was really fucking bad?

Nah, suns got in a battle with the refs and the kings took advantage and killed us in the 3rd

This is killing my love for the game even more than Sarver did. Is consistently unfair refereeing supposed to be part of the game? All the flopping and whining sucks too

[virtual9mm]

Use AI to replace the refs. I could probably do it, too, with the training dataset that the NBA is providing for the last two minutes of each game + Synergy sports

[Flagrant Fowl]

Anyone still thinking that Ayton is easily replaceable?

Com'on now. No one was saying replace him for guys like Jock Landale and Bismack Biyombo.

[Superbone]

[Split T]

Just barely started watching but it seems Monty was really fucking bad?

Nah, suns got in a battle with the refs and the kings took advantage and killed us in the 3rd

This is killing my love for the game even more than Sarver did. Is consistently unfair refereeing supposed to be part of the game? All the flopping and whining sucks too

Problem was we overreacted to 1 or 2 questionable calls. The refs didn’t screw us, our focus on the refs made us lose focus on our actual opponent. I do think Ed Malloy got a little “I’ll show you” with us, but just no excuse for getting in those battles with the refs. If I’m Monty I’d tell the team no talking to the refs whatsoever tomorrow. We just can’t let this ref storyline continue. Just play basketball.