Suns News: Week 1 (10/20 - 10/26) WE BACK MFs!!!!

[pickle]

Anybody else watching OKC/HOU? I am super hate-watching hoping Durant sucks and the Rockets lose. Right now Houston is up 7 in the middle of the 3rd quarter, but OKC is showing signs of life.

His first game in Houston *should* have ended with him calling an illegal timeout at the end of the first overtime, but apparently the ghost of Richie Powers possessed the officials right then and they looked it off. So instead, his first game ended with him taking an obvious foul on SGA to provide the winning points for OKC, and fouling out in the process.

Durant was good for the most part, and served as a great decoy for Sengun, especially. He didn't get a lot of easy shots, especially late in the game. Shot creation looks like it might be a little bit of a struggle for Houston, but there's a lot of things they can do well.

Wait, isn't that the reason behind Houston acquiring Durant in the first place? (I'm being facetious)

[Mori Chu]

Watching Houston lose to OKC, and then the Lakers lose to GSW, was a glorious first day of the NBA season. Also, what did you guys think of the NBA on NBC production? I thought they were great, much better than ESPN. The graphics and music were really top-notch. They seem to have hired Reggie Miller for some reason, though, ugh.

[Carno]

Agreed on all accounts, especially the one about hiring Reggie Miller. I just don't get it. He isn't good.

[Superbone]

The thing is that Bill Simmons never said this. This was from the Ringer article that Shel posted. I heard an AZ Sports snippet the other day where Simmons responded and said as much. But then he goes on to say his only Suns prediction is the under on winning 31.5 games. So, he didn't say they were going to have the worst defense just that they're not going to win many games.