Mori Chu wrote: ↑Mon Jan 19, 2026 10:12 am
Rough past week going 1-2, but honestly, if you look at that trio of games, 1-2 is completely understandable and expected. Wish we could have held on against DET but at least we kept all three of those games interesting and close.
I think we have the potential to have a much better week this week. I think we can win 3 or 4 of these matchups, especially if Jalen Green is coming back.
Random Suns thoughts: Gillespie has kind of hit the wall a bit. Why? Have teams started scouting him better, focusing more defense on him? Is he just tired out? Just a random slump? Also, I really like the way Grayson Allen is playing this season. His injury was unfortunate, but it seems like he's rounding back to near 100%. I don't know how he will fit with Green, but Grayson has been really valuable the past few weeks to help with our offense and scoring. If I had to trade anybody it'd be Richards and then O'Neale if needed, not Grayson.
The point differential for both losses was 9, both were winnable and I feel like we lost those games more than the Heat and Pistons won them due to our flagrant and techs. And playing the Pistons so close without Book only further shows we're for real and not a fluke team. We've played the best and for the most part have hung with the best. We're not just beating up on the bottom feeders and we're consistently showing up every night against every opponent.
CG's been in a bit of a slump the past month. Prob a combo of fatigue and teams being prepared for him. He looked very good in the 4th qtr of the Knicks but was also working against Tyler Kolek a bit which no doubt helped. He's struggled against the better starters in the league so that may give some indication of his overall ceiling.
I've said before that Allen is more of luxury type of player. If you can afford him and maximize him, he's worth keeping around. He's effective as either a starter or bench player, can defend well enough, handle the ball competently and has gotten better at getting to the basket. He fits exactly what we do and how we play now. The way he's playing, he might be worth more to us than what we might get back in a trade.
