So Ott doing his best Vogel impression and just leaving it up to iso again? Or was it channeling Phil Jackson and letting the players sort it out. He is showing hiw green he is lately at just the wrong time. What’s the word again if you try the same crap over again and it doesn’t work?
Or the Suns have two starters out and they're losing close games to good teams.
Boston with Tatum back should have handled the Suns, but the Suns played them tough and actually had a lead until the offense dried up the end of the game.
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It was impressive to keep the game so close against arguably the favored East Finals team. But our offense was really sticky in multiple stretches. The stretch where Book scored 20+ of our points in a row, plus the end of the 4th quarter, both were examples where we just couldn't get a good offensive flow going and get guys open looks and points. I think maybe we should have had Gillespie out there, but who knows if that would have helped. My man Jalen Green put up okay numbers (21 points, 7 reb) but the ball kind of stuck with him, and he put up some ill-advised shots. I was really impressed with the defense of Goodwin and Highsmith; it is great to have bulldogs out there deflecting balls and putting their body in front of their man and making things happen. I think lineups with both of those guys plus Brooks and Williams will be really solid defensively. So I can't wait to get our guys back healthy.
Aside from Booker and Green, this team doesn't really have any decent offensive options, so them getting in offensive ruts shouldn't be a surprise. Not really sure why we're acting as if this is some juggernaut who just forgot how to score lol.
How many offensive options do the Celtics have? Or other teams for that matter? It's about execution.
It was frustrating how much we just let Jaylen Brown barrel his way to the basket to get a layup and/or foul. And then when the Celtics would miss, we gave them too many offensive rebounds. The lack of size and strength hurt us.
Missing 2 starters is a big deal. This team hasn't been fully healthy all year, we're in the playoff picture and yet, still not good enough. Fuckin wild times man.
And this is from me, I can hardly stand to watch this team just chuck up 3s, but I appreciate the progress lol.
That's going to be the story of the season. Could never quite get healthy, never saw the full potential of the roster, a ton of what-ifs. Just a matter of what happens this summer and next season. Will we continue on this trajectory or see a dip?
That's going to be the story of the season. Could never quite get healthy, never saw the full potential of the roster, a ton of what-ifs. Just a matter of what happens this summer and next season. Will we continue on this trajectory or see a dip?
It's all about expectations. If we were expecting to contend, this season would be a huge disappointment. I expected 23 wins, so I am very happy. I think this season is already a great success regardless of how it ends, but I hope the FO has a plan for how to improve from here, because we don't quite have the horses to become a contender with this current team; it'll take some more savvy moves.
Perhaps. I’m a tad grumpy due to being under house arrest and sleep deprived due to having a new born, so desperately wanted a suns win to watch.
But agreed with others that I don’t think can keep saying that if we weren’t missing xyz we win. We’ve had too many ongoing injuries this year (bye training staff) so it’s on Ott and those who are healthy to figure it out.
