Game Day: Suns (12-22) @ Thunder (22-10), Thurs 12/31/15

[carey]

Warren looking great with 17 first half points. Could this be his first 30 point game?

Booker with 10. It's crazy how much attention he's drawing already. Maybe it's because there's literally no one else to guard sometimes, but defenses pay him a lot of attention.

Markieff with the DNP so far. Without Leuer and Price they've shortened the rotation to 8.

[carey]

They're hanging into the 4th. No way we can close it out though, but I like what I've seen.

[carey]

3 more points for Warren's first 30-point game!

[carey]

Holy shit, a good out of bounds play! Really wished Chandler would have finished it but glad he got the follow.

[carey]

Welp. They have Durant and we don't. That's all this game boils down to.

[EDC]

Knight is just so predictably bad. I don't understand how both of our expensive guards seem unable to run the pick and roll. It really is mind blowing.

The amount of bad decisions Knight makes in a game is staggering.

[Cap]

Happy fucking new year, everybody. See you in 2016.

[The Bobster]

Knight is just so predictably bad. I don't understand how both of our expensive guards seem unable to run the pick and roll. It really is mind blowing.

The amount of bad decisions Knight makes in a game is staggering.

Unfortunately Warren seemed to run it a lot better than any of the guards have.

[SwingMan]

T.J. Warren is going to become one hell of a basketball player.

You're just now figuring that out?

It's always been a matter of taking the shackles off.....

[Charlie Smithy!]

Giving up the Lakers' pick was bad enough, but given what BKnight has shown us so far?

[SDC]

suns performance sans bledsoe might help horny keep his job.

[Superbone]

Welp. They have Durant and we don't. That's all this game boils down to.

Yep, that was perfect though. Competitive throughout and lose at the end to improve our draft position while watching the youngsters get time on the court.

[Vladimir_Taltos]

Ok, did we lose? Nobody tell me, so excited to watch the game on Tivo...oh...saw it...never mind...wasn't surprised, thought as much...went to that concert...bought the jersey...didn't enjoy it...

[Vladimir_Taltos]

And Sup...you're killing me...new motto for the season:

"Close but no cigar! Close but no cigar! Um, well, err...Close but no cigar!"

Rinse, repeat.

[Vladimir_Taltos]

Happy New Years!

The Suns suck now but, luckily my happiness doesn't rely on them.

Nah, it relies on being able to crack a good joke on Sarver or whomever else is in the crosshairs at the time, .

VT

[OE32]

Negativity overflowing from previous games I guess... this was our best of the year. Yeah, it was a loss, but it was a very promising performance.

Happy new year Suns fans!

[Indy]

I actually enjoyed watching a Suns game tonight. I really hope I lose my bet with OE32 and TJ gets to averaging 25 ppg. If he keeps hitting those 3s, he is going to be very hard to guard. Honestly, I really like the core of TJ, Booker and Len. Hey, let's just start calling the duo of #1 and #12 TJ Booker. Len can be Locklen or something else stupid like that.

[Danimal]

warren developing a 3pt shot and also an improved pull up jumper is huge. He just looks so much more dangerous when he gets the ball. I only got to catch the 1st half but we seemed to be running the offense through TJ and booker more and it produced good results.

The biggest issues were:

- We only really seemed to look for our bigs as a last resort, like if someone gets stuck in mid air in traffic. Yet our last stretch of good games seemed to be when we were more actively looking for Len down low

- Knight should use his iso long 2's where he dicks around for about 10 seconds first as a last resort only in the offense or if he is shooting well already. Its obvious he has pre-determined what he is going to do when he gets it. When we did a quick initial pass to warren or booker on the wings they seemed better at reading the situation. Knight should just try having a game where he purely creates for others - he would be that much more dangerous, as would our overall offense. He made Shannon brown blush in that 1st half and our offense is just completely stagnant when he does that

[INFORMER]

Love the game that TJ had tonight. Keep feeding him and Booker touches and minutes.

[SwingMan]

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