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We are guaranteed for the wild card spot now right?

Well, Booker and Brooks shot a combined 11 for 32 and they were still right there at the end.

Gillespie, Williams and Goodwin really carried the load tonight.

What a game. Moral victories are tough, but definitely proud of the team tonight

I hope it's nothing serious with Gillespie

AmareIsGod wrote: ↑

Fri Nov 28, 2025 10:01 pm

I hope it's nothing serious with Gillespie

It looked like a cramp? So hopefully not too serious

The Bobster wrote: ↑

Fri Nov 28, 2025 9:28 pm

Suns are hanging in there.

I don't think many (any?) of us thought Gillespie and Williams would be this good this year.

And the contributions from Goodwin and Bouyea are just gravy.

After seeing that preseason game in Macau, I figured that Gillespie would be really good, but he's looking like the love child of Nash and Ginobili at the moment on offense and Stockton on defense. And Jordan Goodwin's just doing what he did in LA last year. Nothing new.

Mark Williams is just really big and really active. He doesn't need to be skilled to add value, although his hook is quite good. Average defender at best but adds a lot of value offensively and defensively by just being really tall and long and active.

Mori Chu wrote: ↑

Fri Nov 28, 2025 9:41 pm

Gotta say, this Suns team has had about 7-8 moments when they could have hung their heads and given up, and they absolutely fucking will not. They keep clawing their way back and have had it within 3-4 points a few times here in the 4th. Love their toughness and perseverance.

This bodes really, really well for the future. The cultural shift is real.

No other way to put it -- the shorthanded Suns were just a tiny bit short of punking a 19-1 team on its home court. Usually, SGA doesn't even play in the 4th. The Suns were making them sweat in the final minute.

Had Mr. Booker shown up to the party earlier, the Suns would have won it. But I was glad to see him making a fashionablly late entrance.

Usually, I'm skeptical of players that look good for a few games and fade away...but I think Gillespie is for real. Like the next very good to great PG coming out of nowhere. His skills are real, his heart is real, and his intellect is real. I think he'll make it to an all-star game or two at some point.

Gillespie was awesome tonight.

If I could question one thing Coach Ott did tonight, it would be playing NHD 12 important (scoreless) minutes. I wonder if we could have inched ahead if Fleming or Bouyea or somebody else were in there for those minutes.

I'm fucking proud of this team.

Last year's squad absolutely, positively, 100% would have given up during any one of the many OKC runs, and would have lost this game by 38 points. You know it is true. This team is leaps and bounds tougher than that one was.

Our prize is playing at OKC haha

Wally_West wrote: ↑

Fri Nov 28, 2025 10:12 am

This going to be a game where you just want to turn it off after the 1st quarter. This is going to be baaaad.

WRONG!

I just finished watching the game. So proud of our guys. They played OKC tougher than almost anybody else. All the way down to the wire.

Mori Chu wrote: ↑

Fri Nov 28, 2025 9:41 pm

Gotta say, this Suns team has had about 7-8 moments when they could have hung their heads and given up, and they absolutely fucking will not. They keep clawing their way back and have had it within 3-4 points a few times here in the 4th. Love their toughness and perseverance.

Yep, so proud of our guys. Down Allen, Dunn, and Green too.

Split T wrote: ↑

Fri Nov 28, 2025 11:08 pm

Our prize is playing at OKC haha

Yeah. This is a big flaw in the IST.

Shabazz wrote: ↑

Sat Nov 29, 2025 12:49 am

Split T wrote: ↑

Fri Nov 28, 2025 11:08 pm

Our prize is playing at OKC haha

Yeah. This is a big flaw in the IST.

But next time we’ll win

Since I'm in a different time zone and mostly can't watch live, I don't usually watch Suns' losses once I know the score, coz it messes with my head. But this game I watched despite knowing we lost, and to echo what everyone's already said, I'm so proud of this team.

Book didn't play very well, but this game unlike the previous three or four in a row I don't think it was all on him. The OKC defense obviously keyed in on him and he was a willing passer. He just doesn't have natural point guard handles and got ripped several times in key moments which was frustrating, but I think this performance was much easier to stomach. One thing I do wonder is why he's never able to split a double like SGA was able to either with the dribble or with a pass. The way Book has always just tried to pass on top of or outside of the double gives the defense a lot of time to reset.

I also hope we can really clean up some of the sloppy passes.

Oso played quite well today.