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Superbone wrote:I am so stoked! I just planned out a trip to visit my son in NYC at the end of October and just bought tickets to see Suns @ Nets at the Barclays center and Suns @ Knicks at MSG!

O_Gardino wrote:

Superbone wrote:I am so stoked! I just planned out a trip to visit my son in NYC at the end of October and just bought tickets to see Suns @ Nets at the Barclays center and Suns @ Knicks at MSG!

YSFM!

Superbone wrote:I am so stoked! I just planned out a trip to visit my son in NYC at the end of October and just bought tickets to see Suns @ Nets at the Barclays center and Suns @ Knicks at MSG!

bajanguy008 wrote:As for the Preseason sched , I found it interesting that our first game is Blazers and we also playing them twice in the preseason as if 4 times a year isn't enough Actually just peeped regular season sched and we are gonna play them 4 times in October

Superbone wrote:

bajanguy008 wrote:As for the Preseason sched , I found it interesting that our first game is Blazers and we also playing them twice in the preseason as if 4 times a year isn't enough Actually just peeped regular season sched and we are gonna play them 4 times in October

Wow, we are going to know them intimately after the first month of the season.

carey wrote:Don't we always do a home & home with one of the West Coast teams in the pre-season? So we have a home and home with both Utah and Portland this year. Last year it was just Utah. The year before it was a bunch of different Western Conference teams. Maybe it's a new thing.

Anyways, did you know there is basketball being played right now? Denver & Golden State. In a bit the Lakers and the Timberwolves will be playing.

carey wrote:Don't we always do a home & home with one of the West Coast teams in the pre-season? So we have a home and home with both Utah and Portland this year. Last year it was just Utah. The year before it was a bunch of different Western Conference teams. Maybe it's a new thing.

Anyways, did you know there is basketball being played right now? Denver & Golden State. In a bit the Lakers and the Timberwolves will be playing.

In2ition wrote:

Superbone wrote:

bajanguy008 wrote:As for the Preseason sched , I found it interesting that our first game is Blazers and we also playing them twice in the preseason as if 4 times a year isn't enough Actually just peeped regular season sched and we are gonna play them 4 times in October

Wow, we are going to know them intimately after the first month of the season.

4 times in Oct? That seems excessive. I giess we'll be able to see who's better, Bledsoe or Lillard, Booker or McCollum.

azsportsfan wrote:I will be attending the game this Friday in Utah with my oldest son. Really looking forward to getting the season underway.

That competitive spirit hasn’t waned. When Booker was a rookie he constantly asked Watson if he would be picked for the Rising Stars Challenge game to be played All-Star Weekend.
He made the team and was thrilled. So when Booker was selected for the game again last season, Watson said, “Hey, congratulations.”
“Yeah, but I didn’t make the All-Star team,” Booker replied.
“Just a year ago you were trying to make this game,” Watson told Booker. “He had surpassed that mentality. Not in an entitled way but in a driven way. He’s super competitive. He wants to win at everything.”

“This is my 17th year in the NBA and what stands out differently about him is that when you get in that huddle and there’s a big shot that needs to be taken a lot of guys put their head down. They don’t want to make eye contact with the coach,” Watson said. “We get in the huddle and the most difficult thing for me is I have two guys who always stare at me. (Eric) Bledsoe and Booker. It’s rare to have that in such a young player.”

"I've seen a guy who's very aggressive offensively and defensively; Hates to lose. He has a will to win. I see that he's a hard worker,” Dudley said. “He's better at attacking the basket than I thought. He's also better at shooting the basketball- it’s a weird form; it goes in more than you’d think. I think he's going to have his ups and downs throughout the whole year. Confidence is going to be an issue and working {positive: consistently on improving his shot}, but he puts the time in like Giannis did. I've seen where it might not be this year or a couple years, but I think already one of our top wing defenders. And then offensively, he tries to dunk everything going to the basket. That way, it will help him get to the free-throw line."

“We were a bad passing team last year, so we’re trying to put an offense in that try to force you to move the ball. Forces you to swing it from side-to-side,” Dudley said. “We were a good offensive team in transition, but half-court, we would pass the ball once or twice and shoot bad percentages.”

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EDC wrote:

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I wonder if this is just a preseason thing. Hopefully not.

They didn't rebound well last season but they both have the ability if they focus on it. It will be nice to have a roll man that is an actual threat. Up to our guards to actually hit them though.

“Alex Len is playing amazing,” Watson said. “He’s rolling to the rim, finishing at the rim, just doing the simple things. Simplifying his game has made him a more complete player which sounds like it doesn’t make sense but it does.”