Game Day: Suns (17-57) @ Jazz (43-30), Mon 3/25/19
Game Day: Suns (17-57) @ Jazz (43-30), Mon 3/25/19
Time: 6:00 pm AZ (6:00 pm PT/9:00 pm ET)
Place: Vivint Smart Home Arena, Salt Lake City, UT
TV: FSAZ, NBALP
It's Jimmer time! (I said that last time but it didn't work out too well for him.) Jazz are fighting for playoff positioning while the Suns are injured and playing for the lottery.
Go Suns!!!
Dis • cuss
Place: Vivint Smart Home Arena, Salt Lake City, UT
TV: FSAZ, NBALP
It's Jimmer time! (I said that last time but it didn't work out too well for him.) Jazz are fighting for playoff positioning while the Suns are injured and playing for the lottery.
Go Suns!!!
Dis • cuss
"Too little, too late, too unbothered."
- Phoenix Suns 2023-2024 season motto.
"Be Legendary."
- Phoenix Suns 2023-2024 season motto.
"Be Legendary."
Re: Game Day: Suns (17-57) @ Jazz (43-30), Mon 3/25/19
Want to see how Ayton responds to Gobert after that last outing.
Re: Game Day: Suns (17-57) @ Jazz (43-30), Mon 3/25/19
Presumably he'll just pass it out to Jimmer, who will happily hoist a 27-footer.
Re: Game Day: Suns (17-57) @ Jazz (43-30), Mon 3/25/19
Booker looking for 70 again?
"I'm a Deandre Ayton guy."--Al McCoy, September 21, 2022.
Re: Game Day: Suns (17-57) @ Jazz (43-30), Mon 3/25/19
WHERE IS JIMMER
Re: Game Day: Suns (17-57) @ Jazz (43-30), Mon 3/25/19
This is one of those conflicts between front office and coaching I assume. Coach hates him, front office is going to have to force him to play him if they want to get a good look at him.
"I'm a Deandre Ayton guy."--Al McCoy, September 21, 2022.
Re: Game Day: Suns (17-57) @ Jazz (43-30), Mon 3/25/19
Devin Booker is a special player. I don't get this line of thinking that he's a prima donna and that we'd be better off without him. Look at him out there carrying this team on his back, with 27 points and counting in just the first half.
Re: Game Day: Suns (17-57) @ Jazz (43-30), Mon 3/25/19
AgreedMarty [Mori Chu] wrote: ↑Mon Mar 25, 2019 7:07 pmDevin Booker is a special player. I don't get this line of thinking that he's a prima donna and that we'd be better off without him. Look at him out there carrying this team on his back, with 27 points and counting in just the first half.
"When we all think alike, nobody is thinking" - Walter Lippmann
"Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them." ~ Frederick Douglass
"Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them." ~ Frederick Douglass
- The Bobster
- Posts: 6725
- Joined: Fri Mar 14, 2014 1:04 pm
- Location: Phoenix, AZ
Re: Game Day: Suns (17-57) @ Jazz (43-30), Mon 3/25/19
But carrying them where? They're losing by 19.Marty [Mori Chu] wrote: ↑Mon Mar 25, 2019 7:07 pmDevin Booker is a special player. I don't get this line of thinking that he's a prima donna and that we'd be better off without him. Look at him out there carrying this team on his back, with 27 points and counting in just the first half.
They're not going to win if he's taking half their shots.
They have to get more players involved. When he concentrates on going one-on-one he'll score a lot of points, but the offense is stagnant.
Author of The Basketball Draft Fact Book: A History of Professional Basketball's College Drafts
Available from Scarecrow Press at - https://rowman.com/ISBN/9780810890695
Available from Scarecrow Press at - https://rowman.com/ISBN/9780810890695
Re: Game Day: Suns (17-57) @ Jazz (43-30), Mon 3/25/19
When I look at a player ballhogging and hurting his team, I look at things like:The Bobster wrote: ↑Mon Mar 25, 2019 7:13 pmBut carrying them where? They're losing by 19.Marty [Mori Chu] wrote: ↑Mon Mar 25, 2019 7:07 pmDevin Booker is a special player. I don't get this line of thinking that he's a prima donna and that we'd be better off without him. Look at him out there carrying this team on his back, with 27 points and counting in just the first half.
They're not going to win if he's taking half their shots.
They have to get more players involved. When he concentrates on going one-on-one he'll score a lot of points, but the offense is stagnant.
- did the guy jack up too many shots at a low percentage
- did he pass it at all, did he get any assists
- did he seem to wave off or ignore open teammates
Booker has shot 8-16 in the first half and has 3 assists. I haven't carefully watched every play since I'm doing my course grades tonight, but I don't think he is totally ballhogging and hurting us. I would also argue that other than Ayton we just don't have a lot of guys out there who can score.
Re: Game Day: Suns (17-57) @ Jazz (43-30), Mon 3/25/19
33 points now for Booker with 8 min left in the 3rd. Putting on a show.
- AmareIsGod
- Posts: 5365
- Joined: Tue Mar 25, 2014 1:24 pm
Re: Game Day: Suns (17-57) @ Jazz (43-30), Mon 3/25/19
Coach is trying to WIN. Not perform experiments with players.
What is smallball? I play basketball. I'm not a regular big man. I can switch from the center to the guards. The game is evolving. I'd be dominAyton if the WNBA would let me in. - Ayton
Re: Game Day: Suns (17-57) @ Jazz (43-30), Mon 3/25/19
Agreed. And the front office signed Fredette as an experiment to end the season. Thus the two competing interests.AmareIsGod wrote: ↑Mon Mar 25, 2019 7:32 pmCoach is trying to WIN. Not perform experiments with players.
"I'm a Deandre Ayton guy."--Al McCoy, September 21, 2022.
Re: Game Day: Suns (17-57) @ Jazz (43-30), Mon 3/25/19
Booker has 47 at the end of the 3rd.
Re: Game Day: Suns (17-57) @ Jazz (43-30), Mon 3/25/19
55 points. 4th highest scoring total in franchise history.
Only his second 50-point game in his career.
Only his second 50-point game in his career.
"I'm a Deandre Ayton guy."--Al McCoy, September 21, 2022.
Re: Game Day: Suns (17-57) @ Jazz (43-30), Mon 3/25/19
Booker finishes with 56 points, tying Chambers for the 3rd most in Suns history.
"I'm a Deandre Ayton guy."--Al McCoy, September 21, 2022.
Re: Game Day: Suns (17-57) @ Jazz (43-30), Mon 3/25/19
Booker coming back in. Stupid.
"I'm a Deandre Ayton guy."--Al McCoy, September 21, 2022.
Re: Game Day: Suns (17-57) @ Jazz (43-30), Mon 3/25/19
Jimmer missing everything
Re: Game Day: Suns (17-57) @ Jazz (43-30), Mon 3/25/19
Booker and Jimmer competing lol.
"I'm a Deandre Ayton guy."--Al McCoy, September 21, 2022.
Re: Game Day: Suns (17-57) @ Jazz (43-30), Mon 3/25/19
Jimmer 1-10, for 2 points, in 14 minutes. What an absurd chucking rate of shooting with such awful results.
Booker scores 59 (!) on 19-34 shooting, 5-8 on threes, 16-17 on FTs. Special player.
http://www.espn.com/nba/boxscore?gameId=401071778
Booker scores 59 (!) on 19-34 shooting, 5-8 on threes, 16-17 on FTs. Special player.
http://www.espn.com/nba/boxscore?gameId=401071778