Game Day (IST): Suns (9-6) @ Grizzlies (3-11), Fri 11/24/23

[AmareIsGod]

What happened to Goodwin being a pg?

He’s not very good at running the offense

People were hyping up his ability before the season, though.

They were wrong. It happens. He's more of a spark plug energy guy. A strong defender. Runner of offense doesn't seem to be too strong for him.

[Split T]

Admittedly I haven’t been paying much attention to the ist. What benefit if any are there to winning it?

Besides running up the score after the game is already won and keeping your starters out there with the chance to get hurt against some scrubs, not much.

[Split T]

Admittedly I haven’t been paying much attention to the ist. What benefit if any are there to winning it?

The players/coaches get money. The fans get bragging rights.

[Wally_West]

[iLLmatic]

Admittedly I haven’t been paying much attention to the ist. What benefit if any are there to winning it?

The players/coaches get money. The fans get bragging rights.

Yeah, i see no point to it. Pretty dumb.

[JeremyG]

Yeah, I see no need to add a "second(ary) championship." It was good how it was for 77 years.

[TOO]

If the players like it, cool. No fan is gonna brag about this though, especially if you root for a team with 0 titles, that's just sad.

[Split T]

You guys should keep telling us how much you dislike it every day

[iLLmatic]

You guys should keep telling us how much you dislike it every day

It’s my first time chief.

[Flagrant Fowl]

Contrarian takes on the IST are lazy and boring.

[Superbone]

Now we talking!! Do that again and win by 26 please haha

21 will have to do.

And it appears that it will.

[Split T]

Now we talking!! Do that again and win by 26 please haha

21 will have to do.

And it appears that it will.

We needed every last one of them

[Split T]

He didn’t realize just how much we needed it when he said it

[ShelC]

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[ShelC]

Kind of a choppy game in the 1st half. Looked like both teams were playing after a holiday and the Grizz were keeping it close because their 3s were falling. Never felt like they were a real threat tho and we had a clear talent advantage. Their 3s stopped falling and Book took over offensively they just couldn't keep up. He was on all game but we ran him off the ball more in the 2nd half next to Goodwin and Allen to free him up for shots. Just one of those games where he made everything he looked at but nothing felt forced.

Goodwin gave us some good minutes after not much playing the past few games. I like that these guys are ready even if there are stretches where they don't have roles. Sometimes it's just matchup based but without KD, we needed the extra ballhandler. It's not that Goodwin is a great PG but he's another ballhandler who can take Book off the ball on offense. He gave us a nice spark tho getting into the lane and was hounding them on defense.

EG took on the secondary scoring role, and Allen worked into the offense a bit more in the 2nd half. I think there are a lot more opportunities for him offensively if he could take the pullup 2 off the dribble, but right now he's a 3 or drive guy. Not sure if he just doesn't have the midrange shot but it'd be huge for him and us if he looked for that offense. Also thought he'd be better on the ball running offense but he's been limited to bringing the ball up, making the initial pass and cutting away.

Nurk was Nurk, Metu, Nas and KBD were ok. Okogie was solid on defense but they were giving him the open shot and he went 2-9. Luckily we didn't need much more from the others because it was the Grizz.

[Mori Chu]