Suns News: Week 15 2/1-2/7

[carey]

Bye, Jeff. Sorry you kind of got a raw deal, but that's life in the big show.

Last Week's Games

@ Philadelphia 76ers LOSS 113-103
@ Cleveland Cavaliers LOSS 115-93
@ New York Knicks LOSS 102-84
@ Dallas Mavericks LOSS 91-78

This Week's Games

Tuesday, February 2nd vs. Toronto 9:00PM EST
Thursday, February 4th vs. Houston Rockets 9:00PM EST
Saturday, February 6th vs. Utah Jazz 9:00PM EST

Suns Stories

Hornacek fired as coach: http://www.brightsideofthesun.com/2016/ ... f-hornacek
Front office analysis of the Hornacek firing @ Yahoo: http://sports.yahoo.com/news/the-jeff-h ... 55829.html
Coro on Hornacek: http://www.azcentral.com/story/sports/n ... /79630510/

[EDC]

https://twitter.com/paulcoro/status/694319081525084160

Interested to see what kind of minutes the young guys get tomorrow.

[carey]

https://twitter.com/TheVertical/status/694349566100033538

[carey]

McDonough in 15 minutes on KTAR. He usually speaks on Wednesday during Burns & Gambo so this is a different time. 8:45 local AZ time.

[Ring_Wanted]

Now this is an accurate analysis of what's been going on with the Suns the last three years. Worth the 13mins.
[youtube][/youtube]

[Indy]

McDonough in 15 minutes on KTAR. He usually speaks on Wednesday during Burns & Gambo so this is a different time. 8:45 local AZ time.

Summary please when it is over

[iLLmatic]

McDonough in 15 minutes on KTAR. He usually speaks on Wednesday during Burns & Gambo so this is a different time. 8:45 local AZ time.

Listening now, thanks for the update.

[DrSublime]

he ALMOST let it slip that Morris staying on the roster was Sarver's call and he was against it.

[carey]

https://twitter.com/SpearsNBAYahoo/status/694550212216385536

Woo.

[carey]

McDonough in 15 minutes on KTAR. He usually speaks on Wednesday during Burns & Gambo so this is a different time. 8:45 local AZ time.

Summary please when it is over

Wish I could. I got a phone call 30 seconds into the interview. Didn't even hear it. I'll post the podcast link when it's up. Usually it doesn't take too long for them to make it available.

[Indy]

McDonough in 15 minutes on KTAR. He usually speaks on Wednesday during Burns & Gambo so this is a different time. 8:45 local AZ time.

Summary please when it is over

Wish I could. I got a phone call 30 seconds into the interview. Didn't even hear it. I'll post the podcast link when it's up. Usually it doesn't take too long for them to make it available.

same thing here. Waiting on a call, but then people didn't join... frustrating.

[Cap]

Now this is an accurate analysis of what's been going on with the Suns the last three years. Worth the 13mins.
[youtube][/youtube]

Is it my imagination, or has Hornacek aged visibly in the last two years?

[iLLmatic]

he ALMOST let it slip that Morris staying on the roster was Sarver's call and he was against it.

Lol yes he did. Or rather you could infer that's what he was saying but then he backtracked when they pointedly asked him.

[DrSublime]

GM also, sorta said but didnt say, something happened (some sort of blow up) that led to the coaching change

[ShelC]

It'd be typical of Sarver the banker to not take pennies on the dollar for Markieff while also thinking he got a steal with the contract and not wanting to give that up. Again, penny-wise and pound foolish.

[Indy]

It'd be typical of Sarver the banker to not take pennies on the dollar for Markieff while also thinking he got a steal with the contract and not wanting to give that up. Again, penny-wise and pound foolish.

Typical, indeed.

[Superbone]

http://www.azcentral.com/story/sports/n ... /79693742/

"Jeff is a tremendous person," McDonough told hosts Doug Franz and Ron Wolfley. "I think that's part of what makes this so hard. We wanted to give him every opportunity to be successful, keeping in mind that we won 48 games our first year and were the most-improved team in the league.

Bullshit! No coach could be successful with all the changes you gave him.

"We need to create a culture where we are developing our young players, where guys come in and play hard and play the right way and are learning good habits," McDonough said.

This part I agree with.

[Superbone]

http://www.azcentral.com/story/sports/n ... /79658202/

Good article by Boivin. Pretty much sums up my feelings.

[Superbone]

The fans know what's up:

https://twitter.com/azcsports/status/694169144372170752

[In2ition]

https://twitter.com/SpearsNBAYahoo/status/694550212216385536

Woo.

Does this mean this move was made to motivate Markieff into raising his play and trade value?