Game Day: Suns (15-46) @ Magic (27-33), Fri 3/4/16

[EDC]

These are the wins we want. When they come from one of our young guys stepping up big.

[carey]

They avoid setting the franchise mark for road losing streak. They have to settle for a tie. Orlando really stunk the joint up.

[specialsauce]

Uh, no. The only (ONLY) win I want is the draft lottery.

Nothing good comes from this win, sorry.

Not saying I didn't love Len playing great. I just wish they lost.

Suns can't even tank properly

[carey]

Alex Len from here on will now be known as the 31 pointer. #INFORMED

[TOO]

Uh, no. The only (ONLY) win I want is the draft lottery.

Nothing good comes from this win, sorry.

Not saying I didn't love Len playing great. I just wish they lost.

Suns can't even tank properly

Cant lose em all, its impossible.

[specialsauce]

Uh, no. The only (ONLY) win I want is the draft lottery.

Nothing good comes from this win, sorry.

Not saying I didn't love Len playing great. I just wish they lost.

Suns can't even tank properly

Cant lose em all, its impossible.

?

So you disagree? You want us to end up with a nice fifth pick?

[TOO]

Uh, no. The only (ONLY) win I want is the draft lottery.

Nothing good comes from this win, sorry.

Not saying I didn't love Len playing great. I just wish they lost.

Suns can't even tank properly

Cant lose em all, its impossible.

?

So you disagree? You want us to end up with a nice fifth pick?

No, I just cant get upset when grown men who dont like losing win. We wont lose out, just wont happen. So I roll with it.

[Aztec Sunsfan]

Timely confidence building win. Teams like Minny and Sacramento lacks mental fortitude after years of losing that has eroded the confidence of the young players.

[specialsauce]

Uh, no. The only (ONLY) win I want is the draft lottery.

Nothing good comes from this win, sorry.

Not saying I didn't love Len playing great. I just wish they lost.

Suns can't even tank properly

Cant lose em all, its impossible.

?

So you disagree? You want us to end up with a nice fifth pick?

No, I just cant get upset when grown men who dont like losing win. We wont lose out, just wont happen. So I roll with it.

Fair enough.

[Split T]

Uh, no. The only (ONLY) win I want is the draft lottery.

Nothing good comes from this win, sorry.

Not saying I didn't love Len playing great. I just wish they lost.

Suns can't even tank properly

They've won like 3 of their last 30 games, I think they are tanking just fine

[INFORMER]

Timely confidence building win.

Agreed.

Teams like Minny and Sacramento lacks mental fortitude after years of losing that has eroded the confidence of the young players.

I don't think that's true. The Kings are poorly put together. The Wolves young talent has barely been in the league for over two years; Flip Saunders rebooted their rebuild.

[AmareIsGod]

Uh, no. The only (ONLY) win I want is the draft lottery.

Nothing good comes from this win, sorry.

Not saying I didn't love Len playing great. I just wish they lost.

Suns can't even tank properly

0 - 30 > 3 - 27. If I'm understanding correctly.

They've won like 3 of their last 30 games, I think they are tanking just fine

[AmareIsGod]

^^ whoa. How did that happen?

[JCSunsfan]

Uh, no. The only (ONLY) win I want is the draft lottery.

Nothing good comes from this win, sorry.

Not saying I didn't love Len playing great. I just wish they lost.

Suns can't even tank properly

Some days you just can't play bad enough to lose. You can't lose every game.

If you are going to win, do it with the young ones. That's good tanking.

Bad tanking would be PJ playing 40 minutes and scoring 30.

Great game for Len. Mostly midrange shooting which will make him extremely dangerous.

[Sunsfan4life]

The Ukraine Train!

[Superbone]

Get out your brooms! We swept the Magic this year. I guess the Suns decided they didn't want to set the record for road futility. They came out to play tonight!

Len with the man's game! 31 and 15 is awesome. He fought hard all game long. Vucevic has schooled him in the past. Not tonight!

Can't lose 'em all. I'll take it. Let the boys feel good about themselves tonight.

[JCSunsfan]

Interesting that they avoided setting team records for consecutive losses and consecutive road losses--almost like they could win alot more often if they really wanted, hmmmmmm

[DrSublime]

dammit, need to keep getting L's!

that said, Alex Len is averaging 20 &14 over the past 4 games.

[OE32]

Get out your brooms! We swept the Magic this year. I guess the Suns decided they didn't want to set the record for road futility. They came out to play tonight!

Len with the man's game! 31 and 15 is awesome. He fought hard all game long. Vucevic has schooled him in the past. Not tonight!

Can't lose 'em all. I'll take it. Let the boys feel good about themselves tonight.

I thought Alex won both matchups with Vucevic this year:

31 and 15 IS awesome. In the second half, they decided to crowd his jump shot and ended up fouling him on the drive every time. If he gets consistent with that J (and he has been since he stopped jumping on it - I think they realized it cost him concentration, as it forced him to think about falling down on someone's foot), he'll be consistent half court offense. Next to a guy like that, you'd want a high-motor type with a penchant for weakside defense. This got me to thinking...

Could Hassan Whiteside play next to Len? I know it sounds odd, but the fact is, there just aren't many dangerous post bigs in the league... maybe it's a combo that could work? That's a daydream anyway - no reason to take our max contract over LA's or Boston's. Two other high-motor guys that come to mind are Noel and Faried. I'm sure we could get Faried if we want him, but I doubt that's a direction we want to take. I'm not sure the Sixers would be open to dealing Noel, considering his unique skill set.

... Anyhow, it was a great win. The kids need to know they can win relying on their own offense. BKN won last night, too, and I don't see us going on some incredible streak. Not that much difference between the 3rd and 4th worst record anyway.

[dragickingdom]

One thing to remember is that the Nets are not trying to catch us since they do not keep their pick.