Game Day: Raptors (23-39) @ Suns (36-26), Thurs 3/7/24

[Superbone]

Idk, I feel like too many people overreact to these games lol.

We lead the whole game by a good margin, it got close a couple times but we pretty much had control of the whole game. Sorry we can’t beat every team by 50 missing our best player lol

I just think these Suns like to play with their food. They’re not interested in blowing out a team. They like a little pressure at all times.

[Superbone]

I'm guessing some of these will be very limited, such as the '95 All-Star version.

I just want the black chapter 1s.

Hmm, yeah. Those are nice. Might have to go for a second pair. They are similar to my N7s that I really like.

[TOO]

Idk, I feel like too many people overreact to these games lol.

We lead the whole game by a good margin, it got close a couple times but we pretty much had control of the whole game. Sorry we can’t beat every team by 50 missing our best player lol

I just think these Suns like to play with their food. They’re not interested in blowing out a team. They like a little pressure at all times.

I don't think they are that good, no history to back that up.

[Superbone]

Idk, I feel like too many people overreact to these games lol.

We lead the whole game by a good margin, it got close a couple times but we pretty much had control of the whole game. Sorry we can’t beat every team by 50 missing our best player lol

I just think these Suns like to play with their food. They’re not interested in blowing out a team. They like a little pressure at all times.

I don't think they are that good, no history to back that up.

The have a whole season history of not blowing out teams.

[TOO]

Idk, I feel like too many people overreact to these games lol.

We lead the whole game by a good margin, it got close a couple times but we pretty much had control of the whole game. Sorry we can’t beat every team by 50 missing our best player lol

I just think these Suns like to play with their food. They’re not interested in blowing out a team. They like a little pressure at all times.

I don't think they are that good, no history to back that up.

The have a whole season history of not blowing out teams.

Right, to say that they are playing with their food insinuates there's another level they can take it to but they just choose not to. At least that's how I interpreted that. *shrugs*

[Cap]

Idk, I feel like too many people overreact to these games lol.

We lead the whole game by a good margin, it got close a couple times but we pretty much had control of the whole game. Sorry we can’t beat every team by 50 missing our best player lol

I just think these Suns like to play with their food. They’re not interested in blowing out a team. They like a little pressure at all times.

Is going into the 4th quarter with a lead and then losing “playing with your food”? Because that has happened a lot. Dodged it tonight. Phew.

[TOO]

They are doing it backwards, you fart around first then pour it on, not the other way around.

[Superbone]

Idk, I feel like too many people overreact to these games lol.

We lead the whole game by a good margin, it got close a couple times but we pretty much had control of the whole game. Sorry we can’t beat every team by 50 missing our best player lol

I just think these Suns like to play with their food. They’re not interested in blowing out a team. They like a little pressure at all times.

Is going into the 4th quarter with a lead and then losing “playing with your food”? Because that has happened a lot. Dodged it tonight. Phew.

I didn’t say it was a good thing or successful strategy. It shows a lack of killer instinct.

[ShelC]

Solid win but sorry, this should've been a blowout. Vigil can try and clown people but this isn't the 64 win machine that routinely rolled through the league and was clutch in the 4th. The Raps missed a lot of 3s in the 2nd half fortunately but were also getting to the rim pretty easily. And it's been our MO to sht the bed in the 4th, which we almost did again. We won the 1st qtr by 14, then the Raps played us even in the 2nd qtr, won the 3rd by 7 and tied us again in the 4th. Our two best players are Beal and Durant, theirs are Quickley and Barrett. Shouldn't have been that close.

Glad we were able to come thru tho. Beal and KD had good games, Allen was hot from 3 to start the game which carried us, O'Neal was solid again, Eubanks and Gordon gave us good minutes and Bol did some good things as well. Just hard to take this team seriously.

[ShelC]

Postgame Quotes and Videos

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[AmareIsGod]

Bol Bol!

[In2ition]

What was Quickley doing when Beal was dribbling the clock out? The game was over. Then with 1.9 seconds left, they inbound to Trent Jr so he gets his 30 points? It's silly, but it's a little low class, imo. It's kind of like chess, the game is over, and even if you haven't played out taking out the King, it's inevitable, so the proper thing to do is to just shake hands and end it.

[Split T]

It is how it’s normally done…I kinda wish teams didn’t care so much though. Just keep playing. I liked that about the IST games

[Mori Chu]

Sloppy game but at this point I'll take any win. Been a while since we had a truly impressive KD game, and we got 35 points on 11-19 shooting from him tonight. Grayson Allen was on fire with the eight 3s made, then he went ice cold the rest of the game. It was also one of Beal's better games in a while. Bol Bol gave us great minutes, 11 pts on 5-7 shooting and 8 rebounds in just 16 minutes; he's on a really good stretch right now.

On the flip side, Eric Gordon is having a rough last month or so. He shot just 2-7 and every 3 and long jumper he puts up lately looks way off. I've been more positive about him than some others here, but lately he's been really bad. I hope he figures it out. My worry is maybe his old body has run out of gas for the season after giving us a lot of minutes for the past several months, and maybe this is more like what we're going to get from him the rest of the season. If necessary I wouldn't mind if the team gave him a bit of rest and gave more of his minutes to guys like Okogie.

https://www.espn.com/nba/boxscore/_/gameId/401585533

I just checked the standings, and we're still at 6th, .5 games below the 5th-place Pelicans and .5 games above the 7th-place Kings. With the tough stretch of games we have this coming week, I bet the Kings pass us and we drop to 7th. Luckily we're a few games up from the 8th-place Mavs.

https://www.espn.com/nba/standings

[ShelC]

EG is still a threat, which is more than you can say for Okogie and Saben. I like Saben out there as a quicker ballhandler and dribble drive threat but he doesn't even look at the basket when the ball is kicked out to him. We just need EG to get hot for a stretch.

[In2ition]

EG is still a threat, which is more than you can say for Okogie and Saben. I like Saben out there as a quicker ballhandler and dribble drive threat but he doesn't even look at the basket when the ball is kicked out to him. We just need EG to get hot for a stretch.

He doesn't look to shoot from outside, unless he is wide wide open. I'm more surprised that he even looks to pass when he drives to the basket though.

[bajanguy008]

Grayson getting up so many 3s usually a good indicator of ball movement
The opening play was beautiful, I hope I find it on Twitter later but I'm seeing enough reviews showing Suns looking to get KD on the move more

Knew Twitter would come through for me



This is beautiful man !!

[Superbone]

Solid win but sorry, this should've been a blowout. Vigil can try and clown people but this isn't the 64 win machine that routinely rolled through the league and was clutch in the 4th. The Raps missed a lot of 3s in the 2nd half fortunately but were also getting to the rim pretty easily. And it's been our MO to sht the bed in the 4th, which we almost did again. We won the 1st qtr by 14, then the Raps played us even in the 2nd qtr, won the 3rd by 7 and tied us again in the 4th. Our two best players are Beal and Durant, theirs are Quickley and Barrett. Shouldn't have been that close.

Glad we were able to come thru tho. Beal and KD had good games, Allen was hot from 3 to start the game which carried us, O'Neal was solid again, Eubanks and Gordon gave us good minutes and Bol did some good things as well. Just hard to take this team seriously.

At this point, the only way to take them seriously is good playoff results. If they can at least get past the 2nd round then OK.

[Superbone]

What was Quickley doing when Beal was dribbling the clock out? The game was over. Then with 1.9 seconds left, they inbound to Trent Jr so he gets his 30 points? It's silly, but it's a little low class, imo. It's kind of like chess, the game is over, and even if you haven't played out taking out the King, it's inevitable, so the proper thing to do is to just shake hands and end it.

That last second basket give away was the difference between us winning the quarter or not. Not that it matters.

[Superbone]

EG is still a threat, which is more than you can say for Okogie and Saben. I like Saben out there as a quicker ballhandler and dribble drive threat but he doesn't even look at the basket when the ball is kicked out to him. We just need EG to get hot for a stretch.

Lee took one three with confidence. But of course it wasn't that close.