Last Week's Games
Mon, Oct 28th vs Lakers 109-105 WIN!
Tues, Oct 31st vs Clippers 125-119 WIN!
Sat, Nov 2nd vs Traiblazers 103-97 WIN!
This Week's Games
Mon, Nov 4th vs Philadelphia 10:15PM EST on Suns Live, Arizona's Family 3TV / Arizona's Family Sports / NBA TV
Weds, Nov 6th vs Miami at 9:00PM EST on Suns Live, Arizona's Family 3TV / Arizona's Family Sports
Fri, Nov 8th @Dallas at 7:30PM EST on Suns Live, Arizona's Family 3TV / Arizona's Family Sports, ESPN
Sun, Nov 10th vs Sacramento at 8:00pm on Suns Live, Arizona's Family 3TV / Arizona's Family Sports
I love the KD / SAS clown stories. I just do not understand how anyone likes SAS and how ESPN justifies keeping him on. He and Perkins are just awful. They are both clowns that offer no insight beyond loudmouth off-the-cuff rhetoric. Redick was a welcome balance to all their crap, but now he's gone, and they have no one to replace him. Legler is ok, but he's not enough.
This is my biggest concern with TNT ending NBA coverage. Shaq, Chuck, and Kenny are awful analysts, but at least they sometimes entertained. Are we now going to be subjected to ESPN-like NBA coverage in the future? ESPN pre-game, halftime, and post-game shows are just flat out unwatchable.
"There are 3 rules I live by: never get less than 12 hours sleep, never play cards with a guy with the same first name as a city & never get involved with a woman with a tattoo of a dagger on her body. Everything else is cream cheese."
Power rankings basically mean jack squat, but was there even a single week last season where we could have been listed as the #4 team in the NBA? Like would any power ranking page have put us that high at any point of the year? We've improved so much this season.
After splitting their first two games in L.A., the Suns have won four straight and are one of five teams with fewer than two losses.
Three takeaways
It really looked like the Suns were putting last season’s fourth-quarter issues behind them. They came back from seven down in the fourth to beat the Lakers on Monday (getting 10 straight points from Kevin Durant) and completed another big comeback against the Clippers with a 34-26 fourth quarter (featuring a pretty screen, roll and kick from Devin Booker) three nights later.
But after a 44-18 third quarter against the Blazers on Saturday, they let the visitors cut a 26-point, fourth-quarter lead down to two, with Dalano Banton’s 3-pointer for the lead spinning in and out with about 30 seconds left. Overall, the Suns are in the middle of the pack (minus 0.1 points per 100 possessions) in the fourth quarter, and if they’re inconsistent in the final 12 minutes of regulation, that’s still much better than what they were last season.
That Booker assist against the Clippers was to Royce O’Neale, who continues to be a closer for the Suns. Phoenix is 4-0 in games that were within five points in the last five minutes. Sometimes that’s in place of Jusuf Nurkić, though the numbers have been great (plus-28 per 100 possessions) in 88 total minutes with Durant and O’Neale on the floor with either Nurkić or Mason Plumlee.
The Suns tip off the Eastern Conference portion of their schedule with games against Philadelphia and Miami. They were 12-3 in home games against the Eastern Conference last season, though they lost the first two.
It’s easy to pick new coach Mike Budenholzer as the X-Factor here, and he’s done a solid job of putting the stars into better positions to succeed by moving off the ball more often (even if they haven’t been able to hit shots yet). However, there will be plenty of time to celebrate Bud if the Suns keep up their winning ways.
I’d rather take a minute to discuss Ryan Dunn, Phoenix’s 6-foot-8, 210-pound rookie. Dunn has been an elite defender his entire life, and he became Phoenix’s best wing-stopper on Day 1. That’s what got him into the league. But his ability to punish defenses with his outside shot – he’s making 39 percent of his threes on prodigious per-minute three-point volume after being a non-shooter in college – will keep him on the court when it matters.
I was skeptical that Phoenix could maintain last year’s shockingly average defensive rating, but they’re sixth through six games. The offense will catch up, so if the defense remains legitimate, the Suns are a bonafide threat in the West.
I was just wondering what ever happened to Josh Jackson. Looked it up and he's out of the league. Here's the last think mentioned on his Wikipedia page:
On January 24, 2023, Jackson signed with the Stockton Kings.[41] He was waived four days later.[42]
There's a Jackson on the Bucks which is what made me think of him. What a waste of a high draft pick. Other than Booker, the McD drafts were not good.
I was just wondering what ever happened to Josh Jackson. Looked it up and he's out of the league. Here's the last think mentioned on his Wikipedia page:
On January 24, 2023, Jackson signed with the Stockton Kings.[41] He was waived four days later.[42]
There's a Jackson on the Bucks which is what made me think of him. What a waste of a high draft pick. Other than Booker, the McD drafts were not good.
He was the worst, and his 2nd round picks were a complete trash pile immediately.
"There are 3 rules I live by: never get less than 12 hours sleep, never play cards with a guy with the same first name as a city & never get involved with a woman with a tattoo of a dagger on her body. Everything else is cream cheese."
