Game Day: Suns (39-30) @ Spurs (51-18), Thurs 3/19/26

[Gladiator]

Oooooooof, Fleming gets intentionally fouled by the Spurs and then he misses BOTH FTs. That sucks for the kid. He was just starting to get his confidence. The basketball gods are cruel sometimes.

Really hope he can brush that off and remember the awesome moments he had in this game.

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[iLLmatic]

Ott coached out of his mind this year. I think we have some good pieces going forward but some personnel changes need to happen.

[Gladiator]

(beating this drum yet again) The loss isn't on just one guy, and it will be tempting to blame Fleming's two missed FT at the end. But I can't help but notice that Jalen Green shot 7-20, which does not help. To be fair, my man Booker also shot 8-22 so it isn't on any one guy. Really tough loss by the narrowest of margins. Great game-winning shot from Wemby who was spectacular all night. What's too bad is that I actually thought our bigs did a pretty decent job tonight. Both Oso and ManMan did about as good with Wemby as you can hope to do, and they also contributed some rebounds and points along with it. Tough, tough loss.

Unfortunately Book’s regular Achilles heels in 3-point shooting (0/4) and turnovers (4 versus 5 assists) didn’t help either.

[Flagrant Fowl]

I think this loss puts the nail in the coffin of any chance to finish 6th.

[ShelC]

Ott's been outcoached late during this recent stretch. Fleming shouldn't have been on the floor on that inbounds where he got fouled.

And Green starts off hot and then goes 3-15 the rest of the way.

[Gladiator]

Ott's been outcoached late during this recent stretch. Fleming shouldn't have been on the floor on that inbounds where he got fouled.

And Green starts off hot and then goes 3-15 the rest of the way.

Yep Fleming at this point in his career should only be on for defensive possessions in close ones down the stretch, wherever possible

[Flagrant Fowl]

I didn't have a problem with Fleming being in the game. He's not a bad shooter, so he has to hit at least one.

[ShelC]

Fun.

[TOO]

Blaming Ott is just funny.

[Wally_West]

Just brutal. This injuries have derailed our season essentially.

Now the Booker injury smfh

[TOO]

Fun.

Disgusting.

[Danimal]

Fun.

Has to be the most suns post of the season

I guess if they’d won they’d have banged knees when hugging post game.

Just fuck off with these injuries and please fire our training staff.

[Wally_West]

This how I mostly feel. But Ott, Book, and Green can still be better tho.

[Split T]

That one hurt…my thoughts on the ending:

We can quibble with Fleming being out there, but who else do you want? Bouyea is really the only one…unless you have Oso inbounding. Bigger issue is Booker never even tried to go get the ball.

Also, looking at the replay, Fleming had passed the ball back to Gillespie before the foul. Should’ve been a no call. You can’t intentionally foul someone who doesn’t have the ball in the final 2 minutes.

Lastly…you can’t let Wemby take that shot with no double. Goody should’ve doubled as soon as Fox ran to the corner. Make Wemby force up an earlier shot or attempt the pass to the cross corner and let Fox try and hit a 3.

Also the timeout by Ott ended up being killer…Booker almost got trapped, but he got it away to Green and broke their press…they probably would’ve had to foul Green.

[Superbone]

It's a win! Calling it now.

I’m thinking green and Booker go nuts but we run out of gas again in the 4th.

So close. Rasheer makes his FTs and we probably win.

[Superbone]

Hope I’m wrong, but this feels like a heart-breaking loss coming up (moral victory but nothing to show in W/L column)

[Shabazz]

Gut punch loss of the season. Book was really rough in crunch time and Green had like 4 possessions with misses in a row that let the Spurs back in it. Super frustrating loss. Worse than the Golden State game.

I feel for Sheer, but like Split said, it shouldn’t have come down to that.

[Superbone]

Yep, toughest loss of the season. So sad. One make short. Green needs to help at the end of games. Fox made his shots, Green didn't.

[Superbone]

Insult to injury:

[JustWinBaby]

Ott coached out of his mind this year. I think we have some good pieces going forward but some personnel changes need to happen.

Yep

I think any or all of the following could be gone next year

Green, Allen, O'Neal, Williams

What could they command in a trade?