Game Day: Suns (15-17) @ Pacers (17-18), Sat 1/4/24

[Mori Chu]

We're "only" down 10, but this just completely has the feel of a loss. I would be shocked if we came back to win this game. This team has no fight in it, no perseverance.

[Mori Chu]

[ShelC]

Yea i'd actually be mad if we won because it'll just give more ammo to people who think this is salvageable. Again, just like last year, where a few random wins in the middle of all the losing is enough to think maybe this team can click and turn it around.

[TOO]

Burn it down.

[ShelC]

TJ McConnell can get to his spot on the baseline 4 times and knock down that middy jumper. We can't stop it and what's worse - that used to be Book's shot but instead he's running PnR 35ft from the basket with smalls ghost screening for him that leads to absolutely nothing.

[Mori Chu]

Yea i'd actually be mad if we won because it'll just give more ammo to people who think this is salvageable. Again, just like last year, where a few random wins in the middle of all the losing is enough to think maybe this team can click and turn it around.

Completely agree. Ownership and FO need clarity; they need to see definitively that this edition of the Suns is completely cooked, that there is no salvaging or patching this team, no quick-fix trade that can make us a contender, no reason to burn future assets (2031 1st) to go "all in" on this group. We are done, we are toast, we suck. I actively want us to lose every game until they blow up this team. I have had it.

[Mori Chu]

This moment during one of the breaks was genuinely sweet.

[The Bobster]

No defensive resistance whatseover.

[Cap]

Yea i'd actually be mad if we won because it'll just give more ammo to people who think this is salvageable. Again, just like last year, where a few random wins in the middle of all the losing is enough to think maybe this team can click and turn it around.

Completely agree. Ownership and FO need clarity; they need to see definitively that this edition of the Suns is completely cooked, that there is no salvaging or patching this team, no quick-fix trade that can make us a contender, no reason to burn future assets (2031 1st) to go "all in" on this group. We are done, we are toast, we suck. I actively want us to lose every game until they blow up this team. I have had it.

Man, people were going all in on me for complaining about giving up our draft picks and saying I was advocating tanking. Here you are actually advocating tanking and we don’t even have our draft pick.

[ShelC]

I'm not advocating tanking. I'm saying get what you can for KD and use that to reload around Book. We already have Dunn on the wing, Oso is a nice rotational big and Royce and Allen are locked in. Move one for more picks/young players. We can fix this relatively quickly.

[JeremyG]

Is this a good time to remind everyone that we could have had Haliburton if we had wanted him?

[Cap]

I'm not advocating tanking. I'm saying get what you can for KD and use that to reload around Book. We already have Dunn on the wing, Oso is a nice rotational big and Royce and Allen are locked in. Move one for more picks/young players. We can fix this relatively quickly.

I wasn’t replying to you, I was replying to Mori who said, “I actively want us to lose every game.”

If anyone has this idea that Ishbia will become competent if only he realizes what a poor job he has done so far, let’s just say I don’t share that optimism.

[The Bobster]

Outscored 70-52 in the second half.

[ShelC]

Gotcha. I tihnk we want to lose games to it's apparent this isn't working and forces Ishbia/Jones to blow it up sooner than later.

[Kryptonic]

Is this a good time to remind everyone that we could have had Haliburton if he had wanted him?

No…. This is triggering to too many here.

[Mori Chu]

I want us to trade KD to Houston for two of our future 1sts back, plus a young and a ballast contract (Dillon Brooks). I want us to trade anybody else that can net us picks or youngs back. I want us to lose so the FO has to accept the truth. I do not want to "tank."

[Mori Chu]

Game result: THIS TEAM SUCKS.

[Cap]

Gotcha. I tihnk we want to lose games to it's apparent this isn't working and forces Ishbia/Jones to blow it up sooner than later.

Making it apparent that they have been bad so far isn’t going to make them good at their jobs.

[Uncle_Gene]

Suns defense has gone south.

[Cap]

Suns defense has gone south.

Well no shit, the NBA season is during the winter. Maybe it’ll be back by playoffs time. If hunters don’t get it.