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    Rockets @ Suns Saturday game thread 3-2-2024

    Vogel! It's obvious that Allen lost offensive confidence totally from the start, yet he still played him, and despite our comeback in the 2nd qrt stemmed solely from improved defense and resulting transition offense. Play Okogie in place of Allen to close the half, our situation would be much...
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    Rockets @ Suns Thursday game thread 2-29-2024

    RO is a streaky shooter. He knew his own condition and passed up several 3pt shots already. Suns' problem is not to have more sets to enable Allen getting open 3pt chances but allow defense to force them to our lesser shooters. Vogel is giving Bol and Saben crucial battle tests by putting Bol...
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    Suns @ Rockets Friday game thread 2-23-2024

    “He's not a terrible offensive player. He's a terrible outside shooter.” I fully agree. The worst way to use him is to park him in the corner waiting for passes to shoot. In the Lakers' game, for the first time in this season, the offense in the 4th was not KD/Booker ISOs only. They moved the...
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    Suns @ Rockets Friday game thread 2-23-2024

    For offense we supposedly have genious AC in KY. If Vogel can find sufficiently good def. schemes to hide Nurk, Allen and Bol's weakness when facing the best teams, if he can find off. schemes to hide JO and RO's weakness, we contend for title.
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    Suns @ Rockets Friday game thread 2-23-2024

    It's a dilemma for Vogel as he has to integrate new guys. And ONeale disappearing on offense the past 2 games only makes his job worse. Young came back much better in the 2nd half. If not for Bol's explosion, the game was lost after the 3rd qrt. Houston has tons of athletic long defenders making...
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    Suns @ Rockets Friday game thread 2-23-2024

    In transition and resetting defense situations, our players easily get lost. Too often 2 guys storming to one guy suggests their communication and instincts are not good enough. Booker and Allen are main culprits for that.
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    Suns @ Rockets Friday game thread 2-23-2024

    That's in the corner we were bailed out by refs. KD was calling for Allen to move towards him. We started again with moving the ball well, but became stationary as they used to, that made defense easy. Adding to that, we are integrating Young and reintergrating Bol, while RO not hitting anything...
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    Suns @ Mavericks Thursday game thread 2-22-2024: Post All-Star Break

    First, compared to our last meeting, Mavs D improved a lot with Washington and Jones and even Kleber single covered KD very well, and their new center Garford. 2nd, early double- or triple teaming of KD and Book was again effective and our players didn't respond accordingly. 3rd, their D scheme...
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    Suns @ Mavericks Thursday game thread 2-22-2024: Post All-Star Break

    The story of the game is, Doncic abuses Allen on D that exposes this team's weakness.
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    Suns @ Mavericks Thursday game thread 2-22-2024: Post All-Star Break

    No sets on offense, bad transition defense, bad indiv. defender in Allen and Little. 8-2 is the result to start the 4th
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    Suns @ Mavericks Thursday game thread 2-22-2024: Post All-Star Break

    Doncic doesn't feel any threat from Allen, chaos starts from there.
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    Suns @ Mavericks Thursday game thread 2-22-2024: Post All-Star Break

    Vogel shows his color as defense minded, now. Use Okogie on Doncic and Saben on Irvine are D concern solely. He let Saben in even when Irvine tricked him easily for conseq. scores, as it's necessary learning experience if Saben is to be relied on for those special tasks in playoffs. Saben...
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    Suns @ Mavericks Thursday game thread 2-22-2024: Post All-Star Break

    Mavs run started with Book's unforced TO, in transition, by Irvine with tough 3s.
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    Suns @ Mavericks Thursday game thread 2-22-2024: Post All-Star Break

    Defense is most important part of the game. Okogie's D on Doncic showed great effect. With a little room conceded, Luka hit too long 3s. It's a long game.
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    Suns @ Mavericks Thursday game thread 2-22-2024: Post All-Star Break

    I disagree. RO won't bother Luka much just as most good defenders in this league with similar smarts. JO has a better chance with his quickness to annoy Luka's rhythm. Or Roddy who is strong enough to bang him.
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    Suns updates and discussion for the 2023-24 season

    I'd convert Saben Lee's to fill the 15th spot anyway. We may also consider a vet big like DHoward as insurance, and cut Bol for the PO run.
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    Suns updates and discussion for the 2023-24 season

    Vogel has been trying out different lineups and gauging the bench players' skills and fits. With most bench newcomers, and most of the time, it's been underwhelming. Eubanks has bounced back to be quite serviceable in certain situations. Bol can be flashy in some regular season situations, but...
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    Pistons @ Suns Wednesday game thread 2-14-2024

    I know Pistons is a bad team on both D and O, but I'm so happy that we unlocked the best defense ever played under Vogel in this game. With this type of D, our bench can always brigde the gap of big 3 resting in any game. I've been a Saben Lee fan right from when he had 2 10-day deals with us...
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    Pistons @ Suns Wednesday game thread 2-14-2024

    Blessing in disguise that BS calls on Book. We finally get to see how Saben's D in combination with JO and RO can cause havoc.
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    Kings @ Suns Tuesday game thread 2-13-2024

    Vogel can adjust, if it's crucial to win the game. The most important change was the defensive attitude by Booker who didn't miss any assignment in this game. With that, our rotation, switching and recovery was in tact throughout. RO is a savvy vet with a calm influence and knows where to be and...
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    Kings @ Suns Tuesday game thread 2-13-2024

    Clipps integrate their big 3 much faster and smoother than we do. But we do have Okogie, Oneale, to a lesser quality Little and Roddy to defend their stronger guys Leonard, PG, Harden, Powell. So, depending how our team play improves, it's not all lost. The same with Thunder. To win we mainly...
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    Suns @ Warriors Saturday game thread 2-10-2024

    They were better prepared for us than we did them. Even their rookie and 2way players knew to effectively defend our perimeter isos, and they knew how KD isos would be set up and all the nuances around it to make them less effective, with great outcomes. Nurk and KD were out there to prove their...
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    Suns @ Warriors Saturday game thread 2-10-2024

    GS have much better inbounding sets than we do. Green faked a screen anticipating we wanted to switch everything, to generate hesitation with success. Beal paused and realized KD was not switching which already gave Curry space, and then he gambled and barely missed the steal. Yeah, Okogie may...
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    Suns @ Warriors Saturday game thread 2-10-2024

    yeah, even just having Bol or Nurk to block the passing angles of the inbounder
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    Suns updates and discussion for the 2023-24 season

    Our main is bigger def. wings with adequate off. skills, not more shooting with def. liability. If healthy and bought out, Porter Jr. sounds like the ideal pickup. And we need another big next to Nurk and Eubanks. I'd be for Biyombo.

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