That’s a good thing imo, do it against quality competition. Let’s face it if they reeled off a 10 game steak against lesser people would just talk crap and say against weak teams blah blah! So get it together against good teams it will only help them either pull together and become good or fall apart, either way we will have an answer…
Reminds me of the USA team Olympic struggles back in the day - partly due to other teams playing together longer but also no real game planning - no real focus - that was on the coaching
Watching the games, this shouldn't surprise anyone.
Not a surprise really. When you have a big three, you expect a couple of them to go off most nights. The big 3 went 32 for 55 and 12 for 21 from distance, that's a little better than we can expect but not by much. The hope is that with three highly dangerous scorers, all three can expect better looks than they'd get otherwise.
We have some obvious roster problems and some coaching question marks but I really don't believe we have any hypochondriacs on this team. I worry more about Booker playing through injuries when he shouldn't than I do any of them taking time off unjustifiably.
Can I be your friend?
How do you get invited to floor seats? That's on my bucket list.
Sadly that might be really accurate. If Okogie was even marginally better on the offensive end, he'd be a borderline star. A little more than that, and maybe even approaching Mikel Bridges level.
Those two would be luxuries. I'd be happy with a Dorian Finney Smith or Royce O'neal type that can make open 3 point shots at a reasonable percentage but not much else.
Yeah, he's another. Looked up his stats and his 3point shot has really improved. Gives me some hope that JO can get there eventually, though not sure the Suns can afford the time for him to develop that consistency.
That was more of a play on words, its laughable the games missed by this team. If its even remotely tied to rest its a friggen joke and a waste of $ for those that pay to watch them
Yeah I wish it were tied to "rest". Unfortunately Nurkic, Beal and KD are quite injury prone, in fact we've been lucky with KD and Nurk so far. We do seem to be experiencing a lot of problems with the rest of the roster from illness and injury but there'd be no reason to give them rest days.
When I say rolling hard I mean moving forcefully toward the basket to catch a lob or yes god forbid a layup. The point is the defense respected his ability to finish at the rim one way or another.
Sure, and I think that usually 2 out of 3 can do it. I am more concerned about the other guys making the open 3 pt shots - that is what makes or breaks this team if the offense is running correctly.
I don't think it was "respect", I think they were opportunists and knew the best way to get the ball is to take it from DA as he rolls to the basket. Ayton was a decent threat with his mid-range shot but I don't believe his inside game was ever feared or respected, by opponents or teammates.
