Normally pessimistic Cheese was telling all his friends we were finally winning it, tried to convince one of his best friends from high school who disowned the Suns for a decade that he needed to fly back to be here for a game 5 to celebrate and proclaimed that CP3 immediately made himself the greatest Arizona sports figure ever.
We also have our corner defenders leaning way into the lane because our perimeter defenders can’t stop penetration which leaves the corner 3 WIDE open. Our guys lean far too far into the paint.
Nurk was the culprit in both scenarios. Our game focus is not always there. Allen and Metu relaxed a bit on rotation and boom they hit the 3s. At least Vogel called timely TOs to sub out Metu and instruct Allen to pressure Rozier closer. But at least the coaches are aware of those problems and we are making team effort to get better.
Yeah but CP3 was still CP3 back then unfortunately he is body retired at 38…
I was impressed by Metu's perimeter D on the three point line. He didn't let guys just buzz past him as a big, but yet he played up on them so they couldn't get the shot off. He's more nimble than he looks.
In hindsight he did struggle to earn all that big of a role on one of the worst teams in the league last season. That should have been more of a red flag, but I think we overlooked it because of his measurables and 3P% last season.
That's the point though, he wasn't able to earn more than 21 MPG on a miserable team. That is a red flag if you are expecting him to be able to earn a big role on a team that has championship aspirations.
No. Allen did it in the rockets game. Nurk was last night.
Me too! It was the last game I’ve attended at the arena.
Won’t be an issue once bel gets up to speed.
Nurk had one out-of-bound ball saved right into other team's player for easy layup, AND one side pass to Allen without seeing Allen was already gone. In general, we just make a lot of mechanical passes without proper assessing the situation that lead to TOs.
Ironically, I believe the next game I attended the Washington Wizards game where Beal almost single handedly beat us in the fourth quarter. When he announced he wanted to come to Phoenix, I was like, Hell Yah!!
I remember that game. Beal was shooting like 2/15 before the 4th and then torn our paint apart in the 4th.
The minutes? That makes sense. I hope so.
Ah got it. Yeah, both were atrocious. It’s crazy lack of awareness that leads to so many of the careless turnovers and it’s like everyone on the court playing significant minutes making them.
EG looked pretty happy for those shout outs!!
