Magic @ Suns Friday game thread 1-10-20

[Ouchie-Z-Clown]

0-3 and swatted by bamba already. ALRIGHT!!!! This plan was a great one!

 

[Mainstreet]

If Ayton is strong he doesn't play that way.

 

[Superbone]

0-3 and swatted by bamba already. ALRIGHT!!!! This plan was a great one!

Yeah, that's all on coach.

 

[Mainstreet]

End of 1st quarter:

Suns 27 - Magic 25

 

[1Sun]

0-3 and swatted by bamba already. ALRIGHT!!!! This plan was a great one!

Don't be surprised if Ayton checks out for the rest of his time with the Suns. This was the dumbest possible move, and I don't believe for a second that it was Monty's call.

 

[1Sun]

Yeah, that's all on coach.

Not if the mandate came from James freaking Jones.

 

[Mainstreet]

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"DIVE!" Monty Williams screaming for Ayton to dive to the rim off a screen. #Suns up 27-25 at end of 1st.

6:35 PM - 10 Jan 2020

 

[Bufalay]

Who would’ve expected fragile Ayton to respond this way to being benched?

 

[1Sun]

Who would’ve expected fragile Ayton to respond this way to being benched?

Especially considering he responded exactly the same way after being benched after a good game LAST year...

 

[Mainstreet]

Fournier (12) carrying the load for Magic.

 

[Cheesebeef]

Not if the mandate came from James freaking Jones.

why would;d you think it was Jones. Monty and guys ON THE TEAM have been talking about players not buying in... repeatedly. The fact that Ayton's benched makes it pretty damn obvious who they're all talking about. Laying the blame on Jones just feeds your fixation on him.

 

[Mainstreet]

Suns getting the ball to Ayton now. He is not settling for outside shots.

 

[1Sun]

why would;d you think it was Jones. Monty and guys ON THE TEAM have been talking about players not buying in... repeatedly. The fact that Ayton's benched makes it pretty damn obvious who they're all talking about. Laying the blame on Jones just feeds your fixation on him.

And yet other than perhaps Booker on offense and Bridges on defense, Ayton has been the team's best player on both ends of the court.

If anyone's not buying in it's Baynes, not Ayton.

And based on what I have been hearing from both, I absolutely cannot imagine Monty making a bonehead move like this, while I absolutely CAN imagine Jones doing so (not to mention that Jones is the common denominator with last year's inexplicable benching of players after good games).

 

[Mainstreet]

Halftime:

Suns 58 - Magic 48

 

[devilalum]

Is it humane to expect a really good player to play his entire career for the Suns?


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[Mainstreet]

Booker (16) and Oubre (13) lead the Suns in scoring.

 

[Ronin]

Is it humane to expect a really good player to play his entire career for the Suns?


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Not in this day of free agency.

 

[1Sun]

Is it humane to expect a really good player to play his entire career for the Suns?


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Not with current management. Replace James Jones with a competent GM and lock Robert Sarver out of the building except for access to the owner's box during games, and it would be a much different, and better, world.

 

[BC867]

The Suns will have to prove that a 10-point lead at the half gives them an advantage. We'll see.

Why does Booker have more assists than Rubio?

Is it because that, even if Rubio brings up the ball, Booker controls it in the front court?

A Point Guard who's not a Point Guard. A Center who's not a Center.

Is that really the formula for success?

 

[TJ]

Is it humane to expect a really good player to play his entire career for the Suns?


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No. Booker won’t be here when he’s 30

 

[Folster]

What message? Play better than anyone else on the team, save perhaps Booker, and you will be rewarded with a benching?

Stop playing like a puss.

 

[Bufalay]

Aytons defense has been good so far this season and excellent in this game.

 

[1Sun]

Stop playing like a puss.

If Ayton was playing like a puss, what does that say for the rest of the team sans Booker, whom Ayton clearly outplayed?

 

[1Sun]

Aytons defense has been good so far this season and excellent in this game.

Apparently not good enough not to be benched for Aron freaking Baynes and Dario freaking Saric...

 

[Folster]

If Ayton was playing like a puss, what does that say for the rest of the team sans Booker, whom Ayton clearly outplayed?

I'm not sure how you could watch him and think he wasn't playing soft. It's obvious.