Mavericks @ Suns Sunday Playoff game thread, R2, 5-15-2022 - Game 7

[TJ]

My mental health cant tolerate a Game 7.

 

[Superbone]

My first strong memory about the Suns was when we traded my favorite player for some stiff named Mel Counts. Grabbing Gail Goodrich from the Lakers in the expansion draft was great, giving him back to the Lakers was a real low point for me. And not much later Connie started showing signs of declining.

You got us beat. Were you a fan from the beginning? 68/69 season?

 

[AZ Fan]

I'm not sure what you're referring to but they're 6.5 point favorites in Vegas.

That’s good news! I read underdog on a few betting sites. Go Suns

 

[AZ Fan]

My mental health cant tolerate a Game 7.

…take deep breaths

 

[dscher]

My mental health cant tolerate a Game 7.

I'm meh on it at this point. I'm sure I'll get into it a little more into the emotions as the game goes on. But, if we continue playing with the same lack of energy I've seen from this team throughout the playoffs, I won't sweat it one bit. I've got better things to worry about. That said.. I'll be super pissed if we come out playing with fire and passion and lose. But, that's a paradox, cause it we do that there is no way in hell they beat us.

 

[AzStevenCal]

You got us beat. Were you a fan from the beginning? 68/69 season?

Yeah, in 1967 I was a kid bussing tables at a sandwich shop/bar on 5th Avenue listening to the old guys talk about the possibility the NBA might expand to Phoenix. Unforunately the Commissioner was dead set against it but I guess enough of the owners insisted on it.

The restuarant owner bought all the old regulars a round the day it was announced we were getting a team. I got a free soda, boy was I bummed since I'd been helping myself to free soda the entire time I worked there. Anyway, before you knew it we had a team and player's faces began showing up on milk cartons not long after.

 

[AzStevenCal]

I'm meh on it at this point. I'm sure I'll get into it a little more into the emotions as the game goes on. But, if we continue playing with the same lack of energy I've seen from this team throughout the playoffs, I won't sweat it one bit. I've got better things to worry about. That said.. I'll be super pissed if we come out playing with fire and passion and lose. But, that's a paradox, cause it we do that there is no way in hell they beat us.

Well, sure, you've already gone bananas so you don't have to worry about your mental health.

 

[mjb21aztd]

Come on leperchaun team beat the bucks!!! Hope celtics hang on in 2nd half

 

[Mainstreet]

Come on leperchaun team beat the bucks!!! Hope celtics hang on in 2nd half

Regardless of what happens with the Suns, I'd like to see the Celtics win. Of course I dream of another Finals match-up from years past.

 

[Muggz]

Ok headed out. If we lose I'm burning my lucky Suns hat at center court while Luka is wearing it.

 

[dscher]

Well, sure, you've already gone bananas so you don't have to worry about your mental health.

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[AzStevenCal]

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Great scene. Lovitz and Buscemi make that movie for me.

 

[Finito]

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I was 11 when this was happening and the Suns were my whole world

 

[ajcardfan]

Our crowd needs to be like the Boston crowd today. I hope they aren't like game 5. That was poor.

I think Dallas wins. The playoffs so far have had nothing really interesting happen. No big upsets. The Mavs are in a perfect spot. They can just let it fly. The pressure is all on the Suns. I thought you could see a lot of doubt and frustration on the Suns faces in game 6. Don't like that at all. These playoffs are overdue for an upset and it will be the Suns. The Mother's Day curse gets us again.

Hope i am proven completely wrong.

 

[Superbone]

I'm meh on it at this point. I'm sure I'll get into it a little more into the emotions as the game goes on. But, if we continue playing with the same lack of energy I've seen from this team throughout the playoffs, I won't sweat it one bit. I've got better things to worry about. That said.. I'll be super pissed if we come out playing with fire and passion and lose. But, that's a paradox, cause it we do that there is no way in hell they beat us.

Sounds like you have yourself emotionally prepared for any outcome.

 

[Cheesebeef]

Our crowd needs to be like the Boston crowd today. I hope they aren't like game 5. That was poor.

I think Dallas wins. The playoffs so far have had nothing really interesting happen. No big upsets. The Mavs are in a perfect spot. They can just let it fly. The pressure is all on the Suns. I thought you could see a lot of doubt and frustration on the Suns faces in game 6. Don't like that at all. These playoffs are overdue for an upset and it will be the Suns. The Mother's Day curse gets us again.

Hope i am proven completely wrong.

Yeah… there hasn’t been a SHOCKER moment. The playoffs are due for one.

Man it would blow to lose a Game 7 at home after the season we had.

 

[dscher]

Sounds like you have yourself emotionally prepared for any outcome.

That's what I like to tell myself.

 

[Folster]

Our crowd needs to be like the Boston crowd today. I hope they aren't like game 5. That was poor.

I think Dallas wins. The playoffs so far have had nothing really interesting happen. No big upsets. The Mavs are in a perfect spot. They can just let it fly. The pressure is all on the Suns. I thought you could see a lot of doubt and frustration on the Suns faces in game 6. Don't like that at all. These playoffs are overdue for an upset and it will be the Suns. The Mother's Day curse gets us again.

Hope i am proven completely wrong.

I feel like TNT mutes out a lot of the crowd noise compared to ESPN/ABC.

 

[Dr. Jones]

My mental health cant tolerate a Game 7.

This.

 

[Cheesebeef]

I’m getting texts from random Phoenix numbers about this game and I have no idea who they are. That’s how big this game is… everyone, even people I don’t know… are coming out of the woodwork!

 

[Cheesebeef]

Last Game 7 for the Suns was Suns v. Clippers in 2006, right? That was a back and forth slugfest where Nash looked atrocious all series with his back, but somehow turned it all around in Game 7 and I think we won by like 30. I remember Nash hitting a three up top right after the tip and felt like… YES! HE’S BACK AND WE ARE WINNING THIS F’ING ROUND!

Hoping CP3 has that in him today as well.

 

[Folster]

Last Game 7 for the Suns was Suns v. Clippers in 2006, right? That was a back and forth slugfest where Nash looked atrocious all series with his back, but somehow turned it all around in Game 7 and I think we won by like 30. I remember Nash hitting a three up top right after the tip and felt like… YES! HE’S BACK AND WE ARE WINNING THIS F’ING ROUND!

Hoping CP3 has that in him today as well.

Was that the Tim Thomas game?

 

[Dr. Jones]

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[TJ]

Have we successfully lured Luka's large ass into a all-you-can-eat buffet and locked the door from the outside until tomorrow?

 

[TJ]

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I was there behind the basket. We still lost the GD damn. That series was brutal