Playoffs: Clippers @ Suns Sunday game thread 4-16-2023 - Game 1

[Sunstroke]

Ball game and eventually series. Horrible coaching and a lazy starting big man
who got his bag!

 

[Cheesebeef]

I’m so used to being disappointed as a Phoenix sports fan, I’m not ever that disappointed.

Is what it is.

 

[AZ Native]

Well, we know which coach is better at making adjustments.

 

[Mainstreet]

This was mostly on Monty. Ty Lue made Monty look like a complete fool.

Have you looked at the Suns bench?

 

[Cheesebeef]

KD got ONE shot in the last five minutes.

 

[95pro]

Monty sucks.

 

[RON_IN_OC]

Suns won’t win a title with Monty

Suns won't win a title.

 

[mjb21aztd]

Yuppers az sports for you.... least only gm 1 lol

Kd played ok ayton whatever

Im very disapointed to saddened to smoke now

 

[JosiahLee]

Suns are definitely the underdogs in this series now. You NEVER want to lose game 1 at home.

 

[Ouchie-Z-Clown]

This was mostly on Monty. Ty Lue made Monty look like a complete fool.

Ayton is a close second. He ate a big pile of ish tonight.

Paul couldn’t shoot to save his life but he made up for it in a lot of other ways. Ayton just flat out crapped the bed.

 

[mjb21aztd]

Monty sucks.

fire him make him first coach fired in a poff series!!! Awful l

 

[Ouchie-Z-Clown]

KD got ONE shot in the last five minutes.

That’s a Monty problem. Fire Monty.

 

[Raindog]

This was mostly on Monty. Ty Lue made Monty look like a complete fool.

Not hard to do. Monty has been outcoached in just about every series that he didn't have Willie Green on the sidelines with him... and that even includes the one series he won against WG.

 

[Finito]

A lot of blame to go around.

I’ve rarely posted the last couple weeks honestly I’ve been emotionally distancing myself from this team. It’s been painfully obvious this is not a championship team

But people wanna stick there head in the sand

 

[Covert Rain]

Have you looked at the Suns bench?

Ty Lue said during one one of the timeouts he tried to screw with the Suns. It worked. Monty had multiple really weird lineups in the game. He didn’t use rotations he has been using for both the starters and the bench he has been using for weeks leading up to the playoffs.

Our bench has been short handed for sure but Monty was playing checkers while Lue was playing chess.

 

[Proximo]

Have you looked at the Suns bench?

They barely played. That’s not an excuse. CP3 and our bad 3pt shooting cost us.

 

[AsUpRoDiGy]

Game came down to Ayton being ultra charmin soft on the boards and Monty refusing to get KD involved in the last 5-6 minutes.

 

[dscher]

Well, we know which coach is better at making adjustments.

I think anyone with half a bball IQ knows this about Lue vs Monty. Night and day.

 

[Chaplin]

A lot of blame to go around.

I’ve rarely posted the last couple weeks honestly I’ve been emotionally distancing myself from this team. It’s been painfully obvious this is not a championship team

But people wanna stick there head in the sand

Do you really have to turn this into an attack on the board? Give it a rest.

 

[Joe Mama]

I take full responsibility for for screwing Booker's offense in that Final quarter. And now to add insult to injury the first thing I have to see after that disappointing ending is giant bubbles on some dudes head on a pimple popping commercial.

I felt a lot better about the Phoenix Suns bench after the last two Games even though they were losses, but that Game one was just a slap of reality.

 

[Chaplin]

Monty decided to experiment in game 1 of the playoffs. What kind of idiot does that??

 

[AzCardsfan76]

Who’s softer, Monty or Ayton??

 

[urs]

Another Suns playoff game where the team looks totally unprepared to start. Then Monty decided to consult a Ouija board to determine his rotations.

 

[dscher]

Ayton being ultra charmin soft

I hate how unbearable he makes this team for me..his DNA changed during his flailing efforts against the bucks in the finals. He just doesn't have the "it" factor between the ears.

 

[Finito]

Ayton is a close second. He ate a big pile of ish tonight.

Paul couldn’t shoot to save his life but he made up for it in a lot of other ways. Ayton just flat out crapped the bed.

Paul has been doing this all year. His stat line is super misleading. He’s unplayable in the clutch and it showed up again. He was his awful in the 4th with some really bonehead plays. His clutch stats have fallen off a cliff