Playoffs: Clippers @ Suns Tuesday game thread 4-18-2023 - Game 2

[Mainstreet]

Monty on Devin Booker's shooting frenzy.

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[Germz249]

Okay.. Game one I was checking scores.. this game I fully stayed away..

How did we look? Were we leading the whole game and controlled the game? The Clippers had 31 free throw attempt vs our 14.. were the zebras just trying to keep them in the game?

 

[Mainstreet]

Devin Booker with 38 points on 14-22 shooting, 9 assists and 1 steal.

 

[Mainstreet]

Okay.. Game one I was checking scores.. this game I fully stayed away..

How did we look? Were we leading the whole game and controlled the game? The Clippers had 31 free throw attempt vs our 14.. were the zebras just trying to keep them in the game?

The referees said no soup for you when it came to free throws.

 

[Ouchie-Z-Clown]

Man… I am dreading this game.

I kinda only want to win just so I can watch at least one meaningful playoff game with @Ouchie-Z-Clown on Saturday. It’s just so rare as a Phoenix Anything fan that we get to enjoy playoff games together. Would be much more fun thinking there’s still a chance even if we’re down 2-1 then what will likely amount to a fandom funeral if we’re down 0-3 going into Game 4.

Hey you can stick around and watch my goofballs get torn to shreds Saturday night when they don’t listen to me in huddle again. Corey’s make up game is Saturday night.

 

[Covert Rain]

Great win but we still have to get home court back. Let’s go there and get the next one.

 

[Ouchie-Z-Clown]

Van Gundy talking about Monty’s rotation and how hard it is for players to get into a groove when they don’t know if there gonna play or what kind of minutes

Then talks about Lue and how everyone on the clippers knows there job and what they need to do every night

Even in a win van gundy was questioning Monty’s moves almost to the end of the game. Van gundy knows what he’s talking about. Monty played two guys who didn’t sniff the court in game one.

Grasping
At
Straws

 

[DJ Tabooh]

Okay.. Game one I was checking scores.. this game I fully stayed away..

How did we look? Were we leading the whole game and controlled the game? The Clippers had 31 free throw attempt vs our 14.. were the zebras just trying to keep them in the game?

Weird game. Clippers were hitting threes and the Suns were turning the ball over to start. We played VERY tight. We could’ve gotten run out of the gym.

End of the first half, we tied the game after being down double digits and we went on a crazy run start the 3rd quarter as well. Book went 7/8 in the third like the Superstar he is.

The 4th was a little dicey but CP3 hit some timely shots and Torrey Craig was big time again.

As for the foul discrepancy….the refs missed some but if you look at where KD and Book were shooting from (midrange) calls won’t really be called in that area.

Clippers attacked the rim and Suns don’t do the best job of staying in front of the ball.

 

[Ouchie-Z-Clown]

He’s got 12/8 at halftime on 6/8 shooting

Yeah he’s been horrible

He wasn’t great tonight, but he manned up on the boards and wasn’t a pansy with zubac. I’ll take it.

 

[Ouchie-Z-Clown]

hes not on the playoff roster and he sucks.

shamet did nothing in that half,

FTFY.

 

[82CardsGrad]

This is where I’m at… Kawhi > KD (this was not the case 2-3 years ago).
Zubac is more effective than DA.
Westbrook is more impactful than CP3.
And the Clippers bench, which is league average, is light-years better than the Suns bench.

It’s gonna take Herculean efforts from Book and KD to merely give the Suns a chance. And I can’t even imagine what this would look like if Paul George was playing!

This is the scenario the rest of the way…
Can KD and Book continue to play 40+ mins each game, and not just play those mins, but play at extremely high efficiency rates?
I just don’t know… What I do know is that any drop-off from either of them will make winning virtually impossible.

 

[Chris_Sanders]

Suns beat Scott Foster!!

They just had to shoot 62% to do it

 

[ajcardfan]

He wasn’t great tonight, but he manned up on the boards and wasn’t a pansy with zubac. I’ll take it.

Again, at about 6 mins left in the 2nd qtr we had scored 12 points in the quarter and Ayton had scored 10. If he played as bad as everyone else was during the start of the 2nd qtr we fall behind by 20 and lose.

 

[82CardsGrad]

They just had to shoot 62% to do it

Actually, 59%…

 

[GatorAZ]

Jones needs to answer for Eric Gordon not being a Sun like 3 years ago.

 

[Chris_Sanders]

Actually, 59%…

Yeah it might have went down that last minute or two but that's where it was when the game was in hand.

 

[Ouchie-Z-Clown]

+24 with Ayton
-14 with Biz

Over these two games

To be fair, Ayton has likely played more minutes with book and kd both on the floor considering he starts and ends games.

 

[Ouchie-Z-Clown]

Night and day watching Okogie out there over Shamet. How Shamet got 24 minutes and Okogie only like 7 minutes in Game 1 is beyond me.

I have a lot of questions about monty. Shamet is the biggest.

 

[Ouchie-Z-Clown]

Torrey Craig... Everyone said we couldn't expect him to play as well as game 1. He did.

Amen. Craig has showed up bigger in these two games than the whole season.

 

[Ouchie-Z-Clown]

Paul was X factor tonight. Man, if he was mid-2021 Paul we would run away with things.

Craig incredibly impactful.

Nice to see book go nova.

Ayton definitely kept us in the game for a stretch. Played much better. Has to stay outta dumb foul trouble.

Shamet did nothing . . . again.

KD’s value tonight was being our offense for a stretch and then drawing doubles to free up the other four big shots on our runs.

Bench dreadful again. Need good Payne back badly.

 

[nashman]

Only 13 points from the bench by two guys kind of blows, but then again look at who played and not very much at that! I’m ok with the minutes in this game as it was a MUST win and Monty knew it so let it ride when Book was hot and left them in. KD has said he like to be in the 40-44 minute range so not sure he minds at all since his game is not based on being overly athletic more of a jump shooter.

 

[Chris_Sanders]

Booker was the best player on the court tonight. That third quarter is unreal. Assisting or scoring on 28 of 33 points

 

[sdscard4]

Jones needs to answer for Eric Gordon not being a Sun like 3 years ago.

I wanted Gordon all year!

 

[Cheesebeef]

Booker was the best player on the court tonight. That third quarter is unreal. Assisting or scoring on 28 of 33 points

That was a super-duper superstar performance. Got get one of those in LA.

 

[DJ Tabooh]

That was a super-duper superstar performance. Got get one of those in LA.

His midrange game and 3 ball were working tonight. As long as Book just plays within himself, he can get any shot he wants to. Now we’ve gotta get 1 in Tinseltown.