Playoffs: Nuggets @ Suns Thursday game thread 5-11-2023 - Game 6

[BirdGangThing]

If Ayton can't go and Biz is still hurting..



Landale and Bazley?

 

[Proximo]

No they didnt

Yeah they did. They had a strong core and draft picks. You can hit on one and it puts you over the top.

 

[Covert Rain]

The Suns are a 3.5-point favorite over the Nuggets, according to Tipico Sportsbook

 

[AZ Native]

The Suns are a 3.5-point favorite over the Nuggets, according to Tipico Sportsbook

I have never bet against the Suns but that looks like a winner for someone.

 

[Phrazbit]

I think we will win this game, but it will be a battle. We need someone off the bench to get hot... Shamet again, Ross, Warren, Craig... one of them need to have a game.

A rout would be nice, it seems like we should be due for one, but the teams needs to show they can put together sustained play on both ends for that to happen.

If we can pull this out, go to Denver for game 7... game 7s can be crazy. Very hard to predict.

 

[TJ]

When you are the absolute worst player in the playoffs, you are horrible. Dillon Brooks horrible.

I dont know what TPA is, but I surmise that looking at the results from this graph, it’s another “advanced” metric by some booger eater who thinks a three point field goal is when you hit a home run with two runners on base.

 

[elindholm]

What's up with Biyombo? If Ayton is out, the Suns will need him.

 

[Covert Rain]

What's up with Biyombo? If Ayton is out, the Suns will need him.

100%. Jock is a foul machine.

 

[Ronin]

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[Ronin]

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[Ronin]

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[Ronin]

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[RON_IN_OC]

With roster we have around them there’s no way the suns make it to the second round and take two games from the #1 seed if book and kd werent playing like superstars.

You have to wonder, though, if Durant wasn't turning the ball over so much, would the Suns already be in the Conf Finals, or trying to closeout the Nuggets tonight?

 

[RON_IN_OC]

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Saving Scott Foster for Game 7...lol

 

[RON_IN_OC]

What's the Over/Under on bad pass turnovers from KD? 5???

 

[Ouchie-Z-Clown]

Yeah they did. They had a strong core and draft picks. You can hit on one and it puts you over the top.

That’s not an open window. If your depending on something that hasn’t happened yet, that has a high probability of failure (drafting a difference maker outside the lottery) it means you’re hoping something will reopen the window. Your window is open when you have a chance for a championship. That squads opportunity as-is was done.

 

[Ouchie-Z-Clown]

What's up with Biyombo? If Ayton is out, the Suns will need him.

He’s just so limiting offensively in a series we are struggling to get any additional scoring from anyone not named Booker or Durant. Makes him tougher to play.

 

[Ouchie-Z-Clown]

You have to wonder, though, if Durant wasn't turning the ball over so much, would the Suns already be in the Conf Finals, or trying to closeout the Nuggets tonight?

That has definitely been an odd issue.

 

[AzStevenCal]

That has definitely been an odd issue.

Unfortunately it's really not that odd. Boston showed the league how to play him. In 4 playoff games last season he turned the ball over 21 times. He only has 19 in our 5 games but Denver, although they are playing him as physical as Boston did, isn't as strong defensively as Boston was.

 

[Ronin]

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[Proximo]

You have to wonder, though, if Durant wasn't turning the ball over so much, would the Suns already be in the Conf Finals, or trying to closeout the Nuggets tonight?

Series would not be over, but if he played even half way decent in game 2 we would have won it. That's the only game I feel would have a different outcome.

 

[Proximo]

He’s just so limiting offensively in a series we are struggling to get any additional scoring from anyone not named Booker or Durant. Makes him tougher to play.

It's not like we are getting any scoring out of the center position anyway. But he is not a good passer either which is an issue.

 

[BirdGangThing]

last night i got tony soprano should i murder him or let him live drunk

then i ate some old mushrooms i had sitting around for years and i thought some more

thought about the previous sweep, thought about there only being two jokers in a deck, thought about KD not being an assassin in arizona yet

thought about the fire monty mob, thought about charles barkley and steve nash never winning a title, thought about richard dumas

contemplAyton

thought about the madhouse on mcdowell and the gorilla

wondered if my dog could talk but just chooses not to

thought a lot about whether or not phoenix was a real big city

the broken noses

randy johnson's pigeon

my first grateful dead show

wallace and ladmo show

going to school at boreman jr high in the late 80s

went to bed around 4 or 5 in the morning but sprung up around 9 like i had somehow gotten a full 8 hours

there will be a game 7 in denver

 

[Proximo]

I think the Suns win tonight, but obviously it all kind of comes down to if Bookers shot is falling or not.

 

[RON_IN_OC]

I think the Suns win tonight, but obviously it all kind of comes down to if Bookers shot is falling or not.

Somebody else has to get going enough, to keep the Nuggets from just crashing down on Book all game long and wearing him out.