Playoffs: Suns @ Clippers Thursday game thread 4-20-2023 - Game 3

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Somethings wrong with Okogie. Not sure what.
He was just outplayed on offense by Craig and thus replaced by the latter in the starting lineup, and need to find his rhythm again. Monty has been playing all bench players, maybe just to find out their forms. We'll need Okogie to chase Murray next round.
 

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Somethings wrong with Okogie. Not sure what.

He's not experienced. He was on the verge of washing out of the league and was signed here and was thrust into a bigger role than he could handle. He played good for a few stretches but he had 1 playoff game in his career before this season, seeing 2 minutes in garbage time for the Wolves last year.

I also think being frozen out killed his confidence in the last game he played with our big 3. This is just a theory but I think back to how CP3 and KD talked about arguments and disagreements happen and that teams move forward. That came out right before the playoffs started and I wonder if there was a locker room issue with Okogie. Maybe I'm reading into it too much but that would explain the change in our starting lineup as well as Okogie's removal, for the most part, from the rotation.
 

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I think I may have to explain myself for this post. Yes I quoted myself. Yes I was pwi, but the two post before felt like it was going to get nasty. So I thought I would add humour to the "forget, ah forget it" post before mine.

Sooo now you know.
 

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I think I may have to explain myself for this post. Yes I quoted myself. Yes I was pwi, but the two post before felt like it was going to get nasty. So I thought I would add humour to the "forget, ah forget it" post before mine.

Sooo now you know.
Humor, confusion… same diff.
 

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I’m pretty excited to see how we come out on the road tonight.
 

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It's not likely but for some reason I can't shake the feeling we are going to see Paul George in this series before it's over.
 

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Wow, just saw Dillon Brooks talking after the game.

I kind of like it, called him old and dared him to score 40 on him.

Brooks is an *****, but I love anyone that calls out the fact that Lebron is no longer a great player.
 

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It's not likely but for some reason I can't shake the feeling we are going to see Paul George in this series before it's over.
Yeah, if it goes 6 or 7 I think you are right.

We need to win tonight
 

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Wow, just saw Dillon Brooks talking after the game.

I kind of like it, called him old and dared him to score 40 on him.

Brooks is an *****, but I love anyone that calls out the fact that Lebron is no longer a great player.
Lebron averaged 29/8/7 in the regular season. At age 38. That's not "great?"
 

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Lebron averaged 29/8/7 in the regular season. At age 38. That's not "great?"
It's great for his age, yes.

My problem is people still talking about him as a top 10 player. He's not.
 

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It's great for his age, yes.

My problem is people still talking about him as a top 10 player. He's not.
Lol… 29/8/7 is “great for his age.” That’s great for any age. Maybe he’s not a top 10 player any more but hard to argue he’s not top 15-20, which is still a pretty great player at any age.
 
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Paul George remains out.

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It's great for his age, yes.

My problem is people still talking about him as a top 10 player. He's not.

This is some serious Haterade here.

He's not Top 3, but I have a hard time finding 10 players better than him in the league today. His age just adds to his value.
 

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Lol… 29/8/7 is “great for his age.” That’s great for any age. Maybe he’s not a top 10 player any more but hard to argue he’s not top 15-20, which is still a pretty great player at any age.
Depends on your definition of great I guess.

Anybody chucking 3's at 32 percent, and who routinely gets his shot blocked, and has many really bad stretch's with multiple turnovers is not great in my book.
 
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