Playoffs: Suns @ Nuggets Monday game thread 5-1-2023- Game 2

[FB94]

Our bench flat out sucks. Ayton is so unreliable from game to game, quarter to quarter. KD is pressing too much. Booker can’t do it all. Okoge and Lee were pathetic tonight. James Jones better blow up the bench next year cuz I don’t want to see half of them again

 

[Shaggy]

How is any of this Monty's fault. He can't make the baskets every single player missed tonight. They shot 40% from the field. That's horrible. That's not a coaching issue, that's a player issue.

 

[Mainstreet]

Some final stats.

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[Covert Rain]

Seriously - what the hell do you want from Monty tonight?

I don’t know….stop experimenting with the lineup and possible go with the guys that got it done down the stretch? First Shamet then you experiment with Ish?! How about some different offensive play sets other than Book isolate, Durant isolate? I get not having Paul isn’t his fault but Monty isn’t blameless.

 

[Sunstroke]

Nuggets are a better team, deeper team and they can shoot the 3.
Plain and simple. This ain't your 2021 'Suns in Four Guy' team.
Karma .... baby... Karma!

 

[RON_IN_OC]

Right Monty is Phil Jackson Gotcha

Oh wait, you're right I said he was Phil Jackson...haha

 

[Cheesebeef]

Right. KD was/is the right move.

The rest of the roster moves however…

The coaching has been an issue masked by talent and some fortunate playoff injuries for 2+ years.

This.

This season was lost in the off-season when our just humiliated team not only jettisoned two pieces of depth but only added Josh Okogie, Jock Landale and Courtney Lee.

In the immortal words of Logan Roy, James Jones and Monty “are not serious people.”

 

[Finito]

Next season, when KD is a year older, Paul is over the hill and Jones has zero draft picks and collateral to rebuild the roster?

Oh don’t worry Jones won’t be making those decisions

 

[Finito]

Why do I do this to myself

 

[Mainstreet]

Our bench flat out sucks. Ayton is so unreliable from game to game, quarter to quarter. KD is pressing too much. Booker can’t do it all. Okoge and Lee were pathetic tonight. James Jones better blow up the bench next year cuz I don’t want to see half of them again

It will be hard to get a better bench unless the Suns trade someone like Ayton. He spent all his chips.

 

[RON_IN_OC]

Oh don’t worry Jones won’t be making those decisions

I hope not.

 

[AZ Native]

Just asking for a friend, so we lost 2 games on the road and the series is over. Didn’t we go up 2-0 the last 2 years and lost both series? Oh ye of little faith.

 

[Phrazbit]

Oh don’t worry Jones won’t be making those decisions

He’s a laker fan, ignore him.

 

[82CardsGrad]

I don’t know….stop experimenting with the lineup and possible go with the guys that got it done down the stretch? First Shamet then you experiment with Ish?! How about some different offensive play sets other than Book isolate, Durant isolate? I get not having Paul isn’t his fault but Monty isn’t blameless.

LOL.. Ish played 2 mins.

And not saying Monty is blameless. But to keep hammering that he’s the reason for losing is gross ignorance.

 

[Proximo]

We don’t shoot the three well, we don’t defend the three well, we don’t have depth.

We created these problems with the trade.

Our return? An aged superstar having his second straight extremely underwhelming playoffs.

We shoot the three ok normally we were like 7th in percentage, but we sure stunk it up tonight.

trade mainly destroyed our future. Only difference right now is cam Johnson and mikal vs KD. Right now it does seem like those two would help more, but KD just hasn’t played to his normal level.

 

[Covert Rain]

This.

This season was lost in the off-season when our just humiliated team not only jettisoned two pieces of depth but only added Josh Okogie, Jock Landale and Courtney Lee.

In the immortal words of Logan Roy, James Jones and Monty “are not serious people.”

This. This was the type of game where you could have used some players with freaking attitude….like McGee and Crowder. Top that with less depth and lack of front office moves to shore up stuff?

This all started way way before the Suns made the trade with KD.

 

[RON_IN_OC]

We don’t shoot the three well, we don’t defend the three well, we don’t have depth.

We created these problems with the trade.

Our return? An aged superstar having his second straight extremely underwhelming playoffs.

Shocking.

 

[GatorAZ]

Denver has the better superstar and the better roster. I thought KD would have more impact but he just doesn’t seem like that guy anymore. Giving it one more year before eating crow but my stomach is certainly growling.

 

[Covert Rain]

LOL.. Ish played 2 mins.

And not saying Monty is blameless. But to keep hammering that he’s the reason for losing is gross ignorance.

Evidently you can’t read.

 

[Proximo]

LOL.. Ish played 2 mins.

And not saying Monty is blameless. But to keep hammering that he’s the reason for losing is gross ignorance.

tonight it really was not monty’s fault. Players just shot awful.

 

[Raindog]

Oh don’t worry Jones won’t be making those decisions

I sure hope you are correct. As bad as Monty has been, I'm not sure Jones hasn't been worse. Digging through NBA trash piles for "overachievers" that remind him of himself during his glorious NBA career. Meanwhile, sleeping on all the mid-season pickups that improved every other contender's bench.

 

[RON_IN_OC]

This. This was the type of game where you could have used some players with freaking attitude….like McGee and Crowder. Top that with less depth and lack of front office moves to shore up stuff?

This all started way way before the Suns made the trade with KD.

This team doesn't have a player willing to be the bad guy.

 

[JosiahLee]

Joker will continue to roll… and Murray will score more than 10pts per game the rest of the way. The odds are strongly in favor of the Nugz in 4.

Exactly. Very likely Murray scores 30+ every game from here on out.

 

[Pokinmik]

Suns can still win this series. The momentum can flip real quick if we grab game three.

 

[Chaplin]

Nobody actually believes that. If that was the case all the analysts and odds makers wouldn’t have said Phoenix was a favorite.

Right because we know how right THOSE GUYS are…