Preseason: Mavericks @ Suns 10-14-16

[Mainstreet]

The Mavericks plays at the Suns tonight with a 7 p.m. Arizona start time. Hopefully I can find a stream on the internet to watch the game.

Below is an injury report from Paul Coro on twitter.

Paul Coro ‏@paulcoro 4h4 hours ago


Tyson Chandler, Devin Booker, John Jenkins and P.J. Tucker are out for #SunsVsMavs tonight. Brandon Knight is questionable.

 

[Mainstreet]

Alex Len is out tonight as well. Knight is playing.

Although I am able to get the game I miss the announcers game talk.

 

[ProdigalSun]

Bender playing pretty good D against smaller players. Chriss is gonna be a good one dude is so athletic

 

[ProdigalSun]

Chriss and Bender with back to back 3's!

 

[AzStevenCal]

Easily Len's best game so far this preseason.

 

[Mainstreet]

Bender playing pretty good D against smaller players. Chriss is gonna be a good one dude is so athletic

Chriss is playing very advanced this early. If Bender can hit the 3 point shot consistently this should get him playing time and build his confidence.

 

[AzStevenCal]

Chriss is playing very advanced this early. If Bender can hit the 3 point shot consistently this should get him playing time and build his confidence.

It's amazing how quickly Chriss is improving. I'm very positive about Bender's game and his long term potential but Chriss is really stepping up. He'll have a lot of valleys along the way but I see no reason to not put him in the starting lineup and let him take his lumps now.

 

[Mainstreet]

It's amazing how quickly Chriss is improving. I'm very positive about Bender's game and his long term potential but Chriss is really stepping up. He'll have a lot of valleys along the way but I see no reason to not put him in the starting lineup and let him take his lumps now.

I guess my only concern with Chriss starting is whether his body can take the pounding as a starter. When he develops his body further, he will really be good as well as Bender. I would start Chriss if the Suns training staff feels he can handle it.

 

[ProdigalSun]

chriss with the sweet post up turn around fade on Bogut. His offensive game is light years ahead of where I imagined he would be at this point

 

[Mainstreet]

chriss with the sweet post up turn around fade on Bogut. His offensive game is light years ahead of where I imagined he would be at this point

I lost my link to constant buffering. Do you have a better link?

 

[ProdigalSun]

I lost my link to constant buffering. Do you have a better link?

http://www.mavs.com/mavs-at-suns-livestream/

 

[ProdigalSun]

chriss and booker are going to be the core of this team

 

[Mainstreet]

http://www.mavs.com/mavs-at-suns-livestream/

Thanks.

It's good to find a stream that works.

 

[Mainstreet]

Barbosa and Goodwin made it exciting at the end of the 3rd quarter.

 

[ProdigalSun]

no problem. this has been an entertaining game to watch so far. I'm glad Barbose is back too he's fun to watch

 

[ProdigalSun]

Chriss is a baby faced assassin

 

[Mainstreet]

Chriss is a baby faced assassin

Yes.

There was plenty to like watching the Suns rookies: Chriss, Bender and Ulis.

 

[Hoop Head]

I'd like to see Chriss or Bender, or both, starting at PF before the season is over. I think they have the talent and potential to take a starting spot from Dudley, possibly Chandler as well, but who knows how they'll hold up in terms of health and over the course of an 82 game season. Chriss gives me hope that we won't be nearly as thin in terms of front court depth as we appear on paper.

 

[Shaggy]

How does the whole team look? I haven't watched a game yet and wanted to know what you all thought.

 

[AzStevenCal]

How does the whole team look? I haven't watched a game yet and wanted to know what you all thought.

Lots of potential but I wouldn't expect it to translate into lots of wins early. We have a really nice young core with Ulis, Chriss, Bender, Warren and Booker with both Booker and Chriss showing signs that stardom might be in their future. If Len should come around we'd be in great shape but that's on the doubtful side right now.

 

[JCSunsfan]

Frankly, Chriss is surprising me. I expected Bender to be the better player. I just did not expect Chriss to be this aggressive or physical. He has such narrow shoulders. But it seems his football background toughened him to contact. He also seems to be a quick learner. Honestly, I think Suns brass thought Bender would be the better as well (hence the draft order).


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[GatorAZ]

Frankly, Chriss is surprising me. I expected Bender to be the better player. I just did not expect Chriss to be this aggressive or physical. He has such narrow shoulders. But it seems his football background toughened him to contact. He also seems to be a quick learner. Honestly, I think Suns brass thought Bender would be the better as well (hence the draft order).


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Bender looks pretty weak out there as I thought he'd be stronger. They both play with an edge but Chriss has the advantage physically and you can tell he's tough by his demeanor alone. I'm sure he's using the draft order as motivation in a healthy way.

Ulis is playing well but he'll get wrecked if he has to play significant minutes IMO.

 

[AzStevenCal]

Frankly, Chriss is surprising me. I expected Bender to be the better player. I just did not expect Chriss to be this aggressive or physical. He has such narrow shoulders. But it seems his football background toughened him to contact. He also seems to be a quick learner. Honestly, I think Suns brass thought Bender would be the better as well (hence the draft order).

I think they expected Bender to be gone if they waited but I don't believe they expected him to be NBA ready at 18 especially not with his build. We really won't know what we have with Bender for a few more years. Chriss is much closer to being ready physically. Bender is overmatched in many ways but he's still doing some good things out there, some of which don't always show up in the box score.

 

[Errntknght]

http://www.mavs.com/mavs-at-suns-livestream/

It is well after the end of the game. I tried the link & first try it asked me to join some Mavx group which I declined
and nothing activated in the 'screen' they deployed. The next try, it didn't ask about joining again but still no game. Third try it said the owner of the video did not make it available in my area - web area or physical area, I don't know which. Questions: Does joining the Mavs group make a difference? Is it only supposed to play live?

It appears that I will get very few Suns games via the Dish Network which I recently signed up with - they showed the Jazz (@Jazz) but the list of future games is empty. The salesman for Dish said they showed all the Suns games but I'm starting to think he was lying or misinformed. I pressed the issue but he insisted he knew they did. Does anyone know the story with Dish? I'll drop them like a hot potato if they don't show the games but I suppose its possible they only list games out a week or two and they don't carry many preseason games. (They do have a Suns schedule for the whole season that you can view but no channel number was given and it was not a list you could select from to record.)

Wish me luck!

 

[Hoop Head]

It is well after the end of the game. I tried the link & first try it asked me to join some Mavx group which I declined
and nothing activated in the 'screen' they deployed. The next try, it didn't ask about joining again but still no game. Third try it said the owner of the video did not make it available in my area - web area or physical area, I don't know which. Questions: Does joining the Mavs group make a difference? Is it only supposed to play live?

It appears that I will get very few Suns games via the Dish Network which I recently signed up with - they showed the Jazz (@Jazz) but the list of future games is empty. The salesman for Dish said they showed all the Suns games but I'm starting to think he was lying or misinformed. I pressed the issue but he insisted he knew they did. Does anyone know the story with Dish? I'll drop them like a hot potato if they don't show the games but I suppose its possible they only list games out a week or two and they don't carry many preseason games. (They do have a Suns schedule for the whole season that you can view but no channel number was given and it was not a list you could select from to record.)

Wish me luck!

I've had Dish Network for about a decade and they always have the Suns games, provided you're in Arizona and have Fox Sports Arizona in your channel lineup. I have the "Everything Package" so I'm not sure which tiers that comes in standard or what tier you have. Chances are you have it though considering you brought it up to the sales rep. Fox Sports AZ is channel 415 on Dish. Sometimes early in the season there is scheduling conflicts with Coyotes games and later in the season sometimes there will be a conflict with Diamondback games. When that happens FS-AZ airs one of the games on the SD version of the channel and the other game on the HD version of the channel. Both are channel 415 but you should be able to see both in your interactive guide thing. That's only if they overlap in the times they're played. The guide only lets you look ahead about 7 days so that may be why you don't see anything if you search.

I believe all Suns games air on FS-AZ now so you should get them all, provided you have that channel. The only time they aren't on there is if they're airing nationally and I doubt the Suns have very many nationally televised games this season. Those would air on TNT (#138), ESPN (#140), NBA-TV (#156) or ABC (#15) though. Those are the channel numbers, if you get those stations then you'll be good for the season. Hope that helps you out.