Suns @ 76ers Monday game thread 1-6-2025

[Mainstreet]

Joel Embiid and Kyle Lowry are OUT for the 76ers.

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[Mainstreet]

Listening to Bud, it sounds like everyone is involved in the decision-making all the way from ownership to the coach on a daily basis.

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[Mainstreet]

More comments from Mike Budhenholzer.

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[Mainstreet]

Here are the Suns starting lineup:

Tyus Jones
Devin Booker
Ryan Dunn
Kevin Durant
Mason Plumlee

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[GatorAZ]

I actually predict a victory, because in addition to the x-factor of the lineup change, the 76ers have several players playing hurt. They're a bit beat-up. The Suns have nobody out except O'Neale.

Yes--I only just saw that Embiid won't play. https://sports.yahoo.com/nick-nurse-gives-joel-embiid-225940244.html The Suns absolutely could win even at their current level of competence. The 76ers probably don't win without Embiid. ...Unless they're lying in order to ambush the Suns. Teams have played those games before.

Correct. The Suns will beat a shorthanded Sixers team then beat a terrible Hornets team and everyone will say the lineup change was the difference.

 

[Mainstreet]

Tip-off.

 

[Mainstreet]

Durant opens the game with a 3-pointer after good passing set ut up.

 

[Mainstreet]

I think Yabusele would have really helped the Suns.

 

[Mainstreet]

Suns quickly trail 10-3.

The 76ers are 4-4 from the field. Suns are 1-5.

 

[hcsilla]

Nothing has changed, stupid defensive rotations, the ball is always stops at Booker.

 

[Mainstreet]

It's amazing how the Suns have made basketball look hard.

 

[BirdGangThing]

we suck so bad

 

[Mainstreet]

Durant misses a layup.

 

[Suns_fan69]

This team is straight up unwatchable.

 

[Mainstreet]

Booker (0-4) can't buy a basket.

 

[Mainstreet]

Nurkic with 4 much needed points inside.

Suns trail 21-11.

 

[hcsilla]

Painful to watch. In the first 6 minutes PHI kept gettting open shots, fortunately missed half of them, while the Suns had only contested shot attempts.

 

[AzCardsfan76]

This is really bad.

 

[AzCardsfan76]

This is really bad.

Bad isn’t strong enough. Pathetic is a better descriptor.

 

[Mainstreet]

Grayson with the three as the clock expires.

 

[Mainstreet]

End of 1st quarter:

76ers 23 - Suns 16

 

[Mainstreet]

Painful to watch. In the first 6 minutes PHI kept gettting open shots, fortunately missed half of them, while the Suns had only contested shot attempts.

The Suns were lucky Philly was missing shots or it could have been worse. Still they were 10-22.

 

[hcsilla]

Why does each of Suns' "stars" feel necessary to get up on the court slowly and then to pump the ball for at least 10 seconds?

The Suns are definitely one of the worst teams in the NBA in recent weeks.

 

[Mainstreet]

Finally Booker gets a jumper to go down.

 

[BirdGangThing]

16 point first quarter - those benchings really did the trick