Suns @ Lakers 3-30-14

[AfroSuns]

He finally hit a shot. If the Lakers start to respect Frye, we'll catch them. If they're smart they'll continue to leave him alone, that one was a fluke.

Frye Sucks bad, but he is not the reason Bledsoe is playing like crap.

 

[Catlover]

Without Bledsoe our defense is just pathetic. Tonight, we've been without Bledsoe the entire game. I have no idea who was out there in his uniform.

 

[Catlover]

Frye Sucks bad, but he is not the reason Bledsoe is playing like crap.

He's the reason our guards haven't been able to do much of anything. Rewind and watch how often they've just left him wide open there and played zone on our penetrators. Bledsoe has been absent defensively and that's all on him but Frye has been killing our offense.

 

[Catlover]

Goran has an intensity to his look that he didn't have at the start of the game. I see him leading us back into this game.

 

[AfroSuns]

He's the reason our guards haven't been able to do much of anything. Rewind and watch how often they've just left him wide open there and played zone on our penetrators. Bledsoe has been absent defensively and that's all on him but Frye has been killing our offense.

Ish is pretty much taking Bledsoe's minutes right now. maybe its fatigue, but he is not himself. All our guys are sucking bad and the Lakers are hitting their shots, it happens.

 

[AfroSuns]

That end of qtr shot by young tells the whole story of how this game had been going

 

[Catlover]

There's just no excuse for the three to close the third quarter. We should have gone in down 12 points with momentum and now it's 15 and the Lakers are feeling great.

 

[Catlover]

That end of qtr shot by young tells the whole story of how this game had been going

It does. But fortunately it didn't actually count. I had the score wrong anyway, we're still down 15.

 

[Cheesebeef]

Seriously? We're freaking losing this game? This will be the one we look back at the end f season and kick ourselves for.

 

[Catlover]

Marshall has gotten much better at using the pick. Refs suck but so do we.

 

[AfroSuns]

Funny how it happens. We blew out Knicks and they are beating GSW

 

[JS22]

There's always a handful of these types of games each year.

However, this is a HORRIBLE time for one of them.

 

[SirStefan32]

How many points does a Center have to score for Hornacek to figure out the small ball doesn't work?

This is one ugly game. Bledsoe is just atrocious, and Dragic is not much better. Frye is completely useless.

 

[Catlover]

Why are the refs allowing Marshall to straight arm his way past the defender. It happens almost every possession. I know they typically allow a little of this but I can't think of anyone that does it to this degree.

 

[Phrazbit]

This is probably the most depressing outing of the season. A real opportunity tonight, could leave LA within a hair of jumping all the way to 6th. Instead, barring a miracle, we're right back on the brink of the lotto.

 

[Phrazbit]

Markieff Morris is absolutely awful defensively... just awful. He is making Caveman look like Tim Duncan.

 

[Catlover]

Markieff Morris is absolutely awful defensively... just awful. He is making Caveman look like Tim Duncan.

Clearly you came to this game late. There isn't a single player wearing a Suns uniform that your comment wouldn't apply to tonight. They've all been burned time and again. Their heads simply aren't in the game. They looked at their killer schedule and figured tonight was a night off.

 

[SirStefan32]

In all fairness, Morris is probably 3 inches shorter and 40 lb lighter than Kaman. It's not reasonable to expect him to defend Kaman effectively.

 

[Catlover]

In all fairness, Morris is probably 3 inches shorter and 40 lb lighter than Kaman. It's not reasonable to expect him to defend Kaman effectively.

Probably not but he didn't guard anyone else well either. Not even Tucker brought it tonight though, this was very much a team loss.

 

[Suns_fan69]

Disappointing effort. The sad part is that they had some good looks earlier on that weren't dropping, and they let that affect their defensive intensity.

Blah.

 

[Catlover]

Disappointing effort. The sad part is that they had some good looks earlier on that weren't dropping, and they let that affect their defensive intensity.

Blah.

The Lakers didn't even pretend to play defense early in the game. We threw up wide open lazy shots and no one moved or played with any sense of urgency. We tried turning it on a few times later but the Lakers more than matched our intensity. It happens but it still hurts.

 

[Suns_fan69]

What hurts most is the missed opportunity as Phrazbit pointed out. Dallas must be loving this.

 

[devilalum]

Its hard to understand how the Suns could show up so flat with so much at stake. They really needed to win this one with the games they have coming up in the next week.

 

[slinslin]

How could Frye (and Plumlee) let Kaman school them like that?

Why did Bledsoe just play 28 minutes?

Frye -26
Dragic -29
Bledsoe -11
Green -5
Markieff +11

 

[Superbone]

Its hard to understand how the Suns could show up so flat with so much at stake. They really needed to win this one with the games they have coming up in the next week.

I guess they figured they could mail this one in.

Flush it!