Suns @ Lakers Thursday game thread 1-11-2024

[Phrazbit]

Great win, only somewhat of a flag:

Basically a 7.5 man rotation.

Still need, at least, one more bench guy to show a pulse. Little... Metu... Goodwin...

Even so though, no one played crazy minutes, but the blowout is a big factor in that.

 

[BirdGangThing]

Entered the 4th quarter with a 29 pt lead - teams sat their starters with Suns leading by 25 mostly thanks to Bradly Beal

 

[Sunburn]

Hmmn Bol seems to have relinquished his coveted human victory cigar role. That's significant.

 

[Mainstreet]

Somebody blew some coverage on defense.

 

[BirdGangThing]

Quiet af in LA tonight

 

[BirdGangThing]

They say winning fixes everything but this was just one very well played game - loved the spacing - loved how the stars weren't trying to cater to each other

 

[Proximo]

They say winning fixes everything but this was just one very well played game - loved the spacing - loved how the stars weren't trying to cater to each other

I honestly think it was more the lakers playing like crap.

suns still sloppy as hell with ball.

 

[95pro]

Zebras just let it end.

 

[nashman]

Hate how we letting them score late here and make it look like a close game damn it! Wanted 20+ this ******** bench taking ******** shots or turning it over left and right geesh…

 

[Mainstreet]

Final:

Suns 127 - Lakers 109

 

[Mainstreet]

I honestly think it was more the lakers playing like crap.

suns still sloppy as hell with ball.

The Lakers seemed disinterested but I will take the win.

 

[Covert Rain]

Great win. This is the first time I have seen them flow offensively in some time.

 

[nashman]

Talk all the crap you want but they held LBJ to 10 and the Brow and Reaves to 13. Dominated them really more than the final score indicates! Excellent win!

 

[Covert Rain]

Did anybody catch Reggie say that the Suns are looking for a wing at the trade deadline and not a point guard?!?

 

[95pro]

Good ball movement most of the time. I still don’t like the lack of urgency or killer instinct to put them away, instead some lazy plays by Book and KD. Kd still wanted to go iso. Book still wanted to dribble slowly up the court.

Beal was great. Bol was impactful.

 

[95pro]

Talk all the crap you want but they held LBJ to 10 and the Brow and Reaves to 13. Dominated them really more than the final score indicates! Excellent win!

Reaves was overrated. Unibrow didn’t give a sheet.

F LA.

 

[GatorAZ]

How the hell did the Lakers beat the Clippers 4 days ago?

 

[Mainstreet]

Did anybody catch Reggie say that the Suns are looking for a wing at the trade deadline and not a point guard?!?

Yeah, I mentioned it earlier in the thread. They need some size and shooting.

 

[Mainstreet]

Some final stats.

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[Vacard]

Looks like a great win. Ill watch the replay.

Lebron is going to get his coach fired.

 

[Cheesebeef]

Good W

 

[AzStevenCal]

I honestly think it was more the lakers playing like crap.

suns still sloppy as hell with ball.

127 points and only 12 turnovers and 3 of them came from the garbage time players, I can live with that.

 

[BirdGangThing]

I honestly think it was more the lakers playing like crap.

suns still sloppy as hell with ball.

We had 12 turnovers the entire game - benched our starters with 4 minutes to go and still won by 18 pts on the road against a team who's been kicking the crap out of us this year - lol I'm gonna enjoy this one my man

 

[Suns_fan69]

Good to see some much needed changes in the gameplan. Much heavier focus on getting 3 point shots up (even if some of them weren't great looks), sub pattern in the 2nd half changed to have Book and KD start the 4th, Beal being the one popping up to nail any time the Lakers tried to trap/double team.

Would still like to see them push the pace a bit more and get a couple other guys going but still positive improvements on the above.

Edit: Oh and they had lots of different people bring the ball up the floor to distribute the load.

 

[Raindog]

Glad to see Beal go off. Hopefully this will build some momentum, but I really don't know what to expect any more. I wouldn't die from shock if they go back to laying an egg the next game.