Thunder @ Suns Friday game thread 2-24-2023

[BirdGangThing]

I crushed Petes in my 20s. Fried deliciousness

Sauce still hits the same

 

[TJ]

Don’t be ridiculous. Bridges is bar none one of the best two way players in the entire league. The Nets were getting multi pick offers from other teams (one was a 5 pick offer) to retrade him after going to the Nets.

STOP.

I expect two-way players to not get cooked for 40+ by average perimeter players. I also expect two-way players to at least make guys like Luka work for theirs. MI expect two-way players to at least be serviceable in the playoffs. Mikal wasn’t that player and as a result, was expendable on this team.

I like Mikal. I really do. But the pedestal he is put on throughout this fanbase is beyond absurd.

 

[AzStevenCal]

Eating Pete's Fish and Chips, watching the Suns and wearing shorts in February

That Phx life

Oh man I haven't had Pete's Fish and Chips in almost 50 years, I wonder if they miss me?

 

[Chris_Sanders]

I expect two-way players to not get cooked for 40+ by average perimeter players. I also expect two-way players to at least make guys like Luka work for theirs. MI expect two-way players to at least be serviceable in the playoffs. Mikal wasn’t that player and as a result, was expendable on this team.

I like Mikal. I really do. But the pedestal he is put on throughout this fanbase is beyond absurd.

Hot takes! Get yer Hot Takes here!

 

[Mainstreet]

Okogie with another good defensive play.

 

[Chaplin]

Hot takes! Get yer Hot Takes here!

To be fair isn’t that what almost every post is on ASFN?

 

[Covert Rain]

I expect two-way players to not get cooked for 40+ by average perimeter players. I also expect two-way players to at least make guys like Luka work for theirs. MI expect two-way players to at least be serviceable in the playoffs. Mikal wasn’t that player and as a result, was expendable on this team.

I like Mikal. I really do. But the pedestal he is put on throughout this fanbase is beyond absurd.

Nobody in the league stops Luka. STOP. He has gotten better each and every single year. When we needed him this last month he stepped up.

Also, it’s not just this fan base. It’s the entire league. I agree that this fan base tends to overvalue its players. However, that’s not the case when teams are lined up to get him at the trade deadline.

So, I guess you know more than the entire league.

 

[TJ]

“Look at the deliciousness from Deandre Ayton on that offensive rebound. Not only was that effort top notch, but he looked damn sexy doing it. Gosh. With how talented, good looking, and intelligent he must be, he should be our starting center, coach, general manager, and the governor of Arizona all at the same time.”

How I must sound in @cheesebeef’s mind

 

[Chris_Sanders]

Okogie with another good defensive play.

Okogie is @TJ best point to the Bridges thing

 

[Chris_Sanders]

To be fair isn’t that what almost every post is on ASFN?

I was just trying to get a chuckle

 

[Mainstreet]

Booker sets up Damion Lee in the corner for three.

 

[TJ]

Nobody in the league stops Luka. STOP. He has gotten better each and every single year. When we needed him this last month he stepped up.

Also, it’s not just this fan base. It’s the entire league. It’s the teams that lined up to get him at the trade deadline.

So, I guess you know more than the entire league.

Point to where I said, “stop.”

 

[BirdGangThing]

There you go Damion get you some

 

[TJ]

Okogie is @TJ best point to the Bridges thing

Kirkland brand Mikal Bridges

 

[AzStevenCal]

Okogie is @TJ best point to the Bridges thing

We've had so few quality two way wings in our 50 plus years in the league, I'm okay with the fan base overrating an above average two way wing. Just like I'm okay with overvaluing a plus power forward or center that can play both ways.

 

[Covert Rain]

Point to where I said, “stop.”

Now you want to play semantics. LOL. Weak. You know exactly what I mean. Luka torches good defenders on a weekly basis.

 

[Cheesebeef]

Ayton for all his faults is still a top 8 player in the league at his position. He is very valuable

Top 8 player at a position that isn’t that important in the NBA anymore just doesn’t have that much value, especially when it comes with a Max contract. JMO.

 

[Chris_Sanders]

Kirkland brand Mikal Bridges

That was funny

 

[Mainstreet]

Okogie is @TJ best point to the Bridges thing

Suns may have caught lightning in a bottle with Okogie.

 

[Mainstreet]

Ross with a dagger.

 

[Covert Rain]

Ross!!!!

 

[Mainstreet]

End of 3rd quarter:

Suns 94 - Thunder 87

 

[BirdGangThing]

3rd quarter buzzer beater? We got it at Ross!

 

[Chaplin]

I don’t understand why Monty stays with a defense that CONSTANTLY lets teams have open 3s.

 

[Cheesebeef]

“Look at the deliciousness from Deandre Ayton on that offensive rebound. Not only was that effort top notch, but he looked damn sexy doing it. Gosh. With how talented, good looking, and intelligent he must be, he should be our starting center, coach, general manager, and the governor of Arizona all at the same time.”

How I must sound in @cheesebeef’s mind

Dude… that’s how you sound in everyone’s mind.