Trail Blazers at Suns 10-5-18 (preason)

[ColdPickleNachos]

https://www.nba.com/suns/now

 

[Mainstreet]

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Rooting for huge games from Bender and our point guards!

A few hours ago Sidery had has getting Beverley.

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[SweetD]

Game time!!!

 

[SirStefan32]

Canaan coming in!

 

[Mainstreet]

The Suns defense is shaky.

 

[1Sun]

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Rooting for huge games from Bender and our point guards!

My guess is that they are more likely scouting a Walker for Lillard swap than anything with the Suns.

 

[Mainstreet]

Nice move by Anderson for the basket.

 

[Mainstreet]

The Blazers are playing like an experienced team that has been together for awhile.

The Suns, not so much... at least at the moment.

 

[Mainstreet]

End of 1st quarter:

Blazers 30 - Suns 18

 

[ColdPickleNachos]

Defense is struggling. Offense is struggling. Canaan is struggling.

 

[1Sun]

Jackson continues to look worse, and Ayton already looks disinterested. Clearly Isaiah Canaan is not the answer at point guard, and Okobo remains nowhere near ready for the NBA...

 

[SweetD]

So far meh. I get Igor's focus on motion offense, but sometimes you got to just feed the big man!

 

[sunsfan88]

I'm afraid Canaan isn't much better than any of the other PGs we have. Missed Ayton on pick and pop situations multiple times in the first Q alone.

 

[1Sun]

So far meh. I get Igor's focus on motion offense, but sometimes you got to just feed the big man!

The problem is that they don't have anyone who can...

 

[1Sun]

I'm afraid Canaan isn't much better than any of the other PGs we have. Missed Ayton on pick and pop situations multiple times in the first Q alone.

Sorry, but I have been trying to make this point for a while and keep getting lambasted for it. Does anyone really want to put up with another season of this unwatchable play?

 

[SweetD]

Cannon doing his best Eric Bledsoe impersonation

 

[CardsSunsDbacks]

Sorry, but I have been trying to make this point for a while and keep getting lambasted for it. Does anyone really want to put up with another season of this unwatchable play?

Your point is flawed and incomplete because our best offensive player hasn't been on the floor in pre-season.

 

[Mainstreet]

I'm afraid Canaan isn't much better than any of the other PGs we have. Missed Ayton on pick and pop situations multiple times in the first Q alone.

The thing is, it's the first game back for Canaan but can the Suns wait.

 

[1Sun]

Cannon doing his best Eric Bledsoe impersonation

Don't you mean Shaquill Harrison impersonation?

 

[1Sun]

Your point is flawed and incomplete because our best offensive player hasn't been on the floor in pre-season.

One player should not make the difference between competitiveness and historically bad, especially with all of the other lottery picks on the roster. In any event, they look worse without Booker now than they did without Booker last year. This team continues to head in the wrong direction.

 

[AzStevenCal]

Sorry, but I have been trying to make this point for a while and keep getting lambasted for it. Does anyone really want to put up with another season of this unwatchable play?

No, you don't get lambasted for it. You get lambasted for the assertions that follow statements like that. We have bad point guards. It doesn't mean we're going to win between 10 and 21 games, it doesn't mean it's going to set our young players back 5 or 10 years, it doesn't mean Booker will get injured covering the position and so on. But we surely do have bad point guards.

 

[1Sun]

No, you don't get lambasted for it. You get lambasted for the assertions that follow statements like that. We have bad point guards. It doesn't mean we're going to win between 10 and 21 games, it doesn't mean it's going to set our young players back 5 or 10 years, it doesn't mean Booker will get injured covering the position and so on. But we surely do have bad point guards.

Are you not noticing how that is impacting the other players already? We already saw it with Jackson. Now add Ayton to the mix.

 

[BC867]

No, you don't get lambasted for it. You get lambasted for the assertions that follow statements like that. We have bad point guards. It doesn't mean we're going to win between 10 and 21 games, it doesn't mean it's going to set our young players back 5 or 10 years, it doesn't mean Booker will get injured covering the position and so on. But we surely do have bad point guards.

What is your opinion about what the consequences will be if we go with the current roster of four bad Point Guards? How severly do you think they will affect the play of Ayton and the rest?

 

[AzStevenCal]

Are you not noticing how that is impacting the other players already? We already saw it with Jackson. Now add Ayton to the mix.

Of course it's going to impact them. That's true of every team in the league. Nash made everyone a lot better, Bledsoe made some players a little better and so on. It doesn't mean players can't be effective, especially once we add our best player to the lineup. And none of our stars are anywhere near the peak so we have youth working against us in addition to weak PGs.

 

[1Sun]

What is your opinion about what the consequences will be if we go with the current roster of four bad Point Guards? How severly do you think they will affect the play of Ayton and the rest?

Apparently most of the board doesn't think it will be a big deal because Devin Booker will be the cure-all savior...