Trail Blazers @ Suns 1-24-18

[Mainstreet]

The Suns make Layman look like a star.

 

[SirStefan32]

That was an ugly quarter.

 

[Mainstreet]

End of 3rd quarter:

Blazers 88 - Suns 76

 

[Shaggy]

Will this team ever be a dominant team again?

 

[Shaggy]

I feel like I'm on a roller coaster every game. They are dominating then they crash, then dominate again, then crash. It's up and down each game.

 

[SirStefan32]

Will this team ever be a dominant team again?

Doesn't look like it right now, but it depends on how the youngsters develop over the next couple of years.

 

[SirStefan32]

As frustrating as Ayton is sometimes, I really miss seeing him play.

 

[Mainstreet]

I feel like I'm on a roller coaster every game. They are dominating then they crash, then dominate again, then crash. It's up and down each game.

The Suns do not have the right pieces to win most games.

 

[SirStefan32]

Put Okobo back in. Grandpa Jamal and Turnover Book can't make a play if their life depended on it right now.

 

[Mainstreet]

Suns let Layman score at will.

They continue to let the other team's bench player look like an All-Star.

 

[1Sun]

The Suns do not have the right pieces to win most games.

Starting with their head coach.

 

[1Sun]

Put Okobo back in. Grandpa Jamal and Turnover Book can't make a play if their life depended on it right now.

Seems pretty obvious, doesn't it? And yet Igor just can't see it, for some reason.

 

[AzStevenCal]

I feel like I'm on a roller coaster every game. They are dominating then they crash, then dominate again, then crash. It's up and down each game.

I just don't know why anyone would expect something else from this roster? The NBA is a grown man's game and we play 10 guys that average 22 years of age (Booker, Oubre, Jackson, Ayton, Okobo, Melton, Holmes, Bender, Bridges, Warren. That's an awful lot of players who are not yet what they will become.

 

[1Sun]

I just don't know why anyone would expect something else from this roster? The NBA is a grown man's game and we play 10 guys that average 22 years of age (Booker, Oubre, Jackson, Ayton, Okobo, Melton, Holmes, Bender, Bridges, Warren. That's an awful lot of players who are not yet what they will become.

The problem is that without the right guidance/coaching, what they will become is worse. Just ask Chriss, Bender, Len, Ulis and Goodwin (not to mention those on in our regular rotation who are showing regression).

 

[Hoop Head]

As frustrating as Ayton is sometimes, I really miss seeing him play.

I was a Bender apologist and fanboy last year but I'm having trouble watching when he's our starting C this year. If we had Holmes then the game would be worth watching still but no Ayton or Holmes? No thanks. I just turned it on in the 4th quarter though. I can handle watching our 4th quarter pushes because if Bender is out there then it's because he's playing well. I don't think Igor would have him out there in the 4th unless it's garbage time.

 

[1Sun]

I was a Bender apologist and fanboy last year but I'm having trouble watching when he's our starting C this year. If we had Holmes then the game would be worth watching still but no Ayton or Holmes? No thanks. I just turned it on in the 4th quarter though. I can handle watching our 4th quarter pushes because if Bender is out there then it's because he's playing well. I don't think Igor would have him out there in the 4th unless it's garbage time.

At this point, I don't think there is any rhyme or reason to who Igor has out there.

 

[Mainstreet]

Final:

Trail Blazers 120 - Suns 106

 

[Bufalay]

Bender has been an adequate replacement for Ayton. Does that mean they’re both good or does it mean...something else.

 

[Mainstreet]

I was a Bender apologist and fanboy last year but I'm having trouble watching when he's our starting C this year. If we had Holmes then the game would be worth watching still but no Ayton or Holmes? No thanks. I just turned it on in the 4th quarter though. I can handle watching our 4th quarter pushes because if Bender is out there then it's because he's playing well. I don't think Igor would have him out there in the 4th unless it's garbage time.

I'm not going to fault Bender when the Suns next best big man was Acy.

 

[AzStevenCal]

Bender has been an adequate replacement for Ayton. Does that mean they’re both good or does it mean...something else.

I think it means neither one is anywhere near being a finished product. Ayton has a lot more talent, Bender has a few years of NBA familiarity under his belt. DeAndre is still the better player but Dragan is no longer completely embarrassing himself out there.

 

[SirStefan32]

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[AzStevenCal]

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Luc Longley used to do that regularly to Jason Kidd. And by regularly I mean often, very often.

 

[BC867]

This is amazing. They need a special name.

How about Total Eclipse of the Suns. They disappear from sight.

 

[Finito]

Only down 4 and able to give booker rest is a big advantage. How good do you think he would be in the 2nd half if he played a lot more in the 2nd quarter?

I have no problem with Igor in that respect, especially if the 4th is bad for us, like it usually is if the 1st is good.

Yeah no. This ain't a 35 year old Tim Duncan this is a 22 year Old Devin Booker.

You ride the hot hand. KD the other day came out and aid they sold out just to get Klay the ball when he was hot the other day. It's What all good teams do. This happens way to much with Igor he doesn't read the team he's clueless

 

[Finito]

He doesn't know how. Same thing happens with Ayton almost every game he plays.

It's insane I see Ayton drop 24 in a quarter they have no answers for him at all then get no touches in the second half. Im so tired of this BS with Igor.

This team has to much talent to be this bad