Trail Blazers @ Suns Tuesday game thread, 11-21-2023 - In-Season Tournament #3

[BirdGangThing]

Nas with 23 pts and 5 boards tonight

 

[Vacard]

The Tesla battery had a good game. Expect the Jailblazers to feed him more in his revenge series against us.

 

[Cheesebeef]

And after a 12/5 start to the 1st quarter, he’ll end up with 22/10, while not making a whiff of impact.

Ended up with 18/8… an even more pathetic 3 quarters than I was expecting, while also being outplayed by his opponent at Center. In other words, the typical fast start on the road to nowhere, making no impact that that we saw so often as Suns fans.

 

[Mainstreet]

Nas with 23 pts and 5 boards tonight

That's 10 points better than I thought. He played well.

 

[jf-08]

Ayton was -33

Nurkic +17

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[Suns_fan69]

I wasn't high on Little through preseason, but i've come around on him. He's got a good motor, can make shots, and can attack closeouts. I'd be more than happy to replace Gordon with him in the closing lineup.

 

[Folster]

DA is going to torch us in 2K tonight.

 

[Mainstreet]

Here is the tribute video the Suns gave to Deandre Ayton before tonight's game.

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[Suns_fan69]

Ended up with 18/8… an even more pathetic 3 quarters than I was expecting, while also being outplayed by his opponent at Center. In other words, the typical fast start on the road to nowhere, making no impact that that we saw so often as Suns fans.

I think he had 16/6 in the first half, 2/2 in the second. It's.... not great. To be fair, I think a lot of it is that the team just kind of abandoned going to him, but the few touches he had were mostly inconsequential.

 

[Mainstreet]

Deandre Ayton gets some hugs on his way off the court.

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[Cheesebeef]

I think he had 16/6 in the first half, 2/2 in the second. It's.... not great. To be fair, I think a lot of it is that the team just kind of abandoned going to him, but the few touches he had were mostly inconsequential.

There’s a reason this happens. He stops playing hard in the second half of games because he’s winded. Happened repeatedly with the Suns. Different team, same excuse.

 

[Mainstreet]

Nurk outplayed Ayton plus we got Grayson

I'm also liking Nassir Little on that reasonable four year contract.

 

[Mainstreet]

I think he had 16/6 in the first half, 2/2 in the second. It's.... not great. To be fair, I think a lot of it is that the team just kind of abandoned going to him, but the few touches he had were mostly inconsequential.

Yeah, the Trail Blazers are missing some guards.

 

[Superbone]

You know ayton wants to average 30 against Phoenix and show up big.

He did what he used to do here. Started strong and then petered out in the second half.

 

[Superbone]

And after a 12/5 start to the 1st quarter, he’ll end up with 22/10, while not making a whiff of impact.

Pretty close but you overshot his stats. 18/8.

 

[Outerlimits]

Blazers shot well from 3pt land. Nice job by Suns going 27-28(96%) from ftl.

 

[Cheesebeef]

Pretty close but you overshot his stats. 18/8.

I tried to give him a TINY benefit of the doubt but even, one of the great “Ayton Haters” overestimated how much a dog with fleas he becomes post strong 1st quarter starts.

 

[Big Al]

This team’s ability to blow huge leads in the blink of an eye is impressive.

It seems this Suns team have a natural ability to do that

 

[Ouchie-Z-Clown]

And after a 12/5 start to the 1st quarter, he’ll end up with 22/10, while not making a whiff of impact.

You overestimated him

 

[Ouchie-Z-Clown]

Suns need Little to develop. They will be a better team if it happens.

Showed fantastic signs tonight.

 

[95pro]

Little also has some size, bulk and strength to battle stronger forwards.

He is growing on me.

 

[nashman]

Here is the tribute video the Suns gave to Deandre Ayton before tonight's game.

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Probably all the dunks they could find haha made him look way more aggressive than he actually is lol…

 

[nashman]

120 points is pretty solid considering we don’t even shoot much 3s in the game and only registered 7. The blazers doubled us up from 3 point land yet we led pretty much start to finish and game never seemed to get close before we’d just run it back up a little… it will be interesting to see how we look tomorrow night against the warriors…

 

[1982baskets]

Little developing into a reliable rotation player would be quite useful. You could run some Book/Allen/Little/Durant/Nurk lineups. A little more size there and defensive coverage than with Gordon.

 

[GatorAZ]

Doesn’t help the Suns that Clarkson and Markkenan are no shows against the lakers geesh… Clarkson freaking plays is like he’s Curry then just no shows against others… I’ll stand by what I said the inseason deal here is just a distraction won’t be to upset we get out of the mix so we can just play ball and work on coming together as a team for the ultimate goal!

The Lakers being much better defensively than the Suns has something to do with that.