Game 77: Minnesota T-Wolves (53-23) @ Phoenix Suns (45-31) l Friday l 9:00pm l NBATV

[KGdaBom]

The simple truth is the suns are flying too close to the sun. About to self-eclipse, go blind, and burn in the second half. You heard it here first! Wolves faithful. Do not worry. You are about to see something EPIC.

Sure and pigs might fly out of our butts. I'm about a minute or two from calling this one a loss.

[KGdaBom]

If we come up with a sports miracle and win tonight it will prove we are serious about winning the West.

[KGdaBom]

For some perspective though and I need some perspective Milwaukee lost to Toronto tonight.

[FrenchMinnyFan]

Except ANT all starter suck tonight. Mike has no leg after sitting last game... as i expected.

[winforlose]

We can survive a bad Ant game. We can survive a bad Mike game. We can survive a bad Rudy game. We can survive a bad Jaden game. We can survive a bad Naz game. But we CANNOT survive 3 or more of them SUCKING, much less all 5.

[Guest84]

Go spend time with your family, get some sleep, watch a movie, etc. don’t stress yourself out tonight. Phoenix isn’t even feeling any pressure or anything.

[winforlose]

If we come up with a sports miracle and win tonight it will prove we are serious about winning the West.

The Vikings coming back against Buffalo was a sports miracle. The Diggs catch against the Saints in the playoffs was a sports Miracle. This would be us just playing like ourselves and coming back against the worst 4th quarter team in the NBA.

[Calinks]

For some perspective though and I need some perspective Milwaukee lost to Toronto tonight.

Didn't they just lose to Memphis? They are in absolute shambles.

[KGdaBom]

The Suns are giving us chances to come back and we are whizzing them away.

[winforlose]

The Suns are giving us chances to come back and we are whizzing them away.

We definitely are beating ourselves. No pass shots, little to no off ball movement, poor shooting, poor transition defense, poor transition offense, ect… It is just one of those nights.

[KGdaBom]

OK it's officially a loss. 53-24.

[Calinks]

Welp, we got totally throttled. The Suns might have our number for whatever reason like the Pelicans. I know Jama Crawford has been hyping them up like crazy, maybe he is on to something.

[Nick K]

Everybody was horse bleep tonight. Forget about this one and get back to business.

[Nick K]

Look at that Luka make going to the basket! What body control for a big guy. This guy is an NBA player for sure.

[winforlose]

We need KAT back. Naz has been big for us, but he is not as consistent as KAT. With an efficient and gravity producing big we might have won this game. Then again everyone played like they ate a big old bowl of **** flakes before the game.

[shrink]

I knew this game was important, but I still watched Caitlyn Clark.

Is it worth watching this game on my DVR, knowing the score?

[FrenchMinnyFan]

Poor start to many TO . Starting 5 all play bad…. A night to forget . Not a big deal move to next one.

[winforlose]

I knew this game was important, but I still watched Caitlyn Clark.

Is it worth watching this game on my DVR, knowing the score?

Some people burn themselves with hot wax and others whip themselves with sharp barbed instruments (usually for religious purposes.) I can think of a lot of very painful masochistic activities, and few would rival watching this game.

[younggunsmn]

Yikes. Well that was a giant turd.
The sad thing was Phoenix did not play well at all on offense and had a ton of sloppy turnovers.
Other than Grayson Allen nobody had a particularly good game for them.

Concerning that our offense was again so awful against a team playing playoff intensity defense.
Phoenix was hunting the passing lanes all night and playing super aggressive for a team without much size to defend the rim and rebound with, and we had no clue how to attack them.
We played like the team without a true PG in the rotation.
Mike was bad and Ant was beyond awful. He let out so many Hey's tonight on so many plays that weren't even close to a foul, just a really sloppy drive on his part. Not gonna get many calls when you're the Boy (Wolf) That Cried "Hey" all the time.

Without some hot shooting from Monte and Nickeil the scrub brigade would have been out there in the 3rd quarter.

Naz was terrible offensively and Rudy got his butt kicked all night long by Nurkic.
Rudy was guarding Nurkic way up high on the floor and it looked like a scheme thing maybe trying to take away all those handoffs, but it led to a lot of easy backdoor cuts for Phoenix.

It gets kind of frustrating watching some of the bad shots we take, particularly Ant and Naz, which are a little too well defended or a step or 2 out of what would be their comfortable range. When the game starts spiraling, guys try to bomb us back in from 3 too much and it just leads to more spiraling. Zero points in first 5 1/2 minutes, zero in first 4 minutes of 2nd quarter, and in the 3rd it seemed like we were stuck on 57 for an eternity. You can't have that and expect to win the game.
We had some spurts where our defense strung some stops together to give us a chance to get back in the game, but we promptly crapped the bed on offense each time.

We get one more chance to see Phoenix this year to try to figure some things out.
As much as we talk about Beal/Booker/Durant, it's been their defense that has given us the most problems this year.

It looks like they have a good shot at the 5th or 6th seed, and they look like the toughest 1st round opponent by far for us of the teams fighting for the 5-8 spots. We get to see the other team I'm most worried about next in the Lakers, who look like they are going to climb into that 7-8 game at a minimum, with the Kings and Pelicants injured and reeling.
Phoenix does have a super tough schedule the rest of the way though with the Clippers twice, us on the road, the Pelicants, and kings.

[KGdaBom]

I knew this game was important, but I still watched Caitlyn Clark.

Is it worth watching this game on my DVR, knowing the score?

NO!