Game 82: Suns at Wolves (WE MADE IT!)

[winforlose]

If Kyle Anderson is in the playoff rotation I want Finch fired. There is no excuse for this. Not using Monte is bad enough, but Kyle is poison in high leverage minutes. Notice on the last play how Naz tries to drive and Kyle hangs out under the basket bringing his man to double with no advantage. One of many bad decisions and bad effects of Kyle.

[_AIJ_]

Jaden sucks

[Calinks]

Just rest everybody at this point. Play the bench

We don't play for another week, no need for rest.

[younggunsmn]

Very good game from Rudy, but when he is your leading scorer you are very likely going to lose the game.
Finch cannot solve the suns defense.
They have crap defenders for the most part but they play their scheme very well against us.

[_AIJ_]

Just rest everybody at this point. Play the bench

We don't play for another week, no need for rest.

There is no reason to play the starters at this point. I would rather not risk injury.

[Calinks]

Very good game from Rudy, but when he is your leading scorer you are very likely going to lose the game.
Finch cannot solve the suns defense.
They have crap defenders for the most part but they play their scheme very well.

Oddly it hasn't done squat for them against terrible teams, it just seems super effective against us. If we were the Spurs we'd be up 15 right now.

[winforlose]

3 games, 3 blowouts. Worse, we are losing this quarter by 12, and they are supposed to suck in the fourth quarter. Very frustrating.

[Calinks]

Our NBA finals starts next week lol. Literally the hardest team we have played all season. Boston and Denver were far easier opponents than this Suns team for us.

[_AIJ_]

When was the last time that a series 3vs6 where the 3rd seed is the underdog?

[BlacJacMac]

Nurk has barely played and they're still outrebounding us.

Literally the worst possible outcome of games today.

[winforlose]

Very good game from Rudy, but when he is your leading scorer you are very likely going to lose the game.
Finch cannot solve the suns defense.
They have crap defenders for the most part but they play their scheme very well.

Oddly it hasn't done squat for them against terrible teams, it just seems super effective against us. If we were the Spurs we'd be up 15 right now.

Lineups haven’t helped. Shot selection hasn’t helped. There is a lot we are doing wrong.

[Neeva]

If wolves get embarrassed in playoffs it will be on Finch.

[_AIJ_]

If wolves get embarrassed in playoffs it will be on Finch.

KAT??

[younggunsmn]

Something is going to have to change for us to win a series against the Suns.

The schemes and player combinations we are using are going to get swept.

Maybe more Monte and NAW and less Jaden and Kyle.

We might have to find a single big lineup that works.

We are absolute trash right now.

If we were eligible to trade KAT for draft picks tomorrow I would pull the trigger.
9 years of this act is enough.

[Calinks]

Big congrats to Thunder and their fans, they took care of business with some massive clutch victories, there were several games I saw them pull out of their butts at the last minute and they earned that top seed. They have a really good path to the conference finals now.

We got a very tough road. Sad that one damn game has put us in that position but here we are, just another ridiculously hard lesson for this team of ours. Got to man up and get better.

[Nick K]

Coaching staff is going to have need to spend a week getting a damn Masters's degree in how to play against the Suns. Somehow they are the only team that has neutralised all of our star players, neutralized our defense, and shoots like 80 percent against us. Need to figure out how the hell we are going to counter that.

So true. I can take a loss but to lose this way is more than disappointing.

[jpatrick]

If wolves get embarrassed in playoffs it will be on Finch.

KAT??

KAT gets some grace for today since he’s coming back from knee surgery. But if we lose in the first round, I have no doubt he’s gone this offseason. Probably for a much lesser return than people have speculated on this forum.

[m2002brian]

My money is on this being Kats last dance as a Wolf.
Too many short comings to make up for the talent.

[Dewey]

We don’t have the gamers … we can’t dig in. Come playoffs you have to have that next gear that others don’t. Right not it appears we lack that grit. You don’t coach up grown men too … you can play or you cannot.

[karch34]

0-21 vs Suns in those uniforms.