Round 3, Game 5: Clippers at Suns, June 28, 6:00 PM PCT

[SunsRback4Good]

No sun fans trolling our boards after the win. If you're gonna be an ass hole and troll, might as well be man/woman enough to come here and troll during a loss. Cowards.

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Keep and1(ing) my posts on (SUNS FORUM) I love it buddy.

[donemilio21]

just read that Paul George now played 735 minutes so far in playoffs.
Next closest is Devin Booker with 605 minutes.
Insane.

That 40% of his total minutes from the regular season in 1/3 of the games. Time to add about 80 more minutes to that total before he gets a break.

if we make it to finals, he'll actually get a 3-day break (4 if Hawks-Bucks go to game 7), which will be most since the end of the regular season

[NippySudz]

I hope we show up next game.

[NippySudz]

NBA needs to seriously consider adding another rest day for the suns and the clippers . The injury bug is crazy

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[nickhx2]

they won't cause $$$$$

[madmaxmedia]

So I’m out of the country right now (in Turkey—shout out to/about Alanya!) and basically can’t see games live that start before 8. Caught the end of this one; totally happy. Saw PG’s line and my jaw dropped. Saw Mook had a big game and was glad. Saw Reggie’s line and was happy that I always was a Reggie guy. Looks like Lue made smart adjustments that really helped. Said it before—proud of the team.

Read the game thread, and it largely sounded like PG was running around, slipping on his own turds in quarters 1, 2 and 4. And I’m trying to figure it out, because from what I can see, he had 21 points on 8-12 shooting, 9 boards, 5 assists and 2 steals in those three quarters. Yes, he had 5 turnovers. No, he didn’t hit a three. But there’s no way anyone should complain all the ------ time about a guy that’s doing what he’s doing. He was a +8 in his court time, so he was helping the team. He led the team in scoring, assists, rebounding, and steals in those 3 quarters. Is there something about what Paul George does wrong or doesn’t do that affects people? I really don’t get it.

But I do get that we’re moving on to Game 6, and I’m still not giving up on this team, Kawhi or no Kawhi.

re pg: in the first and second he was playing solidly enough. the team had built up a sizable lead in the first but he gave it away 3 times (once in traffic which was not a big deal). the other two were just plain bad decisions and there was at least one more pass that was really casual and high risk. so that in conjunction with a really hot start that withered away was the source of a lot of frustration for people.

paul george is never gonna be asked to play a perfect game, only to just not be lazy with his passing. i wouldn't have minded those TO's or passing attempts even if the suns just made reads and steals. but PG was attempting stuff that was super high risk. and if he was gonna do that all game, that would have been really troublesome even if he was playing fairly decently.

as it turned out, he did cut down on mostly all of that and focused on scoring and i'm pretty sure most of us got what we wanted lol.

It's his occasional brain-dead looking mistakes that draw a lot of ire. Rightfully so, but those often seem to overshadow his positive impact on the floor.

If he can be aggressive and be close to a 2:1 assist to turnover ratio, I will take that every day of the week. He's leading the league by far in playoff minutes, and has been overextending himself in games to try to help make up for absence of Kawhi and others. There's a fine line between over reaching and playing assertively and dynamically, at least for him it is. Sometimes his drives are going to lead to good attempts, other times he ends up getting stuck and throwing out a bad pass, with him I don't think you can only get one without risking the other, because he doesn't have the body control or court mastery of your NBA elite guys.

He definitely has room for improvement (and hopefully will watch a lot film over the offseason with coaches), but on the whole I will take what he's doing for sure over say CP3 pounding the ball into the ground. Kawhi is a better player than PG, but if PG had been injured instead I don't know that we're still playing because Rondo would have to play significant minutes.

I don't know how it happened, but since playoffs started I have turned into the biggest PG apologist on this board LOL. I didn't nearly think or feel the same way during the regular season.