Game 18: Phoenix Suns (9-8) @ Dallas Mavericks (8-11), Jan 30, Saturday, 7:00 PM

[Adrao]

I know it sounds hard but I would really consider to trade Booker once we have seen his real impact. Maybe these four matches are not enought for may fans but we've seen him playing for years and we know he isn't and he will never be a TOP10 league player.

[sunsbg]

I know it sounds hard but I would really consider to trade Booker once we have seen his real impact. Maybe these four matches are not enought for may fans but we've seen him playing for years and we know he isn't and he will never be a TOP10 league player.

He has those stretches of games where he's in the zone and looks like a top 10 player. He was there in the top 10 rankings of players under 25 after his bubble performance. The problem is he has stretches he doesn't look like Nr1 option on a team. Had those with Rubio last year, has them now with Paul as well. I remember a stretch in Ayton's rookie year when he was out and the team played better. Someone on the GB proposed a trade to MIN if they end with a top 3 pick and the Suns miss the playoffs again. It's certainly worth considering a trade for a top 3 pick in next draft + signing 2 10M players, or two 15M players during his current contract, or 2 20M players over his next.

[Adrao]

In this moment Booker for Beal would be great. Maybe we need Minesota to recieve Booker and give the pick to Washigton.

[Calvin Klein]

This could be a very good team, no doubt for me . It's still so early to judge them and then you add the weird season with covid/postponed games and it's even harder. As long as they make the playoffs I'll be OK. Hopefully Book and CP3 keep working on their on court chemistry and Ayton/Bridges keep improving. But we have a really solid foundation now. Just need to keep focused on improving as a team.

I wouldn't trade any of our main guys People talking about trading Booker already. Crazy.

[Frank Lee]

Can we do this 2 games in a row? Rehashing...
we shot just 22 treys... and won the free throw joust. Coincidence?

[Mulhollanddrive]

I'm really excited about Chris Paul turning the corner.

Last 7 games 19 and 8 and he's been at least +3 in all but 1 of them.

Ayton's had his best season stretch too, just have to incorporate Booker and I think we can go on a big run that create a gap to sustain us above .500

[Adrao]

Can we do this 2 games in a row? Rehashing...
we shot just 22 treys... and won the free throw joust. Coincidence?

I don't know if Monty changed something but we went more for the rim.

[Fo-Real]

It seemed that the main theme of the game was to get Ayton involved!!

[Saberestar]

Can we do this 2 games in a row? Rehashing...
we shot just 22 treys... and won the free throw joust. Coincidence?

Yeah, I like how we have adjusted in the last few games. This one in particular.

Crowder, Mikal and Cam Johnson are putting the ball on the floor more and I love particularly how Crowder is passing and trying to play team ball.

Mikal has improved his ball handling (but he needs to get better yet) and he is getting to the rim and the mid-range area way more than at the start of the season. That makes him more dangerous.

[Saberestar]

BTW, I want to give some credit to Nader.

I didn't like what I saw from him in his first couple of appearances but he has played really well these last two games. Hopefully he continues on the right track.

[sunsbg]

Can we do this 2 games in a row? Rehashing...
we shot just 22 treys... and won the free throw joust. Coincidence?

And the game was more interesting without brainless 3pt shooting. No, it was no coincidence.

[King4Day]

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[bwgood77]

More good luck charms please.

I think I will stick with Emily Sears until it doesn't work...but it's been great for the GS game and then down the stretch of the Mavs game.

Then if we lose I can switch it up with her, given that she still seems to do well (particularly if we play the Mavs close, mostly play well, but lose, because a split there down players is still a win overall and we already have playoff tie breakers).

[Crives]

I really liked the 3 wing lineups. Switching just shuts down PnR over and over. Nader playing great gives us more flexibility to run these lineups.

[bwgood77]

It seemed that the main theme of the game was to get Ayton involved!!

Yes, he didn't have the best shooting night...some bad bounces out of basket and maybe one goal tending or basket interference non call, which ended a miss, but he finally hit a hook or spin/fadeaway and really got going down the stretch...seemed to energize him and he was really efficient, dunking it, catching a very high alleyoop in super crunch time and slamming it down, grabbing tough rebounds.

Also his assists (even though many would like him to pass less) are impressive. He has good court vision to find the open 3 guy, but more impressively are some of his bounce passes to Booker cutting and driving, etc.

I won't be surprised if he not only became a great scorer, rebounder and defender, but also a guy you can direct offense through if needed and can facilitate like Bam and average like 4 assists or maybe just like 3.5 but be effective, maybe moreso than someone like Saric....and imo opinion, even though people talk about Saric that way, Ayton seems better at it, or at least as effective and has averaged just as many if not more assists the last couple years.

[lilfishi22]

BTW, I want to give some credit to Nader.

I didn't like what I saw from him in his first couple of appearances but he has played really well these last two games. Hopefully he continues on the right track.

I've been intrigued by Nader since the trade was announced. I like what he brought from a physical standpoint (size, length and athleticism) and he seemed like a prototypical 3&D guy and it's always good to have a few of them on the team but I didn't know much more about him than that.

But I think he's been solid for us this season. When he's sucked it's very likely because we've asked too much of him like playing him too much or putt him in the game when it's on the line. I thought a lot of the criticism against him were unfair. But it seems like he's played himself into the rotation with his versatile defense, shooting and just being a guy that does the other things on the court like cutting, rebounding and moving the ball on offense.