Game 72: Sacramento Kings (24-45) @ Phoenix Suns (38-33)

[irish22022]

But holy Sh**, make some free throws.

[saintEscaton]

Archie can turn out to be a solid on the ball defender. Instinctual too

[MrMiyagi]

ARCHIBALLER!!!!!!!!!!

[Qwigglez]

Archie is killin em. Love it. Always enjoy watching him play.

[saintEscaton]

Tucker shouldnt be our starting SG. Sorry

I understand the offensive liability, but our lineup is so huge with him out there at 2. Look at the floaters the mobros keep getting. 12 footers all day.

Also Tucker getting that post up is money. McLemore is too tiny to guard em.

Yeah he's a matchup nightmare on the other end. I'm fine with it the remainder of the season but not going forward

[Revived]

Archie Goodwin showing why he should have been given playing all along.

He's the only reason the Suns aren't being blown out.

[Sunsss]

Great half for Archie. Bledsoe needs to step up and not let McCallum outplay him in the second half.

[carey]

Wow, Archie. What a half from him.

[kennydorglas]

Archie is amazing.

[Revived]

Kings shooting 9-11 from the FT and the Suns are 8-16 from the FT line.

IMO there's no doubt that opposing teams scouting report says "don't even let them have a 50-50 chance at making a layup, just foul them hard instead they can't make FTs".

If we played the Spurs anytime soon, Popovich would exploit this to no end. Pathetic that despite this being the 2nd season in which they can't make s**t from the FT line, Hornacek still hasn't had them work on it or at least it hasn't showed much improvement.

[Jdiddy701]

Real interested to see how the Suns come out to begin the 2nd half. I'm sure they find out about Pelicans and OKC.


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[MilotheSlayer]

With OKC losing tonight this is even more of a must win, 2games back with 10 to go sounds more than doable to me!!

[irish22022]

This "new defensive look" have gotten burned from 20 feet out 5 times. It's not that Archie is having a great game (which he is), it's that he looks cool as F*** doing it. Smart footwork on two different fast breaks, a steal that I still don't understand how he got out of there court so fast, and some pretty decent off the ball movement (hold a couple of plays where he sort looks lost).

[Cutter]

I think a knight Archie bench backcourt would work well and score consistently.

[MilotheSlayer]

Kings shooting 9-11 from the FT and the Suns are 8-16 from the FT line.

IMO there's no doubt that opposing teams scouting report says "don't even let them have a 50-50 chance at making a layup, just foul them hard instead they can't make FTs".

If we played the Spurs anytime soon, Popovich would exploit this to no end. Pathetic that despite this being the 2nd season in which they can't make s**t from the FT line, Hornacek still hasn't had them work on it or at least it hasn't showed much improvement.

Just out of curiosity, how do you know Hornacek hasn't had them work on it? And I think a factor to the FT dropping is the added intensity on the Defensive side of the ball, guys are more tired.

[Cutter]

And we let Stauskas come off the bench and score 10 points on us. smh

[saintEscaton]

I think a knight Archie bench backcourt would work well and score consistently.

Idk Bled is the closest thing to a PG we have on this roster.

[Revived]

Kings shooting 9-11 from the FT and the Suns are 8-16 from the FT line.

IMO there's no doubt that opposing teams scouting report says "don't even let them have a 50-50 chance at making a layup, just foul them hard instead they can't make FTs".

If we played the Spurs anytime soon, Popovich would exploit this to no end. Pathetic that despite this being the 2nd season in which they can't make s**t from the FT line, Hornacek still hasn't had them work on it or at least it hasn't showed much improvement.

Just out of curiosity, how do you know Hornacek hasn't had them work on it? And I think a factor to the FT dropping is the added intensity on the Defensive side of the ball, guys are more tired.

There are plenty of good defensive teams that are good or better FT shooting teams than the Suns. Why does the factor only apply to the Suns?

Assuming that we have hardly improved, its my assumption that Hornacek hasn't had them work on it. This is the pros, and its not like we have any Shaq type players...I think if FTs were worked on enough, we wouldn't be this bad from the line.

[Saberestar]

LMAO typical Suns, they have a chance to tighten the gap with OKC and come out and lay an egg.

This has literally been the theme of the Suns ever since Hornacek took over. Look good one night against a contender and then get embarrassed by a bad team by a team that's on a back to back at home.

I think that Bledsoe is the guilty here. He is PASSIVE out there, it's like he doesn't respect McCallum or something like that, he is not even trying to defend. Offensively, turnovers and long shots (some of them without teammates near the rim, not option to rebound by any means). He is our most important player...he has to wake up in the second half.

We NEED this game!

[irish22022]

AJ Price doesn't come back in the game, right? I mean, surely Jeff knows better than that...