Game 35: Suns (0-82) at Zombie Sonics (22-10)

[Revived]

Btw, much better coaching tonight from Hornacek. Tightened rotation and played the right guys. It is not his fault Knight is a moron.

Yea he did good today. Warren and Booker both with over 40 mins.

Plus I think the Tucker at PF improves the spacing for this team so damn much.

IMO Booker played a lot cause Price was out and Warren was a beneficiary of Leuer being out too. With those two back in the line up, we all know who Jeff would play a lot more.

I'm gonna just hope that he learned from this game what the lineups and rotations should look like but yea like you said, would not be very surprising if the rotations changed.

[bondom34]

Great game guys, Booker and Warren both look really fantastic, honestly was impressed! Good luck going forward.

[Revived]

Warren with a game of the year, this is beyond impressive he's doing this against Kevin Durant mind you.

Kevin Durant has been TJ's favorite player for yrs.

Now Durant's probably a fan of his too after today's performance

[Grots]

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weird thing is, the majority of threes TJ has made the past two (or whichever other game it was that he hit a bunch) games were heavily contested. Bad shots, in theory, him standing at the perimeter with a defender right up on him but not passing it and just letting it fly.

[Mulhollanddrive]

Possibly the best player on our active roster.

He's only 2 points off from being a top 5 SF points per 36. You'd think that could come with natural improvement and utilisation.

It's good we have 2 rookie potentials that the board is high on, Booker was all the rage the past 2 months, but Warren's hit back big.

[Mr Puddles]

Great game guys, Booker and Warren both look really fantastic, honestly was impressed! Good luck going forward.

Entertaining game overall. You guys continue to find quality players in the draft it seems - Payne looked very impressive running that second unit.

Like you, I'm not nearly as pessimistic about the Suns future as most people on this board. We have some good young talent, just need to get some quality players to complement our young core and develop chemistry together.

[thamadkant]

Possibly the best player on our active roster.

He's only 2 points off from being a top 5 SF points per 36. You'd think that could come with natural improvement and utilisation.

It's good we have 2 rookie potentials that the board is high on, Booker was all the rage the past 2 months, but Warren's hit back big.

Im high on Warren now ever since he has developed a 3pt shot.


Im still high on Goodwin... The moment he plays in control... There isnt anyone he can beat to the basket.


Len is hot and cold here. He puts up 16 and 14 and talk is all about him being a beast... Then he picks upquick fouls and off the court and the haters switch back.


Booker is the golden child to some here.. I think he is good but im not sold on star potential.


Warren is to me... The 20ppg potential player as soon as he gets 30mpg.

[jcsunsfan]

I know everyone wants to blame Knight again because it's the cool thing to do, but once again we lost due to a mismanagement of the clock. Fouling down the stretch with a 5 second differentiation was a bonehead move called in by the bench.

Nobody cares about clock management at this point because they don't care about winning. The criticism of Knight is his boneheaded play.


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[nevetsov]

Good game, really enjoyable to watch (other than the fact I was hungover as hell).

All you tank commanders must be spewing about giving up Ennis, Plumdog and the Lakers pick for Knight. Imagine the full tankfest glory we could be experiencing right now:

Ennis (he would have gotten burn last year without the trade, so he'd be a little bit seasoned)
Booker
Warren
Tucker
Len

With potentially 2 top 5 picks next year.

[bwgood77]

Good game, really enjoyable to watch (other than the fact I was hungover as hell).

All you tank commanders must be spewing about giving up Ennis, Plumdog and the Lakers pick for Knight. Imagine the full tankfest glory we could be experiencing right now:

Ennis (he would have gotten burn last year without the trade, so he'd be a little bit seasoned)
Booker
Warren
Tucker
Len

With potentially 2 top 5 picks next year.

Yeah, that's painful to think about. Knight has cost us some games. I just hope he gets better, because I think we are stuck with him for awhile.

[pidi]

Where was markieff in this game?

[bwgood77]

Where was markieff in this game?

Where he should be. Unseen.

[pidi]

Where he should be. Unseen.[/quote]
A point i don't get. He didn't play because of injury? What is horny Doing here?First he throws a towel @ Hornacek, says sorry and doesnt See playing time? Strange

Where was markieff in this game?

Where he should be. Unseen.

[ImNotMcDiSwear]

Raise your hand if you thought we should have started TJ and PJ at the beginning of the season.

::raises hand::

[Fo-Real]

Don't know if it's been mentioned but I think PJ Tucker starting at power forward is what helped keep this competitive, he brings defensive tenacity, and made it tough on the opposing power forward to get anywhere. he matched up very well at power forward for this game definitely can do anything John Luer can do and next to TJ scoring he looked pretty good how to get rid of Knight

[Kerrsed]

Don't know if it's been mentioned but I think PJ Tucker starting at power forward is what helped keep this competitive, he brings defensive tenacity, and made it tough on the opposing power forward to get anywhere. he matched up very well at power forward for this game definitely can do anything John Luer can do and next to TJ scoring he looked pretty good how to get rid of Knight

Thats what i said earlier. PJ at PF resembles Green at PF in GS. Undersized and defensive/scrappy.

[i505]

Don't know if it's been mentioned but I think PJ Tucker starting at power forward is what helped keep this competitive, he brings defensive tenacity, and made it tough on the opposing power forward to get anywhere. he matched up very well at power forward for this game definitely can do anything John Luer can do and next to TJ scoring he looked pretty good how to get rid of Knight

I was amazed. First game all year that I didn't want to reach through my TV and strangle PJ.

[Cutter]

It seems like overall we did well getting Chandler some good high percentage lobs in this game. I know TJ had a nice lob for a Chandler dunk, but Booker tried a lob that hit the backboard. Booker has such a soft touch I have confidence he will become excellent in this type of assist.

[Cutter]

I loved PJ starting at PF. I think he can be effective guarding most starting PF's, but could have trouble with large, strong low post players like Zach Randolph pushing him around, and tall-long Paul Gasol types could give him trouble as well.

I hope we continue starting him at the 4 and based on situational match ups start Leuer.

[ImNotMcDiSwear]

I loved PJ starting at PF. I think he can be effective guarding most starting PF's, but could have trouble with large, strong low post players like Zach Randolph pushing him around, and tall-long Paul Gasol types could give him trouble as well.

I hope we continue starting him at the 4 and based on situational match ups start Leuer.

I actually think he'd do better guarding Randolph than Randolph would do running out to PJ in the corner.