NBA PLAYOFFS: GAME 1: (5) Los Angeles Clippers @ (4) Phoenix Suns l Sunday l 5:00 l TNT

[Jdiddy701]

Clippers threw the first punch. It's time for us to return the favor

I feel good about us returning the favor. I’m emotional as this entire board is while the game is on but after some time to think, I’m still confident the Suns get the job done. A lot of easy stuff the Suns can correct.


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[BurningHeart]

Hate to keep beating the drum, but Ayton is a major bust to me considering all the guys that we passed on and now that he is on a max contract. We essentially passed on multiple franchise level talents for a replacement level center and we doubled down and maxed the dummy. I don't think he goes top 10 in a redraft. Imagine if we hit on one of those top 5 picks between 2016-2018? McD truly was an absolute disaster and a horrible talent evaluator. Now we are most likely forced to attach an asset to get him off the roster.

Why couldn't he just go somewhere else besides Arizona for college ugh
Even there, he was exposed in the tournament.

If I ever become world dictator, that guy and all his sycophant cultists are "low key" the first to require a trip to the gulags.

That guy ruined my **** love for this team, league and sport. And it only got worse from there

**** mcdildo.

[Revived]

Frustrating game. It's not over, but it's not a good sign to lose when Torrey Craig scores 22, Booker and KD play for 40+ minutes, and no one on the Clippers plays particularly well outside of Kawhi.

The Clippers would sweep the Suns if Paul George was healthy and I would actually put down $5k on that bet. It would be some of the easiest money I will have earned in my life.

I always thought they would beat us in a series if George was healthy but tonight showed me they wouldn’t just beat, they would sweep the Suns. But of course yeah without George, Suns probably win the series and it’s a super cheap win because of the aforementioned reason. Same as if Miami beats MIL with Giannis out the whole series.

This team is extremely flawed even for having so many so called superstars. We got rid of the “team players” for superstar players. Hope everyone’s f**** happy.

[bigfoot]

It is hard to fathom a max center with the inability to grab one offensive rebound. Our starting center was out-rebounded by five other players in that game. Three from the Clips and two on the Suns. This team is going no where with DA.

[Jdiddy701]

It is hard to fathom a max center with the inability to grab one offensive rebound. Our starting center was out-rebounded by five other players in that game. Three from the Clips and two on the Suns. This team is going no where with DA.

Yeah, that’s pretty frustrating. It’s always been about effort for me for DA. He plays with effort, Suns are tough to beat, probably unstoppable actually.

He hit two huge buckets in the 4th for us but those rebounds for the Clippers right in front of him tonight are inexcusable. I just wish he would want it more.


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[Slim Charless]

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SMFH So this is the crap that will cost my team a chip. Mods please allow me to curse here please

the biggest joke here:
Shamet is the fifth highest paid player on this roster.
9.5 million per year.
FOR WHAT?
being a nice guy which the coach think he could have as a son in law.

They just interviewed him.

Monty: I think we were not organized and were out of sync. We seemed out of rhythm.


Ummmmmm who's job is it to make sure this team is in working order and functioning properly? Maybe the head coach. Did we even run a practice?

[sunsbg]

At least it was a competitive game with the way they started with zero urgency. This is just not a team yet. No chance at a title. Playing more games together to see who fits and who doesn't is the most you can get from these playoffs. Monty, CP3 and Ayton could all be gone in the offseason. I can see the later two being a part of a trade for Irving if KD wants him on the team. Kyrie gives you that player to run the second unit and score in the clutch. Booker failed with both in this game.

[Revived]

The fact that Suns have to play Durant, Booker and CP3 all 40+ mins to even stay competitive in the 1st round against depleted Clippers team should tell you this team is a massive pretender. We’re not winning a title this season and considering how cap strapped there are to make any meaningful moves in the offseason, likely not winning a chip next season either.

The Nuggets, Lakers, Clippers, Kings and Warriors are all significantly better than the Suns. We’re not in their tier. All those teams are better, deeper and better coached.

[Revived]

Oh and Ish Wainwright getting more mins than TJ Warren in a **** playoff game where Suns were struggling badly to get buckets in the 4th qtr is a joke.

I’m with Slimm entirely now on his “fire Monty” bandwagon. The guy is the same guy he was in New Orleans, a fraud of a HC who got lucky on a stacked team with last two years of pre-washed CP3 but I’ll definitely he’d be a terrific assistant coach to have.

This is the playoffs and he’s still testing out lineups. Playoffs. PLAYOFFS.

[sunsbum]

The fact that Suns have to play Durant, Booker and CP3 all 40+ mins to even stay competitive in the 1st round against depleted Clippers team should tell you this team is a massive pretender. We’re not winning a title this season and considering how cap strapped there are to make any meaningful moves in the offseason, likely not winning a chip next season either.

The Nuggets, Lakers, Clippers, Kings and Warriors are all significantly better than the Suns. We’re not in their tier. All those teams are better, deeper and better coached.

I don't know if I would call them depleted, they are like the deepest team in the NBA.

[Revived]

It’s funny there’s been one constant thing that has plagued the Suns in every playoffs for the last 30 years or maybe more. Rebounding. The amount of times we actually got stops late in the 4th but they kept getting offensive board after board.

I don’t think myself or anyone on this forum will ever see a good rebounding Suns team in the playoffs in their lifetime. It’s the curse that the Phoenix Suns have which it will have for eternity. They finally got the #1 pick and tried to use that on a C to remedy the issue and yeah it didn’t work lmao. There’s no solution for it ever for this franchise.

[Revived]

The fact that Suns have to play Durant, Booker and CP3 all 40+ mins to even stay competitive in the 1st round against depleted Clippers team should tell you this team is a massive pretender. We’re not winning a title this season and considering how cap strapped there are to make any meaningful moves in the offseason, likely not winning a chip next season either.

The Nuggets, Lakers, Clippers, Kings and Warriors are all significantly better than the Suns. We’re not in their tier. All those teams are better, deeper and better coached.

I don't know if I would call them depleted, they are like the deepest team in the NBA.

Well without Paul George, I’d say they are. That’s about 40 pts total the Clippers are missing in terms of pts he scores and pts he would keep the Suns from scoring as he’s an actual elite defender.

[lilfishi22]

Surprised Craig didn't get much love on the polls. Somehow Ross got 2 votes?

[lilfishi22]

It is hard to fathom a max center with the inability to grab one offensive rebound. Our starting center was out-rebounded by five other players in that game. Three from the Clips and two on the Suns. This team is going no where with DA.

Yeah, that’s pretty frustrating. It’s always been about effort for me for DA. He plays with effort, Suns are tough to beat, probably unstoppable actually.

He hit two huge buckets in the 4th for us but those rebounds for the Clippers right in front of him tonight are inexcusable. I just wish he would want it more.


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What's more frustrating is that he essentially earned his max contract based off of one playoff run two years ago. He deserved it after that incredible run but he's been living off that reputation for two years now and the expectation is that he's going to step up in the playoffs where games have real stakes.

So where's playoff DA?

[lilfishi22]

Also before everyone jumps off the cliff, these playoffs are pretty wide open, especially in the West. There isn't one super stacked Warrior team that's going to go 4-0 all the way to the Finals. Every game is going to be hard fought and there's no easy match ups. Even a team that is lacking in playoff experience (Kings) managed to beat a 4x champ in game 1, a Lakers team that had to fight just to get into the play-ins beat the #2 seed and even the Heat managed to take Gm1 from the Bucks. I mean, did anyone think we would steam roll a well coached Clippers team that had playoff Kawhi?

In my view, the Bucks and Celtics are the clear 1A/1B favourites but neither teams has the overwhelming talent that the Warriors had with KD. Even of the clear 1A/1B in this league, they won't have an easy path to the CF or Finals.

[GTR11]

Defensive game plan almost worked, but PHX didn't finish execution with the rebound. Russ compensated his poor shooting with effort on boards. Clippers took 11 more shots, can't really win games if opponent takes more shots and able to compensate. Rebounding is a team effort.

My main take away from this game is, CP needs to step up. Russ, Mann and Powell just put clamps on him and attacked him on O. Something have to change here. I don't know, maybe tweak rotations or something. If they keep same success, PHX in a world of trouble. I doubt Hyland and Russ will go 4-25 again. But I'm positive Russ will give his all playing vs KD. It's personal for him and I've seen this movie before.

[spanishninja]

How many times does an NBA team who lost the first game of a playoff series as a Home Team loose the whole series?

Since the NBA playoffs format has changed over the years, I will assume that you are referring to the current format in which the first round is a best-of-seven series.

Based on historical data, NBA teams that lose the first game of a playoff series at home have gone on to lose the entire series approximately 74% of the time. This means that they have won the series only about 26% of the time.

Based on historical data, NBA teams that lose the first two games of a playoff series at home have gone on to lose the entire series approximately 94% of the time. This means that they have won the series only about 6% of the time.

So next game its basically win of go home.

well, if we only base it on the historical data, we are in no worse shape than Memphis, Milwaukee, or Cleveland. And really, Memphis is in much worse of a spot than we are right now. They are one foot to Cancun already if Morant's injury is anywhere near as bad as it seems.

[Revived]

Anyone catch the Denver game tonight? Even if Suns beat Clippers in the series, anyone think there’s even snowball chance of beating Denver next round especially with them having homecourt advantage?

[Revived]

Also before everyone jumps off the cliff, these playoffs are pretty wide open, especially in the West. There isn't one super stacked Warrior team that's going to go 4-0 all the way to the Finals. Every game is going to be hard fought and there's no easy match ups. Even a team that is lacking in playoff experience (Kings) managed to beat a 4x champ in game 1, a Lakers team that had to fight just to get into the play-ins beat the #2 seed and even the Heat managed to take Gm1 from the Bucks. I mean, did anyone think we would steam roll a well coached Clippers team that had playoff Kawhi?

In my view, the Bucks and Celtics are the clear 1A/1B favourites but neither teams has the overwhelming talent that the Warriors had with KD. Even of the clear 1A/1B in this league, they won't have an easy path to the CF or Finals.

Nobody thought they would steam roll a Clippers team missing its 2nd best player and All NBA HOFer Paul George sure but they didn’t expect Suns to get punked in the 1st qtr and then lose the game and lose homecourt.

And idk you’ve been following much about the grizzlies lately but a vast majority people outside of Tennessee expected the Lakers to beat the Grizzlies in a 7 game series. Lakers with their new additions are far better than Memphis. Also worth noting, Lakers won after Ja Morant went out with injury. Did we have an excuse like that? And honestly if Suns do lose this series I hope we do have some type of injury like that to one of our main guys to at least save face in the media so we can blame the loss on the injury instead of a plain choke in back to back seasons. And Heat beat the Bucks because Giannis left the game with injury early in the 1st qtr and never came back. Seriously man, did you look up at all to see what the headlines in the NBA was today? All these injuries are dominating the headlines there’s no way you’d miss it. A Bucks team without Giannis is not better than Miami on anyone’s minds.

Not saying you’re gonna be wrong but I remember many people were spouting the same thing in the last playoff series the Suns played when Mavs tied it at 2-2. I remember there was a “this is actually good for the suns to have some competition” “we have them exactly where we want them, I wonder if we lost on purpose to toy with them” type crap.

[Revived]

Wonder if Craig will score as much in his remaining playoff games combined as he did tonight….just sucks so much to waste it.

If you’re the Clippers your thinking “Well Craig will never have that great of a game again and as bad a shooter as Westbrook always is, he’s not gonna shoot 3-18 or worse again so we should be in very good shape”.