Other Playoff Series

RunDogGun · Post #701 » by **RunDogGun** » Fri Apr 22, 2022 4:02 am

Dallas really playing like a solid team. I hope the Suns are watching, and step things up as a team.

ImNotMcDiSwear · Post #702 » by **ImNotMcDiSwear** » Fri Apr 22, 2022 4:03 am

If the Mavs can go up 2-1 on the Jazz without Luka, why the hell would we lose to the Pels without Book?

If we can't take this series with Book out of the lineup, either we were never a real contender, or Devin Booker is basically Michael Jordan.

RunDogGun · Post #703 » by **RunDogGun** » Fri Apr 22, 2022 4:10 am

ImNotMcDiSwear wrote:If the Mavs can go up 2-1 on the Jazz without Luka, why the hell would we lose to the Pels without Book?

If we can't take this series with Book out of the lineup, either we were never a real contender, or Devin Booker is basically Michael Jordan.

They have two guards that can handle the ball. I think Brunson lead guards in efficiency during the season, and those guys have been attacking the hoop. Their role players are hitting their shots, and they have been playing solid defense. We can win without Book, but it is going to take a village. Our bench needs to step up, and our starters need to play much better. Their bench went 11-17 from three.

Also tonight they only gave up 1 offensive rebound, and although Powel only grabbed 4 rebounds, they matched Utah on the boards.

spanishninja · Post #704 » by **spanishninja** » Fri Apr 22, 2022 4:15 am

RunDogGun wrote:
ImNotMcDiSwear wrote:If the Mavs can go up 2-1 on the Jazz without Luka, why the hell would we lose to the Pels without Book?

If we can't take this series with Book out of the lineup, either we were never a real contender, or Devin Booker is basically Michael Jordan.

They have two guards that can handle the ball. I think Brunson lead guards in efficiency during the season, and those guys have been attacking the hoop. Their role players are hitting their shots, and they have been playing solid defense. We can win without Book, but it is going to take a village. Our bench needs to step up, and our starters need to play much better. Their bench went 11-17 from three.

it's really a matter of the role players. unlike our bench, their guys have been playing meaningful basketball games and trying hard.

RunDogGun · Post #705 » by **RunDogGun** » Fri Apr 22, 2022 4:21 am

spanishninja wrote:
RunDogGun wrote:
ImNotMcDiSwear wrote:If the Mavs can go up 2-1 on the Jazz without Luka, why the hell would we lose to the Pels without Book?

If we can't take this series with Book out of the lineup, either we were never a real contender, or Devin Booker is basically Michael Jordan.

They have two guards that can handle the ball. I think Brunson lead guards in efficiency during the season, and those guys have been attacking the hoop. Their role players are hitting their shots, and they have been playing solid defense. We can win without Book, but it is going to take a village. Our bench needs to step up, and our starters need to play much better. Their bench went 11-17 from three.

it's really a matter of the role players. unlike our bench, their guys have been playing meaningful basketball games and trying hard.

Keeping a whole team motivated down the stretch really helps. Plus that trade was huge for them. Dinwiddie and Bertans seem to have something to prove. We don't play Craig much, and Holiday not at all, so guys we got in our trades haven't had much opportunity to rise to that level. I am still disappointed we didn't milk Craig's starts. We should have kept that going for a while, and that way it wouldn't be such a major change to bring Chowder off the bench.

PittsburghSuns · Post #706 » by **PittsburghSuns** » Fri Apr 22, 2022 4:51 am

Warriors are not losing unless they get an injury. Man to think this Suns team was the favorite only a couple weeks ago too

Revived · Post #707 » by **Revived** » Fri Apr 22, 2022 4:53 am

Yeah as much as it sucks for Suns to lose at home to 8th seed and lose Booker for several weeks to injuries…it could be worse…we could be TWolves fans :lol:

PittsburghSuns · Post #708 » by **PittsburghSuns** » Fri Apr 22, 2022 5:00 am

Revived wrote:Yeah as much as it sucks for Suns to lose at home to 8th seed and lose Booker for several weeks to injuries…it could be worse…we could be TWolves fans

How is that worse? We are about to lose to an 8 seed

Post #709 » by **bwgood77** » Fri Apr 22, 2022 5:15 am

ImNotMcDiSwear wrote:If the Mavs can go up 2-1 on the Jazz without Luka, why the hell would we lose to the Pels without Book?

If we can't take this series with Book out of the lineup, either we were never a real contender, or Devin Booker is basically Michael Jordan.

Yeah, if Paul and Ayton can play anything like they did in game 1, where Paul had 30, 10, 7 on 75% shooting 4-6 from 3, and Ayton 21, 9 and 4 blocks on 67% shooting, 1-1 from 3, we should be ok, if Bridges steps up like you know he can and the shooting from Crowder and Cam finally come around. You'd think by law of averages the shooting would, but it's been like 8 games for Cam (from 3, except his 1-2 performance in game 1 but he still needs more 3PA than that) and 6 games for Jae. If Payne and Shamet can add anything, that's a plus.

I expect a lot more shots for Ayton and Bridges and if they shoot anywhere near normal efficiency, we shouldn't have a problem keeping up if CP3 gets back to his normal efficiency. Also what has been lost in all the negativity is the fact that Paul had 14 ast with 0 turnovers in game 2. What a team waste on a great performance from him in that respect. He very rarely shoots that poorly as well.

Everyone picked the same game to shoot poorly outside of Book while he was in, and Ayton, who only had 6 shots.

Pick up the intensity and defense and move the ball, take good shots, and the shots should start to fall, at least to some extent. You know Paul, Bridges and Ayton can find their spots as well to take good shots regardless and most of our other shots are typically wide open 3s unless they are easy drives (which are harder to come by since they often play 2 bigs inside).

Revived · Post #710 » by **Revived** » Fri Apr 22, 2022 5:32 am

PittsburghSuns wrote:
Revived wrote:Yeah as much as it sucks for Suns to lose at home to 8th seed and lose Booker for several weeks to injuries…it could be worse…we could be TWolves fans

How is that worse? We are about to lose to an 8 seed

Relax let’s find out, we should be able to outlast the Pels even without CP3 I think. It just may take longer than we initially thought.

sunsbg · Post #711 » by **sunsbg** » Fri Apr 22, 2022 5:33 am

It would be funny if we and Mavs make it to the second round in a similar fashion. Star player out, but role players giving a great effort to beat their opponent. If that happens hopefully no more injuries to both teams so we have a good series.

Also Suns should probably take some notes how Mavs managed to limit Gobert to 7 rebounds playing even smaller than the Suns.

Revived · Post #712 » by **Revived** » Fri Apr 22, 2022 6:54 am

Read on Twitter

Slim Charless · Post #713 » by **Slim Charless** » Fri Apr 22, 2022 7:22 am

PittsburghSuns wrote:
Revived wrote:Yeah as much as it sucks for Suns to lose at home to 8th seed and lose Booker for several weeks to injuries…it could be worse…we could be TWolves fans

How is that worse? We are about to lose to an 8 seed

Stop saying that.

RunDogGun · Post #714 » by **RunDogGun** » Fri Apr 22, 2022 3:18 pm

Revived wrote:Yeah as much as it sucks for Suns to lose at home to 8th seed and lose Booker for several weeks to injuries…it could be worse…we could be TWolves fans

Or Denver, where their team looks to get swept out of the playoffs b2b.

RunDogGun · Post #715 » by **RunDogGun** » Fri Apr 22, 2022 3:20 pm

sunsbg wrote:It would be funny if we and Mavs make it to the second round in a similar fashion. Star player out, but role players giving a great effort to beat their opponent. If that happens hopefully no more injuries to both teams so we have a good series.

Also Suns should probably take some notes how Mavs managed to limit Gobert to 7 rebounds playing even smaller than the Suns.

We would need role players that contribute and a bench that can shoot. We aren't there yet

starbosa10 · Post #716 » by **starbosa10** » Fri Apr 22, 2022 6:31 pm

Revived wrote:

Read on Twitter

Such a joke lol they get worshipped for sweeping the Nuggets w/o Porter or Murray. Meanwhile last year all we got was " Suns were lucky Murray didn't play"

WeekapaugGroove · Post #717 » by **WeekapaugGroove** » Fri Apr 22, 2022 6:43 pm

ImNotMcDiSwear wrote:If the Mavs can go up 2-1 on the Jazz without Luka, why the hell would we lose to the Pels without Book?

If we can't take this series with Book out of the lineup, either we were never a real contender, or Devin Booker is basically Michael Jordan.

Helps they are playing a Jazs team that appears to hate each other and is going to be torn down this summer.

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Revived · Post #718 » by **Revived** » Fri Apr 22, 2022 8:06 pm

starbosa10 wrote:
Revived wrote:

Read on Twitter

Such a joke lol they get worshipped for sweeping the Nuggets w/o Porter or Murray. Meanwhile last year all we got was " Suns were lucky Murray didn't play"

To be fair I think KOC gave us credit after sweeping Denver and had us coming out of the West and maybe even as favorites over Milwaukee. Not sure on the last part though.

TeamTragic · Post #719 » by **TeamTragic** » Sat Apr 23, 2022 5:06 am

Lowry with a hamstring injury

YIKES

SunsRback4Good · Post #720 » by **SunsRback4Good** » Sat Apr 23, 2022 10:21 pm

At this point stopping Brunson is like stopping a healthy Kawhi or KD just physically impossible. He should be a superstar by next season. It's a small sample size but the young kid looking dangerous. I would not wanna be a team facing Dallas & Brunson in the 2nd round.

Who are you pulling for in finals?