Game 82: Phoenix Suns (19-62) at Dallas Mavericks (32-48), Tuesday, Apr 9, 8:30PM

[ducler]

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[Crives]

Feels like the Nash generation is officially over

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[King4Day]

Back from vacation (Wrestlemania).
Glad I get to see the final game. Missed the last few.
If we lose this, we are assured, at the least, a tie for the 2nd best lottery odds.

[bwgood77]

In Austin twitter trends, #DirkDay or Dirk has been trending all day.

[Blonde]

Haven't been hoping for losses all year but today would be a good time to get an L. We'd finish tied for the 2nd worst record with Cleveland (unless they win tonight) and I believe a coin flip would decide who sits at the 2 vs 3 spot pre-lottery drawing. The other big incentive to losing is that Dallas could get pushed as far back as the 10th worst record, but if they lose out they could have the 6th worst record. I personally want their pick (top 5 protected) to convey to Atlanta this year, and hope they are as far away as possible from Zion.

[bwgood77]

Haven't been hoping for losses all year but today would be a good time to get an L. We'd finish tied for the 2nd worst record with Cleveland (unless they win tonight) and I believe a coin flip would decide who sits at the 2 vs 3 spot pre-lottery drawing. The other big incentive to losing is that Dallas could get pushed as far back as the 10th worst record, but if they lose out they could have the 6th worst record. I personally want their pick (top 5 protected) to convey to Atlanta this year, and hope they are as far away as possible from Zion.

Yeah, I hope to lose mostly because I want Dallas chance at Zion cut in half. Our's won't change regardless. Sure our odds if we don't get drawn change and we are more likely to land 6 instead of 5, with a slight chance at 7, but I want Dallas to drop to like 9th worst.

They've been really resting guys though....been resting Luka and Kleber. Luka was listed in ducler's starting lineup and maybe they want to let him play in what may be (or is likely) Dirk's last home game in Dallas. But my guess is, if it's close, Dallas really puts in their scrubs late...though their scrubs won in OT against Memphis....who was also playing mostly scrubs.

[Mjee]

Back from vacation (Wrestlemania).
Glad I get to see the final game. Missed the last few.
If we lose this, we are assured, at the least, a tie for the 2nd best lottery odds.

You mean KofiMania!???

That’s awesome you went !!

[alldayeveryday]

Let's send Dirk with a L.

[bwgood77]

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[hollywood6964]

jeez daniels, that layup.

[sasquatchBob]

It looks like Crawford is going to have another good game. You can see that these last three game's he's really trying to prove that he can play one more season in NBA.

[Blonde]

One of the biggest problems with this team is on display tonight: the complete void of offense from everyone outside of Booker/Warren/Ayton. As bad as we are on defense, our offense is just as poor.

[bwgood77]

One of the biggest problems with this team is on display tonight: the complete void of offense from everyone outside of Booker/Warren/Ayton. As bad as we are on defense, our offense is just as poor.

I know. We really need some offensive fire power....some more threats, especially if we trade TJ. I know we are likely to sign Oubre to a big deal and while I think his personality brings a lot, I also feel we can't expect him to do THAT much on the court. He's always been pretty inconsistent and isn't real efficient and also doesn't move the ball much and is just more of a good energy guy. But if he is one of your main guys and highest paid players what does that mean for the team?

I think we need a major third guy other than Booker/Ayton but I have no idea who that could be.

[sasquatchBob]

Broekhoff looks like a guy who's a serial killer on the side

[DroughtsOverPHX]

Haven't been hoping for losses all year but today would be a good time to get an L. We'd finish tied for the 2nd worst record with Cleveland (unless they win tonight) and I believe a coin flip would decide who sits at the 2 vs 3 spot pre-lottery drawing. The other big incentive to losing is that Dallas could get pushed as far back as the 10th worst record, but if they lose out they could have the 6th worst record. I personally want their pick (top 5 protected) to convey to Atlanta this year, and hope they are as far away as possible from Zion.

Looks like we figured that out. At half we are securing that L pretty nicely.

[Blonde]

One of the biggest problems with this team is on display tonight: the complete void of offense from everyone outside of Booker/Warren/Ayton. As bad as we are on defense, our offense is just as poor.

I know. We really need some offensive fire power....some more threats, especially if we trade TJ. I know we are likely to sign Oubre to a big deal and while I think his personality brings a lot, I also feel we can't expect him to do THAT much on the court. He's always been pretty inconsistent and isn't real efficient and also doesn't move the ball much and is just more of a good energy guy. But if he is one of your main guys and highest paid players what does that mean for the team?

I think we need a major third guy other than Booker/Ayton but I have no idea who that could be.

I've mentally moved on from Warren already, so it was weird for me to even list him in that group. Oubre is fine on offense in that he can create for himself when asked, even if it's not efficient, because in his ideal roll with this team he'll be a 4th option with limited FGA. That doesn't seem to be something Josh has accepted. Warren, on the other hand, doesn't really possess much value unless he's getting a ton of shots up.

We clearly need another guy. This core + any non-Zion draft pick does not have conference finals upside. Even if everything goes right I don't see it. Free agency isn't really a route to get that third guy given our limited cap space and bad reputation. I'd be quite happy picking Morant, but don't feel great about him being that big piece to put us over the edge. Beal would be ideal, maybe Jeff Bower has the balls to pull off a big trade for him or someone of that caliber.

[bwgood77]

One of the biggest problems with this team is on display tonight: the complete void of offense from everyone outside of Booker/Warren/Ayton. As bad as we are on defense, our offense is just as poor.

I know. We really need some offensive fire power....some more threats, especially if we trade TJ. I know we are likely to sign Oubre to a big deal and while I think his personality brings a lot, I also feel we can't expect him to do THAT much on the court. He's always been pretty inconsistent and isn't real efficient and also doesn't move the ball much and is just more of a good energy guy. But if he is one of your main guys and highest paid players what does that mean for the team?

I think we need a major third guy other than Booker/Ayton but I have no idea who that could be.

I've mentally moved on from Warren already, so it was weird for me to even list him in that group. Oubre is fine on offense in that he can create for himself when asked, even if it's not efficient, because in his ideal roll with this team he'll be a 4th option with limited FGA. That doesn't seem to be something Josh has accepted. Warren, on the other hand, doesn't really possess much value unless he's getting a ton of shots up.

We clearly need another guy. This core + any non-Zion draft pick does not have conference finals upside. Even if everything goes right I don't see it. Free agency isn't really a route to get that third guy given our limited cap space and bad reputation. I'd be quite happy picking Morant, but don't feel great about him being that big piece to put us over the edge. Beal would be ideal, maybe Jeff Bower has the balls to pull off a big trade for him or someone of that caliber.

I don't know that we have the pieces to pull off a trade for someone of that caliber. Though Beal probably isn't the best fit either with Booker even though I really like Beal, especially at $37 million a year or whatever he would make on his next deal.

But yeah, not even close to conference finals. I just hope we don't end up paying Oubre a ton given I don't really see him as a starting guy on a 2nd round playoff team unless he vastly improves (which he could, I guess).

[grumpysaddle]

This game is boring as ****. I started it at the end of the 2nd quarter, so I was just skipping ahead 20 seconds every few seconds, but now I'm caught up.

Really bummed on all the "injuries" to end the season. The team was finally looking like an NBA level team and then the last month was just snoozefest. Only player I care to watch is Bridges, but he's kind of boring on his own with what's around him. He's more exciting as that complimentary piece with basically all the "injured" players playing with him.

[TheLogician]

Do we pass the Cavs with the L tonight?

[grumpysaddle]

Fredette is so bad. Shows the talent disparity between the NBA and Chinese league that he could score whatever he scored there. Was it 70? He looks like the worst player in the NBA.