Game 20: Phoenix Suns (11-8) @ New Orleans Pelicans (7-12) l Wednesday l 7:30pm l ESPN l FSNAZ

[SunsRback4Good]

Who: Phoenix Suns @ New Orleans Pelicans

When: Wednesday, Feb 3rd @ 7:30pm (9:30 ET), ESPN, FSNAZ

Where: Smoothie King Center, New Orleans, LA








Phoenix Suns starting lineup:

C- Ayton

F- Cam

F- Bridges

G- Booker

G- CP3



Reserves: Crowder/Payne/Gallo/Carter/Kaminsky





New Orleans starting lineup:

C- Adams

F- Ingram

F- Zion

G- Bledsoe

G- Ball



Reserves: Hart/Hernangomez/Alexander-Walker/Hayes


Good luck charm!!!

[SlovenianDragon]

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[Mulhollanddrive]

We have a real opportunity to go on a season defining streak now that our top guys have gotten themselves into the season. This game then 7 at home against eastern conference teams. The Chris Paul bump has arrived.

[Wilber85]

Bridges / Ayton - They will score 30 and hold opponents to 20

Booker / Anyone - Will score 50 and hold opponents to 60

[KLEON]

So a early game thread, Suns must be winning

[Mulhollanddrive]

Redick currently being held out due to trade?

[SunsRback4Good]

So a early game thread, Suns must be winning

Winning cures everything hehe

[SunsRback4Good]

Redick currently being held out due to trade?

Is that the main reason why he wont play? If so, I wonder what team will sign him. I could see him going to this three teams either Mavs, Nets or Warriors. Dallas desperately need a reliable shooter which will benefit Luka greatly and help Mavs move up in the standings. Losing Curry/Delon really hurt their spacing. Nets already score a ton but another great shooter to go along Harris would help. As for Warriors Oubre isn't playing great and pairing Reddick alongside Curry would help significantly and get them an 7th/8th seed.

[SunsRback4Good]

We have a real opportunity to go on a season defining streak now that our top guys have gotten themselves into the season. This game then 7 at home against eastern conference teams. The Chris Paul bump has arrived.

So far in these young season, we've had an early 4 game winning streak followed by a three gamer as of recently. If Suns take care of business today and Nuggets lose on the road to Lakers tomorrow night than we are back to 4th seed. Seemed like yesterday we were in 9th seed and just 4 games later could leapfrog 5 teams..

[King4Day]

We have a real opportunity to go on a season defining streak now that our top guys have gotten themselves into the season. This game then 7 at home against eastern conference teams. The Chris Paul bump has arrived.

So far in these young season, we've had an early 4 game winning streak followed by a three gamer as of recently. If Suns take care of business today and Nuggets lose on the road to Lakers tomorrow night than we are back to 4th seed. Seemed like yesterday we were in 9th seed and just 4 games later could leapfrog 5 teams..

I try not to look at all that because it's still too early for moving up to the 4th seed to mean anything yet and because, while we're currently the 5 seed, we could just as easily be the 10th seed by end of week. It'll drive you nuts.

[MrMiyagi]

We have a real opportunity to go on a season defining streak now that our top guys have gotten themselves into the season. This game then 7 at home against eastern conference teams. The Chris Paul bump has arrived.

So far in these young season, we've had an early 4 game winning streak followed by a three gamer as of recently. If Suns take care of business today and Nuggets lose on the road to Lakers tomorrow night than we are back to 4th seed. Seemed like yesterday we were in 9th seed and just 4 games later could leapfrog 5 teams..

I mean, that's the Western Conference this year. We cannot afford to go on a losing streak. We've got to go on a nice run and create some distance. We're only 1 game ahead of the Warriors and Spurs (9th and 10th).

[Barkley6]

We have a real opportunity to go on a season defining streak now that our top guys have gotten themselves into the season. This game then 7 at home against eastern conference teams. The Chris Paul bump has arrived.

So far in these young season, we've had an early 4 game winning streak followed by a three gamer as of recently. If Suns take care of business today and Nuggets lose on the road to Lakers tomorrow night than we are back to 4th seed. Seemed like yesterday we were in 9th seed and just 4 games later could leapfrog 5 teams..

I mean, that's the Western Conference this year. We cannot afford to go on a losing streak. We've got to go on a nice run and create some distance. We're only 1 game ahead of the Warriors and Spurs (9th and 10th).

It's also hard to gauge with teams missing time due to COVID, the difference in the number of games played is huge right now. For example, Memphis has only played 16 games, whereas Utah has played 21. It makes the seeding pretty meaningless at this point.

[SunsRback4Good]

We have a real opportunity to go on a season defining streak now that our top guys have gotten themselves into the season. This game then 7 at home against eastern conference teams. The Chris Paul bump has arrived.

So far in these young season, we've had an early 4 game winning streak followed by a three gamer as of recently. If Suns take care of business today and Nuggets lose on the road to Lakers tomorrow night than we are back to 4th seed. Seemed like yesterday we were in 9th seed and just 4 games later could leapfrog 5 teams..

I try not to look at all that because it's still too early for moving up to the 4th seed to mean anything yet and because, while we're currently the 5 seed, we could just as easily be the 10th seed by end of week. It'll drive you nuts.

Haha! I get what you mean it drives me crazy as well constantly looking at the standings. Just so used to seeing us in the 12th-15th range last 5 years it's a pleasant surprise being top 8. But we should get real feel where our team could be by late Feb, early March which is another 13-14 games away.

[JohnWall2]

Let's hope he keeps cooking today

[ducler]

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[Jarlaxle0204]

Hope they come out to play hard and extend the winning streak. It would be nice to blow them out again but I'd just be happy with the win.

[Saberestar]

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I would prefer to watch Adams playing tonight, he has regressed and he is basically a liability out there as a starter. Not sure what they were thinking extending his contract.

[spanishninja]

So far in these young season, we've had an early 4 game winning streak followed by a three gamer as of recently. If Suns take care of business today and Nuggets lose on the road to Lakers tomorrow night than we are back to 4th seed. Seemed like yesterday we were in 9th seed and just 4 games later could leapfrog 5 teams..

I try not to look at all that because it's still too early for moving up to the 4th seed to mean anything yet and because, while we're currently the 5 seed, we could just as easily be the 10th seed by end of week. It'll drive you nuts.

Haha! I get what you mean it drives me crazy as well constantly looking at the standings. Just so used to seeing us in the 12th-15th range last 5 years it's a pleasant surprise being top 8. But we should get real feel where our team could be by late Feb, early March which is another 13-14 games away.

I think as long as we can get fully healthy again, we're gonna be in the hunt all season. CP3 is not going to let us go on long losing streaks.

[Crives]

Let’s win a game we should win.
Got to get those losses against Wiz/Thunder/Pistons out of our minds.

[Crives]

Really hope we can get into some garbage time minutes over the next couple games. I would like to see some more Jalen Smith minutes.