Game 36: Phoenix Suns (27-8) @ Charlotte Hornets (19-17) l Sunday l 5:00pm l BSAZ

[SunsRback4Good]

Who: Phoenix Suns @ Charlotte Hornets

When: Sunday, January 2nd @ 5:00pm (7:00ET) BSAZ

Where: Spectrum Center, Charlotte, NC








Phoenix Suns starting lineup:


C- Smith

F- Cam

F- Bridges

G- Booker

G- CP3



Reserves: Payne/Shamet/Payton/Wainright/Terry





Charlotte Hornets starting lineup:


C- Plumlee

F- Hayward

F- McDaniels

G- Rozier

G- Ball



Reserves: Oubre/Martin/Washington/Smith

[SunsRback4Good]

[spanishninja]

we gonna have bismack for this?

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[Ghost of Kleine]

Kellan Olson (@KellanOlson) Tweeted:
Suns' injury report for tomorrow's game in Charlotte still has Deandre Ayton, Jae Crowder, JaVale McGee and Abdel Nader all listed as out due to health and safety protocols. Only addition is Chandler Hutchison, who is questionable with left knee soreness.

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[Ghost of Kleine]

we gonna have bismack for this?

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It looks like it apparently!
Phoenix Suns (@Suns) Tweeted:
OFFICIAL: Suns sign Bismack Biyombo to a 10-day contract.

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[PittsburghSuns]

Magical season being ruined by Covid. This team is helpless with Ayton and McGee out. How long do these guys have to be out for in this protocol.

[NapoleonII]

Really needed Utah to get that win last night over Green-less GSW.

Homecourt will matter against them and we need to be balls to the wall, even with so many of our guys out. Next man up. Can our guys get a freaking rebound?

I think Monty being out has been huge as well.

[Saberestar]

Magical season being ruined by Covid. This team is helpless with Ayton and McGee out. How long do these guys have to be out for in this protocol.

Bismack Biyombo Sumba.

[sunsbg]

Magical season being ruined by Covid. This team is helpless with Ayton and McGee out. How long do these guys have to be out for in this protocol.

Well, other team players are out as well. This team should not be helpless being that three of the starters are available and many think Cam should replace Crowder in the starting lineup. On top of that Jalen is contributing very well. Shamet and Payne who are main guys off the bench are available as well.

[SunsRback4Good]

Magical season being ruined by Covid. This team is helpless with Ayton and McGee out. How long do these guys have to be out for in this protocol.

Bismack Biyombo Sumba.

Who wants to sex Biyombo?

[bwgood77]

Magical season being ruined by Covid. This team is helpless with Ayton and McGee out. How long do these guys have to be out for in this protocol.

Well, other team players are out as well. This team should not be helpless being that three of the starters are available and many think Cam should replace Crowder in the starting lineup. On top of that Jalen is contributing very well. Shamet and Payne who are main guys off the bench are available as well.

Yeah, other teams have been hurt a lot more by COVID than us, despite our lack of frontcourt hurting as much as anyone, but it's likely only a few games.

I doubt we finish higher than GS anyway given they don't even have Klay back yet and beat us with other multiple players out when we were pretty healthy.

That's fine though. Even though many were not expecting GS being top 3 in west coming into the season, I always thought they would, given their championship pedigree. I did think Klay would be back by about now though. But given the way they are playing, even without him, I imagine they don't see a need to rush it.

They also rested Curry, Green and I think Wiggins in one game that was a loss. It's crazy Utah is killing people but then get beat by GS.

GS is good.

I will be interested to see us play Chicago if both teams are healthy, and Miami. Not sure how long Bam has been out but he's been out for awhile. They still have played pretty well too. Bucks have been missing Lopez many games too, and a lot of other players at start of season. Nets of course too with no Kyrie, who now will play road games. Grizz not terribly far behind either.

[NapoleonII]

Magical season being ruined by Covid. This team is helpless with Ayton and McGee out. How long do these guys have to be out for in this protocol.

Well, other team players are out as well. This team should not be helpless being that three of the starters are available and many think Cam should replace Crowder in the starting lineup. On top of that Jalen is contributing very well. Shamet and Payne who are main guys off the bench are available as well.

Yeah, other teams have been hurt a lot more by COVID than us, despite our lack of frontcourt hurting as much as anyone, but it's likely only a few games.

I doubt we finish higher than GS anyway given they don't even have Klay back yet and beat us with other multiple players out when we were pretty healthy.

That's fine though. Even though many were not expecting GS being top 3 in west coming into the season, I always thought they would, given their championship pedigree. I did think Klay would be back by about now though. But given the way they are playing, even without him, I imagine they don't see a need to rush it.

They also rested Curry, Green and I think Wiggins in one game that was a loss. It's crazy Utah is killing people but then get beat by GS.

GS is good.

I will be interested to see us play Chicago if both teams are healthy, and Miami. Not sure how long Bam has been out but he's been out for awhile. They still have played pretty well too. Bucks have been missing Lopez many games too, and a lot of other players at start of season. Nets of course too with no Kyrie, who now will play road games. Grizz not terribly far behind either.

I think the West is going to be a hard-fought game of paper rock scissors, with teams having a few advantages over particular teams.

Denver > LAC
Suns > Denver
LAC > Suns

With the full strength Warriors being better than everyone, and only us having a shot at beating them. Utah is a gimmick team, their offense and defense do not translate well into playoff success. Lakers are a wildcard. If Anthony Davis and Lebron are 90% healthy and their shooters aren't the carcasses they're running with right now, they can beat anyone. Gotta trade Westbrook tho.

East? Who knows. The Bucks look weaker to me, playoff wise. They're steamrolling in the regular season tho. But like Kareem has said, Brooklyn is gonna kill them boys.

[Iceman36]

Time to get a few wins now. Team has to take games more serious and come out with the urgency to win.

[bwgood77]

Well, other team players are out as well. This team should not be helpless being that three of the starters are available and many think Cam should replace Crowder in the starting lineup. On top of that Jalen is contributing very well. Shamet and Payne who are main guys off the bench are available as well.

Yeah, other teams have been hurt a lot more by COVID than us, despite our lack of frontcourt hurting as much as anyone, but it's likely only a few games.

I doubt we finish higher than GS anyway given they don't even have Klay back yet and beat us with other multiple players out when we were pretty healthy.

That's fine though. Even though many were not expecting GS being top 3 in west coming into the season, I always thought they would, given their championship pedigree. I did think Klay would be back by about now though. But given the way they are playing, even without him, I imagine they don't see a need to rush it.

They also rested Curry, Green and I think Wiggins in one game that was a loss. It's crazy Utah is killing people but then get beat by GS.

GS is good.

I will be interested to see us play Chicago if both teams are healthy, and Miami. Not sure how long Bam has been out but he's been out for awhile. They still have played pretty well too. Bucks have been missing Lopez many games too, and a lot of other players at start of season. Nets of course too with no Kyrie, who now will play road games. Grizz not terribly far behind either.

I think the West is going to be a hard-fought game of paper rock scissors, with teams having a few advantages over particular teams.

Denver > LAC
Suns > Denver
LAC > Suns

With the full strength Warriors being better than everyone, and only us having a shot at beating them. Utah is a gimmick team, their offense and defense do not translate well into playoff success. Lakers are a wildcard. If Anthony Davis and Lebron are 90% healthy and their shooters aren't the carcasses they're running with right now, they can beat anyone. Gotta trade Westbrook tho.

East? Who knows. The Bucks look weaker to me, playoff wise. They're steamrolling in the regular season tho. But like Kareem has said, Brooklyn is gonna kill them boys.

Not sure I trust the Lakers, even with AD. They still were not that good. Their supporting cast sucks, but I will say Westbrook tends to get better and mesh better throughout the season and if AD can get healthy, all those guys step up in the playoffs, particularly LeBron, but with us, so do Paul, Ayton and occasionally Booker...and we have much better depth, though LeBron, AD and Westbrook would play heavy minutes. But neither Westbrook or LeBron great at playing off ball. And I don't trust them to remain healthy.

I just hope COVID doesn't kill the playoffs. I do think by April though, it will be better. The holidays and all the gatherings always hurt with cases in January and deaths in late Jan/Feb but it dies down the next two months. And the positive thing is that most of our players I think will have already had it, assuming all the guys out now did test positive.

Not sure about Booker (though he was out with COVID I think earlier when he was telling people to get educated). Not sure about Bridges or Cam either.

But with most of our team having it already and being vaccinated, their is less chance of everyone on the team getting it, which should further protect those who haven't had it from getting it.

[Mulhollanddrive]

Surprised we're favourites at -2.5 points.

[ducler]

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[Ghost of Kleine]

Kellan Olson (@KellanOlson) Tweeted:
Bismack Biyombo will be active for the Suns today against the Hornets, per Suns

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[SunsRback4Good]

Surprised we're favourites at -2.5 points.

Could be because Bridges and PJ are out due to covid. Bridges is a legit starter putting up nearly 20 a game & PJ gives you 11/5/2 in 25 min of play. Otherwise, I would probably give Charlotte 4-5 point favorite if everyone on their team was healthy.

[NapoleonII]

Miles Bridges has been shooting over 60% against us in our last three match-ups, so, yeah.

We better win this one.

[Mulhollanddrive]

They're at full strength apart from PJ Washington, would be a mammoth character defining win for us.