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Wednesday, March 9th 5.30 PM AZT
FTX Arena
Miami, FL

VS


HEAT
(44-22 | 23-7 Home)


G K. Lowry
G D. Robinson
F J. Butler
F PJ Tucker
C B. Adebayo

Reserves:
Herro/Oladipo/Guy/Highsmith/Martin/Dedmon/Yurtseven/Vincent/Struss/Haslem


SUNS
(51-13 | 23-6 Away)


G Cam Payne
G Devin Booker
F Mikal Bridges
F Jae Crowder
C Deandre Ayton

Reserves:
Shamet/Javale/Bizzy/Ish/Torrey/Holiday/Elf

OUT:
Cam Johsnon
Chris Paul
Dario Saric
Frank Kamisnky

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Is Butler doing a Shooter McGavin impression?

Miami favored by -8 tomorrow. That’s an interesting line.


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i doing my part guys. i have lowry on one of my fantasy teams and i am benching him.

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Number to claim a top 6 automatic playoff spot
down to 2
any combination of Suns victories and Twolves losses

Calvin Klein wrote:
OUT:
Cam Johsnon
Devin Booker
Chris Paul
Dario Saric
Frank Kamisnky

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I thought there was a report that Booker would be back for this game? I was hoping Cam might be too.

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Not sure I agree flying Booker to Miami for one road game and back home, but as a fan, I’m excited for the game!


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Jdiddy701 wrote:Not sure I agree flying Booker to Miami for one road game and back home, but as a fan, I’m excited for the game!


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Yeah, I assumed even if he was cleared, he wouldn't play today. Also would give him some time to recover.

Mr Puddles wrote:

Calvin Klein wrote:
OUT:
Cam Johsnon
Devin Booker
Chris Paul
Dario Saric
Frank Kamisnky

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I thought there was a report that Booker would be back for this game? I was hoping Cam might be too.

Yeah, I created the thread last night and I update it as info comes out (If I'm free of course )

Jdiddy701 wrote:Not sure I agree flying Booker to Miami for one road game and back home, but as a fan, I’m excited for the game!


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is it possible that he was already in Miami for some time but just quarantined?

Calvin Klein wrote:

Jdiddy701 wrote:Not sure I agree flying Booker to Miami for one road game and back home, but as a fan, I’m excited for the game!


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Yeah, I assumed even if he was cleared, he wouldn't play today. Also would give him some time to recover.

Yup. I'm surprised he's playing and I'm more surprised about what I'm about to say:

I kinda wanna see more Shamet. We need him to get his confidence and shot back for the playoffs. A high profile game like this would do wonders for him.

Slim Charless wrote:

Calvin Klein wrote:

Jdiddy701 wrote:Not sure I agree flying Booker to Miami for one road game and back home, but as a fan, I’m excited for the game!


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Yeah, I assumed even if he was cleared, he wouldn't play today. Also would give him some time to recover.

Yup. I'm surprised he's playing and I'm more surprised about what I'm about to say:

I kinda wanna see more Shamet. We need him to get his confidence and shot back for the playoffs. A high profile game like this would do wonders for him.

Well we can always bring Book off the bench, so we can have that “scoring pop” from the bench.

But if Shamet had/has a stinker in a high profile game, it could do the opposite for his confidence. I’m just hoping Book is in the right conditioning state to play tonight. I would hate to rush him back, only to force him to sit out more.

RunDogGun wrote:

Slim Charless wrote:

Calvin Klein wrote:
Yeah, I assumed even if he was cleared, he wouldn't play today. Also would give him some time to recover.

Yup. I'm surprised he's playing and I'm more surprised about what I'm about to say:

I kinda wanna see more Shamet. We need him to get his confidence and shot back for the playoffs. A high profile game like this would do wonders for him.

Well we can always bring Book off the bench, so we can have that “scoring pop” from the bench.

But if Shamet had/has a stinker in a high profile game, it could do the opposite for his confidence. I’m just hoping Book is in the right conditioning state to play tonight. I would hate to rush him back, only to force him to sit out more.

That's why I'd rather just sit him and let the guys finish out this road trip as is. But knowing Booker, he probably wants revenge for that beating Miami gave us a month ago and wants to go right at Jimmy and Kyle.

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RunDogGun wrote:

Slim Charless wrote:j

Yup. I'm surprised he's playing and I'm more surprised about what I'm about to say:

I kinda wanna see more Shamet. We need him to get his confidence and shot back for the playoffs. A high profile game like this would do wonders for him.

Well we can always bring Book off the bench, so we can have that “scoring pop” from the bench.

But if Shamet had/has a stinker in a high profile game, it could do the opposite for his confidence. I’m just hoping Book is in the right conditioning state to play tonight. I would hate to rush him back, only to force him to sit out more.

That's why I'd rather just sit him and let the guys finish out this road trip as is. But knowing Booker, he probably wants revenge for that beating Miami gave us a month ago and wants to go right at Jimmy and Kyle.

Well hopefully he plays within the system, and doesn’t go into ball hog mode. A quiet triple double would be nice though, like a 20/10/12. Either way, I hope Mikal is feeling ok, and Booker doesn’t force things. Back to back great games from Ayton would be nice as well.

I think its good to go full throttle against a potential finalist, also they are a bit of a bogey team with their shooters going off on us.

Miami's a bad matchup for the suns because so much of the suns success is being more disciplined on both sides of the ball anr taking the opportunities their opponent gives them when they make mistakes. Miami is a well coached team that doesn't make many mistakes.

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RunDogGun wrote:

Slim Charless wrote:

Calvin Klein wrote:
Yeah, I assumed even if he was cleared, he wouldn't play today. Also would give him some time to recover.

Yup. I'm surprised he's playing and I'm more surprised about what I'm about to say:

I kinda wanna see more Shamet. We need him to get his confidence and shot back for the playoffs. A high profile game like this would do wonders for him.

Well we can always bring Book off the bench, so we can have that “scoring pop” from the bench.

But if Shamet had/has a stinker in a high profile game, it could do the opposite for his confidence. I’m just hoping Book is in the right conditioning state to play tonight. I would hate to rush him back, only to force him to sit out more.

Hopefully Shamet still gets plenty of minutes with Paul out. 6th man role.

I think he has found it tough just backing up Book which means coming in after sitting down for a full 30 minute NBA quater.

You're absolutely cooled down and stiff after that long

Mulhollanddrive wrote:I think its good to go full throttle against a potential finalist, also they are a bit of a bogey team with their shooters going off on us.

I like what Giannis said about having a tough remaining schedule

"Obviously we have the hardest schedule left," Antetokounmpo said after the Bucks beat the Suns. "You can take it in a bad way, or you can take it in a good way. Just playing a lot of games that they're close games, and we learn how to execute down the stretch and who's gonna get the ball? Who's gonna set the screens? Which plays we gonna run? Just getting ourselves ready for that atmosphere and that environment on the road or at home."

Rest is good but so is being locked in as a team