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Who: Phoenix Suns @ Denver Nuggets

When: Tuesday, May 9th @ 7:00pm (10:00ET) l TNT

Where: Ball Arena, Denver, CO







Phoenix Suns starting lineup:


C- Ayton

F- Durant

F- Okogie

G- Booker

G- CamP



Reserves: Shamet/Landale/Biyombo/Ross/Warren





Denver Nuggets starting lineup:


C- Jokic

F- Gordon

F- Porter

G- KCP

G- Murray


Reserves: Brown/Green/Braun

Please win on my birthday will be the greatest bday present ever. Go Suns!

Suns in 6.

Time to exorcise 2021

LETS STEAL THIS ONE

If the suns continue pushing the pace and going hard to the rim to maintain an offensive rythym and force the refs to actually call some fouls on Denver for a change, then we have a good chance! ALSO, the suns need to run switches off of picks to get Jokic defending Booker or Durant to try and tet him in foul trouble or at least frustrated some wearing him out defensively. Maybe also catch him in a pick n roll (defensively) against Payne who can beat him to the rim pretty easily.

Run doubles at Jokic in the post and keep crisp defensive rotations and good communication. The inverse for Murray would be getting switches onto Murray wherein he has to defend Ayton, Landale and Durant! Draw Gordon with back cuts to the hoop and dish it off to a teammate at the last moment and he'll go for the block and draw a foul 80-90% of the time!

Lastly, GANG REBOUND AND RUN, RUN, RUN!!! Denver simply doesn't have any top notch defenders or rim protectors to stop our key players on the fastbreak! The additional benefit of pushing the pace is when Ayton runs to the rim or downhill, it's more instinctual and he has less time to overthink!!!

More confident in a win with CP3 out. Denver is a tough place to play for young legs let alone Jurassic legs.

grumpysaddle wrote:More confident in a win with CP3 out. Denver is a tough place to play for young legs let alone Jurassic legs.

I heard Chris Paul is making two new commercials for State Farm during his injury. I think commercial more important than a silly playoff game.

I think this game decides the series. We need to continue to play our shooters and push the ball whenever Jokic is on the court.

It’s my birthday today I hope the Suns win. Also I’m very old older than dirt. If I live another 5 years I’ll consider myself a lucky mofo. Goodnight folks and go suns.

Just need to make it past Nuggets. We played the Lakers well in recent years though the teams are different now. LeBron being old has not changed though. DA will play a lot better against less physical player in AD.

SunsRback4Good wrote:It’s my birthday today I hope the Suns win. Also I’m very old older than dirt. If I live another 5 years I’ll consider myself a lucky mofo. Goodnight folks and go suns.

Happy Birthday man! From all of us here on the Suns board and Chris Paul's brother Clif Paul too...lol.

My sources have confirmed that the magnets are turned on again for us.

Booker going Supernova again.

grumpysaddle wrote:More confident in a win with CP3 out. Denver is a tough place to play for young legs let alone Jurassic legs.

I thought he was doing really well in game 2. We had an 8 point lead in a game where everyone but Booker was shooting below 40%. As soon as he went out, our offense crumbled. He was doing a great job defensively that game too.

Feel good about this one. Hope Ayton keeps up the hustle from the last game.

Also, Monty unleash and empower Ross and TJ. We saw that Lonny Walker outburst that won Lakers the game yesterday, were going to need those too if we want to win a title. Those guys are capable of it, and we know Shamet isn't playing like that again

LV-Suns wrote:

grumpysaddle wrote:More confident in a win with CP3 out. Denver is a tough place to play for young legs let alone Jurassic legs.

I thought he was doing really well in game 2. We had an 8 point lead in a game where everyone but Booker was shooting below 40%. As soon as he went out, our offense crumbled. He was doing a great job defensively that game too.

people hate too much on CP3 and seem to forget he is a hundred years old. He is still good but can't go the whole game at that level.
He was playing great in game 2 until the injury. It was crazy playing him 40 minutes a night.

I was listening to DNVR Sports podcast about game 4 and the hosts admitted that pushing the pace was working for us, as KCP and Murray appeared tired towards the end of the game while Booker and KD looked fresh despite having played heavy minutes throughout the playoffs. I think people are starting to understand that it's not just the number of minutes, but the way the minutes are played and the conditioning of the players. Booker seems to be a robot and Durant knows how to pace himself. Hope we bring energy.

Referee assignments tonight. We get Foul Bae and Bill Kennedy!

https://official.nba.com/referee-assignments/

Denver is favored by -6 tonight. Seems like the betting apps don’t expect the Suns to win this.


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