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Injuries:

Suns
Kevin Durant OUT.
Bradley Beal QUESTIONABLE.

Bucks
Damion Lillard OUT.
Bobby Portis OUT.
Jericho Sims OUT.
AJ Green QUESTIONABLE.

Suns will play faster without KD. Game will be interesting but still lose.

Bucks have a cheat code they are yet to reuse since the 2021 Finals.

Giannis as center.

Giannis skill set and aggressiveness and whistle... makes him even more unstoppable than Jokic.

Bucks likely saving it against a key matchup series.

Anyways, predict this one to be as usual...

Things are gettin' clearer
Yeah I feel free
to bear my skin, yeah that's all me
Nothing and me go hand in hand
Nothing on my skin...
That's my new plan
Nothing is Everything

The tide is high but I'm holdin' on
I'm gonna be your number one
I'm not the kind of girl who gives up just like that,
oh nooooooooohoho

Ugh. I don't know if I can be bothered to watch another game this season seeing I'm so utterly disgusted.

SunsRback4Good wrote:Things are gettin' clearer
Yeah I feel free
to bear my skin, yeah that's all me
Nothing and me go hand in hand
Nothing on my skin...
That's my new plan
Nothing is Everything

I like my skyrizzi

This team has become unwatchable. I’m finally waving my flag and calling it a night. Only took me 4 1/2 months but things must come to an end sooner than later.

At least Al didn't have to witness this atrocity.

Don’t call it a comeback.

SunsRback4Good wrote:Don’t call it a comeback.

Oh, don't worry. There won't be any of that.

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It's baseball season now.

RaisingArizona wrote:It's baseball season now.

Dbacks back to back 8th inning monster comebacks!!!

Lose next two and there is no point in KD getting back and risk injury.

Booker with worst +/- on the team despite big raw numbers while taking 32 shots. -100 in last 4 games. A player you want to build around.

I can't believe that Bradley Beal couldn't play in this game.

I mean...how in the world he can be out with an strain calf (or whatever) for 8 games? IT'S RIDICULOUS.

Saberestar wrote:I can't believe that Bradley Beal couldn't play in this game.

I mean...how in the world he can be out with an strain calf (or whatever) for 8 games? IT'S RIDICULOUS.

Just one of those fluky injuries. Let Beal heal, don't rush him like that. There is always next season.

sunsbg wrote:

Saberestar wrote:I can't believe that Bradley Beal couldn't play in this game.

I mean...how in the world he can be out with an strain calf (or whatever) for 8 games? IT'S RIDICULOUS.

Just one of those fluky injuries. Let Beal heal, don't rush him like that. There is always next season.

I cant imagine how frustrating it has to be to deal with a player like that on your roster.

Over $50M on a player that is a non factor on the court and usually can't play for the most absurd small injuries. I am pretty sure that the coaching staff asked him to play in this game with KD out and he said "NO, thanks" lol.

We traded for him when he was yet 29 years old...how he he can be so broken a player at his 30 and 31 years old without any big injury? IMO he just wants to play a long career (signing more contracts) and he will not risk ANYTHING on the court.

Saberestar wrote:

sunsbg wrote:

Saberestar wrote:I can't believe that Bradley Beal couldn't play in this game.

I mean...how in the world he can be out with an strain calf (or whatever) for 8 games? IT'S RIDICULOUS.

Just one of those fluky injuries. Let Beal heal, don't rush him like that. There is always next season.

I cant imagine how frustrating it has to be to deal with a player like that on your roster.

Over $50M on a player that is a non factor on the court and usually can't play for the most absurd small injuries. I am pretty sure that the coaching staff asked him to play in this game with KD out and he said "NO, thanks" lol.

We traded for him when he was yet 29 years old...how he he can be so broken a player at his 30 and 31 years old without any big injury? IMO he just wants to play a long career (signing more contracts) and he will not risk ANYTHING on the court.

It sounds like anyone with a half a brain would not even consider adding such a player to their roster, specially when you have your franchise player at the same position....and yet.

The obvious I know. But I'm looking at the defensive side of this 28th out of 32 rating and also how it affects our net rating too for the clear picture of our greatest weaknesses that contributed ( in a snowball effect) to everything else.

Saberestar wrote:I can't believe that Bradley Beal couldn't play in this game.

I mean...how in the world he can be out with an strain calf (or whatever) for 8 games? IT'S RIDICULOUS.

Unless the understanding within the front office already is of course that they're not making the playin tournament anyways, and Bradley Beal is already very injury prone.


So they're quietly opting to shut him down for the last few games of the season rather than to risk him getting injured longer and ruining any chance they have to try and trade him again this summer?

They're likely just trying to be strategic towards that goal.