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NBA PLAYOFFS: Round 2 l Game 1: (4) Phoenix Suns @ (1) Denver Nuggets l Saturday l 5:30pm l TNT

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Honest answer no bias, who wins in how many games?

Nuggets in 4
1
2%
Suns in 4
4
8%
Nuggets in 5
3
6%
Suns in 5
1
2%
Nuggets in 6
7
14%
Suns in 6
21
42%
Nuggets in 7
4
8%
Suns in 7
9
18%
 
Total votes: 50

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Re: NBA PLAYOFFS: Round 2 l Game 1: (4) Phoenix Suns @ (1) Denver Nuggets l Saturday l 5:30pm l TNT 

Post#501 » by SunsRback4Good » Sun Apr 30, 2023 2:57 am

Guys I’m seriously furious ATM. I’m not sure how I can watch our team play next game after this poor performance. We might not get swept but I can’t see us winning let alone forcing a game 7.
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Re: NBA PLAYOFFS: Round 2 l Game 1: (4) Phoenix Suns @ (1) Denver Nuggets l Saturday l 5:30pm l TNT 

Post#502 » by LookToShoot » Sun Apr 30, 2023 2:57 am

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Revived wrote:Dude shouldn’t you be worried about getting curb stomped by the Heat? If there’s a bigger pssy than Ayton in basketball, it’s Julius Randle.


I'm not a Nuggets fan, just watching the game like millions of people in America. Where did I trash the Suns? All I gave was a prediction. If you think the Heat beat the Knicks, cool. That's called an opinion.


Dude why are you in here bashing the SUNS?

You can do that on the GB.


Saying Nuggets in 5 isn't bashing the Suns, it's literally one of the options on the poll. I'm out , anyway. It's sensitive superfans that kill this forum.
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Re: NBA PLAYOFFS: Round 2 l Game 1: (4) Phoenix Suns @ (1) Denver Nuggets l Saturday l 5:30pm l TNT 

Post#503 » by Slim Charless » Sun Apr 30, 2023 2:58 am

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Ayton spent most the game on switches against guards. Malone's game plan is Milwaukee's. Force the Ayton switch and then crash the board with both wings and Jokic. And our pansy ass team refuses to box ANY of them out.


Don't bother explaining it. I've said that over and over. No one watches apparently. No one understands. Just do this instead:



I HATE AYTON AND I HOPE HE DIES TONIGHT VIOLENTLY. THAT WAY WE CAN WIN THE GAME BY ELEVENTY BILLION POINTS.


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... but typical from an Ayton defender. Dude has been getting wrecked ALL NIGHT by Jokic, not to mention just standing around and not even trying to rebound.


What do you mean? I'm on your side. Didn't you see the part where I said Ayton needs to die and that I hate him? It's in capital letters. Maybe I needed to bold it and put it in red or something.

But yeah, anyways let's rush the team hotel and murder Ayton before game 2. That way everything will be fixed and the Suns will go on and not lose a single game ever again in life.
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Post#504 » by kennydorglas » Sun Apr 30, 2023 2:58 am

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Post#505 » by Revived » Sun Apr 30, 2023 2:58 am

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Revived wrote:
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So you gave me a warning for saying Nuggets in 5 even though that's one of the options in this thread?

Dude shouldn’t you be worried about getting curb stomped by the Heat? If there’s a bigger pssy than Ayton in basketball, it’s Julius Randle.


I'm not a Nuggets fan, just watching the game like millions of people in America. Where did I trash the Suns? All I gave was a prediction. If you think the Heat beat the Knicks, cool. That's called an opinion.

And you’re not a Suns fan either. Your prediction neither your “I told you so” to Quigglez is welcome here while we’re in the middle of a loss.

I got a 12 hr banned on the Bucks forum for saying Crowder sucks recently but this dude and few other idiots are allowed to roam around on our forum without issue? Lilfishi/Quigglez/Bwgood really guys?
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Post#506 » by TeamTragic » Sun Apr 30, 2023 2:59 am

What has Monty been doing since we knew we were facing the Nuggets?

Monty doesn't prepare himself nor does he prepare this team.
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Re: NBA PLAYOFFS: Round 2 l Game 1: (4) Phoenix Suns @ (1) Denver Nuggets l Saturday l 5:30pm l TNT 

Post#507 » by lilfishi22 » Sun Apr 30, 2023 2:59 am

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kennydorglas wrote:We're LITERALLY refusing to take 3's.
Its CRAZY


I'm no Jason Kidd fan but he generates a ton of 3s with 1 less efficient supserstar than the 2 we have. Monty's entire gampelan should be geared around 3s for players in THIS order: Book / Durant, Lee, CP3, Ross, or dunks for Ayton / BIyombo.

Instead we get push shot floaters from our bigs or contested 2s for our guys and it only works b/c those guys are historically good at those contested 2s.

You cannot just ignore math and win this series. It shrinks the margin of error so very much. Suns will not shoot better form 2 the rest of the way. They either will defend and start paying attention to 3s and the value of offensive rebounds or they are going home with the most talent on the roster YET AGAIN.

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Said this time and time again, the 3PT is the great equaliser these days when you don't have the talent advantage. Clippers were able to keep games close because they weren't afraid to shoot 3s and had an offense that got them 3s.
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Post#508 » by grumpysaddle » Sun Apr 30, 2023 3:00 am

Played with the intensity of a preseason game and surprise surprise.
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Post#509 » by Frank Lee » Sun Apr 30, 2023 3:00 am

Top to bottom they are the better team, coach included. We might win 2 games, but easily could get swept. It would be fitting. We have to get good games from 3 guys other than Book and KD to win at this level. Thats just not happening.

This is not a champ level squad. A spankin would surely cause a shake up somewheres in this organization.

I’ll just try to bank some prop bets on our way out the door. Glad i nabbed Denver to win the west a while back at 8/1.

Good crowd / arena vibe too. Way less electronic crap
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Re: NBA PLAYOFFS: Round 2 l Game 1: (4) Phoenix Suns @ (1) Denver Nuggets l Saturday l 5:30pm l TNT 

Post#510 » by SkyBill40 » Sun Apr 30, 2023 3:01 am

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SkyBill40 wrote:
Slim Charless wrote:
Don't bother explaining it. I've said that over and over. No one watches apparently. No one understands. Just do this instead:



I HATE AYTON AND I HOPE HE DIES TONIGHT VIOLENTLY. THAT WAY WE CAN WIN THE GAME BY ELEVENTY BILLION POINTS.


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... but typical from an Ayton defender. Dude has been getting wrecked ALL NIGHT by Jokic, not to mention just standing around and not even trying to rebound.


What do you mean? I'm on your side. Didn't you see the part where I said Ayton needs to die and that I hate him? It's in capital letters. Maybe I needed to bold it and put it in red or something.

But yeah, anyways let's rush the team hotel and murder Ayton before game 2. That way everything will be fixed and the Suns will go on and not lose a single game ever again in life.
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Post#511 » by kennydorglas » Sun Apr 30, 2023 3:01 am

so mikal and cam actually made the system work bc they actually shot the 3 even if Moronty said no?
holy crap this is not what I envision when we got KD here.
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Post#512 » by Revived » Sun Apr 30, 2023 3:01 am

Even with the footage of Ayton I posted earlier, I’ll say this loss isn’t mostly on Ayton. We have had losses where you can clearly point to him but this isn’t it. He’s a big part of it but it’s not mostly on him.

This is on Monty. Suns have no rhyme or rhythm to what they’re doing defensively and there’s zero plays being run offensively just iso chucks. Very few 3pt attempts and again he has no idea who to play off the bench.

Monty should’ve been fired after losing by 60 to the Mavs last season. I hope Ishbia’s stupid ass can see this and fires him because that’s the only way he’ll get any chance at a ROI on his stupid ass trade.

And back to the Ayton front, Ayton should never have been brought back after he beefed with Monty who is a terrible HC but is a super likable coach by basically every player in the league except DA apparently. That should’ve been a clue. And considering how much Ayton gets yelled at by even the Suns players themselves like Booker/Durant/Craig/Bridges (when he was here)/Payne etc on the court, he’s not well liked in the locker room either. Nobody in the NBA respects him as evidenced by Mitchell Robinson trolling him on IG earlier this season calling him soft.

Matching his contract was stupid as hell. And now we’re stuck with him because nobody wants this big of a contract unless they can dump a bad contract of their own.
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Post#513 » by Qwigglez » Sun Apr 30, 2023 3:01 am

LookToShoot wrote:
Qwigglez wrote:Gotta carve em up with Jokic on the bench.


So you gave me a warning for saying Nuggets in 5 even though that's one of the options in this thread?


The poll option in the thread remains anonymous.
If you want to discuss your opinion on the series, do so on the GB. Making remarks such as saying the Nuggets in 5 on a Suns board will likely not be received well by the Suns community.
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Post#514 » by AtheJ415 » Sun Apr 30, 2023 3:01 am

Ayton played lazy but I'm sick of losing titles watching guys like Jrue Holiday, Christian Braun, and insert random undersized role player here grab game changing offensive rebounds. 3 years now of watching CP3 standing under the hoop yelling at the big guy after guys like Braun get boards.

When other teams double the screen on Book / Durant and we make the pocket pass to Ayton, we are playing 3 on 2 (because our 4th guy is always above the elbow / out of play). If Mike Malone was our coach Ayton would either 1. Dunk, or 2. Pass to one of the 3 point shooters and the opposite 3 point shooter AND Ayton would go for the offensive board position AND the shooter would crash as well. Math dictates we should do this because it is a fast break situation. Or, the 4th guy should CUT from the elbow to the hoop as a release valve.

Instead, under Monty, the SECOND the offensive player releases the ball, whether that is Ayton's floater or the corner 3, ALL players other than Ayton and sometimes also Ayton immediately leave the area to go back on D, where we are not exactly juggernauts to begin with. We have an overwhelming talent advantage but Monty's scheme v. Malone' is going to ruin it for us unless Book / Durant can save us themselves.

Also, one way to beat up a fast break team is to crash the glass and punish the early leakouts. Again, we NEVER force another team to adjust to us.
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Post#515 » by lilfishi22 » Sun Apr 30, 2023 3:02 am

Slim Charless wrote:
SkyBill40 wrote:
Slim Charless wrote:
Don't bother explaining it. I've said that over and over. No one watches apparently. No one understands. Just do this instead:



I HATE AYTON AND I HOPE HE DIES TONIGHT VIOLENTLY. THAT WAY WE CAN WIN THE GAME BY ELEVENTY BILLION POINTS.


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... but typical from an Ayton defender. Dude has been getting wrecked ALL NIGHT by Jokic, not to mention just standing around and not even trying to rebound.


What do you mean? I'm on your side. Didn't you see the part where I said Ayton needs to die and that I hate him? It's in capital letters. Maybe I needed to bold it and put it in red or something.

But yeah, anyways let's rush the team hotel and murder Ayton before game 2. That way everything will be fixed and the Suns will go on and not lose a single game ever again in life.

Serious question Slim, do you truly believe we choose to specifically block out DA from our view? ie We watch both teams play but somehow are blind to DA on the court and we're just making up lies?
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Post#516 » by kennydorglas » Sun Apr 30, 2023 3:02 am

grumpysaddle wrote:Played with the intensity of a preseason game and surprise surprise.


We always going to be outhustled in Denver tho.
Not sure how we'll do it, but we DESPERATE need to steal one game from them there.
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Post#517 » by bigfoot » Sun Apr 30, 2023 3:03 am

Ayton, the $32m paperweight
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Post#518 » by RaisingArizona » Sun Apr 30, 2023 3:04 am

kennydorglas wrote:
RaisingArizona wrote:Diamondbacks tapping that booty tho


baby Dbacks will save our AZ jinx

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Post#519 » by Revived » Sun Apr 30, 2023 3:05 am

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Post#520 » by Jdiddy701 » Sun Apr 30, 2023 3:05 am

One game, I’m not worried. Suns will figure it out.


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