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Post#101 » by AtheJ415 » Sat Nov 18, 2023 6:42 am

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Jdiddy701 wrote:Does anyone know why Josh Okogie continues to get minutes over Jordan Goodwin?


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Goodwin makes some of the worst offensive decisions imagineable. He is as infuriating to watch on offense as Gordon is to watch on defense.

Josh Okogie does nothing good on offense except occasionally draw fouls.

You guys expect every player to be damn near perfect. Eric Gordon overall has been very good for us, especially being on a vet deal. We’d be in trouble without him honestly. Him and Grayson Allen have done a solid job keeping us afloat with Booker/Beal missing time. Super impressed with the Suns’ depth.

James Jones has done an awesome job with the limited options we had. Eubanks, Gordon, Yuta, Goodwin, Nurk, Allen, and KBD have all done their jobs pretty well, even with key guys out. The only thing JJ screwed up was trading Payne to sign Bol Bol. That’s a killer.

Y’all need to chill out for a bit. With KD and Book, we are very hard to beat. With Beal, I think we have chance to go all the way. It’s gonna come down to health of course for us.


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I expect players to make good decisions. I can live with results if the decision is a remotely decent one. Goodwin is an offensive idiot and Gordon is a lazy defensive idiot. I have problems with both.
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Post#102 » by Jdiddy701 » Sat Nov 18, 2023 6:48 am

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Goodwin makes some of the worst offensive decisions imagineable. He is as infuriating to watch on offense as Gordon is to watch on defense.

Josh Okogie does nothing good on offense except occasionally draw fouls.

You guys expect every player to be damn near perfect. Eric Gordon overall has been very good for us, especially being on a vet deal. We’d be in trouble without him honestly. Him and Grayson Allen have done a solid job keeping us afloat with Booker/Beal missing time. Super impressed with the Suns’ depth.

James Jones has done an awesome job with the limited options we had. Eubanks, Gordon, Yuta, Goodwin, Nurk, Allen, and KBD have all done their jobs pretty well, even with key guys out. The only thing JJ screwed up was trading Payne to sign Bol Bol. That’s a killer.

Y’all need to chill out for a bit. With KD and Book, we are very hard to beat. With Beal, I think we have chance to go all the way. It’s gonna come down to health of course for us.


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I expect players to make good decisions. I can live with results if the decision is a remotely decent one. Goodwin is an offensive idiot and Gordon is a lazy defensive idiot. I have problems with both.

Booker had some awful rotations on defense this game. He needs his playing time reduced too?


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Post#103 » by dremill24 » Sat Nov 18, 2023 6:51 am

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grumpysaddle wrote:Like... 8 of them were at least. And like KD said in the postgame thing, no one played defense tonight. At least we played more offense than them tonight.


So we're just cool w/ that?

When we win, yeah.


I mean thats a little backwards when you consider that the playing defense (or not) part comes before (and influences) the win/loss result...
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Post#104 » by grumpysaddle » Sat Nov 18, 2023 7:03 am

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So we're just cool w/ that?

When we win, yeah.


I mean thats a little backwards when you consider that the playing defense (or not) part comes before (and influences) the win/loss result...

Suns played defense better than the Jazz by 3 points tonight.
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Post#105 » by AtheJ415 » Sat Nov 18, 2023 7:04 am

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Jdiddy701 wrote:Josh Okogie does nothing good on offense except occasionally draw fouls.

You guys expect every player to be damn near perfect. Eric Gordon overall has been very good for us, especially being on a vet deal. We’d be in trouble without him honestly. Him and Grayson Allen have done a solid job keeping us afloat with Booker/Beal missing time. Super impressed with the Suns’ depth.

James Jones has done an awesome job with the limited options we had. Eubanks, Gordon, Yuta, Goodwin, Nurk, Allen, and KBD have all done their jobs pretty well, even with key guys out. The only thing JJ screwed up was trading Payne to sign Bol Bol. That’s a killer.

Y’all need to chill out for a bit. With KD and Book, we are very hard to beat. With Beal, I think we have chance to go all the way. It’s gonna come down to health of course for us.


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I expect players to make good decisions. I can live with results if the decision is a remotely decent one. Goodwin is an offensive idiot and Gordon is a lazy defensive idiot. I have problems with both.

Booker had some awful rotations on defense this game. He needs his playing time reduced too?


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Booker puts forth effort on defense even when he messes up. Gordon puts forth 0 effort on defense. They are not remotely comparable. Gordon is a James Harden defensive meme.
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Post#106 » by Saberestar » Sat Nov 18, 2023 7:13 am

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grumpysaddle wrote:Like... 8 of them were at least. And like KD said in the postgame thing, no one played defense tonight. At least we played more offense than them tonight.


So we're just cool w/ that?


Yeah, I'm furious about this team and the attitude. I have never seen a player in recent memory who tries less on the defensive end than Eric Gordon. When anybody turns it over and he's the man back he gets out of the way and gives up the dunk. He often loses his man when defending off ball. He frequently helps for absolutely no reason on guys already covered or even tonight he did so when the big slid down to help leading to a wide open and made 3 by Clarkson.

He is a joke. I get he's old and slower and I don't expect elite defense from him at all but I expect him to be engaged and to put forth effort. This team acts too cool to try and Im tired of the "wait until we are healthy" excuse. We should not need overhwelming talent to beat the Spurs, Jazz, or this terrible Laker team.

And it's not just on defense. On offense we allow guys to make terrible decisions. Goodwin going for the crazy dunk over Horton-Tucker when both Booker and Little were there for dump offs which would guarantee a dunk or and-1. We also are in the habit of bitching at the refs or laughing about a play while the other team sprints down and plays with numbers. Our entire team was asleep on n inbound leading to a dunk. I watch a lot throughout the league. Our effort level is inexcusable. Our focus in inexcusable. THe only team who plays less serious than us is the Wizards.

And all of that after a win lol...

We played a very good game on the road. It was a good win.

The Jazz are a solid team and they play better without Kessler, he is a a good C but too raw yet.
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Post#107 » by AtheJ415 » Sat Nov 18, 2023 7:27 am

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dremill24 wrote:
So we're just cool w/ that?


Yeah, I'm furious about this team and the attitude. I have never seen a player in recent memory who tries less on the defensive end than Eric Gordon. When anybody turns it over and he's the man back he gets out of the way and gives up the dunk. He often loses his man when defending off ball. He frequently helps for absolutely no reason on guys already covered or even tonight he did so when the big slid down to help leading to a wide open and made 3 by Clarkson.

He is a joke. I get he's old and slower and I don't expect elite defense from him at all but I expect him to be engaged and to put forth effort. This team acts too cool to try and Im tired of the "wait until we are healthy" excuse. We should not need overhwelming talent to beat the Spurs, Jazz, or this terrible Laker team.

And it's not just on defense. On offense we allow guys to make terrible decisions. Goodwin going for the crazy dunk over Horton-Tucker when both Booker and Little were there for dump offs which would guarantee a dunk or and-1. We also are in the habit of bitching at the refs or laughing about a play while the other team sprints down and plays with numbers. Our entire team was asleep on n inbound leading to a dunk. I watch a lot throughout the league. Our effort level is inexcusable. Our focus in inexcusable. THe only team who plays less serious than us is the Wizards.

And all of that after a win lol...

We played a very good game on the road. It was a good win.

The Jazz are a solid team and they play better without Kessler, he is a a good C but too raw yet.


The Jazz are a team we overmatch and are not particularly good offensively. They should not be scoring 130+ on us, but we have a number of role players who are being allowed to play lazy basketball and make selfish decisions and for me, as a fan who expects this team to contend for a title, it is disgusting basketball to watch. In the words of KD, "no defense was played tonight". How does that happen for a team that is supposedly hungry to win a title?

I never want to see Eric Gordon on the defensive end again. It sets a horrendous example for the rest of the team. How he is getting more minutes than Bates Diop and every other role player despite being allowed to tank and barely move on that end I will never know.

I want the guys on this team to play hard all the time and make good decisions consistently. It's a veteran group and the role players have a very easy job because Book and KD do much of the work for them. Vogel remains a big problem imo.
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Post#108 » by enigmatics » Sat Nov 18, 2023 7:35 am

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grumpysaddle wrote:Even in wins some posters are insufferable with their negativity.

I seriously don’t get it.. every player has literally contributed for us this season. Our depth is so much better than last year. I wish we had this team last year against the Nuggets in the playoffs.


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The depth is marginally better than last year at this point and that's also by default because of how bad it was. I can confidently say that right now with how easily the team blows leads when the starters get their rest.

They may improve as the year goes on, but sorry I'm not seeing what you're seeing. As someone else pointed out it's a reason why Book/Durant are only really seeing around 20mins together each of the last few games.
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Post#109 » by AtheJ415 » Sat Nov 18, 2023 7:41 am

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Jdiddy701 wrote:
grumpysaddle wrote:Even in wins some posters are insufferable with their negativity.

I seriously don’t get it.. every player has literally contributed for us this season. Our depth is so much better than last year. I wish we had this team last year against the Nuggets in the playoffs.


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The depth is marginally better than last year at this point and that's also by default because of how bad it was last year. I can confidently say that right now with how easily the team blows leads when the starters get their rest.

They may improve as the year goes on, but sorry I'm not seeing what you're seeing. As someone else pointed out it's a reason why the Book/Durant are only really seeing around 20mins together each of the last few games.


Many of the posters are casuals who think if a guy shoots well he is "better".

The depth I do think is better, but I agree it's not by a ton. I would rather have Ayton right now even though Allen seems to be the best guy we got back in that deal (Nurkic's passing does not make up for his poor shooting and defense).

I am mostly concerned that I have not seen improvement in effort level by the role players and in offensive schemes especially in the 4th. Booker has helped with the turnovers and efficiency as expected, but we still allow the opposition to dictate who our shooter is way too often, and we make strategic mistakes on both ends. I want this team's effort and decision-making to be elite, and not to just sit there saying nothing is wrong because we are not 100% healthy. We should have won this game by double digits but we allowed a very mediocre team to obliterate us on the defensive end.
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Post#110 » by garrick » Sat Nov 18, 2023 7:44 am

Saberestar wrote:
AtheJ415 wrote:
dremill24 wrote:
So we're just cool w/ that?


Yeah, I'm furious about this team and the attitude. I have never seen a player in recent memory who tries less on the defensive end than Eric Gordon. When anybody turns it over and he's the man back he gets out of the way and gives up the dunk. He often loses his man when defending off ball. He frequently helps for absolutely no reason on guys already covered or even tonight he did so when the big slid down to help leading to a wide open and made 3 by Clarkson.

He is a joke. I get he's old and slower and I don't expect elite defense from him at all but I expect him to be engaged and to put forth effort. This team acts too cool to try and Im tired of the "wait until we are healthy" excuse. We should not need overhwelming talent to beat the Spurs, Jazz, or this terrible Laker team.

And it's not just on defense. On offense we allow guys to make terrible decisions. Goodwin going for the crazy dunk over Horton-Tucker when both Booker and Little were there for dump offs which would guarantee a dunk or and-1. We also are in the habit of bitching at the refs or laughing about a play while the other team sprints down and plays with numbers. Our entire team was asleep on n inbound leading to a dunk. I watch a lot throughout the league. Our effort level is inexcusable. Our focus in inexcusable. THe only team who plays less serious than us is the Wizards.

And all of that after a win lol...

We played a very good game on the road. It was a good win.

The Jazz are a solid team and they play better without Kessler, he is a a good C but too raw yet.


The Jazz aren't an elite team and the Suns with KD and Booker should be not be struggling to beat this Utah team. How bad would we look against Denver, Lakers or Clippers with this level of play?

I think the Wolves win was a fluke as they were coming off a B2B while we were well rested.
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Post#111 » by Jdiddy701 » Sat Nov 18, 2023 7:45 am

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Jdiddy701 wrote:
grumpysaddle wrote:Even in wins some posters are insufferable with their negativity.

I seriously don’t get it.. every player has literally contributed for us this season. Our depth is so much better than last year. I wish we had this team last year against the Nuggets in the playoffs.


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The depth is marginally better than last year at this point and that's also by default because of how bad it was. I can confidently say that right now with how easily the team blows leads when the starters get their rest.

They may improve as the year goes on, but sorry I'm not seeing what you're seeing. As someone else pointed out it's a reason why Book/Durant are only really seeing around 20mins together each of the last few games.

It’s pretty smart to stagger them. As long as one is on the floor at all times, the Suns will get good looks throughout the entire game. Not a lot of teams have the luxury of having a player like that on the floor at all times. Do you want to be reminded of how we looked earlier in the season when KD was off the floor when Book and Beal were out?

You also have to remember Booker is still on limited minutes.


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Post#112 » by Jdiddy701 » Sat Nov 18, 2023 7:48 am

AtheJ415 wrote:
enigmatics wrote:
Jdiddy701 wrote:I seriously don’t get it.. every player has literally contributed for us this season. Our depth is so much better than last year. I wish we had this team last year against the Nuggets in the playoffs.


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The depth is marginally better than last year at this point and that's also by default because of how bad it was last year. I can confidently say that right now with how easily the team blows leads when the starters get their rest.

They may improve as the year goes on, but sorry I'm not seeing what you're seeing. As someone else pointed out it's a reason why the Book/Durant are only really seeing around 20mins together each of the last few games.


Many of the posters are casuals who think if a guy shoots well he is "better".

The depth I do think is better, but I agree it's not by a ton. I would rather have Ayton right now even though Allen seems to be the best guy we got back in that deal (Nurkic's passing does not make up for his poor shooting and defense).

I am mostly concerned that I have not seen improvement in effort level by the role players and in offensive schemes especially in the 4th. Booker has helped with the turnovers and efficiency as expected, but we still allow the opposition to dictate who our shooter is way too often, and we make strategic mistakes on both ends. I want this team's effort and decision-making to be elite, and not to just sit there saying nothing is wrong because we are not 100% healthy. We should have won this game by double digits but we allowed a very mediocre team to obliterate us on the defensive end.

We should have won this game by double digits? The Jazz are not an easy team, especially not at home. Tonight was a very good win for the Suns. I’ll take any win we can, while we work Book back, and work through the kinks.


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Post#113 » by AtheJ415 » Sat Nov 18, 2023 7:50 am

garrick wrote:
Saberestar wrote:
AtheJ415 wrote:
Yeah, I'm furious about this team and the attitude. I have never seen a player in recent memory who tries less on the defensive end than Eric Gordon. When anybody turns it over and he's the man back he gets out of the way and gives up the dunk. He often loses his man when defending off ball. He frequently helps for absolutely no reason on guys already covered or even tonight he did so when the big slid down to help leading to a wide open and made 3 by Clarkson.

He is a joke. I get he's old and slower and I don't expect elite defense from him at all but I expect him to be engaged and to put forth effort. This team acts too cool to try and Im tired of the "wait until we are healthy" excuse. We should not need overhwelming talent to beat the Spurs, Jazz, or this terrible Laker team.

And it's not just on defense. On offense we allow guys to make terrible decisions. Goodwin going for the crazy dunk over Horton-Tucker when both Booker and Little were there for dump offs which would guarantee a dunk or and-1. We also are in the habit of bitching at the refs or laughing about a play while the other team sprints down and plays with numbers. Our entire team was asleep on n inbound leading to a dunk. I watch a lot throughout the league. Our effort level is inexcusable. Our focus in inexcusable. THe only team who plays less serious than us is the Wizards.

And all of that after a win lol...

We played a very good game on the road. It was a good win.

The Jazz are a solid team and they play better without Kessler, he is a a good C but too raw yet.


The Jazz aren't an elite team and the Suns with KD and Booker should be not be struggling to beat this Utah team. How bad would we look against Denver, Lakers or Clippers with this level of play?

I think the Wolves win was a fluke as they were coming off a B2B while we were well rested.


Yup. I was generous when I called the Jazz mediocre. They are 4-8 on the season. Markannen is good and some of the young players have promise but us getting obliterated by the Spus and struggling with teams like this does not bode well even with the injuries.
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Post#114 » by lilfishi22 » Sat Nov 18, 2023 7:53 am

Win or lose, some posters bring the same negative Nancy energy. Credits where credits due for the consistency, I'll give them that.

In a season where we're 6-6 when we expect to be 10-2, I'm taking each win as a positive
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Post#115 » by AtheJ415 » Sat Nov 18, 2023 8:00 am

Jdiddy701 wrote:
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enigmatics wrote:
The depth is marginally better than last year at this point and that's also by default because of how bad it was last year. I can confidently say that right now with how easily the team blows leads when the starters get their rest.

They may improve as the year goes on, but sorry I'm not seeing what you're seeing. As someone else pointed out it's a reason why the Book/Durant are only really seeing around 20mins together each of the last few games.


Many of the posters are casuals who think if a guy shoots well he is "better".

The depth I do think is better, but I agree it's not by a ton. I would rather have Ayton right now even though Allen seems to be the best guy we got back in that deal (Nurkic's passing does not make up for his poor shooting and defense).

I am mostly concerned that I have not seen improvement in effort level by the role players and in offensive schemes especially in the 4th. Booker has helped with the turnovers and efficiency as expected, but we still allow the opposition to dictate who our shooter is way too often, and we make strategic mistakes on both ends. I want this team's effort and decision-making to be elite, and not to just sit there saying nothing is wrong because we are not 100% healthy. We should have won this game by double digits but we allowed a very mediocre team to obliterate us on the defensive end.

We should have won this game by double digits? The Jazz are not an easy team, especially not at home. Tonight was a very good win for the Suns. I’ll take any win we can, while we work Book back, and work through the kinks.


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The Jazz are 4-8. They would have the 7th pick of the draft if the season ended today. They are a celler dwellar and while they have a few decent players they are going to finish at the bottom of the conference. This is not some impressive win no matter how much you want it to be.
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Post#116 » by MrMiyagi » Sat Nov 18, 2023 8:00 am

Big 3: 0-0
Book/KD: 3-1
Book/Beal: 0-0
Beal/KD: 1-2
KD: 2-3
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Total: 6-6
SHAZAM!

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Post#117 » by Saberestar » Sat Nov 18, 2023 8:15 am

AtheJ415 wrote:
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Yeah, I'm furious about this team and the attitude. I have never seen a player in recent memory who tries less on the defensive end than Eric Gordon. When anybody turns it over and he's the man back he gets out of the way and gives up the dunk. He often loses his man when defending off ball. He frequently helps for absolutely no reason on guys already covered or even tonight he did so when the big slid down to help leading to a wide open and made 3 by Clarkson.

He is a joke. I get he's old and slower and I don't expect elite defense from him at all but I expect him to be engaged and to put forth effort. This team acts too cool to try and Im tired of the "wait until we are healthy" excuse. We should not need overhwelming talent to beat the Spurs, Jazz, or this terrible Laker team.

And it's not just on defense. On offense we allow guys to make terrible decisions. Goodwin going for the crazy dunk over Horton-Tucker when both Booker and Little were there for dump offs which would guarantee a dunk or and-1. We also are in the habit of bitching at the refs or laughing about a play while the other team sprints down and plays with numbers. Our entire team was asleep on n inbound leading to a dunk. I watch a lot throughout the league. Our effort level is inexcusable. Our focus in inexcusable. THe only team who plays less serious than us is the Wizards.

And all of that after a win lol...

We played a very good game on the road. It was a good win.

The Jazz are a solid team and they play better without Kessler, he is a a good C but too raw yet.


The Jazz are a team we overmatch and are not particularly good offensively. They should not be scoring 130+ on us, but we have a number of role players who are being allowed to play lazy basketball and make selfish decisions and for me, as a fan who expects this team to contend for a title, it is disgusting basketball to watch. In the words of KD, "no defense was played tonight". How does that happen for a team that is supposedly hungry to win a title?

I never want to see Eric Gordon on the defensive end again. It sets a horrendous example for the rest of the team. How he is getting more minutes than Bates Diop and every other role player despite being allowed to tank and barely move on that end I will never know.

I want the guys on this team to play hard all the time and make good decisions consistently. It's a veteran group and the role players have a very easy job because Book and KD do much of the work for them. Vogel remains a big problem imo.

Eric Gordon gives us huge space on offense, the guy is a big weapon as a 3p shooter from distance.

He adds another ball handler to our starting group and he can carry us offensively for a few minutes on every game.

Defensively he is OK. Not a lockdown defender or anything like that and I agree that he is not a fast defender anymore and some great offensive players (Clarkson) can get by him, but you are underrating him IMO.

And we need to remember that he is on a minimum deal.
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Post#118 » by Puff » Sat Nov 18, 2023 8:48 am

grumpysaddle wrote:Without Clarkson hitting about as many stupid shots as players make in an entire season in one game, it would be a lot less stressful of a finish.


I guess it must be stressful not having Monty to blame for all our problems.

You surely will never blame our Championship coach and his phenomenal staff for anything.

It is going to be a miserable year for you.

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Post#119 » by Puff » Sat Nov 18, 2023 8:55 am

Jdiddy701 wrote:
grumpysaddle wrote:Even in wins some posters are insufferable with their negativity.

I seriously don’t get it.. every player has literally contributed for us this season. Our depth is so much better than last year. I wish we had this team last year against the Nuggets in the playoffs.


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Post#120 » by grumpysaddle » Sat Nov 18, 2023 9:19 am

Puff wrote:
grumpysaddle wrote:Without Clarkson hitting about as many stupid shots as players make in an entire season in one game, it would be a lot less stressful of a finish.


I guess it must be stressful not having Monty to blame for all our problems.

You surely will never blame our Championship coach and his phenomenal staff for anything.

It is going to be a miserable year for you.

This franchise used to share the ball. I hope you are happy.

The Suns literally had THIRTY-FIVE assists tonight. I don't see how that's not "sharing the ball", but sure.

Also, I wasn't someone that blamed everything on Monty, you must have me confused with someone else. I did think it was time to part ways at the end of the season, however, after a second consecutive year of getting destroyed in elimination games.
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