shrink wrote:Two weeks ago, was there still the “We Suck! Blow it all up!” narrative?
there still is one. it's just with the Suns now.
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shrink wrote:Two weeks ago, was there still the “We Suck! Blow it all up!” narrative?
CoP wrote:I took a screenshot of the survey results the day before Game 1. Based on the percentage of people who voted for each result and accounting for the games that each team would win for each result, RealGM's General Board said that the Suns had a 52.2% chance of winning the series
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hauntedcomputer wrote:Tor_Raps wrote:
By the time the Suns actually rebuild and get bad, you would guess the Wizards will be on their way up.
Then you would guess wrong. Overanalyzing picks even two years in the future often turns out wildly hilarious, much less six years. At any rate, why can't both be bad? And even then, how many picks turn into actual players?
There are many paths out of the wilderness, though. Draft picks is the one that seems to inspire the most delusional hope.
Chuck Everett wrote:Playoff Nurkic went just as bad as one might have expected.
JMAC3 wrote:Anyone have the matchup stats this series?
I am interested to see what Booker shot vs McDaniels or Edwards
and KD matchup stats.
Anyone have a good source for this?
Dennis Reynolds wrote:I can't be the only one who disagrees with the whole this is a bad matchup for Minnesota narrative.
I know things have not looked great for them in the regular season but the playoffs play very differently.
The Wolves have very good, athletic defenders to put on Durant, Booker and Beal and with Suns' bigs situation, this should be a series where Gobert doesn't have to worry about getting pulled to the perimeter and becoming a non factor. Going up against Suns' mediocre defense should help solve Minessota's offensive woes at least to some degree as well.
All this talk about the Suns' shell defense doesn't make sense to me either. It's not like much better defensive teams than the Suns are incapable of executing the same scheme on a (much) higher level so this sounds like an Anthony Edwards problem more so than a matchup problem if you ask me.
The real reason why the Wolves might lose this series is the same reason they aren't a considered a contender at the moment... they lack talent. I'm obviously talking about offensive talent because I have no idea where their points are coming from if Edwards doesn't step up his game in the playoffs once again and even if he does, he definitely isn't a real no.1 option on a contender at this point of his career nor does he have enough support at the moment as I've already said. I would really like to be proven wrong though.
shrink wrote:BloodNinja wrote:Vogel told his team he wanted 40 3 pointers in Game 3, would settle for 35. They had 15 midway through the 3rd. It's on the players.Klomp wrote:Has Vogel always been such a big "midrange" coach? Just thinking about the teams he's had success with, AD and LeBron live there a lot, and those Pacers teams had guys like David West and Paul George.
I think that's one of the big things that did them in. In part without Grayson Allen for the series, Minnesota attempted 20 more 3-pointers in the series. For decades, Minnesota was way behind in the 3-point math, but Chris Finch turned that around. Phoenix has good (even great) three-point shooters in Durant, Booker and Beal but they just didn't take enough of them.
But the Wolves defense is built to prevent three pointers. They were third in the NBA this season in 3 point defense, and they do that by sacrificing mid-rangers. And both KD and Booker excel at midrangers.
It’s hard to argue whether it’s the PHX coaches fault or the players, if they aren’t shooting three’s that are defended.
spanishninja wrote:jkvonny wrote:Suns mite win tonite, but the series is pretty much over.
May end up being 4-1 TWolves.
Narrator: "they didn't"
CoP wrote:I took a screenshot of the survey results the day before Game 1. Based on the percentage of people who voted for each result and accounting for the games that each team would win for each result, RealGM's General Board said that the Suns had a 52.2% chance of winning the series
RealGM General Board Grade: