Game 7: Suns vs Lakers

Flying Colors · Post #401 » by **Flying Colors** » Mon Nov 7, 2016 5:08 am

kennydorglas wrote:Dear god.
Why are we fouling them?

To give booker some time to get 40 points

OnceUponADime · Post #402 » by **OnceUponADime** » Mon Nov 7, 2016 5:08 am

Watson needs to coach rather than just preach philosophy.

AtheJ415 · Post #403 » by **AtheJ415** » Mon Nov 7, 2016 5:11 am

We better be playing Tucker to trade him. He makes me hate watching basketball.

DaleyBlind · Post #404 » by **DaleyBlind** » Mon Nov 7, 2016 5:12 am

Good loss, losing to horrible teams is good for the tank!

Jdiddy701 · Post #405 » by **Jdiddy701** » Mon Nov 7, 2016 5:12 am

AtheJ415 wrote:We better be playing Tucker to trade him. He makes me hate watching basketball.

Same goes with Knight. McD is watching the same thing we all are. The problem is.. so is the rest of the league.

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Zelaznyrules · Post #406 » by **Zelaznyrules** » Mon Nov 7, 2016 5:14 am

AtheJ415 wrote:We better be playing Tucker to trade him. He makes me hate watching basketball.

He makes a lot of hustle plays but nowhere near enough to make up for every way he kills us. I like having a player like that available to bring in when you're getting trounced but crunch time? Insane.

alldayeveryday · Post #407 » by **alldayeveryday** » Mon Nov 7, 2016 5:17 am

One game at a time. These are the ups/downs we will have to deal with but I had expecations that it would be at the cost of our youngsters as we watch them grow. There could be a business side to the NBA that we don't know but wishing Watson will adjust to play more of our youth once we get closer to 20 games.

OnceUponADime · Post #408 » by **OnceUponADime** » Mon Nov 7, 2016 5:17 am

Jdiddy701 wrote:
AtheJ415 wrote:We better be playing Tucker to trade him. He makes me hate watching basketball.

Same goes with Knight. McD is watching the same thing we all are. The problem is.. so is the rest of the league.

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McD is blindly loyal to Knight and Tucker. He always praises Tucker about his vet leadership and his "hustle". He even said once on the John Gambo radio show that Tucker is his favorite player on the team.

As for Brandon Knight, he still brings up the fact that Knight is somehow still injured or that Knight was almost an all star 5 years ago when Wade said he should be or something.

Showtime:Part2 · Post #409 » by **Showtime:Part2** » Mon Nov 7, 2016 5:20 am

Lakers fan here. Good game guys. Just came to say booker is a complete stud. Sadly for me he looks way better than Russell. Your team isn't as bad as some of you are making it out to be here. Take it from a lakers fan, a coaching change can make a hell of a difference

KLEON · Post #410 » by **KLEON** » Mon Nov 7, 2016 5:20 am

You can't win games with 9 points from your bench.I thought the refs were awful and for the love of God Earl Watson please play Ulis and Bender. Tucker should only play in games when the opposing team best player is their PF and again I say I would take Elevator Ernie over Knight any day.

AtheJ415 · Post #411 » by **AtheJ415** » Mon Nov 7, 2016 5:20 am

OnceUponADime wrote:
Jdiddy701 wrote:
AtheJ415 wrote:We better be playing Tucker to trade him. He makes me hate watching basketball.

Same goes with Knight. McD is watching the same thing we all are. The problem is.. so is the rest of the league.

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McD is blindly loyal to Knight and Tucker. He always praises Tucker about his vet leadership and his "hustle". He even said once on the John Gambo radio show that Tucker is his favorite player on the team.

As for Brandon Knight, he still brings up the fact that Knight is somehow still injured or that Knight was almost an all star 5 years ago when Wade said he should be or something.

What do you expect him to say? Of course he's going to praise his players. This isn't the Diamondbacks under Kevin Towers where the team belittled a player publicly, driving down his value leaguewide, as they were trying to trade them.

LukasBMW · Post #412 » by **LukasBMW** » Mon Nov 7, 2016 5:21 am

Same god damn story:

TJ and Booker are our future allstatrs
Solid play from Tyson (almost a double/double) and Bledsoe.

Absolutely NO other help and NO defense.

Our bench is awful.

Our defense allows anything and everything. WE never get stops EVER.

AtheJ415 · Post #413 » by **AtheJ415** » Mon Nov 7, 2016 5:22 am

The truth with Knight is he isn't as bad as he's playing. Say what you want about his style of play and hating him, but he's never been the worst player on the court for us, and so far this year he has arguably been that. He is better than he's playing, and it's unfortunate because he should be excelling in this role. I'm not one for selling low on him but at this point you move him if you can get good value.

OnceUponADime · Post #414 » by **OnceUponADime** » Mon Nov 7, 2016 5:23 am

AtheJ415 wrote:
OnceUponADime wrote:
Jdiddy701 wrote:
Same goes with Knight. McD is watching the same thing we all are. The problem is.. so is the rest of the league.

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McD is blindly loyal to Knight and Tucker. He always praises Tucker about his vet leadership and his "hustle". He even said once on the John Gambo radio show that Tucker is his favorite player on the team.

As for Brandon Knight, he still brings up the fact that Knight is somehow still injured or that Knight was almost an all star 5 years ago when Wade said he should be or something.

What do you expect him to say? Of course he's going to praise his players. This isn't the Diamondbacks under Kevin Towers where the team belittled a player publicly, driving down his value leaguewide, as they were trying to trade them.

They should have been trade a long time ago. I think even last season Tucker and Knight could have brought back neutral or maybe slightly positive trade value.

I don't like the idea of raising trade value of players at the expense of stunting the growth and development of our other players.

Even though their numbers have been amazing this season, I don't think playing with Knight and Tucker are healthy for Booker and Warren in the long run because they will develop bad habits from these two. Then of course there are the 3 rookies who get no look at playing time because of these "veteran" players.

OnceUponADime · Post #415 » by **OnceUponADime** » Mon Nov 7, 2016 5:24 am

Showtime:Part2 wrote:Lakers fan here. Good game guys. Just came to say booker is a complete stud. Sadly for me he looks way better than Russell. Your team isn't as bad as some of you are making it out to be here. Take it from a lakers fan, a coaching change can make a hell of a difference

Suns just made a coaching change so their likely staying with this one for another 2-3 years. Stuck with Earl Watson for a while.

Post #416 » by **ATTL** » Mon Nov 7, 2016 5:24 am

Bright side: Lakers pick may be late lotto so knight trade may not look awful once the pick is conveyed.

Post #417 » by **bwgood77** » Mon Nov 7, 2016 5:25 am

alldayeveryday wrote:One game at a time. These are the ups/downs we will have to deal with but I had expecations that it would be at the cost of our youngsters as we watch them grow. There could be a business side to the NBA that we don't know but wishing Watson will adjust to play more of our youth once we get closer to 20 games.

I've seen a couple of times people say that maybe we want to sell more tickets so we are playing guys like Barbosa and Tucker. I can tell you right now if I lived in Phx I would buy far more tickets if I knew Bender and Ulis were playing over those two. I don't know about the general fanbase, but if they continue to see what they provide, I can't see the upside for financial reasons.

blacksun · Post #418 » by **blacksun** » Mon Nov 7, 2016 5:26 am

OnceUponADime wrote:
Jdiddy701 wrote:
AtheJ415 wrote:We better be playing Tucker to trade him. He makes me hate watching basketball.

Same goes with Knight. McD is watching the same thing we all are. The problem is.. so is the rest of the league.

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McD is blindly loyal to Knight and Tucker. He always praises Tucker about his vet leadership and his "hustle". He even said once on the John Gambo radio show that Tucker is his favorite player on the team.

As for Brandon Knight, he still brings up the fact that Knight is somehow still injured or that Knight was almost an all star 5 years ago when Wade said he should be or something.

I think he only says that about Tucker because he plays the hardest, and he wants the other players to play hard as well. Ill say this tho, I think we should give Watson the benefit of the doubt. He was the one who unleashed Booker last year. He started him this year over Knight, and he started TJ over PJ. Both moves are reaping their benefits. As for the leftovers, well, the vets get first crack at it. That means Tucker, Barbosa. If they continue to suck, and i think they will, corresponding changes will be made imo.

I hate seeing Tucker, Barbs, and to a lesser extent Len and Knight as much as the next guy, but we as fans gotta stay patient.

Post #419 » by **Qwigglez** » Mon Nov 7, 2016 5:26 am

Think we could trade Knight for Crawford or Lou Williams?

LukasBMW · Post #420 » by **LukasBMW** » Mon Nov 7, 2016 5:26 am

It's time to break out the voodoo with Brandon Knight. We really need to start thinking outside the box.

-Set him up with a shrink
-hypnotize him
-Force feed him Molly
-Hire a team of pornstars to accompany him on road trips
-Have him write down 10 things about life he loves at breakfast, lunch, and dinner
-Force him to listen to Anthony Robbins tapes
-Make him eat green tea an kale
-Force him to use a straw everytime he takes a drink so he gets over his fear of sucking

But really...WTF.