Game 19: Phoenix Suns (10-8) @ Dallas Mavericks (8-12) l Monday l 6:30pm l NBATV l FSNAZ

[SunsRback4Good]

Who: Phoenix Suns @ Dallas Mavericks

When: Mon, February 1st @ 6:30pm (8:30ET), NBATV, FSNAZ


Where: American Airlines Center, Dallas, TX






Phoenix Suns starting lineup:

C- Ayton

F- Cam

G- Bridges

G- Booker

G- CP3


Reserves: Crowder/Kaminsky/Galloway/Carter/Smith





Dallas Mavericks starting lineup:


C- Porzingis

F- Finney-Smith

F- Hardaway Jr

G- Richardson

G- Doncic


Reserves: Cauley-Stein/Brunson/Johnson/Powell/Kleber


Good luck charm!!!

[SunsRback4Good]

BW's good luck charm has been working lately so let's keep it going.

Thescore app says Booker is GTD, Saric & Payne are both out again. Also, Porzingis should be ready to play. Hope Ayton has his way again with Dallas's frontcourt.

[Puff]

What is Emily's last name again?

[Saberestar]

Tough game tonight.

They will have Porzingis and Kleber back.
Both are good rim protectors who help on offense because of their gravity.

Porzingis is playing just OK this season, but you know that he is usually a game changer.

Booker is questionable, but I think he will be out. He has not been training with contact in the last week, just shooting, so I think he will wait.

[SunsRback4Good]

What is Emily's last name again?

I did a Google search its either Emily Blunt, emily ratajkowski or Emily Hampshire. The closes to her seem to be Emily Blunt. But I can be wrong maybe somebody else can chime in and reveal the actress.

[sasquatchBob]

What is Emily's last name again?

[SunsRback4Good]

Tough game tonight.

They will have Porzingis and Kleber back.
Both are good rim protectors who help on offense because of their gravity.

Porzingis is playing just OK this season, but you know that he is usually a game changer.

Booker is questionable, but I think he will be out. He has not been training with contact in the last week, just shooting, so I think he will wait.

I would not play him until Sundays matchup against the Celtics. Let his hamstring heel a bit longer last thing we need for him to come back earlier and strain his ankle again. We could handle Pels & Pistons while losing to the Mavs tomorrow. Best case scenario we win 2 out of three while having a 12-9 record as Booker rests a total of 15 days and his hammy heals faster without rushing him back.

[Iceman36]

What is Emily's last name again?

I did a Google search its either Emily Blunt, emily ratajkowski or Emily Hampshire. The closes to her seem to be Emily Blunt. But I can be wrong maybe somebody else can chime in and reveal the actress.

I think bwgood77 mentioned her name is Emily Sears.

[Revived]

Mavs are getting Porzingis back for this one and gonna be extra hungry for a win.

I think we take an L on the chin here and move on. Hopefully we don’t suffer another injury during this one.

Have to beat the Pels and Pistons in the games following this one. Those are almost must wins.

[SunsRback4Good]

Mavs are getting Porzingis back for this one and gonna be extra hungry for a win.

I think we take an L on the chin here and move on. Hopefully we don’t suffer another injury during this one.

Have to beat the Pels and Pistons in the games following this one. Those are almost must wins.

Yeah, I see a lose as well. Kinda hard beating the same team three games in a row doesn't matter who the game is against. We've done an excellent job staying in every game this year besides the Wizards one. Another close game is all I ask for.

[Saberestar]

Mavs are getting Porzingis back for this one and gonna be extra hungry for a win.

I think we take an L on the chin here and move on. Hopefully we don’t suffer another injury during this one.

Have to beat the Pels and Pistons in the games following this one. Those are almost must wins.

Yeah, I see a lose as well. Kinda hard beating the same team three games in a row doesn't matter who the game isn't against. We've done an excellent job staying in every game this year besides the Wizards one. Another close game is all I ask for.

I do not understand why this one against the Mavs is already a lost game and the next one against the Pelicans is a "must win".

The Mavs and the Pels are basically the same team IMO. Both can be playoffs teams, but they need to get lucky with injuries to get there.

We are better than both teams in my book and we can win tonight even with Porzingis back for them. They are not the Lakers at full strength or something like that.

Tough game but we have CP3 and Ayton playing their best basketball of the season on these last few games.

[phx#7]

What is Emily's last name again?

I did a Google search its either Emily Blunt, emily ratajkowski or Emily Hampshire. The closes to her seem to be Emily Blunt. But I can be wrong maybe somebody else can chime in and reveal the actress.

https://www.youthpagelive.com/emily-sears-model-photos/

Google image search.

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Uhhh, why?

[SunsRback4Good]

What is Emily's last name again?

I did a Google search its either Emily Blunt, emily ratajkowski or Emily Hampshire. The closes to her seem to be Emily Blunt. But I can be wrong maybe somebody else can chime in and reveal the actress.

https://www.youthpagelive.com/emily-sears-model-photos/

Google image search.

Thanks! For some reason I just couldn't figure it out.

[bwgood77]

What is Emily's last name again?

I did a Google search its either Emily Blunt, emily ratajkowski or Emily Hampshire. The closes to her seem to be Emily Blunt. But I can be wrong maybe somebody else can chime in and reveal the actress.

Sears https://www.instagram.com/emilysears/?hl=en

[SunsRback4Good]

What is Emily's last name again?

I did a Google search its either Emily Blunt, emily ratajkowski or Emily Hampshire. The closes to her seem to be Emily Blunt. But I can be wrong maybe somebody else can chime in and reveal the actress.

Sears https://www.instagram.com/emilysears/?hl=en

Thanks! I've figured it out thanks to phx#7 as well..

Any news on Booker playing tonight? Everywhere I looked says " GTD" guess we will find out 20 min before tipoff. Kinda want him to sit out few more days and so his hamstring heels faster.

[Revived]

Mavs are getting Porzingis back for this one and gonna be extra hungry for a win.

I think we take an L on the chin here and move on. Hopefully we don’t suffer another injury during this one.

Have to beat the Pels and Pistons in the games following this one. Those are almost must wins.

Yeah, I see a lose as well. Kinda hard beating the same team three games in a row doesn't matter who the game isn't against. We've done an excellent job staying in every game this year besides the Wizards one. Another close game is all I ask for.

I do not understand why this one against the Mavs is already a lost game and the next one against the Pelicans is a "must win".

The Mavs and the Pels are basically the same team IMO. Both can be playoffs teams, but they need to get lucky with injuries to get there.

We are better than both teams in my book and we can win tonight even with Porzingis back for them. They are not the Lakers at full strength or something like that.

Tough game but we have CP3 and Ayton playing their best basketball of the season on these last few games.

Ayton has rarely ever in his career had 2 good games in a row unless it’s against Denver for whatever reason. The odds he follows up the other night’s strong performance with a similar one is to slim to none.

And like SRB4G said, beating a team 3 times is very difficult. Heck even beating the same twice back to back is extremely difficult. That’s why we almost beat Denver in the 2nd night of a back to back even without Booker. But hey anything can happen, Nets lost to the Wizards yesterday and Lakers to the Pistons the day before that. So who knows. Everyone here’s just speculating and would be of course thrilled with a win.

I disagree, the Pelicans are a good tier below the Mavs. Record wise they may be similar but that has to do with Mavs missing 5-7 rotation players due to covid in different stretches of the season. Mavs are a far more talented and superior team than the Pels.

[bwgood77]

Yeah, I see a lose as well. Kinda hard beating the same team three games in a row doesn't matter who the game isn't against. We've done an excellent job staying in every game this year besides the Wizards one. Another close game is all I ask for.

I do not understand why this one against the Mavs is already a lost game and the next one against the Pelicans is a "must win".

The Mavs and the Pels are basically the same team IMO. Both can be playoffs teams, but they need to get lucky with injuries to get there.

We are better than both teams in my book and we can win tonight even with Porzingis back for them. They are not the Lakers at full strength or something like that.

Tough game but we have CP3 and Ayton playing their best basketball of the season on these last few games.

Ayton has rarely ever in his career had 2 good games in a row unless it’s against Denver for whatever reason. The odds he follows up the other night’s strong performance with a similar one is to slim to none.

And like SRB4G said, beating a team 3 times is very difficult. Heck even beating the same twice back to back is extremely difficult. That’s why we almost beat Denver in the 2nd night of a back to back even without Booker.

I disagree, the Pelicans are a good tier below the Mavs. Record wise they may be similar but that has to do with Mavs missing 5-7 rotation players due to covid in different stretches of the season. Mavs are a far more talented and superior team than the Pels.

Ayton had 4 good to very good games in a row and 5 out of the last 6. And before those first four, a few games before that he had just finished 4 good games in a row. So that really makes 9 out of his last 12 games were good to very good. He's definitely trending upward fast. Not every game will be good, and he may have his hands full tonight since they have KP, Kleber, Powell and WCS to throw against him...he has to be careful to stay out of foul trouble.

We really need Saric back and for Smith to get more minutes in case he does get into foul trouble.

[King4Day]

I know we knew he was questionable. And I wouldn't say fully loaded when adding one of the 3 players back. But it would be a welcome site if he did return

Thinking about this more, if they moved him to 'questionable', it likely means, "we'll see how he feels during practice and if he's fine, he'll play"

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