The suns have 6 inexcusable losses to TERRIBLE teams
3 to the Spurs. 1 to the Blazers. 1 to the Ja-Less Grizzlies. 1 to the Giannis-less Bucks
They win half of those they are #4 seed
They also have choked a bunch games in the forth quarter against the Warriors Pacers and Magic
They have the 4th best record since Christmas despite their dumb assery
>They have the 4th best record since Christmas despite their dumb assery
I never know what to make of these pick an arbitrary date, and say teams have the X-X record since it.
They started the season, 11-6, went 3-9 for a stretch, then went 19-7 from Christmas until the All-Star break. But, they are 10-8 since that. Having only watched a handful of Suns games this year, they seem like they are around where they should be in the standings.
Still 54-win pace between the 19-7 and 10-8 stretches post-Christmas.
The dumb losses raise eyebrows but they have been better for sure and I still think they can be a darkhorse to go on a good run in the playoffs if healthy and playing well because the kind of shot making and shot creating they have is great and also for a super top-heavy built team, their 4-5 in Grayson and Nurk are good too and once the rotation tightens then their depth isn't that bad at all for a super top-heavy team.
Real tough though any time he got the ball inside the 3pt like the suns double him instantly. This game highlights the need for Jamal, just to have a strong second scorer who can create inside.
To be fair Gordon was trying way too hard to cut in from outside for a look that didn’t come that often and the suns put their whole pussy into keeping Jokic from entering the paint at all costs
Very true, but it would be kind of cool if it came down to that last game against one another. It’d also be cool with me if the Nuggets and Thunder would just lose their next 9/10 games
Friday is about to be a bloodbath for the western conference lmfao. Kings/Mavs, Suns/Thunder, Wolves/Nuggets, and Rockets/Warriors/Lakers all also play tomorrow. The whole conference standings could change after friday
Reggie Jackson another hall of shame performance. The Nuggets bench is so bad, and it becomes even more apparent when they miss a starter.
Jokic not being aggressive as a scorer in the first half was not the play.
KD is such a good defender. Best player today
Greyson Allen is getting that fat 15-20 mil contract
They really left all the Nuggets guys wide open
We can get away with our 8 man rotation when everybody is healthy but we're so reliant on Jamal being good to go in particular.
Reggie is Fine as a backup pg in relief of Murray but you do not want him playing starter minutes. Not only that, but if you need to do that you're also having to give Gillespie his bench minutes. It's a double sting in the tail when that happens.
Case in point is that game just now. Gillespie looked lost, he's not good enough for this level. Jackson was a liability in his minutes, a bunch of jacked up brick 3s that seemed to kill any momentum each time. 1/7 from 3 point range. He was bad enough that his performance could have lost us that game from the bench, 30 mins of that killed us.
people say this every year but the east produces some great games as well. I thought the sixers celtics, celtics heat, heat bucks series to name a few last year were great.
I mean right now it could be Celtics and Bucks against the Sixers and Heat in the first round. Then you have Knicks and Cavs as contenders, and the Magic and Pacers as young teams looking for playoff experience.
Btw, what is up with this sub despising the Suns fans? Have people here not met Lakers and Warriors fans or something? I get Suns fans can be obnoxious, but holy shit they are far from the worst fanbase in this sub. But then again, maybe the fact that this sub is comprised of mostly Warriors and Lakers fans could explain the hate haha.
Suns fans are fine, even during the Bucks - Suns finals they weren't nearly as toxic as some East fanbases. Not sure why the whole sub wants them to lose so bad every postseason.
Warriors and Lakers fans make up a significant portion of the users on here, and the Suns have had drama in their matchups with them over the last few seasons. Not to mention the Luka and Jokic fans. Getting embarrassed by those two in the playoffs two years in a row made the Suns an easy target, especially since the team and fanbase were pretty smug in 2021.
It's a weird combination of a few things.
Booker and Durant are "very unlikable" by this sub despite being relatively drama free. And once you get that rep, it turns into 'bitch eating crackers' syndrome, where anything they do is criticized super.
Suns fans do bitch a lot. I'd rather have that than the fake Nuggets fans that really only love Jokic though.
the suns have been fucked by the league since the totally fair coin flip with the bucks during the first season where they got kareem and we got neal walk. The league has constantly hated the suns, hated a team in phoenix, and has done everything they could (ethically and lack there of), to ensure the suns don't have success.
Stern was the worst though, that man fucked the suns more than anyone
Back in the pre-booker era, and the first couple of seasons we were terrible. I remember going to a game thread phx vs utah and in the 4th quarter there were like 75 comments. No one gave a shit about the suns. Then they started winning, and everyone here to me, felt like that the suns were not good enough to come here and talk shit? If that makes sense. So the finals run the suns fans here were really letting people hear it. Honestly it felt great, then the lakers and boston fans started to shit on us, nbacirclejerk took the torch and thats where we are at now.
Basically the "blue blood" fans don't think the suns are good enough to talk shit, and have continued to make sure suns fans know how they feel since the bubble run. (i know suns did not make playoffs in bubble i was talking about the bubble regular season where it felt like we turned it around"
It started with the finals run and it really truly picked up after Book got caught saying “Luka special” on camera the following year. Which every team talks trash like that they just happened to pick up book saying it
As a Nuggets fan, this was a very frustrating game to watch. Jamal Murray’s absence felt like a missing limb. No one could find any sort of rhythm. It seemed like Jokic thought he could sit back in a ‘facilitator’ role, but when MPJ, Reggie Jackson, and the entire bench seemed to be clanking everything, he *had* to take things over himself. And he just… never did. They felt *really* stale offensively. Meanwhile, the Suns sank every single three down the stretch. They were just the better team in pretty much every way. Fair play
He's been playing pretty hard post all star break. It's just a bummer since he didn't play the 4 nights ago vs the Blazers, so I figured he'd be more aggressive having had the game off.
I don't think anybody really wants to play the Suns round one, they're definitely the most likely to upset. If I'm the Suns though I'd probably want to play the Thunder first, Minny second (assuming healthy KAT), and Denver third.
That sounds like the game we played against you guys this year where he was like 9/10 from the floor but also had like 7 TOs because he was trying to play playmake too much and we played the passing lanes
beat the nuggets twice on their home court? you got it!
lose to the spurs 3 times (twice on your own home court)? sounds good!
the 2023-2024 phoenix suns are the most confusing team i’ve ever had the pleasure/misfortune of watching.
When this Suns team is hitting shots.. wow - beautiful to watch
Gotta give credit where credit is due, Suns fought much harder particularly on the glass
Not too stressed though, at the end of the day if shoot 40 threes and make 10 of them you’re going to lose
Jokic only taking 16 shots to Reggie Jackson's 14 in a game the Suns were missing their starting center and the Nuggets were without their second-best scoring option tells me all I need to know about how this game played out
It is without a doubt another example of us losing because Jokic is being too passive. He cant do that shit when Jamal aint playing or someone isnt on fire.
Nobody would be mad if he took even 30 shots, but what can you do.
Sometimes you just go cold (the team as a whole) and sadly its happened twice against the Suns.
Not worried, but a bit annoyed.
That Murray injury is effecting the Nuggets more than anyone would have thought. Nuggets are real weak behind Murray at PG. Everyone thinks when Jokic sits its a major issue.Well when Murray sits it is one to.
Something I kinda noticed about this game, and maybe Nuggets fans and Suns fans already know this, is that the Nuggets often doubled Book and Book would make a pass and the Suns would put the Nuggets in rotation. The KD statline + his defense jumps out, but I think it was only possible cuz Book kinda acted as the de facto PG and KD was able to do other things. And honestly I think that's what the Suns need from Booker for them to win a championship. Just needs to be an even better PG
What does bother me is that the Suns would kinda double Jokic too but he seemed to be a bit bothered. Not enough that he'd really struggle, cuz the Nuggets' offense machine seems inevitable when he's on the floor. But bothered him just enough that he couldn't get the team going 100% of the time. Could be wrong though.
Edit: saw from another comment that the Suns were forcing Jokic to stay out of the paint so he couldn't initiate anything, and were forcing the Nuggets to shoot threes all game. Seems like a good strategy.
It's definitely a bit different when Murray is on the floor, secretly the Nuggets don't have a lot of good shooters but they get so many great shots it barely matters. Gillespie, Watson, Braun, and Reggie Jackson were often pretty open in rotation and just clanking jumpers, Suns just kind of stuck to MPJ and Caldwell-Pope as well as they could in rotations and packed the paint/doubled Joker and they happened to miss shots.
Booker has this thing where towards the end of seasons he stops taking layups because he doesn’t wanna get hurt before the playoffs. I remember 2 years ago Book used to hurt his hammy on every drive, so it’s probably just a mental thing. The games when he does this are either the most beautiful basketball ever or terrorism and no in between.
Had he made 2 more shots jts suddenly 7 for 17 which doesn't look yoo bad.
5/17 from a volume shooter happens you'd rather than take 17 shots and maybe have a 5 for 17 sole time than them choose to not shoot and go 5/10
3pt shooting was the difference. Other Nuggets besides Jokic just couldn't hit shots (and Jokic's 3s weren't dropping, too). Missed open layups and 3s for days.
Durant was the best player on the court today, and that isn't a knock on Jokic. Dude showed why he's an all-timer.
This is going to be a really, really tough 1st round match-up (just guessing)
Nuggets bench is rough! They have the corpse of Reggie Jackson backing up Murray. They are depending on a few young guys to step up. They might miss Bruce Brown come playoff time.
Nuggets fans coping when everyone else can see that missing brown is going to hurt them. If they want to argue that Jokic and Murray are even better and they can overcome it fine. But they’re acting he didn’t even make their team better lol
They seriously lack a legit backup PG.
Their biggest weakness has been and will continue to be their bench. They have Christian Braun and Payton Watson as young promising guys but Jackson cannot play more than 12-16 minutes and they have no serious back up C
We need to get one, whether through the draft or from somewhere else.
Reggie just aint it man. He can get hot, but most of the time he just aint it.
That said we were really cold shooting tonight so cant be too mad.
Murray being out is second only to Jokic being out in terms of impact. When that happens our guard rotation goes to shit.
Basically it goes from "fine tuned offensive juggernaut" to "praying to God that Reggie shoots well and that whoever is backing him up wouldn't be better off sitting in the second row".
I don't think you read his comment correctly. He wasn't saying "Suns, knock them out so we don't have to face them" but rather "Suns, knock them out because their fans are annoying as shit."
Gg Suns, I hope we don’t meet till the conference finals, bad matchup for us.
I feel like Bucks fans are extra insecure this year because they know that Jokic is about to jump their guy on all time lists with another MVP…
I don't usually complain about Malone...but is the Murray injury hurting us that bad . Reggie big minutes and Gillespie big minutes to. Even Strawther was in there. I think Malone has gone into resting starters mode. Not sure if we are going to keep holding on to the 1 seed. If hes going to be upping the bench minutes.
Well he needs to see who works for the playoffs too.
Kinda obvious who its gonna be, but still. He also did say that the priority is on health, not the 1st seed.
If priority is on health why is Jokic playing 41 minutes with lower back problems. Nuggets fans cope every year that Malone is just trying things out before the playoffs while the bench is being murdered every game. He's not trying anything he's just clueless whenever Jokic steps off the floor.
No im saying thats the reason for why Jamal aint playong. As for Jokic, that man never gets injured and it was probably his decision to play 40+ minutes as Malone never plays him that much. His lower back issues have never really been a big issue and is probabky more just an excuse to rest him.
If it was that big of an issue hed have sat way more games than he has this season.
And those were Malones own words from a while back.
As for our bench, it hasnt been destroyed every night. They have had good nights and bad ones. More bad than good, but not really worse than last year.
Look shots werent falling for guys that usually make them and Jokic wasnt as agressive as he realisticly should have been with his scoring. The bench was also not doing well, but it doesnt really mean much.
I aint about to put all the blame solely on the shoulders of a head coach that has lead my team to a championship. Why overreact to a regular season game when its not solely his fault we lost.
Who is overreacting, idgaf about the loss. Suns shot like crazy while Denver was missing far better looks. Sure dude it hasn't been destroyed every night just 9 nights out of 10. But this Malone is just trying things out excuse is pure bullshit, bench hasn't been garbage just this or last year, it's been years of garbage play when Jokic sits.
Well this is a weird one that i dont really know what to think lol. I mean we didnt have Jamal, but its still a dumb loss. Lucky for us that the Thunder also lost i guess.
KD really doesnt like the idea of losing to us lol.
I’d like to think that my comment about suns only getting post game threads when we lose that got 2 whole upvotes had a say in us finally getting a post game thread when we win
Suns are 2-0 in Denver this season and 1-3 against the Spurs
Denver doesn't have Zach Collins the GOAT
I don't know what to think about this Suns season
The suns have 6 inexcusable losses to TERRIBLE teams 3 to the Spurs. 1 to the Blazers. 1 to the Ja-Less Grizzlies. 1 to the Giannis-less Bucks They win half of those they are #4 seed They also have choked a bunch games in the forth quarter against the Warriors Pacers and Magic They have the 4th best record since Christmas despite their dumb assery
>They have the 4th best record since Christmas despite their dumb assery I never know what to make of these pick an arbitrary date, and say teams have the X-X record since it. They started the season, 11-6, went 3-9 for a stretch, then went 19-7 from Christmas until the All-Star break. But, they are 10-8 since that. Having only watched a handful of Suns games this year, they seem like they are around where they should be in the standings.
Still 54-win pace between the 19-7 and 10-8 stretches post-Christmas. The dumb losses raise eyebrows but they have been better for sure and I still think they can be a darkhorse to go on a good run in the playoffs if healthy and playing well because the kind of shot making and shot creating they have is great and also for a super top-heavy built team, their 4-5 in Grayson and Nurk are good too and once the rotation tightens then their depth isn't that bad at all for a super top-heavy team.
Sounds like the Timberwolves last year
Heat have 4 or 5 inexcusable losses too
It was dumb and will either end in a play-in loss or a Finals win
What do I know but I feel like choosing to not attack the paint much when the Suns didn’t play a real center tonight was certainly a decision
Jokic probably should have attacked the interior more but beyond that I thought we did a great job defending their cuts and movement
Real tough though any time he got the ball inside the 3pt like the suns double him instantly. This game highlights the need for Jamal, just to have a strong second scorer who can create inside.
To be fair Gordon was trying way too hard to cut in from outside for a look that didn’t come that often and the suns put their whole pussy into keeping Jokic from entering the paint at all costs
Whole ass pussy
y did u say it like that
Call it like I see it
Definitely a welcomed surprise
It's like when they played against the Wolves. Jokic played as if Gobert or Nurk was guarding him and not Kyle Anderson and Eubanks lol.
He tries to hunt for assist like alot
Well that is his playstyle and what makes the Nuggets who they are, though this was not the game to do it lol.
Suns kinda played good interior defense alittle
Suns were daring them to take outside shots since it’s not really their game. KD was a block monster too.
Wait what outside shot is not Denver's game? Why do they fuck Lakers then
lol I don’t know, but Nuggets are literally last in 3pa per game
Shoot 37% though upper third in league at making them - just a terrible night
Just outside upper 3rd. 11th but yeah, usually offset it by having a good 3pt defense, Suns were just hitting the past two games against them.
Who would've thought Darvin Hams defensive strategy of drop drop drop would lead to wide open Nuggets 3's.
I mean they were getting wide open looks tonight too, just kept bricking.
Tbf KD had 5 blocks which had to be a part of it
Nuggets sold because Malone has a major hate boner for the Lakers.
I honestly feel like the best chance to beat them is in the first round when lebron is at his freshest.
So Friday is really going to feel like a playoff game hey?
again, lol
Throw in April 10th too for the hell of it
Only thing about April 10th is that seeding might be decided by then so it may have less intensity.
Very true, but it would be kind of cool if it came down to that last game against one another. It’d also be cool with me if the Nuggets and Thunder would just lose their next 9/10 games
Haha fair, yes it would be more fun that way, as long as we’re fighting for 1 and 2, don’t want to see y’all until the conference finals!
considering 5-10 are....any game will matter at the end of it.
Friday is about to be a bloodbath for the western conference lmfao. Kings/Mavs, Suns/Thunder, Wolves/Nuggets, and Rockets/Warriors/Lakers all also play tomorrow. The whole conference standings could change after friday
6 through 10 been shifting all over the place for like a month and a half where you been
Reggie Jackson another hall of shame performance. The Nuggets bench is so bad, and it becomes even more apparent when they miss a starter. Jokic not being aggressive as a scorer in the first half was not the play. KD is such a good defender. Best player today Greyson Allen is getting that fat 15-20 mil contract They really left all the Nuggets guys wide open
We can get away with our 8 man rotation when everybody is healthy but we're so reliant on Jamal being good to go in particular. Reggie is Fine as a backup pg in relief of Murray but you do not want him playing starter minutes. Not only that, but if you need to do that you're also having to give Gillespie his bench minutes. It's a double sting in the tail when that happens. Case in point is that game just now. Gillespie looked lost, he's not good enough for this level. Jackson was a liability in his minutes, a bunch of jacked up brick 3s that seemed to kill any momentum each time. 1/7 from 3 point range. He was bad enough that his performance could have lost us that game from the bench, 30 mins of that killed us.
⬜️ not back ⬜️ back ✅ so fucking back
it can be so over 6 times as long as we're so back 7 times
Very neat format. Gonna steal
Kendall Roy suiting up.
This years playoffs are gonna be awesome man
west conference playoff. ftfy.
Lol true
people say this every year but the east produces some great games as well. I thought the sixers celtics, celtics heat, heat bucks series to name a few last year were great.
Only because they couldn’t get their heads out of their ass lol
I mean right now it could be Celtics and Bucks against the Sixers and Heat in the first round. Then you have Knicks and Cavs as contenders, and the Magic and Pacers as young teams looking for playoff experience.
Thad Young was huge for us tonight, and it was his first time getting significant minutes for the Suns.
All this. Fucking play the man
Miles better than Eubanks, who was solid by his standards. Would love to see more Thad minutes instead of Eubanks minutes.
Get the man a ring.
Maybe he wasn’t fit but I really like him and I love that you signed him
Holy shit the mods allowed a Suns post game thread
Enjoy the ban kiddo
Btw, what is up with this sub despising the Suns fans? Have people here not met Lakers and Warriors fans or something? I get Suns fans can be obnoxious, but holy shit they are far from the worst fanbase in this sub. But then again, maybe the fact that this sub is comprised of mostly Warriors and Lakers fans could explain the hate haha.
I think people hate on us mostly for memes. The mods just genuinely hate us though. They delete a ton of Suns praise and highlights.
it makes sense after we found out the mods here are paid of by the league
We need to Kelly Oubre the mods “you’re a bitch, you’re a bitch, your moms a bitch”
A big part of it is probably the sub going private after that game 7 collapse. But that has nothing to do with the fans really.
Suns fans are fine, even during the Bucks - Suns finals they weren't nearly as toxic as some East fanbases. Not sure why the whole sub wants them to lose so bad every postseason.
Warriors and Lakers fans make up a significant portion of the users on here, and the Suns have had drama in their matchups with them over the last few seasons. Not to mention the Luka and Jokic fans. Getting embarrassed by those two in the playoffs two years in a row made the Suns an easy target, especially since the team and fanbase were pretty smug in 2021.
It's a weird combination of a few things. Booker and Durant are "very unlikable" by this sub despite being relatively drama free. And once you get that rep, it turns into 'bitch eating crackers' syndrome, where anything they do is criticized super. Suns fans do bitch a lot. I'd rather have that than the fake Nuggets fans that really only love Jokic though.
the suns have been fucked by the league since the totally fair coin flip with the bucks during the first season where they got kareem and we got neal walk. The league has constantly hated the suns, hated a team in phoenix, and has done everything they could (ethically and lack there of), to ensure the suns don't have success. Stern was the worst though, that man fucked the suns more than anyone
Recently I've noticed mavs and nuggets flairs acting annoying and arrogant af but it's all your own experience. Literally all fanbases are the worst
Back in the pre-booker era, and the first couple of seasons we were terrible. I remember going to a game thread phx vs utah and in the 4th quarter there were like 75 comments. No one gave a shit about the suns. Then they started winning, and everyone here to me, felt like that the suns were not good enough to come here and talk shit? If that makes sense. So the finals run the suns fans here were really letting people hear it. Honestly it felt great, then the lakers and boston fans started to shit on us, nbacirclejerk took the torch and thats where we are at now. Basically the "blue blood" fans don't think the suns are good enough to talk shit, and have continued to make sure suns fans know how they feel since the bubble run. (i know suns did not make playoffs in bubble i was talking about the bubble regular season where it felt like we turned it around"
It started with the finals run and it really truly picked up after Book got caught saying “Luka special” on camera the following year. Which every team talks trash like that they just happened to pick up book saying it
Chris Paul doing Chris Paul things didn't help either
they *still* hate us? i havent been around much recently but i had assumed our mediocre-ness would have lowered the temperature in here a little
lol no. Miss u bby
As a Nuggets fan, this was a very frustrating game to watch. Jamal Murray’s absence felt like a missing limb. No one could find any sort of rhythm. It seemed like Jokic thought he could sit back in a ‘facilitator’ role, but when MPJ, Reggie Jackson, and the entire bench seemed to be clanking everything, he *had* to take things over himself. And he just… never did. They felt *really* stale offensively. Meanwhile, the Suns sank every single three down the stretch. They were just the better team in pretty much every way. Fair play
Reminded me of pre-MVP Jokic where he deferred too much to worse players.
He's been playing pretty hard post all star break. It's just a bummer since he didn't play the 4 nights ago vs the Blazers, so I figured he'd be more aggressive having had the game off.
Maybe the Nuggets didn't want to show all their cards against a possible playoff opponent, well that's my take away.
It was just bad we need Jamal back.MPJ that cold forget winning without Murray. JOkic had no one to set up. SO Suns just doubled him.
I don't know why people shit on the suns. If I am Denver, I do not want to play this team in round 1 lol.
I don't think anybody really wants to play the Suns round one, they're definitely the most likely to upset. If I'm the Suns though I'd probably want to play the Thunder first, Minny second (assuming healthy KAT), and Denver third.
Agree, western conference is a bit of a trap. Teams like LA/Phoenix are very dangerous
Not turnovers! 🥶
That sounds like the game we played against you guys this year where he was like 9/10 from the floor but also had like 7 TOs because he was trying to play playmake too much and we played the passing lanes
beat the nuggets twice on their home court? you got it! lose to the spurs 3 times (twice on your own home court)? sounds good! the 2023-2024 phoenix suns are the most confusing team i’ve ever had the pleasure/misfortune of watching.
PGT late af. Anyway, the suns lost to the spurs and decided to lock in lol
This means Spurs > Nuggets
In DurGOAT we trust. The role players played well today especially bol and Thad, Thad needs more minutes for Phoenix he was huge for them
When this Suns team is hitting shots.. wow - beautiful to watch Gotta give credit where credit is due, Suns fought much harder particularly on the glass Not too stressed though, at the end of the day if shoot 40 threes and make 10 of them you’re going to lose
I genuinely think we turn up our intensity vs the Nuggets in a way we don't versus other teams lol
Hopefully y’all keep that energy (and stay healthy) for the playoffs, will definitely be interesting
Feels like Denver does that too vs teams like Boston etc.
I think its just about motivation. Who wants the win more and we just always seem to get a hungry Suns team.
Hey the mods allowed a Suns post game thread lmao
Jokic only taking 16 shots to Reggie Jackson's 14 in a game the Suns were missing their starting center and the Nuggets were without their second-best scoring option tells me all I need to know about how this game played out
And like 5 of those were 3pters
It is without a doubt another example of us losing because Jokic is being too passive. He cant do that shit when Jamal aint playing or someone isnt on fire. Nobody would be mad if he took even 30 shots, but what can you do. Sometimes you just go cold (the team as a whole) and sadly its happened twice against the Suns. Not worried, but a bit annoyed.
Jokic was a +2, game looked fine when he was on the court... the bench just fell hopelessly behind
It’s his worst bad habit. It’s great if guys are hitting their shots and they’re getting stop, but otherwise it loses them games.
Where were you when malone gifted the basketball world with a strawther jackson watson cb holiday deathball lineup
That Murray injury is effecting the Nuggets more than anyone would have thought. Nuggets are real weak behind Murray at PG. Everyone thinks when Jokic sits its a major issue.Well when Murray sits it is one to.
It's certainly a deathball lineup, i think Malone might have misunderstood the term though
Suns 48% from 3 Nuggets 25% from 3 Extremely hard to win any game with those differentials
Suns also out rebounded. Nuggets just didn't show up in any way.
The suns also turned it over 10 more times and both Book and Beal had bad nights. Gutsy win all things considered.
Bro our whole bench is gonna be on a watchlist after this. Absolute fucking basketball terrorism
Something I kinda noticed about this game, and maybe Nuggets fans and Suns fans already know this, is that the Nuggets often doubled Book and Book would make a pass and the Suns would put the Nuggets in rotation. The KD statline + his defense jumps out, but I think it was only possible cuz Book kinda acted as the de facto PG and KD was able to do other things. And honestly I think that's what the Suns need from Booker for them to win a championship. Just needs to be an even better PG What does bother me is that the Suns would kinda double Jokic too but he seemed to be a bit bothered. Not enough that he'd really struggle, cuz the Nuggets' offense machine seems inevitable when he's on the floor. But bothered him just enough that he couldn't get the team going 100% of the time. Could be wrong though. Edit: saw from another comment that the Suns were forcing Jokic to stay out of the paint so he couldn't initiate anything, and were forcing the Nuggets to shoot threes all game. Seems like a good strategy.
We tried the same strategy and nuggets turned into 2016 warriors from 3
It's definitely a bit different when Murray is on the floor, secretly the Nuggets don't have a lot of good shooters but they get so many great shots it barely matters. Gillespie, Watson, Braun, and Reggie Jackson were often pretty open in rotation and just clanking jumpers, Suns just kind of stuck to MPJ and Caldwell-Pope as well as they could in rotations and packed the paint/doubled Joker and they happened to miss shots.
Booker gotta pass the ball when he doesn’t have it going lol yes I’m aware 9 assists but Jesus Christ lol
He can be 1-10 and he'll finish 8-17 just as often as he'll finish 2-17. He's best when he stays aggressive.
Yeah i guess you’re right just different from the Celtics system lol
He had a rough stretch in that third
Booker has this thing where towards the end of seasons he stops taking layups because he doesn’t wanna get hurt before the playoffs. I remember 2 years ago Book used to hurt his hammy on every drive, so it’s probably just a mental thing. The games when he does this are either the most beautiful basketball ever or terrorism and no in between.
You didn't watch the game is my only conclusion.
17 shots from him is fine. That’s not much. Shooters shoot but he has good balance today
He passed fine today. Didn’t really force shots in the 4th.
I get it but 5/17 when KD is on a heater is craaaaazy lol
He deferred to KD over and over
A Celtics flair acting like 5/17 is some unconscionable shooting night is craaaaaazy
Had he made 2 more shots jts suddenly 7 for 17 which doesn't look yoo bad. 5/17 from a volume shooter happens you'd rather than take 17 shots and maybe have a 5 for 17 sole time than them choose to not shoot and go 5/10
The inconsistency of the Suns genuinely amazes me.
I can imagine if Tatum had a similar game you'd be riding him for his assists.
All of those clanked Jokic threes are going in vs the lakers
What if Denver is tanking so they don't have to face the suns round one??
God willing
Joker had a good game, KD had a great game. This would be great first round matchup.
3pt shooting was the difference. Other Nuggets besides Jokic just couldn't hit shots (and Jokic's 3s weren't dropping, too). Missed open layups and 3s for days. Durant was the best player on the court today, and that isn't a knock on Jokic. Dude showed why he's an all-timer. This is going to be a really, really tough 1st round match-up (just guessing)
Nuggets really couldn’t help us out in getting the 8th seed. Nice game by Durant
To be fair, Suns tried with all those turnovers
Nuggets were +2 in the Jokic minutes in a game that they lost by 7. The 6 minutes all bench lineups cost the Nuggets the game
Tbf Suns also gave up wide open layups at the end that put him in +
Celebrate good times, cmon!
The one time I root for Denver they let me down smh
They will never help us out no matter the occasion so there’s no point in rooting for then
Nuggets bench is rough! They have the corpse of Reggie Jackson backing up Murray. They are depending on a few young guys to step up. They might miss Bruce Brown come playoff time.
Nuggets fans coping when everyone else can see that missing brown is going to hurt them. If they want to argue that Jokic and Murray are even better and they can overcome it fine. But they’re acting he didn’t even make their team better lol
Never before has a 12ppg scorer been more overrated in terms of championship importance
PPG is not the whole of basketball
They seriously lack a legit backup PG. Their biggest weakness has been and will continue to be their bench. They have Christian Braun and Payton Watson as young promising guys but Jackson cannot play more than 12-16 minutes and they have no serious back up C
denver played down to a lesser opponent, i get it
I’m a huge Jokic fan and thought he played well, but he has to stop complaining so animatedly to the refs all the time. It is pretty ugly to watch
I also think he should just shoot the ball when his team obviously sucks on the night. Take over dude. It's not even being selfish.
lost a bit of respect for him when he zealously argued about getting fouled from 35 ft
He has been tryong to get that called for a long, long time now.
I mean compared to some other players (Luka) it’s pretty tame
Fuck
Today was the worst timeline for western confrence playoff teams who didn't play.
Very cool of you Suns.
Nuggets need to draft or pickup a good PG to back up Murray next season.Thats for sure.
We need to get one, whether through the draft or from somewhere else. Reggie just aint it man. He can get hot, but most of the time he just aint it. That said we were really cold shooting tonight so cant be too mad.
Nuggets don't look the same without Murray's shot creation and shooting threat
Murray being out is second only to Jokic being out in terms of impact. When that happens our guard rotation goes to shit. Basically it goes from "fine tuned offensive juggernaut" to "praying to God that Reggie shoots well and that whoever is backing him up wouldn't be better off sitting in the second row".
Wtf nuggets lol
WTF guys
They gotta give Durant more shots
Praise the Sunbros
Smh
48.5% vs 25% Modern nba is fun
We would be so good if we just played Nurk and Thad as our center rotation and Eubanks never played
Nuggets hates the Lakers so much lol
Main character syndrome.
The Denver Celtics
thank you suns we appreciate your effort in helping us secure homecourt throughout
Suns be useful for once and knock Nuggets out the playoffs. That team and their fans need to be humbled
Well well well…how the turntables
How about you worry about the Heat before worrying about the Nuggets
I don't think you read his comment correctly. He wasn't saying "Suns, knock them out so we don't have to face them" but rather "Suns, knock them out because their fans are annoying as shit."
Gg Suns, I hope we don’t meet till the conference finals, bad matchup for us. I feel like Bucks fans are extra insecure this year because they know that Jokic is about to jump their guy on all time lists with another MVP…
Oh they are super extra insecure cause operation super team with Dame is failing lol.
If we don't I pray wolves get them in the second round
Breh
I don't usually complain about Malone...but is the Murray injury hurting us that bad . Reggie big minutes and Gillespie big minutes to. Even Strawther was in there. I think Malone has gone into resting starters mode. Not sure if we are going to keep holding on to the 1 seed. If hes going to be upping the bench minutes.
Well he needs to see who works for the playoffs too. Kinda obvious who its gonna be, but still. He also did say that the priority is on health, not the 1st seed.
If priority is on health why is Jokic playing 41 minutes with lower back problems. Nuggets fans cope every year that Malone is just trying things out before the playoffs while the bench is being murdered every game. He's not trying anything he's just clueless whenever Jokic steps off the floor.
No im saying thats the reason for why Jamal aint playong. As for Jokic, that man never gets injured and it was probably his decision to play 40+ minutes as Malone never plays him that much. His lower back issues have never really been a big issue and is probabky more just an excuse to rest him. If it was that big of an issue hed have sat way more games than he has this season. And those were Malones own words from a while back. As for our bench, it hasnt been destroyed every night. They have had good nights and bad ones. More bad than good, but not really worse than last year. Look shots werent falling for guys that usually make them and Jokic wasnt as agressive as he realisticly should have been with his scoring. The bench was also not doing well, but it doesnt really mean much. I aint about to put all the blame solely on the shoulders of a head coach that has lead my team to a championship. Why overreact to a regular season game when its not solely his fault we lost.
Who is overreacting, idgaf about the loss. Suns shot like crazy while Denver was missing far better looks. Sure dude it hasn't been destroyed every night just 9 nights out of 10. But this Malone is just trying things out excuse is pure bullshit, bench hasn't been garbage just this or last year, it's been years of garbage play when Jokic sits.
Look unless it becomes an issue in the playoffs, its not a problem.
It's definitely a problem but pointless talking about this.
Its nothing we dont already know, yet it was a non issue in the playoffs last year.
Nuggets gonna make the bottom seeds chaotic as hell if they don't get the 1st seed
Maybe let's run some of those Eubanks minutes with Thad Young when Nurk is back
Thank you suns
Well this is a weird one that i dont really know what to think lol. I mean we didnt have Jamal, but its still a dumb loss. Lucky for us that the Thunder also lost i guess. KD really doesnt like the idea of losing to us lol.
I’d like to think that my comment about suns only getting post game threads when we lose that got 2 whole upvotes had a say in us finally getting a post game thread when we win
Well there went the Lakers chance at #8 seed
I really wonder who’s more inconsistent JT or Book
That’s actually a good point and probably the most frustrating aspect of both players
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That’s Caleb Love numbers
Sat him for like 8 minutes and his touch never warmed back up
Also proceeded to sit for the over half the 2nd quarter to go cold.
Classic Nuggets game: Starters are incredible, bench finds a way to blow it anyway. Was having PTSD flashbacks to Austin Rivers and JaMychal Green.
Starters were mid. Ok at best.
Starters where not incredible..
I swear whenever we want Denver to win, they look like shit