The Phoenix Suns fell to the Thunder after another quiet fourth quarter from Kevin Durant, Bradley Beal and the Suns.
Brendon Kleen of @justbasketballfans is joined by Brandon Dueñas of Bright Side of the Sun to break down the game including how the fourth played out, Frank Vogel’s lineup and rotation choices, and what Devin Booker can fix about the situation.
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12 Comments
I want to see this team fix their 4th quarter issues before Book comes back. Can't rely on Book to bail them out when there's a deeper underlying issue plaguing this team
Brad Beal
Beal’s back issue going to plague our season man. Eric Gordon now having random shoulder soreness and Vogel “hoping it’s not serious.” Book has already had 3 separate injuries and has only played 2 games. Not good man
I told you once, I will say it again, when the suns sat out game 2 of the preseason, when the world champion nuggets came to the Footprint center and played all 5 starters and phoenix set out, I knew Phx was not mentally ready to win anything. Two days later the Suns played everyone but Beal against Portland, its never going to happen.
I've never seen an NBA team, in any quarter, shoot 10%. I don't care who's out there. To be that bad in any quarter is unacceptable. Worse yet, they've had multiple quarters this season in which they shot close to that. The Suns have been historically bad on offense at a lot of points this season. DBook isn't gonna fix this. It'll help for sure. But guys outside of the big 3 has to be better on offense. They have to run plays that's not iso ball. We're not even gonna talk about the defense because they've shown flashes of at least being competent there.
I don't know. I've never seen a worse team on offense before. As a Suns fan, I've seen a lot of bad basketball. This team is the worst of them on offense. This team is literally unwatchable right now. I've seen better play from non NBA teams! Losing is one thing. It's how they are losing, it's the lack of improvement game to game. The lack of accountability from players and coaches who keep using the health of the big 3 as an excuse.
Basketball is not all about stats, a team with great chemistry playing well will give every member good stats, you can’t just take a player produced good stats out of that environment putting him on a completely new team and automatically assume he could reproduce those numbers, you are having it completely backward. When games are decided in a few points a game nba team building is an art not science
Don’t worry bout nothin. Once this team changes their mascot things will get better. Lol Pick up John Wall. 💯💪🏾
Shai was cooking hs
Fans hold standards for different players. When luka and jokic are leading their teams solo theirs no excuses they hold responsibility. When kd and Beal lose it’s because booker is missing.
Just like the Clippers, our front office was dreaming the romantic dream that aging and injury-prone (super)stars suddenly for some strange reason would blossom again into their prime. 😂
And how could they really believe we could win a title without a point guard in the roster??? We had that in the span between Bledsoe and CP3 too. This was the period of the worst playmaking in our franchise history! And they made this mistake again!
Embarrassing…
Without Book, this team isn't even a playoff team. With Book, maximum is round 1….
This not a good team no pg no post play turnovers lack of shooting from bench this not looking good smh
I’m realizing more and more that not drafting luka is going to haunt this team for decades. Luka paired with booker would have made us title contenders for ten plus years. Now we have an old Durant and Beal