The Phoenix Suns beat the Chicago Bulls as Bradley Beal made his regular season debut, but real issues remain for the Suns.
Brendon Kleen of @justbasketballfans dissects the overtime win, including how Jusuf Nurkic, Grayson Allen and Keita Bates-Diop decided it, why the team is so inconsistent and if it can be fixed, plus how Beal looked back from injury.
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Much love and respect goes to Brendon Kleen he is a great, smart, dedicated one of a kind beat šŖ reporter for the Phoenix Suns. Locked on Suns rock Josh L from locked on fantasy basketball š rocks. Chicago Illinois rocks with Brendon Kleen. "Twitter is weird Twitter is dying" YouTube is the best and its the future, God bless Mr. Clean, hes a smart š¤ o.g. snd he aint green šš
Bro is overreacting again š
KDB also had a huge block down the stretch, felt like he was confused on his role in the preseason but love his fit now
Not looking too deep into Beal, 1st game back, probably minimized role to monitor health/feel
overreact much? cāmon bro, itās 8 games in and we havenāt even seen Book, KD and Beal at the timeā¦ which is a bit concerning, but itās a long season.
Dude act like this supposed to been an easy win or something Zach and Demar isnāt no pushover and they were home
Yeah, Kleen is great! Thanks for keeping us in the loop
Your takes are always ridiculous. Obviously the Ayton trade has been by far the best thing to happen cam paĆs would not be any better than the guards we have beal will be getting his legs and rythem but he had some great Def moments and played decent in limited min alot of suns turnovers were Bulls just hacking and reaching grabbing pushing ect refs sucked ass and of course EG was like 0/8 from 3 settle down for not being negetive you are very negetive
Iād rather overreact than under react. Yeah the outcome might not change but heās being realistic, considering what we have seen in years past. Iām glad we have Beal back but the biggest thing Iām worried about is the turnovers. We definitely arenāt the same team regarding too how well we used to distribute and pass the ball compared to 21 or 22 , yeah itāll get better over the year Iām sure but it seems to definitely be an issue as of early this season in my opinion
Crying about what could have been with CharminAyton? Iām out āš¼
KBD shouldāve been our starter all along. Better late than never for Vogel learning about our team.
This guy expected an essy win against the Bulls but the Suns lost to the Spurs twice š¤£
I'm not surprised why they struggle. With the addition of Bradley Beal, they now had to readjust and read each other. You can see Durant & Nurkic still talking to each other how they pass to each other. At the end there with Beal and Durant, Beal wasn't sure what to do. It's all just trying to figure each other out. No need to cause an alarm.
Grayson Allen however has been a blessing for this team. I'm loving the dude.
According to Statmuse, the Suns are number 1 in blocks in 8 games played so far, that's solid defense
Beal didnāt drive to the hoop, looked slow. Hadnāt played in a long time
Grayson Allen is the hero with the eight triple doubles in the game to the bulls
I donāt understand how professional basketball players can fail to defend the rim in a final inbound pass with under 0.4 seconds on the clock. Why is Allen trying to run around a screen? Why is Bol not standing with his arms straight up and jumping during the inbound pass? Why is KBD guarding anyone around the perimeter? And how do neither Durant or Nurkic notice LaVine sprinting with an open lane to the hoop?How hard is this? Itās all the little things, but they displayed high school basketball level thinking on an NBA court and they almost lost because of it.
I know they got lucky, but if the Bulls ran that exact play and the Suns defended it the same way, I think at least 50% of the time it works. And it should be as close to zero as possible.
8 games in to the season and we need to address the start of 2nd and 4th quarters problem. We lose big time advantage and the games are close because of bad rotation and bad playing decision. Major swing momentum was late in the 3rd, 88 to 76 and Gordon misses his 382384832 3 pointer of the night. That would have put them up 15, timeout Bulls and game almost done, instead Bulls go on a run and quarter finished up by 4 points only.
There were some bad calls from the refs also and in this kind of close games they matter big time.
As for KDB he should finish the games BUT he is getting gassed because Vogel starts the 4th with him. That happened vs Lakers.
PS: Watanabe needs to play alongside KD to be more effective and he is a backup for KD atm.
PS2: Bulls starters were a combined minus 68!
Still not impressed with the bench play so far this season!! This was to be a strong point for the team and yet not one player has showed he's the go too 6th or even 7th man. So far its not a improvement over last years team.
I feel good. It was Brad Beal's first game of the season, it will take time for him to find his rhythm and gel with the team. I'm happy to see them get a road win with Booker out, team will only get better.
That was Bradley beals fridg game we need time to develop chemistry that wonāt happen until Book is back and we are healthy. I say wait until after All star break for the Suns to look dominant
Durant hasnāt been good in the 4th quarters so when Devin Booker comes back we will have a closer to put games away. Durant is great for quarters 1-3. Once Beal gets adjusted he will help with keeping leads.
"If Booker has a down game this is what it's gonna look like"…. I guess assuming his "down game" is literally zero points, zero assists and zero rebounds. Come on now him being completely out of the game is not even close to him having a down game
ššš The top 3 haven't played together in the regular season yet. Settle down! Did you even mention that Alex Caruso was first team all defense last year? If you did, I didn't hear it. He was a great disrupter and he was on fire from 3 which helped bring them back.The bottom line….the Suns were missing Booker, they're on the road, they don't have chemistry yet, it was Beal's first game,the Bulls have weapons, and they don't stink. CHILL! š
Really the turnovers and lack of paint points. Like im not worried about no one one blowing past and consistently dunking on any ones head.
I was following game on GameCast not sure how they were up 12points with 3 min left and at 2:25 left they were up by 2. That annoys the fuck out of me
Bulls played well and Suns played poorly. But we got the W because we are the better team. Beal played well for his first game. You shouldnāt expect more. They are struggling figured out who is going to be responsible for handling the ball and making the plays. I think Booker will alleviate this problem, but until then someone needs to step and be be decisive. We have so many dumb turnovers at the top of the three.
I think this was definitely an over exaggeration lol