Las Vegas Aces head coach Becky Hammon, Brian Windhorst and Kendrick Perkins join Chiney Ogwumike on NBA Today to discuss the Phoenix Suns’ 109-104 loss to the Portland Trail Blazers and if a healthy Bradley Beal will solve the problems in Phoenix.
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The release of your videos is like a holiday🍭
Welcome back Coach Hammon 👏🏼👏🏼. Meeting Becky Hammon in 2002 my sophomore year of high school when she was still a member of the New York Liberty 🗽 was one of the biggest thrills of my life. Forever grateful to Coach Hammon 🙏🏼.
They have been soft for a while!
1. Health especially with Bradly Beal
2. Lack of Defense
nurkic is a soft centre
Phoenix might not make the playoffs
lol relax, they’ve been missing top guys all season. They’ll be fine watch
Yoo My Dawg KD Been Doing His Thang Out There On The Basketball Court
KD'S TOENAIL WAS ON THE LINE🤣🤣
They built a bad roster around KD and Book, simple. The only hope this team has to do well is to be a great offense and they need Beal to do that. The gap between their 3rd and 4th best player is by far the biggest among any contender. You can't expect Vogel to have a good defense when he doesn't have the players, and when Nurkic is his defensive anchor. The Suns have a predicament where the guys who can shoot are small and can't guard, and their taller wings are career 30% from 3 type of guys. Either you get burned on defense, or you play 4 on 5 on offense.
The point Book experiment is also problematic, there are moments where he struggles to set up the offense, and his main forte is scoring. Getting rid of CP3 and not even getting an adequate backup PG is bad, KD being the best defensive player on your team is also problematic, at his age and injury history, having to guard big and strong 4's is also gonna wear him out. Also playing him 40 mins a night is a problem as well. The team lacks physicality and grit, as we saw the Lakers game where they got killed on the glass.
The Suns don't have a lot of roster flexibility because they have so much money tied to their big 3. The Beal contract is gonna hamper them big time. That leads you to pick up a bunch minimum contract players to fill out your depth. What do you expect ppl like Metu, Okogie, Little, Bates Diop, Watanabe to do. These guys are all deep bench caliber players, they shouldn't play high minutes. I also find it problematic that Book is the only remaining guy from the 2021 finals roster.
I See The NBA Finals Next Year Will See The Golden State Warriors Vs The Suns That Match Up Will Be Epic
The suns are just top heavy and those guys at the top can’t seem to stay healthy
😂😂
Becky wants the Suns' job! She's getting head coaching experience and doing well in Las Vegas, so she's getting ready.
They’d still be losing with a healthy Beal because yes, they’re soft. And Beal doesn’t solve those defense issues.
Their best player is always injured, and complains about double teams and other teams’ mascots. Are people just realizing this?
I really liked coach Becky, but now it looks like she just want to be popular, why does she look like old Kardashian now?
They soft & need some healthy role players every other night somebody hurt 😂😂🥴
Suns were better when they had cp3 cam Johnson and Mikal bridges
KD your best player and he don’t even lift weights 😂
Softer then toilet paper 😂
Let’s bring PJ Tucker back to the Valley.
He’ll be a great addition!!
They soft but Perkins picked them to win the West
Is this the coach who got suspended this summer two games by WNBA for bullying a pregnant player? Good look ESPN.
Sure why not ..the WNBA hired Isaiah Thomas to run a team after he lost a sexual harrassment case . This isn't nearly as bad…
Two things:
1) this just turned into KDs team
2) @KD, the grass aint always greener on the other side. You should have stayed in Brooklyn
They can have Draymond 😊😅
See this that 💩. Same folks saying the Suns soft…..are the same folks poumding the desk saying Draymond hurt his team. "Aint no such thing as halfway crooks" Perk. Either you want a tough guy or you dont. A tough guy is gonna cross the line sometimes.
Soft and they don't play any d
I want a longer video about the Suns. They still talking bout the Lakers for losing, but very little time on the Suns
what happened to devin booker?
They are soft kd doesn’t hit the weight room hell had he done that over the year’s he might’ve avoided all of those injuries this team is bound to fall apart or turn it around and play with more confidence & get physical with teams stop whining to the refs and just continue to hustle & play hard.
Bron is still the best player on the planet. 🌍
This team misses Chris Paul so much. Hopefully he comes back in the off-season. I didn't realize how much we'd miss him but this team has struggled in the 4th and Chris Paul always guaranteed a good shot for Book or KD. The only problem with Paul is he was injured in the playoffs. It sounds like a reach but if Paul was on this time they are at the top of the West
That collapse against the Mavs is the definition of soft
SOFT LIKE KD AND BOOK
Nope they're just not good as a team right now, they try but they're not good enough collectively
This time KD need to recruit Draymond
When you find out Isaiah Thomas had a hand in putting this team together, it all makes sense. The pieces don't fit. You've got three injury prone scorers with no real frontline and no defense to speak of. Exactly the type of nonsensical team Isiah would put together. Just get "THE BIG NAMES" and it'll all work out, that's his thought process. Trust me, I had to live through 5 years of his idiocy with the Knicks.
Gimme dat Beckyyy !!
I agree with Becky….Something is missing from the Suns and we dont know what it is. They have talent, but no one sees them as a legit threat.
What??😂😂 the defense is better than the kings bucks and mavericks which is average. There offense is also average and Brad can definitely help with that. They also don’t know each other
She summarized it perfectly at the end: you take a punch, just get up and go hit somebody. They're too passive right now. Both KD and Booker seem very stoic as people and team leaders. They probably need to go get a PJ Tucker or someone like that into the starting lineup to help energize the role players.
Soft like WNBA players
Been saying, Brooklyn WON the trade!