NBA Countdown | “Luka Doncic alone will defeat the Sun’s Big 3!” – Kendirck Perkins on Suns vs Mavs

NBA Countdown | “Luka Doncic alone will defeat the Sun’s Big 3!” – Kendirck Perkins on Suns vs Mavs

Playing War so this feels like sort of a moment where tectonic plates they could be shifting in Phoenix like Whispers of the Nets Vibes with the big three where they couldn’t stay on the court so w what is the temperature inside Phoenix right now well start with Kevin Durant

You talked to people in Phoenix and around that organization you know they can feel the frustration with dur rant part of that certainly uh is the Miss games for Brad Beal this team was built around those three stars uh The underwhelming Supporting Cast that comes from those massive trades for Durant and

Bradley Beal that really gutted uh the organization and left them you having to sign a lot of minimum players to fill out the payroll and then and then understanding uh that they lack the assets the draft picks the the trade Capital to go out and really improve this team this is something they’re

Going to have to manage in Phoenix with Kevin Durant you’ve seen it before and it reminds you it is a stark reminder of how short of a window and how this team has to win big and they have to win big quickly uh based on how it was constructed and having Kevin Durant

Still playing at an all-nba uh level and a healthy Kevin Durant and there’s a lot at stake for this organization it’s got to change soon okay mayor of Scottdale you know this team inside and out given all of that how confident are you that they’re going to figure all this out I’m not

First of all they can’t get on the court and W just so right start with Bradley Beal this team was constructed you knew going into this that their three starters their three stars had to be Stars pillar or post all right but this this is a reminder how many times are we

Going to keep going back to a model because it worked twice of this big three situation where you could just throw people together because of their names they’re going to be great they haven’t played together and even when they have first of all they should be

Better with two of them and they’re not it’s a flatline team you watch them and you wonder where’s the emotion where is it well personalities matter perk knows this when you’re building a team as opposed to just slapping one together temperament matters personality matters chemistry matters we talk about Draymond

Green right and the instigation and why is it worth it despite all the suspensions and the drama to have him because you still have that in the mix the sons have none of that and when you watch them play you’re like my my goodness Stephen A and I were talking

The commercial break about pace of play that’s reflective of what they don’t have where’s the fire they’ve been bottom five in Pace of play when you got those players if they’re on the court and they’re not where is the pace of play what is that about where’s the fire

With this team watching them Flatline through games and blow double digit leads no I have no confidence you know what the big three haven’t played together and they got KD and Devin Booker they could save the excuses a lot of people make more excuses for the fing

Sons than the brother going to jail and I don’t even want to hear it okay and when it comes down to it is you talk about the pace how about getting stops cupcakes is what I see them they creamy in the middle they lack physicality Stephen A they lack physicality Willborn

They lack mental toughness if you want to get out transition how about getting deflections and steals how about forcing turnovers so when I think about this locker room and I think about Eric Gordon comments Malika right he talked about oh he’s a offensive weapon basically right he should get more

Touches be more involved in the offense he’s on a vet minimum that shows lack of leadership and when this team formed I said that Kevin Durant just like when he went to Golden State and Draymond and steep was a leader to him he needs to be

A vocal leader to these guys in this locker room because they don’t have one and when you lose games like to the Portland Trailblazers it goes to show you that you don’t have a voice that’s extension of Frank vogle and that’s why I always say your best player is not

Your leader all the time your best player is not the one that’s in the locker room that’s that’s giving the voice of holding people accountable 2008 on the Celtics kg wasn’t a vocal leader Paul wasn’t a vocal leader it wasn’t uh Ray Allen it was James

Posy you need a vocal leader are you ready for this the Phoenix Suns are a team are you ready for this they’re a team when it comes to there’s a whole bunch of people that sh to blame ain’t just one person there’s a whole bunch of blame to go around let’s start with

Ownership doing your homework on the availability of Bradley Bill this ain’t the first time he’s been injured no all right so you got to take that in consideration we know it’s not on purpose it’s not his fault that he lands somebody twist his ankle stuff like that

It’s not his fault but the reality is is that durability and availability have been things that he hasn’t had uh you know at his disposal that’s number one okay the recommendations for Frank vogle Frank vogle could coach he’s a champion as a coach I’m certainly not here to

Cast the the asures on him but there is something to be said about being able to touch on the pulse of your team okay that was a question mark for him with the Los Angeles Lakers wasn’t a question mark with him when he was the coach of

The Indiana Paces years ago but it was a question with him with the Los Angeles Lakers thereafter winning the championship it’s a question now as you watch these things these matters unfold then we have to get to the Superstar Kevin Durant who’s the league leader in three-point percentage shooting at over

47 % who’s one of the top three scorers in the league averaging over 30 but it appears to me nothing why because leadership ain’t just with how you perform on a basketball court it’s your ability to Galvanize the people around you to maximize their potential he

Doesn’t seem to be able to do that Devin Booker is averaging 27 a game so you’ve got a superstar averaging 30 you got another one averaging 27 and y’all still three in and eight over your last 11 games or something like that this is this is a team that appears to be

Leaderless this is a team that doesn’t appear to have any kind of Direction any kind of motivation whatsoever they certainly don’t have health on their side you already brought up their bench W there’s nothing to look forward to in Phoenix because I’m looking at the rest of the Western Conference and some of

These young thorough breads going to come up the reigning defending champions in Denver M LeBron leading the Los Angeles Lakers you can’t count them out and then I’m looking at the Phoenix Suns hot garbage hot garbage how patient is Kevin Durant willing to be with all of

This well listen we you you’ve seen certainly in Brooklyn there were very different factors uh with the Nets and their inability uh to ever put that together but the one thing you came back to in Brooklyn was uh the players that he came to play with and that he helped

Bring in James Harden Kyrie Irving they never played together I think they played 17 games together the three of them and I think that’s going to be the question I think for the Suns is Bradley be getting healthy and then Durant and Booker staying healthy because we

Haven’t seen what these three look like together but they’re going to have to be markedly better with all three of them to make up for the deficiencies that exist around floor you don’t want to move Booker and you can’t move bill because you couldn’t trade him for a bag

Of cookies because he’s not available well only 28 gam in they’re on the outside of the play in in the big three kept beating him James left Cleveland for Miami to construct his own Championship Ensemble and has never never again lost to the Celtics in the postseason faced with playoff

Elimination in his career James has delivered 445 Point performances three of them against Boston LeBron James put the heat on his shoulders and carried them to this dominant Victory this is the best game I’ve ever seen LeBron James play to stake himself in Lakers lore LeBron James delivered a 17th

Championship Banner in 2020 catching the Celtics in the way that Dr Jerry bus always dreamed I told Genie when I came here that I was going to put this franchise back in a position where it belongs we just want our respect Laker Nation want they respect and I want my

Damn respect too and what would be a Prelude to the ultimate June finals it is the NBA’s two fiercest rivalries aligning on Christmas Day LA Boston and for the 100th time for the ages LeBron James against the Boston Celtics great work on that W perk you’ve been on

Both sides of this you’ve been LeBron’s teammate and you’ve been a part of a championship Boston Celtics what gives us extra juice for LeBron well you know I I don’t want to use this word on Christmas day but damn it I have to hate the Celtics hate LeBron the city hate

LeBron and the feelings are mutual LeBron hate the city of Boston the organization so much that I never seen him go outside for dinner when he’s in the city of Boston and I’ve been part of his team and he goes to dinner a lot with Team meetings and things of that

Nature he don’t even go foot he hates it hates everything about the organization is real beef there that’s nice I appreciate that on Christmas Day I expect a a a a furious battle because of it I don’t think Jason Tatum cares I don’t think jayen Brown cares I think

They got the game to back it up I think they got the squad to back it up with Drew holiday and Derek white defending on the perimeter as well so let’s get that out the way it comes down it’s not about LeBron because we know how

Phenomenal and great he is it’s not even about Anthony Davis to some degree because I expect him to show up who the hell else is going to show up for the Los Angeles Lakers you know at some point in time we got to bring this into consideration I talk about places like

La Miami something and the distractions that exist okay these players some of them act like it is a distraction they’re distracted from playing basketball because too many nights they don’t show up I’m not talking about ad and LeBron James here I’m talking about the rest of you know y’all wear Laker

Uniforms too could you give the new the soon to be 39y old man some help could you have some pride and say damn rather than making those goat noises in the locker room you show up and take some of the pressure off of him that would be

Nice it would be nice so Stephen A’s questioning who’s going to show up for the Los Angeles Lakers christops porzingis was listed as questionable will we see him this afternoon yeah spring dle for porzingis I’m told he’s going to go through his pregame shooting but there’s optimism around the Celtics

That porzingis will be available porzingis available that just is making Stephen say all right who show it up now n will be right foree spe spe spee oh what foreign spee spee speee spe for foreign fore speech foreign foreign foreign spee speech spee spee for foree

NBA Countdown | “Luka Doncic alone will defeat the Sun’s Big 3!” – Kendirck Perkins on Suns vs Mavs