Watch out! The Phoenix Suns’ Big 3 are clicking

Watch out! The Phoenix Suns’ Big 3 are clicking

Seven straight wins now for the Phoenix Suns this one over Dallas in Dallas starting off a seven game Road Trip Luca played too I mean I we said this yesterday wolf but this would not feel the same now that they’ve won if he hadn’t played you know I’d obviously

Prefer the Suns win and he doesn’t play to the Suns losing to Luca we already had to deal with that on Christmas but as as uh as nerk said after the game last night it’s not Christmas anymore which was a great quote that was awesome right there big nerk

Getting nasty as well more on this as he showing for yeah that was uh that was that was like one of those moments where like he was already part of the team but now he’s like really part of the team uh Suns end up winning last night in a game

Which I’ll correct myself they were down by one at a halftime I meant they were down by 11: with 5 minutes to go but I apparently not awake and so I don’t know how to use words today they were down by 11 with five minutes to go in the second

Quarter though and then started the come back then and then just went off in the third quarter I mean they just they outscored Dallas 43 to2 in the third quarter and the start of the third quarter it was like Hey does Dallas are they gonna score again like Sun’s just

Going to shut them out in the third quarter uh it’s not a oneman show but man Devin Booker putting up up 46 in that game uh last night like I said it’s that much more sweet when he does it against Luca yeah and you know once

Again it’s not like book went out there in the third quarter and willed himself to score 22 points Bas orans he did not you know what he did he went out there with a clear understanding that he was going to give whatever he had he was

Going to give it and we all know that Shooters can get hot as you’re out there giving it and you’re competing you can actually get in a Groove a nice little shooting Groove and that’s exactly what happened to Devin Booker he scored 22 points in the quarter again did he will

Himself to go out there and do it no he willed himself to go out and actually be a professional athlete and compete and give all that he had and it was good wasn’t it and it impacted everyone else around him the Suns played one of their best quarters of basketball I think

We’ve seen all year yeah you know this is 17 straight games now dating Back to December 22nd where the Suns have only had the same Le scorer in back-to-back games once that’s when Durant I mean it just happened when Durant put up 40 against the Pacers and he put up 43

Against Chicago incredible 17 consecutive games they’ve only had the the same leading score in back-to-back games one time and it it’s not all Booker and Durant now it mostly is but like you’ve got Grayson Allen and Bradley Beal mixed in there too but it’s like in a weird way they are kind of

Balanced people look at them and they say oh they’re super topheavy and they are but not topheavy in the sense of like they’ve got one great player and then a couple okay players and then a bunch of role players and the only reason I bring that up is

Because this could serve them really well going forward because this is what it would look like if there’s no way to cover everybody right so like you just go back I we go back to January 1 Bradley Beal puts up 21 okay next game Booker puts up 35 okay next game Allen

Puts up 31 then Booker 24 then Durant 30 then be 37 then Booker 34 like you can’t you can’t zero in on one guy obviously because somebody else is going to go off and they’re not just going off I mean recently your leading scor is 5240 43

And 46 this isn’t even like hey that guy put up 27 no the guys are putting up like 50 now for the Suns you know what really really interesting right now we we keep talking about the LA experience for the Phoenix Suns where they lost to the Clippers of course and then two

Nights later they beat the Lakers they lost in a very embarrassing game against the Clippers and then all of a sudden they beat the Lakers and it was the first time in what four games it was they yeah they were 0 and three so now

All of a sudden here it is they beat the Lakers and we we looked at that game and said it at the time this could be the launching point this could be a launching point right right here for the Suns and sure enough that Lakers game

They’ve won seven games in a row since then interesting but also when you get a little bit more specific and you talk about the big three Luke I know you’ve got these numbers and this is really really important I think that we we look at these numbers and say hey what is

Going on with the Phoenix Suns to your point about how diverse the leading scorer has been with the Phoenix Suns yeah so they’ve now played 12 full games together the big three I’m throwing out that next game where Beal played like five minutes I’m not counting there’s no

Point in counting it 12 full games they’ve played together the big three yeah they started two and three in those games they are now nine and three in those games so does it seem like somebody may have figured something out well in the last seven gam I figured out

Kevin or Devon that’s true no that’s not has Crack the Code there yes the the seven game winning streak they are averaging The Big Three nearly 80 points a game it’s like 79. 597 whatever but basically it’s 80 points a game from the big three on the seven game winning

Streak yeah you know and again this could be pure Co incidence but stop and think about it You’ you’ve got three guys that are really really good basketball players Ron wolfley reporting um that have played together 12 games 12 and they start two and three kind of up and down what’s gonna happen

Here trying to figure out chemistry cheem be patient I keep telling you Luke be patient yes oh no you’re always telling me to be patient how patient the way to the chemistry is going to for and then all of a sudden after five games two and three up and down yin and yang

Suddenly they rip off seven and a row it seems like something might be clicking something might be settling in well it it was disjointed too I mean like in the moment we were all getting impatient and wondering what was going on and like okay when they all start playing together what are they

Really just going to win every game this might just simply be as as basic as when these guys are healthy they’re going to start winning because those first five games were spread out too like it was December 13th December 29th right uh New Year’s Eve but then January 7th so when they were

Two and three with the big three it wasn’t like they were stringing a bunch of games together it was hey we’re going to play a game together and then we’re not going to play together for a week and a half once they started playing together now they’ve 1 seven in a row

Yeah and now it’s really interesting as well that in this seven game win streak they’ve got going on they were down 16 they were down 22 and they were down 23 and came back and won all of those games think about that it’s kind of like you know okay more exposure okay hey

We’re gonna have some hiccups as we continue to get this chemistry together but is would that explain some of the reasons why they were down 22 and why they were down 23 and 16 and yet came back and everyone of those games and one them I don’t know

This is Frank vogle talking about Booker after the game uh last night in Dallas well I think that you know the rhythm of of getting stops and getting some some looks in transition and um I mean he just had a determination you know with this matchup I think that uh he wanted

To have a big game um didn’t happen for him in the in the first half but really got going uh in that third quarter the Rhythm did you hear that the Rhythm once again the Rhythm man is it possible it explains why they got down by 22 why

They got down by 23 why they got down by 16 just the rhythm was off yeah by the way they they can stop doing that you know what I mean like they don’t need to keep falling way behind in the first half of these games but at least The

Comebacks are starting earlier and earlier I was just going to say when you when you think of your 12 12 games they’ve been together 12 games and they started two and three and now all of a sudden they’re getting exposure to each other it almost explains you know what

Uh yeah we’re a band and we’re getting together and sometimes our Rhythm isn’t going to be on because we hav played together for a long time rep it’s crazy to think that players at that level just need some reps together but I mean it makes a lot of

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The Phoenix Suns extend their winning streak to seven games following a Wednesday night wins over the Dallas Mavericks. Ron Wolfley and Luke Lapinski take a closer look at the Suns’ Big 3 of Kevin Durant, Devin Booker and Bradley Beal.

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