We were all booing the Phoenix Suns after a sloppy weekend

We were all booing the Phoenix Suns after a sloppy weekend

Mar mornings Arizona Sports the local sports leader bigley blast in terms of Civic embrace our much anticipated super team hit a new low last night they were booed in the second quarter of a marquee game at footprint Center a game in which they actually took the floor with a

Sense of urgency and to be honest I think we were all booing from couches to sports bars to all corners of the valley and not because of this loss to the Thunder because of that grotesque loss to the rockets on Saturday because the suns are 2 and four since the allstar

Break because they are still suffering from the lack of a true point guard a lack of leadership and the lack of endgame assassins because they are either very poorly coached or unreceptive to coaching and because Bradley Beal was incredibly stupid on Saturday KD was incredibly absent in the

Fourth quarter yesterday and because one of their big three is hurt again and in the end it’s because this was supposed to be the greatest season of our lives and it isn’t all because of that one godforsaken word expectations a team that from day one was either

Championship or bust and I think we’re all fearing the latter right about now all right today’s Bickle blast brought to you by my great friends at Chapman BMW make luxury attainable find them online at Chapman bmw.com I can’t give you all that what what was the tone of the message I damn

Sure can’t give you the tone uh but it was it was uh yeah it was what we needed at the time like he he challenged everybody uh he it was like he punched everybody in the chest like that’s what it felt like you know um he

He gave us a message Mage we needed to hear uh especially like he takes he’s our defensive guy so he takes pride in that and if we’re effing up his coverages and not doing what what we’re supposed to do he’s yeah he’s on 10 so rightfully so and you see we got good

Results out of that so was Bradley Beal last night after an eight-point loss to the Oklahoma City Thunder which I think you’ve done a really good job he was talking about a heated timeout where Frank BOGO kind of lit into the team uh and it did have an effect they got back

Into a game they were down by 24 but I think you’ve done a really good job of illustrating kind of you know those two games happen within a 24hour 20 7 hour period of each other um frustration is the constant but the ingredients of frustration are different

Different the the squandering of a game against Houston a team you should beat um Saturday that was hard to get over going into last night knowing that Devin Booker was wasn’t available and then there was questions about hey is is nerk going to play is is Royce O’Neal going to play and you’re

Considering that one of the top teams in the Western Conference was coming in I didn’t expect the Suns to win last night quite honestly no but I didn’t expect them to come down from being 24 down either yeah exactly it was it was it was a very uneven effort but the unevenness

LED to Hope I mean you’re up six points in the fourth quarter a winnable ball game and so you can’t so if you could separate this if the Rockets game never happened then I I really think we’d all feel a little differently I think even at full

Strength it would have been 5050 of beating Oklahoma City the way they’re playing and and I think we I think everybody in the valley who had not seen a minute of Oklahoma City Thunder since their last game against the Suns kind of got a reminder of why Shay gilis

Alexander is in the MVP debate maybe even a front runner uh because he was that good down the I mean just insane down the stretch and that and that’s what we want from our guys that’s what we want from our endgame guys and and and Kevin Durant I knew he didn’t score

I did not know watching the game and maybe I should have that he didn’t even assist no on a bucket well when the trade went down last year that was one of the things that was presented to the naysayers of the how do you give up Mel

Bridges and cam Johnson look I know it’s I know it’s Kevin Durant but no that you know the people that said that was a bad trade well now you got two closers down the stretch maybe 2 point five or three if Chris Paul can can come to play um

The Suns haven’t had a closer this year no no they really haven’t that’s a that’s a great great point and that was really kind of on display last night because you saw Shay gilis Alexander not only get whatever shot he want just made every shot and he had what one

Turnover all night huge huge stat line and there’s a one in his turnover category he and Jaylen Williams combined for 19 points in the fourth quarter yeah jayen Williams is a young player but yeah just and confid here’s the level of frustration I think Suns fans are

Feeling Bradley Beal was hurt in game one of the Season Devin Booker was hurt in game two of the Season Devin Booker returned in game six was hurt again in game seven Bradley Beal returned in game nine game 11 Devin Booker returned and Bradley Beal was hurt the same game game

17 Kevin Durant was hurt two nights later Durant returns and Booker got hurt Booker returns in game 20 but in game 21 Kevin Durant got hurt in game 23 Bradley Beal returned the next night Kevin Durant returned then in game 25 Bradley Beal got hurt again and then in game 31

Bradley Beal returned and in game 32 Kevin Durant got hurt and then in game 36 Durant ret returned for a while for from game 36 to game 51 just sweet Serenity all three were available and now we’re back on this Carousel and things went well while they were

Together yes the sweet Serenity era of the 2024 Suns right it was shortlived but it was nice they were playing basketball yes and maybe this basketball team will have a happy ending for us you know I I don’t know I I have no idea what to expect from this team but but

Again just the collective mood around this team for them to get booed last night and why I asked you because I was not at in attendance last night you could hear it on television I was curious what it sounded like in person it was noticeable yeah I I I wouldn’t

Say it was overwhelming and that was just my perspective um and again I’m not I’m not hyper Focus on all that stuff cuz I got so much stuff going on down where I’m sitting exactly another thing that people pointed out was Yousef nerk is just being an absolute Force last

Night 31 rebounds in 32 minutes of play a new Suns record for rebounds but he also came out at a key stretch of the fourth quarter uh nage talked about uh that particular subject after the game they they a good team and they make you

Work I thought when we got back and and we got lead you know I I wish I stayed that few minutes but um you know just got to trust the coach um and I do trust him but at the end of the day you know it’s

It’s a just felt bad because we could win that game yeah when nkit left the game uh with 547 to go in the fourth quarter the game was tied they had already squandered a six-point lead at that point um Oklahoma City immediately went on an 8 nothing run and effectively

Put the game away who knew big nerk was that important Vinnie he is that important uh he also commented nurkic did and he’s part of this too wasn’t all great for nerk he has a turnover issue as well but he talked about the turnover problems I mean I got five of them few

Games ago I got seven of them so I had to be better and I think from tonight you know we saw the you know some players step up and you know big emphasis should be in take number one going forward for us to because we have a power we have a people

Who can score the ball no matter what and I think we don’t turn over we we’re going to win a lot of games and we can’t be dominated team as we wish and we can if we’re going to turn the ball over we just giving too much people to you know

Have advantage of us and 22 and 31 points it’s hard to come especially down players and one of the best players out too Dani Booker so you just got to be smart man I think our most you know turnovers is in good you know in a good

Place but you just got to find a way I think that’s the the biggest thing on rest of the season and and you know going to play us you’re going to see this team again and and a lot of teams who who who Force you you know in in

Playing a fast type of basketball so we got to be it’s almost better show the bad shot than turnover yeah um and Bradley Beal said how do you combat the turnover problem shoot the ball don’t overpass it and normally you would say might be an oversimplification but again there’s

There’s also I I’ve said this from day one if if I were in charge of this basketball team I would have really really try to put in a fastpac 7 seconds or less Paradigm jack up as many as threes as you humanly possible but there was also that stretch where the suns

Were for about 10 games ridiculously efficient in shooting the basketball they’ve been under 50% shooting as a team for seven straight games and a lot of that coincides with Bradley Beal not being out but they shot 44% if you take Beal’s percentage out of that he was 10

For 14 last night and goes way down so they’re not when when they’re not turning the ball over they’re not shooting the ball I said Katie is in a little bit of a funk right now I don’t know whether this is fatigue I don’t know what else it would be other than fatigue

Mhm I mean it’s Kevin freaking Durant I hope it’s only fatigue uh yeah thanks for watching Bley and Mora click to see the latest Bickle blast and hit the button in the middle to subscribe to Arizona Sports

After a weekend where the Suns lost two games, Dan Bickley does his Bickley Blast on the turnovers and what the team needs to do moving forward.

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