Bickley Blast: Are the Phoenix Suns superstars done with Frank Vogel?

Bickley Blast: Are the Phoenix Suns superstars done with Frank Vogel?

And Mars Arizona Sports the local sports leader bigley blast Championship dreams and championship teams do not evaporate overnight and when it comes to the Phoenix Suns the rear view mirror is littered with Clues because we are talking about a team that doesn’t always play hard a team that struggles to play

Defense with any real tenacity a head coach who keeps blaming the refs and sugarcoat the issues and a defense that doesn’t even show up and keeps promising the suns are going to be a great team when it matters most we all want to believe but if you didn’t know any

Better and you watch the body language and performances of Kevin Durant and Devin Booker in the last couple of games you might think there are a couple of superstars who are making it clear what they think of the current program and you might think they were a couple of

Superstars who want their head coach gone seriously the Suns followed a drubbing in Boston with a pair of lackluster efforts games that come with screaming red flags if not one giant white flag their Collective energy has been funky weird to put it kindly and all of this occurred after reports of

Isaiah Thomas signing a 10-day contract with the team now think about the desperation implied with that signing and then contrasted with the utter lack of desperation the team has shown lately seriously the last time Giannis was a late scratch the Bucks lost by 40 to the Cavaliers but after yesterday’s game the

Suns actually pushed a narrative that the loss of Giannis made their opponent more dangerous that folks is the language of losers but is it the language of quitters we’re going to find out because the Suns have 14 games left and at this point the burden of proof is squarely on their

Shoulders all right today’s bigly blast brought to you by my great friends at Chapman BMW who make luxury attainable find them online at Chapman bmw.com look we all had expectations of the Suns legitimate reasonable expectations but there too many of these Clunkers where they’re just okay we are we going to

Make any excuse the word clunker it’s a clunker they’re not available they they’re not ready to play today and why there’s no Yannis and you down 20 you give up you shoot 55% and you’re down 20 never see that combination that was Mike wilbon at halftime of the Suns game they

Trailed by 22 points uh made it a game in the third quarter closed it again to single digits in the fourth before the uh the Bucks pulled away um there was a lot of consternation going on during that halftime show on ABC that was Micha wilbon here was H Bob Meers just

Scratching his head on really both teams on the floor yesterday I can’t figure these teams out I can’t figure Phoenix out I can’t figure Milwaukee out I mean this is this is a greatl looking Team without their best player they got 82 points without the best player on their

Team and they got 18 threes I don’t understand it Phoenix has supposed to they’re healthy they have too many of these they have these in the playoffs they have these in the regular season but Michael it’s the whole NBA right now I mean who who’s consistent Denver and Boston

Boston Who and the Knicks when they’re Health when they’re health so and that was nothing compared to Kendrick Perkins unloading on one Kevin Durant was my colleague old JJ ready you know the little cute rant he went on about a week ago about can we just appreciate Kevin Durant greatness see

It’s moments like these where you want to appreciate his greatness but you can’t and where’s Kevin Durant I bet you after the game he won’t be talking about their how great their leadership was today this is one of those games where you have to be a leader this is what we

Want KD to do and in this first half he’s been a no-show Kevin Durant has been a no-show on both sides of the FL and so when you think about where the sun’s trying to go this is a team that’s trying to fight to stay out of the

Playin tournament uh called him a no show the second half wasn’t much better it was a it was a strange day for Kevin Durant who he scored 11 points he took 10 shots in a game where offense was available to anybody who wanted it quite honestly on both sides the sun scored

129 points in a loss and then he downplayed it and said stop worrying about my shot attempts I had other bleep to do in that game yeah which look sometimes I I will agree with you um and most of the time I’ll agree with that is

If the Suns find a way to win without Kevin Durant carrying a heavy offensive load when that game gets down to seven that’s when players like Kevin Durant and Devin Booker are supposed to step to the Forefront know Royce O’Neal having 14 points in the fourth quarter

Hey good for him he’s snapping out of a shooting slump but that’s that’s not the way this team is supposed to be built no and if it’s even one thing if it’s a fourth quarter where Kevin Durant is involved offensively and the shots aren’t falling but he took one shot go

Back to the Denver game which might have been the highlight of the season for the Suns to this point Kevin Durant went ice cold in the fourth quarter but he kept shooting and when the biggest shot needed to be made he made it and then he dominated overtime yes mhm that’s what

You expect from him no listen I I agree and I do think that that this criticism is valid I if you want to put yourself in the V the greatest of all time discussion which KD has brought up on his own then then these are moments

You’ve got to you’ve got to attempt some shots in in a game like this I I there there was just so much that just felt so wrong about this weekend Vinnie and look you got the 76ers coming in now I hope I’m wrong I hope I’m wrong about all of

This I hope this was just a bad weekend but come on we’re 68 games into an NBA season for a basketball team fight fting to stay out of the play in tournament and and this is the kind of energy you get you you take a look at these the

Outside shots whether it was El Horford in Boston or Bobby poris in Milwaukee these guys are catching the ball there’s not there’s nothing disrupting them there’s nothing in their sight line Jared could make these shots no Vinnie could make these shot now we’re talking Vinnie is a shooter that’s right

Speaking of shooting form you’re just a dribbler did you clean up your shirt dribbler did you see the uh the footage of amino hasson’s three-point attempt oh yeah I’ve never seen anything like it anyway um why so few shots for Kevin Durant yeah he’s he’s playing extra pass

Basketball he’s he’s finding a big rle in and he’s playing unselfishly um you know maybe he needs to be more assertive but you know they’re also not leaving him they’re basically play a box and one on him you know they they don’t leave him and as a result we’re walking to the

Rim we we scored 70 points so we’re concern we’re we’re concerned with how our team efficiency looks more than any one guy um you know obviously we want all three of those guys to get enough touches to be involved but you know if uh if they’re going to take him away and

You know we got to play through other guys we can do that again Kevin Durant um regardless of how the defense attacked him again there was no shortage of offense he scored 11 points he scored 24 points in his last two games and this is right on the heels of him for the

First time in his career scoring 35 or more yeah zero points zero assists one shot in the fourth quarter mhm that’s what is that how do you explain that and again and I don’t think we can let Devin Booker off the hook here Devin Booker while he was

Much better than KD he he’s not he’s not having that same fire that same Fury he is just not he’s not attacking the way he used to he doesn’t feel like a superstar like he did the last couple years not at all and that’s my point here the three-point shot has deserted

Him he’s shooting a 11% from three-point range in the four game since he’s come back from the injury mhm uh and the Suns just aren’t getting any I mean after Roy O’Neil got hot late but they’re really not getting much in terms of reliable three-point shooting outside of anybody

Not named Grayson Allen thanks for watching Bickley and marada click to see the latest Bley blast and hit the button in the middle to subscribe to Arizona Sports

On Monday’s Bickley Blast, Dan Bickley asks the question if the Suns’ superstars have had bad body language recently and if it’s because they want Frank Vogel gone.

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