Bickley Blast: Where would the Phoenix Suns be without Grayson Allen?

Bickley Blast: Where would the Phoenix Suns be without Grayson Allen?

And marada boings Arizona Sports the local sports leader Bley blast he has been the most hated player in college basketball he has been called the dirtiest player in college basketball history and he wore the most hated uniform in college basketball and with all that hate did you ever think a

Basketball City like Phoenix with a Litany of enemies all across the NBA what ever fall in love with Grayson Allen and even more poignant where would this team be without him a basketball player who has reinvented himself like few others in recent memory now the suns were not exactly a juggernaut last night

Against the wounded 76ers no one is saying they are the turnovers REM remain abundant and inexplicable and I’m beginning to worry about Frank vogel’s pandering obsession over the referee’s treatment of Kevin Durant when Durant is more prone to defend the officials then blame a game on the whistles but I’ll

Take it the Suns won a game the Suns played hard hard from the opening tip off the Suns tried to define the three defend the three-point shot a little better and they did and in the end it’s a little bit of progress it is one of

Four wins this team needs on their way to that final 10 10 game Gauntlet which is going to prove everything but for Grayson Allen it is another exclamation point on possibly one one of the unlikeliest basketball Heroes this town has ever seen all right today’s Bickley blast

Brought to you by my great friends at Chapman BMW who make luxury attainable find them online at Chapman bmw.com I mean he’s just aggressive at all times you know from behind the arc and um and and quite frankly putting it on the floor you know he’s one of our best

Players and um you know he’s uh he’s steady you know you never know whether you’re up 20 down 20 you know he just goes out and plays and competes uh got a maturity about him that’s really good for our group and uh he’s always a threat to do what he did tonight it’s

Frank Vogel on Grayson Allen hit nine three-pointers third time he’s tied the franchise record was instrumental in that win certainly the MVP of the win for the Suns uh before we move on I want to uh let you know about something that’s going on today all right John

Bloom the voice of the Suns you can join him today from 12:00 to 3: at the court of Dreams card grading event at uh from uh PSA and the Phoenix Suns first time ever fans can submit their Sports and Pokemon trading cards in person on the Arena floor at footprint Center you can

Shoot around five participants will be selected to win a pair of tickets uh to tonight’s Suns versus Hawks game too so you can get registered at psacard.com Phenix and join plumer out there all right so um back to Grayson Allen here’s one of the things that I that I that I

Find stunning and and I don’t know what explains this but it seems like in three of the last four games maybe three of the last five games teams do not learn how dangerous he is teams maybe don’t want to believe he’s become as dangerous as he is he is shooting the ball better

Than Steph Curry this year from a percentage standpoint you can’t argue with it he’s shooting the ball better than everyone right he’s shooting the ball better than everyone and yet teams still think nah not an issue we’ll get there well we we’ll we we’ll we’ll we’ll help we’ll shade but

Isn’t that the beauty of having a Durant what makes them so important clearly but it would seem to me that if this were Steph Curry Steph Curry wouldn’t be left alone even on a court with Devin Booker and Kevin Durant so I think there’s I think there’s a level of denial by

Opposing teams he’s not going to do that to us he’s been lighting up everybody every time he shoots the ball now I expect it to go in yeah I I’m definitely at that point too um on the curry I mean it’s not like Curry gets people know

He’s going to shoot threes yet still gets know 12 of them off a game so it’s not like I think this is I think this is more a a a product of what we saw with the Suns and what we’ve seen with the Suns they’re not the only team that

Struggles in defending the three-point shot when other teams are clicking offensively and the suns are clicking offensively Grayson Allen hitting threes is a byproduct of the Suns offense working it’s not the kickstarter to the offense nope where Steph Curry can be the kick starter to the Golden

State offense well they run him off picks and they do all sorts of stuff yeah and if you watch Grayson Allen there’s not a whole lot of running off picks there’s you know he’ll he’ll find his spot he’ll stay ready to receive a pass and he’s ready to shoot um and the

Percentage and I’ve talked about this before and this is not a knock on Grayson Allen because he’s been phenomenal this year he doesn’t take a lot of contested threes mhm the number of wide openen threes that he takes that’s the vast majority the shots he takes but that’s recognition by him um

It’s worked and and if you were going to put a caveat on the idea that he’s shooting the ball better than Steph Curry this year that’s where it would be that’s where the asterisk would be is that Steph Curry is shooting in traffic and shooting absurdly deep threes and

Degree of difficulty Steph Curry is way above Grayson Allen you’re right I I think Grayson Allen has been very selective about when he does put the ball up but but as you said seven games with eight or more three pointers that’s Steph Curry territory that’s Steph Curry

Territory yeah and and I’ve only seen a couple of teams recently say we’re taking him away we’re getting in his airspace we are not going to leave him and yet a lot of teams haven’t and I know it’s a pick your poison kind of deal I get that but again if if you’re

Talking about the Suns in a math issue what’s better to give Grayson Allen an open three or let Devin Booker and KD cook from the mid-range because you’re only giving up two points on the that kind of stuff it’s interesting to that point and I’m glad you went there cuz

Last week we had some discussions on the importance of the big three and what they provide offensively MH and I arrived at 75 being the magic number if you can get 75 combine points from Durant Booker and Beal seems to be a pretty good recipe the suns are 10 and

Two when that happen since I’ve made that Proclamation the Suns have not been the big three has not been close to 75 points they’ve still won two of those games last night was a season low for Combined points for the big three they combined for 43 points Bradley Beal was offensively

Terrible yeah he was he was offensively offensive yeah they gave him a lot of credit in the post game for his defense on Maxi but offensively yeah and and they did do a great that might have been one of the most promising aspects of last night’s

Game and I mentioned it in Vinnie’s view early we didn’t really dwell on it the Suns have been cooked not only have they struggled at at the point guard spot by not having one they get cooked defensively by the good point guards in the league you can Jaylen Brunson Luka

Donic Kyrie Irving all these guys dearen Fox they’ve all had big time success against the Suns they’re really difficult players to guard Tyrese Maxi is one of those guys he’s got 50o games on his resume he looked completely out of sorts last night yeah that was a

Season low for him only the second time he’s had under under 10 points in a game and for that to come against the Phoenix Suns who have struggled in defending that position that is a big feather in the cap now they’re not going to have to

Deal with Trey young tonight which is a relief but they’re going to deal with some really good point guards down the stretch in that in that 10 game span so maybe that’s a confidence builder for him let’s hope let and the one thing that uh that Frank vogle said when he

Wasn’t blasting the officiating as usual add not the one thing he said that was interesting was this idea that the guys played for each other last night mhm cuz that to me is one of the keys here that that has to shine that has to be real

Evident if this team is going to get anywhere I would agree with you thanks for watching Bickley and marada click to see the latest Bickley blast and hit the button in the middle to subscribe to Arizona Sports

After Phoenix Suns’ Grayson Allen matched a franchise record with nine 3-pointers in Wednesday night’s win over the Philadelphia 76ers, Dan Bickley ponders where this team would be without the guard.

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