“Devin Booker and Kevin Durant are an elite duo🔥” – Tim Legler on Suns’ 122-101 win over Cavaliers

“Devin Booker and Kevin Durant are an elite duo🔥” – Tim Legler on Suns’ 122-101 win over Cavaliers

Sure anybody that’s played Hoops knows you jam your finger it hurts like hell pardon me Phoenix looking to take advantage of the New Orleans lost they’re hosting Cleveland K Duran and the home team welcoming Donovan Mitchell in the mask on the floor for Cleveland most of the Stars

Available for this one here defense turns to offense great hustle hereis Levert turns it over Bradley be with the deflection of Booker and the Suns look fantastic the first dozen minutes have a 14 point lead Durant that array of Unstoppable moves nothing in the world you can do there Durant Booker and Beal

Scored or assisted on 61 of the 72 Suns first half points and a 25-point lead w i l the rant to Booker 16-point lead Booker everything looks easy I’m not good at making list Steve I think he might be my favorite offens player to watch okay I’m just saying

Durant he’s on the list too Steve how am I list making date I’ll put it in the ball thanks Durant’s 388 30-point game passing Oscar Robertson for seventh most Oscar’s on a lot of list you know Booker huh coming off a 50 plus Point Night 40 more with Cassidy Hubbert afterwards here’s book

Devin in efficient 92 points over your last two games it’s also your 32nd 40-point game that’s the most in Sun’s history but just to go back to the last two games how do you describe just the ease that you have right now offensively I mean it just starts with

Stops you know I think when we’re guarding at a high level um the ball’s hopping around it’s easier to find Rhythm so you know we’ve been doing a good job of that the past two games some important games and from here on every game matters and you and Kevin Durant

Second game this season that you guys have scored at least 30 points you combined for 72 tonight where is just the confidence level you two have attacking alongside each other I mean that’s my favorite player you know so iron sharp sharpens iron and you know to be alongside him

Every game and obviously he causes a lot of attention that opens up a lot of great looks for everybody on the team um but we’re building you know like I said this is tough stretch of of the year and an important stretch at the same time so

You know we’re we’re we’re in good shape building and climbing with the win you move into sixth place in the west outside of the playin game you told me this morning that this team is ready how playoff ready do you feel like this group is right now as you attack the

Hardest remaining schedule of the NBA I mean I say credit to NBA they did their thing with the playin tournament um these games are playoff games so you know we’re trying to get these wins and and stay in the top six you know to have to avoid those single elimination games

So um we’re ready to go though energy High congrats on the win Deon thank you for your time as Cassidy mentioned Phoenix entered the evening eth in the west now six that’s just how fluid things are in the absolutely loaded West that’s bananas man Sacramento Falls to eighth

On an off night just a half game back of the coveted six which means you avoid the playin tournament Tim legler with us here in DC Phoenix looked dominant on Wednesday you have enjoyed what they’ve shown in terms of what their ceiling can be but you had concerns about right the

Level of consistency what stands out about the approach in this particular game a couple weeks ago I went in on them and and they deserved it with the egg they laid against the Bucks the way they played against the Spurs without wemy they deserved it and I think they

Have been better and there’s a style of play Scott that they get to that makes you think okay okay this is what it needs to be and if they can stay like this you got a real chance in the west and that was a great Sound by the way to

Lead to this touchcreen okay because Devon Booker talked about two things he talked about the ball hopping and he talked about Kevin Durant drawing attention and that’s exactly what we’re going to focus on right here so let’s just get right to it this is impressive Scott cuz there’s 14 seconds on the shot

Clock Kevin Durant’s taking the ball out of bounds on the side so and in 14 seconds they’re going to make seven passes on this possession out of the half court going to lead to something great so that’s the ball hopping component of it and this is just basic

Flexx basketball where the ball gets revers you get a back screen a dive followed by a down screen like everybody in the league runs some version of this when the ball gets reversed that’s the action you run initially but that’s not what they’re really trying to get out of

This they’re going to keep it moving around a perimeter comes back over here now this is the thing that I want to see Kevin Durant do more and when he does this they’re very difficult to defend I don’t think Kevin Durant sets enough ball screens when he sets ball screens

And he’s involved in the action and this ball handler comes off the way that he’s going to make these two Defenders react to that and what’s open in the middle of the floor as a result is this and now he catches it and you can take a look you

Can see my man you Bank Sony here he wants a lob he’s got his hand up you can go there if you want you can go out here if you want to that defender came all the way down to your lap or you could go over here to the wing he’s got

Everything at his disposal created three passing Windows just because of his ability to set a screen dive to the middle and catch the basketball that’s the kind kind of reaction you get defensively for Kevin Durant here he makes the right read and this is the last component of this these guys are

Critical Roy O’Neal’s of the world the Eric Gordon’s of the world Grayson Allen when he plays who wasn’t there if they’re making their share of corner threes after ball movement Phoenix Suns are legitimately a threat in the Western Conference to be that last team standing against Denver because that’s how I use

Everybody they describe relative to Denver I think they’re going to be there in the end who will be that team the Suns have a chance when they play like this offensively I thought the first half tonight was as good as they can play offensively we don’t have

Commandments on this show but if we did two of them would be don’t overreact and provide context okay yes no Dame Lillard for Milwaukee okay that explains some of it but you lose to Washington and you lose at home to Memphis and there’s more than just it’s it’s not Dame little that

Explains some but not all Doc mentioned professionalism on the road well you’re home on Wednesday night what what was most concerning that you saw yeah look Dame’s going to make up for hey you probably be better offensively so maybe you get a better chance to set up your

Half court defense and maybe he’s better late this was a close game in the fourth quarter okay what about the 76 points you gave up in the paint to a team that is dead last in the NBA in paint scoring that’s a bad sign you’ve got Janis Santa

Tumbo you got Brook Lopez on your team that should never happen doc alluded to guys getting beat off the dribble help being late yeah that’s a real problem if you’re talking about that this time of year and Doc Rivers I think he did some things to clean up some of their issues

Earlier in year in the year defensively but what I saw in this game even more than just the raw num Scott was the lack of disrespect that Memphis was paying to the Milwaukee Bucks in putting their head down in attacking the rim and and really kind of like laughing at them a

Little bit and how easy it was and what they were doing around the basket I think Memphis saw a lack of competitive will in this game it’s the second time that they’ve gotten him here in in the last few weeks but this one was in Milwaukee the other one was right before

The All-Star break in Memphis and we were talking about that one the next day this is at home right to a team that is seriously short-handed I know you don’t have Dame but they don’t have a lot of guys and yet they take it to you on your

Front line to that extent that is a bad sign especially coming on the heels of a lost to Washington and Doc alluded to it in his sound now the question is what are you going to do to clean it up I don’t know because you don’t play Bad

Teams once you get to the playoffs right no do not and you don’t get a lot of Second Chances and there’s some teams out there that I know have caught your eye that could be in their path that are also concerning we’ll talk about that a

Little bit later got it all right more legs as we continue to the NFL you didn’t have to it has been all Phoenix in the first half as they lead 72 47 over the Cleveland Cavaliers 17 points for Kevin Durant 19 for Devin Booker to go along with five assists

Welcome inside our Los Angeles Studio he is Kendrick Perkins he’s Brian wior I’m Malika Andrews we do know that the Phoenix Suns have been the worst fourth quarter team essentially in the NBA I’m not sure though that is what is going to get the Cavaliers back into this game

Not if they’re playing like this Don or Donovan Mitchell hasn’t been in the impactful player that the Cavs are hoping for tonight uh Devon Booker said this morning perk that they know how they have to play and they have to move the ball and communicate and they have

Moved the ball and communicated and they’ve looked awesome in this first half and this is why you can’t count the Suns out because they can they can do some damage well we’re watching one team and the Phoenix Suns play with a sense of urgency and we’re watching the

Cleveland Cavaliers play like they don’t like each other I’m always looking at body language I don’t see no type of Joy I don’t see no type of spirit no type of effort and it’s a shame when you’re talking about a team that’s in the in a

You know the SEC the third spot in the Eastern Conference a young team that’s supposed to have you know basically be clicking on all cylinders cuz you know they supposed to want to do something and make some noise well the Cleveland Cavaliers try to get footing on their

Seating another team in the Eastern Conference now that the Boston Celtics have locked up the number one team is the Milwaukee Bucks looking trying to secure that number two seed and tonight really the no favors were done second night of a back toback they lost to the

Wizards last night and tonight they lose to the Memphis Grizzlies 111 101 I mean the Memphis Grizzlies 35 points for jiren Jackson Jr don’t want to take anything away from him there but this is a potentially cat it’s unacceptable it’s unacceptable and who are you going to blame now

Yannis you wanted Daman lard you got him you wanted the new coach uh you got Doc Rivers and now where’s the leadership where’s Patrick Beverly at I know he didn’t play tonight but yeah yeah I know he didn’t play tonight but he still the voice in the locker room right he he he

Rushed to Twitter talking about built to ass right where’s that energy at right now who is the voice in the locker room it’s unacceptable to have these two losses back to back especially at the crib against the Memphis Grizzly Team without basically all their players like

You know I know they play hard but damn Giannis played tonight the thing about it is doc has called this team out several times including last night after they lost in Washington and you just assume that a team with championship experience like the Bucks are going to

Respond and when they don’t respond it’s a little bit worrisome I’m going to be honest a little bit it’s a lot of bit the Milwaukee Bucks do you believe perk that they are at in danger of losing in the first round once again I’m I’m not

Going to give up hope yet I feel like they going to turn it on but damn this is disturbing a really rough two game stretch here for the Milwaukee bu really a rough five game stretch not for de Booker though that W headband like that we should get you one we’ll be right

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“Devin Booker and Kevin Durant are an elite duo🔥” – Tim Legler on Suns improve playoff position with a 122-101 win over Cavs