Booker, Beal & Durant have given the Phoenix Suns momemntum here’s how to keep it going in Portland

Booker, Beal & Durant have given the Phoenix Suns momemntum here’s how to keep it going in Portland

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Like button and subscribe and hit notifications so you know when we go live he is flex I’m espo yeah we’re a little short there’s some things going on in other people’s lives so you just got the two of us tonight and uh I don’t think that’s necessarily a bad thing no

We getting in the club tonight bro you got me my books D we ain’t got the books yet but this this is this is more of the club Vibe me and you right here tonight this is the saddest Scottdale Club ever if you come into a club and it’s just me

And flex get the quarter you should probably turn around and ask for your cover CH I’d feel great though I’d be the coolest person in the spot for the first time there we go there we go we got The Man Behind the Mac it is Eric

Ruby as always let’s let’s just talk a little bit I wasn’t here for Suns Lakers on Thursday and uh by some really bad scheduling I wasn’t here on Friday either to talk so I want to pick your brain a little bit here man y was was

That the moment where we finally saw the real Phoenix Suns did they finally show up and say we’re here you all thought this was going to be us well now it really is I think there’s an argument to be said that yes I think I think they

Found some espo you know I’ve wa I I came in today you were watching the film right I I watched the film multiple times I saw something in that basketball team in La that I hadn’t seen all year and we were talking about if it was the

Best game uh for me it was the best game from a lot of levels I thought they were engaged I thought they found something in the pick and roll with b and book and um I really do think that this team there’s better days ahead for this

Basketball team and I think it started in La I think there’s a chance we could be talking two three weeks and saying wow that Laker game really shifted things and it’s funny how quick that could happen it was for me and going back and watching a a second time it it

Felt like book right yeah you’re like that’s Devon Booker all right something clicked there and for me I watch it and I go did has he been in his head a little bit trying too hard to be that distributor trying to be the guy that that somehow fixes the offense you know

Rather than just playing free and playing the way he plays and that felt finally like that it felt like Bradley Beal joined the party and was Bradley Beal and that felt like KD being the guy that he’s always told us I want to shoot 14 times a game I want to help get

People involved and when you saw th saw it come together in that way you go okay yeah yeah and you go all right so maybe there are flaws in some offensive system or whatever but man that’s a hell of a lot of makeup you can put on it with

Those three playing the way that you know that they can play yeah I mean we saw for the first time in a while while we saw the real Devon Booker and I I agree with you espo I think he was in his head a little bit I mean it’s hard

Not to right when when you get on the basketball court and they’re asking you to do something that you’ve never done I believe in Point book but I also believe that if you’re going to have him play the point guard you’re taking away something that he was born with this

Guy’s in the NBA because he’s a killer and so you’re taking that Killer Instinct away and then you’re also trying try to be imagine being Deon Booker having to go in there and say I’m going to change my game and I got Kevin Durant my Idol guy that had a fat head

On my wall I gotta make sure he gets his and then we got this Uber Dynamic guard in Brad Bal who’s an all NBA guard scored 30 points a game is probably equal to book in a lot of ways as far as maybe the way he sees things and it’s

Just a lot of chaos there and then I think the other day it was like I think I think he got the pass from Kevin Durant and it it reminded me of something that happened with LeBron and Dwayne Wade in Miami I remember watching an an interview with LeBron where he

Mentioned that Dwayne Wade went to him and said hey man I know this is Wade County but I need you to be LeBron James and that’s kind of where it clicked I wonder if we’re going to have that moment where we’re going to be like yeah theight that KD said book don’t worry

About me go be Devin Booker and I’ll be Kevin Durant all by my lonesome I wonder if we’re going to look back and say that was the moment everything shifted because I saw a different Devon Booker I want to address Joey here in the chat said stop saying Katie want to shoot 14

Times a game are you guys crazy his career averages 19 shots a game ktie needs to be the main guy Jesus Christ you guys are something else making [ __ ] up I’m not making it up KD did say that earlier in the year but even if it’s 19

Shots right and Joey I I understand I’m not saying KD isn’t still one one of the top seven guys in the league I’m not saying that KD isn’t top three greatest of all time I’m simply saying as one of the greats I think he also knows when he

Can can find those ways to uplift his teammates and put this team in a better situation to win a championship and I actually think that goes further speaking to his greatness and it goes directly at guys like Charles Barkley that say he can’t drive the bus he’s a

Passenger well guess what leadership and selflessness or what actually make you a bus driver so I’d argue in that moment and what he said to book is actually helping prove his greatness and helping prove why he is an all-time top three greatest player ever and to me that

Makes a lot of sense right is that he wants to be that guy and it’s not not to say he can’t go out there and take 19 20 25 shots in a game and drop 55 on on some team’s head in a given night and run everything Kevin Durant still has

That ability yeah but I think there’s something that he notices and understands about what’s going on and I respect that about Kevin Durant so much especially at 35 and with how many minutes they had to ask him to play Early in this season just to keep them

Where they are yeah I I can respect where he’s coming from right now espo this conversation is exhausting because here’s the thing and I think KD would tell you this honestly i i KD’s a basketball Savant he’s a genius he’s the only person he’s the only person on his

Team and one of the few I’ve ever seen that with third level touches can put up number one number numbers M right and so KD can go to into a game and say I’m getting 15 16 shots today and he can realistically get 30 there aren’t too

Many people that can do that now the people that are clamoring for KD to run the offense to KD take more shots boom boom boom well okay so KD gets 35 if K’s taking 25 shots that means book’s probably getting 20 and Brad Bill’s back

Into the teens and then we go back to the Clipper game we got 65 points from the big three in that Clipper game and I sat here and thought that was enough and then I realized holy [ __ ] that’s nowhere near enough wait we can get 65 just from book and Beal right and

Then you can add KD’s you know 20 25 30 on top of that you almost getting 90 but but I think I think you can run the offense through Kevin Durant in some ways without him having to be the guy that takes takes the most shots and I

Think that’s perfectly fine because his gravity his ability to distribute his basketball IQ as intelligence like those things are all things the Suns team needs to succeed and you know so Eric what do you got he also is the only one on this team that has actually played

With other Superstar talent that can play like that Booker’s never had anybody like Beal or Durant on their team prior to the Durant trade Beal played with John Wall 10 years ago and that’s it and if you are trying to build chemistry for a team that is so desperately lacking chemistry and you

Have three number one guys you’re going to have the one who has the most experience playing with other people figure out the best way to do it that’s what he’s doing it’s so stupid to complain about it and it’s not to say that Kevin Durant can’t take over again

He he will he will score 40 or 50 points again this season probably multiple times he’s hello says let’s be honest Katie is an expensive decoy no no he’s not gets it right Katie is just asking him stop forcing the ball and make the right basketball because it probably

Frustrates yes because yeah so his I’m sorry real quick can I just throw something in there KD’s got the ball top of the key book or Bal is setting the screen in the pick and roll with KD if you’re a Defender what are you doing you can’t double anyone there no you’re in

You’re in no man’s land if you are you gonna leave Kevin Durant no your instinct is to go towards Kevin Durant which causes a hesitation which opens up the other guy right and then that other Guy starts getting hot and he scores 30 and the other guy’s scoring 30 guess

What the the next instinct is I can’t let Brad Bal keep getting five open five foot wide open jumpers so now I’m gonna hedge that way and guess who’s wide open Kevin Durant it’s a chess game these guys are all going to lead the team is scoring in multiple ways they’re gonna

Take turns and I think you can still run it from K through KD but I also think that it’s weird to me man the game the best game of the year what we win how much did we win by uh what was that one

It was 129 what was it no the Laker game what was the final score of that game I forget but I know it was a blowout okay we were up 31 at one point it blows my mind that the game7 109 127 109 they were up 30 in the game

It would have been much more if they didn’t pull a bench and it blows my mind that the best game of the year the Suns played is the game that KD said y’all get busy and let me chill and we’re complain about it like that makes no

Sense to me by the way hello was uh using a Monty quote and I totally forgot that Monty the most expensive decoy my apologize T Bounty Bay says not true to what I said about Kae being the only one who played with players like this said Booker played with Chris Paul completely

Different players to play with a pass first guy like Paul versus Score first guys it’s just different a distributor is totally different so the Instinct would be from from people that tend to lean in my direction a little more pessimistic okay is this a trap game and

I present to you the injury list as to why it is not a trap game let’s take a look at it bull bow out yeah that sucks but anytime a big man has some foot soreness you take it with precaution and then uh I’m going to take one breath and

See if I can do this All in One bre DeAndre at out Shaden sharp out Jeremy Grant out matis thel out Malcolm Bram out Robin Williams the third out Moses Brown out that is a hell what is that that’s seven guys on that injury the

Yeah we had to we had to leave like two-thirds of their g-league guys off uh off here too but look if this is a trap game I don’t know how because like is this tumani Kamar 60 point game and I don’t mean look I get

It Any Given Sunday is the is the old football adage and it is a Sunday and and these are these are still professional athletes they’re going to go out and they’re going to show some pride but let me let me run you down uh the other night Friday uh they lost by

23 the the Blazers did uh the game before they lost by 62 to OKC they lost by 28 to the Knicks and then they lost by 36 to the Mavericks that’s what is that that’s four games out of their last five and that was you know obviously injuries are tough but that’s the

Reality and this team if they come out tonight and play even to 75% of what we saw against the Lakers they should take care of business handling yeah n this ain’t a trap game man I mean listen I don’t care who the Blazers put out there tonight I felt really good about the

Suns going out there and really putting on the show because I I we talked about this earlier I feel like this team is starting to get in the groove if they win tonight let me just point this out if they win tonight that will be seven

And three in the last 10 m okay um and so we can say whatever we want we can have selective Amnesia but if they win tonight and they’ve won seven out of the last 10 you can’t tell me that’s not Improvement not to mention one of those

Games was a blowout to the lake to the Clippers and then that game in Memphis where they kind of had they were totally disconnected they should have won that game so and the last 10 is telling me this team has been moving in the right direction the last game makes me feel

Like they found something I think tonight uh that story continues and the sun start to progress towards what I think is about to become a really good stretch uh hello uh makes a quality point in all caps if we don’t win the fourth this game dot dot dot the

Only caveat I’ll put to that is if it’s Sabin Lee you know how auk like we’re looking at second and third string guys I’m I’m okay if the fourth isn’t isn’t as pretty as it could be but look the reality is uh even with you know Anthony

Simons and and some of this offense the Blazers has they rank 30th in offensive rating they ranked 20th in defensive rating they’re 28th overall right the Suns have moved up to 13th in offensive rating they’re a a just as good as a road team as they are a home team which

Isn’t saying much when you’re 20 and 18 but the suns are nine and seven on the road like come out and just take care of the way you play and I feel like we sat here talking about Suns Blazers a few what about three weeks ago now yeah in in a similar

Vein and they lost but after watching that Lakers game it feels like they found something and tonight’s the night you got to go out there and you got to prove that what you found isn’t fool’s gold and when you look at it the Suns have a plus

15.4 net rating when they have the big three right so we’re starting to see those numbers in the way that we all thought they would I mean is is it just actually and I know what your answer is gonna be but I’m still gonna put it out

Is it is it just actually as simple as these guys getting time together that’s that is an Elixir that we haven’t seen I I feel like we may be at that point yeah es I do man I do I mean I think it’s just more time more reps these guys are

Too good not to figure it out here’s what I’ll say about tonight we saw the other night a very good version of this basketball team but there were two guys that we didn’t that were kind of Mia that game and that was Grayson Allen and Eric Gordon right um I I’m

Gonna look for the Suns to come out and be aggressive and I would not be shocked if tonight’s a night where they try to get those two guys to really let it go and play free um because I do think that if you looked at that game man and and

You realize how many open shots Grayson and Gordon missed I mean that could have been a 40o blowout if they hit some of them shots man so I think this is a perfect game to stay aggressive Put It Out Of Reach early and then let those

Two guys get busy uh I’m that dude says I’m starting to not like espo takes LOL I’m sorry do you not like when I’m leaning a little bit more positive and budo budha the skitso says ESO are you talking about plus minus pump the brakes it was just one

Simple sry I heard plus minus I I still think it’s a crap stat but when it goes to benefit me I’ll I’ll use it if I you can always make the numbers make sense right you know what you know what is a simple plus minus how much you

Win by or lose by and five of the last six games the sons have won they’ve won by at least 11 points and six of the last seven losses the Blazer have had have been by at least 11 points one by at least 60 yeah so yeah yes so that’s

That that’s what I’m looking at here and going okay this is why I feel all right about this evening but let’s take a look at a few other things from tonight if I can get my uh here we go let’s take a look at what the guys are wearing

Tonight there in Portland uh Suns wearing their Association Edition white with the purple and orange burst and uh the Blazers are wearing that City Edition uh Rip City they’ve they’ve always had some really there there’s some about black and red with a little white thrown in that’s that’s classy

They’ve they’ve leaned into the carpet at the airport all sorts of weird things that Portland does I actually like these uh should be fun to see on the court tonight let’s take a look at what our friends at the BET MGM sports book think about this game tonight it is sitting at

A 10 and a half Point favorite for the Suns and ironically uh that’s half a point from that 11 point mark we were just talking about there you go uh I think it’s a pretty fair number because you know you think you would hope the Suns would push uh would push this the

Lead up more than that but we all know uh those fourth quarters not just for the Suns but in general in games that may get away it comes starts to come back you know a little bit so I like that let’s take a look at what our picks

Are for the night uh what do you got tonight Flex I got Suns by 13 tonight 13 I like that number that’s my favorite number so I feel good Lindsay has them by eight Saul by 10 and I have them by 15 because why the hell not I’m gonna

Try to be a little uh a little more positive right now I think you’re going to be the guy tonight I think they’re gonna win by this this feels like if they just come out espo and and don’t BS and treat the Blazers like the Lakers

They’re going to win this game easily by 20 I just hope that tonight’s not a night where they try to experiment yeah right yeah don’t don’t play with your food you know who’s not playing with their food this guy when it comes to our bets let’s take a look at the standings

I won last uh last game 10850 for me uh Flex I’m sorry you’re at 90 Inus 9827 Saul’s still sitting at that 51 and Lindsay slowly moving towards the oranges she’s at $16 58 sense but you know what it’s another night and that means more bets

Uh we can start with flexes why don’t we give him the opportunity to go I’m swinging for the fces tonight listen this is this is an interesting one so my eyes are bad but you want me to read it for you can you do that for me please

You know I’m the one in the 4040 club that can read all right it’s a five leg plus 12200 uh Sun spread at minus 10 and a half total points over 233.356 plus 25 for the game Player points Devin Booker plus 25 points uh for the game

And Brad Beal plus 20 points I don’t think I I don’t think this is crazy I think toughest might be the over there you go you might that or if they go up big and they pull some of these guys you may you may miss by just a point let’s

Go to Saul’s bet here I’ll save mine for last since I’m leading damn what he got this is a nine leg parlay so there’s of them but he only put eight legs I have his why don’t you why don’t you read it since you got the got all right so

Player points Kevin Durant over 25 and a half P for Anthony Simons 20 plus points for points rebounds and assists 15 plus P for Jeremy Grant 20 plus P for Bradley Beal oh that’s right he’s not Grand not playing P Saul gets his push so you go

Rest of the bet just in case though book 30 plus p over to 22.5 Suns win nerkish 25 plus p and then he had a Grace and 14 P that’s that’s quite quite a bit for plus 575 not get anything enjoy your not moving let’s move to the next one

Lindsay’s pick here a four- leg parlay plus one why why the effort for plus 188 uh Suns win total points under 233.356 move to the Future grand champion of this the man of the hour uh I’m going big why the hell not Grayson Allen first bucket three-pointer plus 1800 if I hit

This you all can watch my ass walk out that door because I will have such a large large lead you know what SC I I this one scares me because I could see that tonight have you notic they’ve started to run the first shot of if you

Would have bet if you would have bet that last game you to hit it cuz he hit the that’s three straight games that that and look there’s there starts to be a pattern when these rotations start to normalize and that’s how we got Crowder’s cash Club a few years ago and

I won over three grand betting that all right so I’m I’m starting to feel like it’s a uh little Grayson time in that he may not make it but I still think he likely gets that first look there I have a question man about this I need you I

Need you to really think about this you too uh Eric okay all right I’ll try so Saul situation tonight is what he pushes so what is what do that mean the same stays the same so he doesn’t lose1 lose does so I’m gonna make an argument that

That’s a Croc we can’t because here’s the thing it’s start I I can make an argument I’m a slick dude from New York New Jersey I can make an argument now that if I don’t feel good about something and one of my guys don’t play I stay where I’m at I’m not losing

That’s that’s not cool I don’t think it should listen I think you saying you’re gonna tank a bet that’s what I’m saying what I’m saying is is there’s there’s an angle now to play where you I don’t like that man I don’t like this St ain’t leading so you can’t play

The stall offense you ain’t leading so you can’t play the stall offense and is about to be with you in the orang so the only person that can ride that strategy is me right now and I’m not going to do it because I like taking some so here’s

Here’s my thing in real life that one thing voids and the rest of the ticket plays no that’s that’s exactly how it works the odds cuz you’ll get different odds yes 100% the odds will shift whatever odds were they would sh when I put when I put a bet down and somebody

Hasn’t played my entire bet got voted no whenever I put I I do these 10 leg parlays all the time when a player doesn’t play that one voids the odds change and whatever money you put down on those odds is what you gonna get like you want to figure out what the odds

Minus the Jeremy Grant part are I will let so lose or win his money it’s not hard what’s the number on Jeremy Grant you gotta do a subtract that from the total number and that’s your number all right listen was not my strong suit I

Went to UA and unlike Jed fish I stayed there till I was finished hey now listen I just think with the way that this season as the person who has to make the injury report for this every single game the fact they rule guys out with with literally no warning

In advance like 20 minutes before the game I can’t hold that I get that so I love you DG I’m not taking shot at you but I’m like negative2 million bro I’m trying I gotta I gotta catch I gotta get y’all closer to me let me ask you a

Question yeah shouldn’t you just be worrying about yourself to get the hell out of the I should I should and my man Buddha said it Flex is right I’m telling y’all they just void that one play and we keep going but anyway listen you’re right but tonight you saw my ticket if I

Hit that tonight I’m in the I’m you’re back I’m back I’m on you dog always just one wi away right one away I’m one win away and then the Train’s gonna boom two this year and if I hit no I hit three now I hit the one on the even the other

Night you better give me my money I didn’t I gave you your money I gave you your money uh so yeah if you wanna if you want to have really ridiculous arguments with your friends but have a hell of a lot of fun like we do the B

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Devin Booker, Bradley Beal and Kevin Durant showed just how impressive they could be against Lebron and the Lakers but how do they avoid a trap game against the Portland Trail Blazers? Plus, we discuss Suns potential trades going into the last few weeks before the deadline.

0:00 Intro
1:45 Recapping Suns/Lakers
12:00 A trap game? Looking at the injury report
18:00 Jersey matchup, the favorite and score predictions
20:00 Looking at our bets

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