Suns historic comeback victory was huge but what will keep the streak going | PHNX Suns Live Show
[Applause] MCO what’s going on everybody Welcome in to the phnx Suns podcast I’m Lindsay that’s Gerald that’s flex and that’s espo don’t forget to hit that Thumbs Up Button if you’re here with us on YouTube if you’re listening wherever you get your podcast great review And subscribe
So last night you guys M what a hell of a game game for those Phoenix Sons huh what a g yes yes yes especially the fourth quarter go give us the recap man how you feeling in them last six minutes man uh I was in just laughing because I
Did not understand nor comprehend what I was witnessing because it felt so out of place and we learned that it’s because it hadn’t happened in like 12200 games so I don’t think I was alone in that feeling I I it was a little odd to get
Shush by you every time they made a basket but other than that it was it was fun that was coaching that was Supreme coaching BR I was in the room I was like yo don’t move ESO was literally every time he touched his phone I’m like stop ESO turned around things started to
Change for the Suns and Espo’s like hey Eric hey producer Eric like we need to and flex is like shut upo don’t say it out loud I feel bad for your high school guys you coached like man man they they must have had some strict practices
That’s all I’m you got a little taste of it last night I finally saw the Jersey come out not just the accent but the real Jersey there yeah that was fun man that that that was a lot of fun to watch how how did you feel G we didn’t get
Your true uh breakdown yesterday I was just kind of shocked because for the first three quarters all of my mentions and everything on Twitter was negative and it it was negative in the arena it felt negative on media row like everything was bad that night um they had been thoroughly outplayed they were
Getting dominated nothing was working the big three wasn’t shooting well and then you just see the power of the three-point shot in the NBA they shot Seven for 11 in that fourth quarter and we had been kind of saying it for most of the game like they’re at a
Disadvantage they’re not taking enough threes they went small they unloaded the threes and then things just rapidly turned around and I was kind of like halfway through I was like this is kind of funny it’s not gonna happen this is hilarious but it’s not gonna happen and
Then they just kept making them and the Kings kept missing shots or turning it over it was it was the craziest comeback I think I’ve ever seen in person it was definitely I mean it was literally an historic comeback so I don’t blame you for that one all right guys I think we
Need to dive a little bit deeper into that fourth quarter though because I know when going back and looking at it again there were some things fle specifically that you were like that really stood out to me a lot and I love this one so much because we get to give
Flowers to josa KI you guys yes so listen I couldn’t wait to get home and watch watch the film on this because when you’re going through it live the emotions of it kick in and you’re not seeing everything but I tell you what when I went back one thing I realized
Was there was so many little plays that if they go one way or the other the whole comeback is washed right and there was a particular stretch with Josh aogi where he got the ball had a little rip through got a layup and I think he came
Back down and got his hands in the passing Lane C a turnover we go out on a on a on a break again and then maybe the next play or the this the next play after that he gets the block shot that gets us out in transition that little three sequence of
Plays that Josh aogi made yesterday for my money when I went back I go that’s a guy that played winning basketball that’s a guy that was instrumental but no one talked about him we didn’t give him his flowers yesterday so I want to make sure we talked about it because we
We killed Josh about the his inability to hit the open shots but it’s plays like that that it shook up the whole team and then there was a play where Grayson Allen went back door and got a steal there was another play with Devin Booker running out of bounds and he hits
The ball out of bounds and dives into the crowd you remember that play right now if he doesn’t make that play that PO that ball probably gets to Malik Monk and we got a layup and everything is is totally different so there was just so
Many low plays it took a lot but I think the stretch that I saw from Josh a kogi was really what put them over the top that doesn’t happen we don’t win that basketball game so it’s more than just shooting jumpers guys it really is it
Really is and I think we didn’t give Katie’s defense enough credit uh because you you got kind of overwhelmed with what he did offensively but when you go back and watch Katie’s defense was spectacular yes in that 8-minute stretch in the fourth in particular on that three-point line uh and that’s been a
Big flaw for this team is guarding that that three and he in particular was fantastic yeah yeah both of those guys deserve recognition for their defense last night and that’s the end of the floor that we’ve been most concerned about for most of the season um you know
Frank vogle even mentioned J in his postgame comments when he was talking about the decision to go small with the five Shooters he said we actually delayed that a little bit more than we were going to I think Eric Gordon came in just over the five minute Mark he
Said we delayed that because J was making so many energy plays um and so he he recognized aoi’s importance in kind of helping shift the tone KD got up there and said that the group that was in there uh near the end of the third I
Think they closed on like a 146 run to get it down to 12 or 14 something like that that was what in his mind helped shift the game so you got to give credit to those guys for it it was very subtle only outscoring your opponent by eight
Points over a stretch there it’s not going to turn anyone’s when you’re down by 20 plus but it did help kind of crack the door open a little bit and then KD being able to guard sabonis was Monumental down the stretch because he was slicing and dicing them all night he
Had a triple double he was great he’s an Allstar and KD was able to handle that physicality and basically not just guards sa bonus but switch out onto perimeter guards and stop them as well it was hilarious I think one of my favorite comments last night was
Somebody was like uh they went small with Katie at the five and sabonis just completely forgot how to play basketball yeah pretty much I was like but honestly like shout out to KD for that one U but as well you bring up his defense Gerald
You talked about it as well KD has fully embraced playing defense for this team here’s what he had to say about offering himself up on that end I offered myself up this summer when we were having conversations about how we wanted to play and I told Coach I
Told uh James Josh like my job is to uh be a lock down Defender you know obviously I’m not going to be perfect every night but to go there and trust that I can go out there make life tough for the other opposing players I that’s
A part of my job description I mean I mean that’s a f i mean I’m long athletic I can move I’m experienced U why shouldn’t I be held accountable to play Topline defense against anybody in the league you know I’m not saying I’m stopping everybody
But I think I could make life tough for for any player on the league um you know and it’s some great players out here but I feel like I can just play hard and use my length and my attributes to make life tough and I want those assignments so
Coaches been trusting me coaches staff been trusting me even more I know I’m getting older I think that’s probably why U we didn’t see this a little earlier in the season but um start showing and proving I prove to the coaching staff that I can do it then
They’ll trust me more and more I get more first of all man shout out to Kevin Durant man I mean what he’s done in these last four games the challenges on defense the other night against Portland I went back and looked at that tape and he was chasing Simons all over the damn
Floor okay now I I wondered this I went home and I was actually in my head I’m saying what did Kevin do that stopped sabonis from being sabonis because he was being so physical he was was attacking at will and I’m thinking Kevin Durant physically is nowhere near nage
How did that happen and when I went back and looked at it man it just shows sometimes it’s about effort and it’s about what’s between the ears he didn’t take the pump fakes he he used his length in verticality he said you’re stronger than me but I know that you
Like to use your pump to get into a lot of your things I’m gonna sit on that I’m gonna make you shoot over me and if you want to get real physical then I’m gonna put you in a spot where you might I might take a charge or I may have you in
Your head so sabonis started taking Fade Away jumpers and and I I I’m looking I’m saying that’s a guy that’s been in the league that’s a guy that knows the game and that’s a guy that can go in the locker room now and say yo guys like we
Can do this like we can do this if I can go out there and D that guy y’all can step up and do things on on on another level so that’s that’s why KD’s KD and that’s why he’s on M Mount Rushmore man that guy’s just got it between the ears
It’s just infectious when he plays that way and we’ve we’ve seen and criticized the other side of it when you know the transition defense isn’t there or when the body language is bad but when it’s like that you see the effect it has on everybody else the way it lifts
Everybody up um and he had mentioned to your point about defending sabonis like his goal he knows that sabonis is physical so he said I tried to play him with physicality and push out where he was getting his catches further away from the basket he was saying he likes
To just hold the ball like this and let guys cut Every Which Way and throw passes and get his triple doubles but I was just trying to get up into him put some pressure on him force him to be a little bit uncomfortable and you could
See the way it threw off the king’s entire offense in that stretch with the small ball lineup so he knows the game so incredibly well and the fact that he was able to do that in a game where let’s be honest most of us including maybe some of the players thought it was
Already over um that was pretty spectacular yeah I I I loved it and I but I want to give Frank vogle a little credit going to that look because after going up against nerk for a majority of that game it was such a vastly different defensive look and utilizing Katie’s
Length in that IQ uh disrupted sabonis enough because he kind of got in that Rhythm and knew what he could get from nerk and it it changed in that fourth and and that was just enough to kind of get them unsettled and it snow bald like we were talking about because they just
Went through playing a game against the Bucks and having having all sorts of issues in that fourth so so I think vogle deserves a lot of credit for making the adjustment now is it a long-term adjustment no I don’t think you’re going to but it was the right
Adjustment in that moment and I think you could see it in different situations I was going to ask you that and Gerald and all of you guys we saw the lineup of book Beal Grayson Gordon KD right um I’m starting to wonder if that isn’t something that you go to in spurts
Every game like I and I know matchups is matchup Bas and sometimes but like I it made me it gave me a little bit of a feel of the old Steve Nash 7 seconds or less I remember going into that season and everybody saying well where’s where
Are these guys gonna play you can’t play Joe Johnson and Quinton Richardson and Steve Nash all together Shawn Marin’s too small to be a four Mar’s small to be a five and and eventually they were like no that’s what we going to do and it something sparked quick and they ran
With it I’m not saying you can do that long term but I’m starting to question if that’s how you get to the 43 pointers that KD wants right if if you go out there and you pump that lineup in five six seven minutes a game spread it out
And a lot of these guys that just spread the floor and be demons at the three-point line if you can get 35 to 40 shots a game man this team’s going to be really tough to beat well and I think might answer your question of who’s going to play the five when you’re
Playing athletic guys maybe maybe KD can spell some of those I he’s not going to play them all but he can be an option maybe you turn to uh that unlocks things on the other end of the floors yeah and this kind of goes back to what I said
Last night and why I keep talking about reps is like this is a perfect opportunity to try out a different lineup and that’s what what why we keep beating this dead horse about having different reps and different lineups and having all your guys available it’s so you can try [ __ ] like that like
Obviously last night worked out in a historic way that none of us were expecting I’m not going to say that’s going to be what it is every time vogul tweaks the lineup yes it isal but this is why you have the regular season so you can experiment with these things the
Suns haven’t had those same opportunities so last night was a very positive sign that like in a in a pinch in the playoffs if you’re up against a team that has that same type of free flowing offense go small switch everything and you know that KD can log
Some minutes as a small ball five that’s huge to know ahead of time yeah going back to KD’s defense though um I think the reason why maybe we get on him so much when things get a little bit heavy for this team is because we know that
This is what happens when KD chooses to do what we know that he can do and Lead this team in that way because he’s it like you said it’s infectious like these guys all look up to you and have for their entire lives so as you go this
Team goes you know and you can the same can be said about a lot of guys on this team especially within that big three but KD especially I think as he goes this team goes when it comes to energy setting the tone defensively and I think
That’s a very selfless thing for Kae to take on this season as well and he also talked about what fuels his drive to be a good Defender what what fuels I mean my call and my purpose of being a human being is to be the greatest
Basketball player I can be I mean that’s that’s that’s that’s the reason why I’m alive at this point you know so I got to I got to lock in on every aspect of the game and become great at it and I’m still working I thought his calling
Purpose was be a fashion icon he’s stealing Lindsay’s look so that’s a bar though I mean right K Katie has so many lines when he retires somebody needs to go back there you should probably start now cuz there’s probably a lot of them and super cut all of like those one off
Lines it’s just like damn okay Katie tell them like it is let’s just auto tune it and create a whole album I think you know people get Wheezy on the phone man low key I know Katie is in the music scene like they should drop these in throughout
Songs not terrible that’s not a terrible idea you see it all the time these little skits [Laughter] put him on the prel my purpose in life is to beat everybody’s ass I’m Kevin Durant I love it yo let’s do it yeah I love it tell me that wouldn’t work out
Well um but so KD just listen defensively the what he has done for this team in this last handful of games even the Clippers game where he told book and Beal like hey don’t worry about me I’ll get myself involved uh I’m going to take on this incredibly tough
Defensive assignment that’s that’s going to be important for this team because just his leadership in that area again I say it multiple times but it’s so infectious and this team needs to play better defense we’ve been harping on that all season so Katie please be our savior make this team play defense yeah
It’s interesting that he mentioned kind of the trust thing from the coaching staff as well because he’s 35 years old you don’t want to put those extra stresses on him but over the last four games we’ve seen him take a sacrificial role on offense I would like to see him
A little bit more involved later you know earlier than the fourth quarter when he got the majority of his shots but defensively it’s been kawhai it’s been LeBron it’s been Simons like you mentioned last night sabonis um and just the fact that he feels that I am a lock
Down Defender like use me in that way if you need me to that’s incredible from your Superstar who’s your best offensive player and one of your oldest significant players on the team yeah I mean and the the eye test and the stats show how effective it’s been I mean what
LeBron have 10 the night uh Simons was 11 of 31 yeah I believe we saw what he did to sabonis in in the fourth he’s taking on the challenge but he’s also delivering too because a lot of guys can talk to talk he’s actually backing it up
With at least in the last three games really lock down defense yeah I mean listen it’s early this this could be I mean I I this might be his best defensive season like I I but if he continues to do this I mean will you be shocked if he gets all NBA Defensive
Votes I think the suns are going to have to climb the standings because they’re the I wish that they would expand to three all defensive teams it’s dumb that we have it for pretty much everything else except for defense but I I do think like his Warrior seasons were really
Good defensively and those were on like you know top five defenses so the Suns have some work to do as a team because voters aren’t going to give it to a guy who’s on a subpar defense you hear that Sons don’t let K down the challenge step up
Bro yeah I’m I’m really impressed yeah I’m going to give you guys a couple flowers cuz on uh Sunday’s game against the Portland Trailblazers you put a number on threes that you would like the Suns to attempt per game right what exactly was that number remind all of us
What you said we said about 35 a game between between 35 and 40 per game and we definitely don’t want to see 25 26 and 27 okay so the sun’s finished with 37 3point attempts last night and Kevin Durant had some things to say about it
We need everybody to do that 373s to that 40 I mean we’ve been shooting 26 27 threes before you know so we starting to get up there with the other team and matching them at the three-point line and you know um just been helping to St
Games so what I’m hearing is is that KD watches the program and agreed with what you guys had to say on Sunday right he didn’t read the chat though I don’t know ball so probably shouldn’t be listening yeah no that’s where they got to live though I mean that’s in this new
NBA where everyone I mean 40 is a nice number but this game people shooting 50 55 right and so the three ball change what what they shoot yesterday in the fourth quarter uh seven for s for 11 seven for 11 okay so I’m not a math petition but that’s 21 points that’s 21
Points and so I thought you’re going to say 21% I was going to say you’re definitely not a m yeah no I mean this team I think when we looked at them in the preseason we envisioned Devin and Kevin and Brad and then when we got
Grayson and Gordon and UDA right we eni this is what we envisioned we’re like these guys are gonna shoot a ton of threes and for some reason it hasn’t come to fruition but I think lately you’re starting to see it play out I think we took 39 against the Lakers
Right and then we did back down to 28 against Portland so it’s been an up and down thing I’d love to see and look at how big of a difference those games were watching them correct a huge difference so I like to see this roll over into
Friday against the publicans to be fair huge difference fourth quarter wise yeah yeah yeah that’s a fact uh you mentioned the Pelicans we have a super chat from Omar Omar wants to know who should be Katie’s defensive assignment against the Pelicans Brandon Ingram or Zion I it’s
Got to be it’s got to be yeah I mean it makes the most sense but I don’t know man who we really don’t have a guy to D Zion we don’t we don’t gron Allen oh man poor Grayson do you think udoka gets a little bit of run somebody
May need somebody with some size and what about what about Nas maybe n you got to keep it fresh for the trade’s just going to have I mean he’s had his way with the Suns over the last three years whatever it’s been he probably
Gonna do it again do you have to okay so this is the old do you adjust to your opponent or do you make the opponent just to you do you consider changing your starting lineup for a game like this because you are massively outsized I think you try to outshoot them I don’t
Think the Pelicans are a good three-point shooting team and I think as much like Zion let him Tire himself out getting contested toos and you attack him ruthlessly on defense like he’s not in the best shape he’s not in great shape you push the tempo please push the
Tempo yes and get up a lot of Threes you’ll be able to Target him a bit so I think that’s what you do but someone in the chat brought up metu metu might be your best option for when you start bringing bench guys in yeah I I will say
This I think pace is important right he’s not in great shape and so you try to run Zion off the court that’s one I think that Zion prolifically is going to oper in that nail area pound you down and so this is a perfect game where you go you
You want to go for you want to shoot twos we’ll shoot threes all night and so push the tempo get the three-point line up and and and create a disparity there they don’t shoot the three ball well and get to a point if if this this is one of
Those games where if you can go up 10 you put the Pelicans in a tough spot because they’re not going to be so inclined to say let’s eat off a Zion and let him just pound the ball and get twos and so I I think it’s it’s important to
Get out early and uh and set the tone at the three-point line and with pace and I think you can survive the Zion wave is it is it the kind of game that you since they’re not good at three-point shooting that you kind of Flash the double team
On Zion maybe sometimes go with it or are you afraid that with how poorly they’ve been defensively on threes that it’s just better to to go one-on-one against Zion uh and take your chances on the thres I I think you need to show mix coverages and I should clarify like the
Pelicans are not a great three-point shooting team in terms of attempts they’re 28th in attempts they’re sixth in percentage so they’re very efficient but they don’t get up a lot of Threes uh Willie Green feeding into that Monty Williams style offense there um so I I
Think if you are double teaming Zion too much and putting your defense in rotations you are opening yourself up possibly to letting another opponent have a lights out night shooting the three ball which you don’t want but there it also has been an emphasis to protect to paint like that’s been huge
For vogle recently they’ve been cracking down on that Zion is obviously a very good test of that so I honestly don’t know how they’re going to approach it I do think you got to show a guy like that different coverages throughout the game just to try and confuse him a little bit
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Move him and that we will Riot if we do but let’s talk about it a little bit because we did get another report that basically said the same thing that we were all saying over the last couple of weeks when it comes to Grace and Allen
Do we want to move him no but does it make sense for the Suns to at least hear what’s being offered does it make sense for the Suns to answer the call because what Grayson Allen has done this season is boost up his trade value is boost up
The bag that he’s gonna get and that’s great for him but it puts us in a little bit of a tough spot so Jake fiser shared today that Phoenix continues to be mentioned as one of the more active teams on the trade market hoping to find rotational upgrades behind its big three
Of KD book and Beal the Suns have explored what the combination of Grayson Allen and nasier little could bring back to the valley sources say though the Suns have only four second round picks at their disposal and Allen has been arguably Phoenix’s most important player this season behind Durant and
Booker so tough spot y’all yes I just want to get this out here now Grayson Allen has been a phenomenal role he’s been the most important player I would argue outside of the big three uh doing your due diligence is not the same thing as actively shopping a player
That’s right they’re not going to give up one of the most valuable pieces of the rotation a guy who started every game he’s played in a guy who’s shooting 48% from three on like six attempts per game unless it gets them a certifiable upgrade at a position of need and no
That’s not point guard correct I I think I think you have to do your due diligence because you have limited trade assets at your disposal you have second round picks you have Little’s contract you have Grayson Allen you have Yousef nkit nurkic’s value is in particularly
High neither is Littles a lot of your other guys are all on vet minimum deal so you’d have to stack a lot of guys to make up the requisite salary for the type of upgrade you’re looking for and two of those guys Damen Lee and Josh aogi because of the contracts that they
Signed they have veto rights on any trade for this year so you can’t include them unless it’s they really want to get out of here and go somewhere else knowing those guys I don’t think they do so you have limited assets at your disp osal testing the water seeing what’s out
There is not the same thing as we’re trying to get rid of this guy so I I don’t I’d be surprised if he’s going anywhere just reading the te leavs you you have to play 4D chess if you’re the sun’s front office because you can’t just be looking at the next five months
With the change in CBA you got to be looking the next three years and so you kick the tires on anything and what I what’s frustrating me is you’ve got people they’re like this there’s a zero% there’s no way trade Grayson Allen and the reality is maybe it’s 25% but you
Got to look you got to listen you I would listen to anybody and everybody not named Devin Booker just to understand what the market I’m playing is and can I get closer to a championship with any move right it not taking calls is not doing your job in
The NBA it doesn’t mean you’re actively making calls but take calls or or make a call and just go hey hey I’m gauging the market here what would you give up for XY and Z because understanding that it is half the battle these these general managers have offices with Boards of
Names of everybody in the league and how would the salary work if we did this like it’s basically trade machine Tuesday every day in a GM’s office it’s trade machine Tuesday on crack though oh it’s insane and you’ve got guys you know in that front office that know the so
Well that they can go no this guy this guy this guy that’s the way it works Trevor Buck’s that guy with the Suns and so the the idea that no they would not consider or or at least field a call about a guy is just not understanding
The way that the front office game is played right so when you hear this it’s not Grayson Allen’s gone it’s we’re going to understand what our options are and calculate might he leave what will will it cost us in terms of his contract and the extra money all these things
You’ve got to understand and you’ve got to consider when it comes to what you’re doing well and you could even use Grayson Allen’s name to get on the phone with people too right to see maybe can I get a little bit more Intel on some things that might be working with
Another team in this team that I’m talking to and how can I get in as a third team to get something that Val is valuable to me but may not be valuable to the team that they’re actually doing the bigger trade with here because we’re already starting to see trades happen
And that’s something that’s really valuable especially for a team like the Suns where you don’t have a lot of money that you’re working with here you have to be super strategic and make those really calculated moves yeah and being a third team involved in in a in a trade
Could very well be the way to do that and and this is your last year as a team above the second apron to have a couple of um not loopholes but a little bit extra Brea this is the last year you can combine salaries together in a trade so
Why wouldn’t you explore what Nasir and nerk or Nasir and Grayson can get you this is the last year that you can take on 110% of the salary you’re sending out because next year it’s going to go to 100 if you’re still above that second
Tax apron and you know if if the Suns don’t trade Grayson that’s great because he’s a phenomenal three-point shooter secondary Creator and I did clarify this the Suns do have his full bird rights so they can resign him go over the cap and sign him to a significant amount
Compared to an outside Suitor so they they have to pay the taxes on that they will have to pay the luxury tax they will obviously go stay above the uh second apron when they do that but if you want to keep a good player who’s still young who’s still in his prime and
Who obviously has fit in really well in his first season here you do that if you can’t turn him into something better and and I think you could make the argument he’s already secured his place here there’s no chance they move him for something that is not substantially
Better there’s no chance but Flex you you you’ve been in discussion you know guys around the league I mean somebody in the chat suggested oh it’s disrespectful if you take a phone call on a guy what’s a GM supposed to do another GM calls and you’re like if this
Is about Grayson Allen uh nurkic or KD I’m hanging up right now no yous that’s not how it works you see what what people don’t understand is these GMS are in contact daily they literally will call on Monday and say what do you got nothing change okay I
Call you tomorrow like this is how it works right and the Suns right now I’m gonna emphatically say this their best asset on this basketball team is Grayson Allen and it’s not even close now I can I can also say this I’ve been having conversations over the last two three
Days things are heating up and the suns are having some serious conversations and I’ve heard packages or conversations not packages but conversations that give you a little bit of a more swing for the fences type feel right and that would be a conversation where you’re offering a
Particular player and a style of play that the sons are saying okay I can live with that guy but I’m gonna have to give up nerk and Grayson and nasier together to get to that salary and to get that type of player okay that’s the swing for
The fenes move then you got the middle of the pack move you got the middle of the pack move which I consider is the Grayson Allen move that’s the move where you take Grayson and another salary again you can’t aggregate salaries after this trade deadline so if you’re going
To do it you got to do it now you take Grayson you grab a na a little and you go get a piece or two pieces that fit right now and long term and maybe you get a player that’s already under contract that you already know what that
Number is and you don’t have to go into an offseason where you’re wondering if you’re going to pay Grayson Allen for four years 80 million right and then you have what I call the chill out we believe in this basketball team and we’re going to go ahead and just do some
Things around the edges and maybe secure a talent that could potentially be with us for a long time that maybe doesn’t have a great value right now around the league and maybe try to swing for the fenes there by low and and hope that you
Uh you know you get a you you get some some good value out of that deal so they’re talking about a lot of things if I had to put my money on it I believe they want to keep Grayson Allen but I will absolutely unequivocally tell you
They are taking calls on Grayson Allen and they’re receiving more calls than they making if that makes sense yeah and there seems to be a lot of sellers plus you got the buyout market so I think doing your due diligence across the board and those three kind of buckets
Make a hell of a lot of sense right now yeah and of course trades are already beginning we had one come out today the Indiana Pacers finalizing a trade to acquire Allstar forward passcal cakam in a deal that will send Bruce Brown Jordan noira and three first round picks to the
Toronto Raptors nor Orleans will be a third team in the deal sending Kyra Lewis to the Raptors so it’s already happening you guys the question is are you on the team of let’s get in quick or let’s have a little bit of patience when it comes to making a move where do
You where do you I like patience I like patience because you can’t there’s no doover there’s no rewind button there’s no my bad I take that back once you make the deal you make the deal and you live with the consequences so um there is a
There is a argument to be made that the quicker you do it the more continuity and chemistry you get for the rest of this season but I also think there’s the argument where you you absolutely give yourself as much time as possible to truly evaluate what you’re about to do
Because there’s no do over so I like to ear on the side of caution and I’d like them to just continue to see how this plays out a little bit more before they pull the trick yeah once again you and I are on Polar Opposites of something here
Uh I’m I’m not a pleasure delayer get it done now let’s let’s give them as much runway to figure it out whether it’s the nibble whether it’s the big swing whatever you determine is best uh the market value has been set with SE yakum with the Nick deal like we know what
Things are going to go for it in this in this trade deadline some teams have already taken their big swing give me a move and and let’s get these guys feeling comfortable in their rotation spots and prepping for what it is I don’t want last second at the deadline
Five minutes to go uh we’re not making a move oh shoot we’re dealing this guy I mean I’ve been there Marie Morris was that way I’ve told that story like get me the guys that we’re riding with and let’s start all I know is that the only
Person I’m waking up for after midnight for an emergency trade machine podcast is Kevin Durant at this point so if you are not at the same level of Kevin Durant do not call and wake me up at midnight because you got traded to you’re not getting woken up this
Midnight because a no KD what if Cam Johnson comes back would you wake up for that I’m not saying he’s available I’m just asking she’s like both twins are no deal yeah exactly both twins are no deal I Tory Craig no no Tor CRA sorry Tory
Craig that’s no shade of you though I I will say this and we I keep reading this in the chat and you you you just punched on that um I I don’t see them going after a point guard I just don’t I think the wing is their primary focus forget I
Think I’m telling you the wing is their primary focus and don’t be surprised if the right move shakes out you actually come back with another defensive Center in the mix so I if I had to BET right now with what what I’m hearing I wouldn’t be shocked at all if the suns
Are able to make a deal that makes sense not sacrifice too much and be able to get a wing and a a better defensive Center uh potentially for the playoffs you know you you mention the guy I’m gonna go ahead and say this Nick Richards is a guy they’re talking about
And and I want to give you a credit because when you did your piece what three two three weeks ago you brought him up and I and I said it on the show I said where’s the wi t how does g how does g know this right
Because I had just been having a conversation about Nick Richards and again I have a connection with Nick I know Nick he’s from New Jersey and I’ve seen him come up through the ranks and so he’s a guy that is can can answer a lot of questions uh for the Suns
Especially if you’re worried about playoff defense at the center position um but then there’s some other stuff that comes with that so we’ll worry about that down AOW I feel like this deadline is about trying to get Frank vog some pieces to make a defensive system
We’re not about how do we fix an offense because I don’t think in the long run the offense needs fixing it’s about how do we bolster the defense when it comes to what we’re going to see in the playoffs because the reality is defense gets so much tougher when it comes to the
Playoffs and sometimes you get to that slower grinded out Pace or you’re playing a real athletic center you need options and I think that’s what what this whole deadline is going to be all about yeah and I think like you look at their list of needs like obviously
Everyone’s going to look at point guard backup point guard a backup point guard would be great they don’t need a starting caliber point guard they’re not going to get one with their trade assets anyway why are you trying to take the ball out of your three best players
Hands and have like I’m sorry I loved Chris Paul and the flow that he had the the way he could orchestrate the game and control the way a game was going but like he’s The Last of a Dying Breed there aren’t point guards out there anymore like him anyway so why are we
Trying to get one when there aren’t any out there hav’t seen the outcome with that guy I mean I hate to say it like that but you had that and you’ve had disappointment so I I get wanting to try to have some semblance of that but it’s
Just not the way this this roster is constructed and to go that route you just have to blow too much up yeah right yeah I don’t know but if you guys are having a hard time with patience around the deadline in the Suns might I recommend our friends over at OG’s OG’s
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Yesterday and uh in it they spoke with Devin Kevin Durant Bradley Beal a whole bunch of things that they covered highly recommend you guys check it out but one of the things that Devin said was that you know he’s been on those 60 plus win
Teams and he thinks that a lot of things go and fixed when you’re winning games because if you win for an entire month you’re not really going through adversity and sure in theory you should be able to kind of learn from the ups and the downs but if you don’t have very
Many Downs are you really learning a whole lot when it’s mostly UPS so what he thinks is that this season taking those lumps early going through the adversity that they’ve had to go through thus far is going to pay dividends for them in the long run because they will
Know how to handle it when it happens inevitably in the playoffs are you buying or selling what Devon is saying 100% buying because it’s what we’ve been saying on this show for weeks now and it’s been hard to hear through um you know how how hard it has been to watch
This team like we’re not going to beat around the bush there’s been a certain lack of joy around this team for a lot of the Season just because of you know not having their guys available and some of the disappointing losses and fourth quarter meltdowns and whatnot but to be
Honest like as fun as that 60- win season was knowing how it ended the fact that the only adversity they really faced was guys being out of the lineup here or there like this is hopefully more beneficial in the long run I don’t know that it’s going to translate to a
Championship there’s a lot of good teams are going to have to beat to get there but I do think there’s something to be said for working through a lot of that stuff in real time right now and that’s why we’ve been preaching patience and Reps and all this other stuff that a lot
Of people are tired of hearing at this point it’s because you’re seeing them experiment you’re seeing them learn things on the Fly and that’s vital for a team come playoff time where you’re going to be facing different looks than you saw all throughout the regular season we’ve seen this team do really
Well in the regular season and then run into a wall in the postseason because what worked then isn’t working when teams try different things and change things up on you and have more time to game plan for you so for me the opportunity to put guys in different
Spots and finally now for the big three and their starting five to finally build that continuity like that’s huge for them moving forward yeah I love this I love what Devin said and I’m totally buying it and I’ve got a lot of reasons why I mean first of all as a basketball
Player as a coach just being around a game um I always bought into that uh you know the adversities that you go through throughout a year towards the end will make you better um I I looked I took some time to read this article and go
Back and and you know what team popped up in my mind the bubble Suns okay that team popped up in my mind because that team faced a lot of adversities they had a lot of issues there was a lot of inconsistency and then they had that magical eight and0 Bubble Run and I
Often wonder if my boy Caris LeVert didn’t decide to Michael [ __ ] Jordan on that last play and take that fade away instead of just going to the rack like he been doing the whole damn game if he didn’t do that and the Suns actually made the playoffs in that
Bubble year if they would have made a little bit of noise or shook somebody in that playoffs because they were playing phenomenal basketball and it was starting to get it together and then I take another part of this and I look at the current NFL you just brought up the
NFL and you ask if we watch well hell yeah I watch okay and what I’m watching is the Green Bay pack ERS the Tampa Bay Buccaneers the Detroit Lions and the 49ers are your final four in the NFC and of besides the 49ers those other three
Teams there was times in the year where you’re like there’s no way this is going to work out the Packers and the uh I’m sorry I lost my train of thought the Packers and uh the Bucks I mean they were dead in the water these these were
Teams that everybody said no it’s not going to work too many issues at the beginning of the year where they put it together at the right time and so all that experience that they went through the negativity allowed them to be put in the position they are right now and and
Last but not least if you live in Arizona damn it you can’t tell me you didn’t notice what the Diamondbacks did this year and the Diamondbacks went through a [ __ ] ton of adversity at the beginning of the year in the middle of the year I believe it was June they won
Like two [ __ ] games am I am I wrong no something something like that a little hyperbole there but they were in a lot of trouble and then boom clicked at the right time got hot at the right time and had one of the most magical
Runs and so that’s why I believe in what Devon Booker said and I think this team is primed to have something like that happen if they could just stay healthy well and he goes into more detail on it within the article too you know he was
Talking about um when [ __ ] hits the fan if you don’t go through the adversity then that is your adversity and you’re like shoot we’ve never been here before now we got to figure it out and you’re figuring out at like the worst Poss where you don’t have any leeway to be
Able to work through some of these issues like you don’t figure it out immediately on the Fly you’re done season’s over goodbye everybody’s going home but he understands the peaking part of this thing right he said I think the name of the game is peing at the right
Time being healthy at the right time when it’s time to get to it and obviously of course we all are talking about this as well because a lot of people are saying listen I’m buying for now but at a certain point in time you got to give me my dividends right you
Got to show me that this is working because Devin also mentioned obviously we want to avoid the playin so this is a regular season thing but um I think that’s where I’m at like I’m buying this but also it’s a short shelf life of me being bought in if we come towards the
End of February and we’re still in this exact same position I’m selling I don’t want any more adversity I’m done I’m buying and I’m putting on subscrib and say I’m just I’m gonna be honest because would I prefer you didn’t uh you know disappoint me uh yes but if I’m going to
Have my if I’m going to have my Boy George moment Do You Really Want To Hurt Me Do You Really Want to make me cry I want it in November and December I don’t want it in May and June all right so if you’re going to hurt me do it early
Learn from it and then figure it out when it comes playoff time and that’s where I’m at boy I wasn’t expecting that reference I was dud wasn’t expecting that mixing up for the people all right you’re right though we we we’ve seen Suns teams that peak in December and
January we’ve seen teams that peak in March or April um and we saw one team go to the finals but you know that finals run they did face a lot of opponents that were missing their best or second best player like in reality if you look at the totality of their playoff runs
The last few years the amount of teams that they’ve beaten fully healthy is not very significant so I would rather see a group as experienced as book KD Bradley all these other guys work through a lot of these problems early and hit their stride in March April and when the
Playoffs actually start yeah and and last one I say you know we saw Miami do it last year right we saw Miami have a lot of issues ear the year they got had at the right time um and they made it a run to the championship last year they
Didn’t win but and so you’re starting to see this more and more in sports that it’s about timing it’s about peing at the right time and so uh I think there’s an opportunity for the Suns to p on that well let’s do it because I’m ready I’m
Ready for the ramp up phase and then like into peeking and we’re gonna peek for a minute okay it’s not a short peek okay I hope I hope that we’re entering it cuz as bad we are as much as last night probably should have been a loss
They’ve won eight of their last 11 games now um vogle had pointed to the Christmas Day game and I think that was a pretty negative game from our reactions to it and how it felt getting 50 dropped on us by Luca but pointed to that game as like offensively I felt
Like we kind of something clicked for us in that game and since then we’ve been a lot better about what we’re doing all that end the floor and he’s kind of right they’re eight and three since then so hopefully we’re in that stretch wins are still important seaing still
Important avoiding the play and still important but like we’ve been preaching like patience it’s not going to happen overnight they’re taking the right steps though whether it clicked or they were just super embarrassed egos got bruised whatever it was it worked and I’m here for it because while we look at the
Fourth quarter last night and talk about how insane it was the suns were actually able to accomplish that it’s been a few games in a row now I mean you can go back to the Lakers game two I know Portland was a little little sus a little questionable but at least two
Games in close proximity where we’ve seen some really good progress now it’s a matter of like let’s keep this going we go to New Orleans see how that turns out that’s not an easy matchup by any means another good test for these guys so hopefully we’ll see incremental
Progress through I have a question for you Lind what you got CU I cuz I love your perspective on this I had fun with you when we have these talks because I love how you break things down your feelings about how we how things happen after the game before what know all that
Stuff Portland let’s talk about Portland we talked a lot would you have rather beat Portland by 30 or lost that game last night at the buzzer would I have rather won a game by 30 or lost at a buzz so I’m confused because the answer is definitely win right no yeah so would
You have rather oh are you saying okay okay I see what you’re saying so it would have been better if Portland we blew out Portland and then lost lost this what would you have prefer because I I keep hearing people say the Portland game people were disappointed that we
Didn’t win by 20 and we didn’t win by 25 right and uh I I’m sitting here and I’m saying maybe the re maybe the reason they came back last night and had that effort was a kind of a carryover effect because they didn’t feel good right so
It’s all kind of like in tune with itself you know it all so I would yeah I get I get what you’re saying my answer would be I would rather beat the better team okay so I would rather have a bad game against Portland and win last night
Against the Kings okay A Team who’s kind of had our number for a little while there and is much better than Portland when it comes to just where they are in the NBA this year because you need to take your lumps against better teams and be able to come back and beat better
Teams agree than being able to come back and beat like a Portland agree are those are those games against like Portland and the Spurs and things like that still important absolutely are they concerned for me as far as like do you create bad habits of playing down to your team to
Your opponent yes I still think that’s an issue and I don’t love that but I think it does more for them to be able to come back from down 22 and beat a a king’s team that’s right like last night than it does to
Blow out the let me let me ask you is flex would would you rather uh have I mean just think about what the whole narrative would have been if you played the way you played in the fourth quarter against Portland and then they lost last night’s game whether it was in The
Comeback and you lose on the last second shot or you lose the way it was going the Optics are are worse because of what happened in that forth I think that’s what bothers some people is the fact that Portland almost did to the Suns what the Suns just did to the Kings and
I think that was the concern within it you saw that lead shrink to four in the fourth and with everything that’s happened you go oh my gosh it’s G to happen again it’s gonna happen to Portland who’s playing basically a roster that looks like it came from the
Sisters of the Poor all right but but but that’s that’s my problem is you can’t have your cake and eat it too if you’re going to focus on process versus results because the whole time we’ve been sitting here saying like they need more reps together they need more time
Together it’s about the process for us to then turn around and say well the Kings game I don’t feel good about that because they won but they look like [ __ ] for three like is it process or is it results I think the truth is it’s a
Little bit of both um but for right now like they’re working through these things and I think if you can work through things and still come out with a win in a game you had no business winning that’s a good thing ites doesn’t erase my concerns that we saw through
Three quarters obviously um but I’m just asking people to pick a lane if they’re going to go process versus I want to be clear I want and I want to eat it too but I think I lean more to the more I agree it needs to be both but I lean
More to to the result right and and and I get the process as part of it I mean that’s why that was the nickname for the 76ers right uh but but the result also matters tremendously to me and I lean more to that other side and that’s why I
Look at it that way but I agree I I I’m glad they came back in one last night let’s make that clear I I like the process I think the result was important but I think that result if you get the process right results will eventually
Come right here’s the one thing I’ll say and I want to put put a button on this right I saw two similarities between the Portland game and yesterday’s game m I went back and looked at both of them and here’s what I saw I didn’t I didn’t care
About the result or the 11-point win I looked at a certain chunk of the game when did Portland get that down to four about the fourth quarter fourth quarter five minute Mark right and then the Fenix Sun said let’s get it going yep now I looked at that game and I go back
And look at yesterday’s game what I saw was a team that under six minutes took something from Portland and said yo we we almost blew that game in Portland and then we got our [ __ ] together and we pulled away and then they come into this game six minute Mark and it’s looking
Kind of you know it’s getting tight and again they put it together so what I see is two consistent six minute spurts in back-to-back fourth quarters which is something that process-wise you got to be comfortable with you got to say okay this is two consecutive games where with
Six minute Mark or under they had to perform and get it done and they did so the rest of it to me I’m washing it away I’m saying yeah and if you add those two halves of those two quarters then you got a full four quarter progress via map
There we go so it’s coming on our level you guys it’s coming dog is it too much to ask that you know maybe the six minute math the one time she uses math get on it g is it too much to ask though that at the six minute Mark of the third
Quarter they go hey maybe we should kick that in the the next step we get a quarter and a half of it all right that’s math Gerald you go for one quarter quarter and a half slow steady to race baby see some turtle right here you’re going nice and
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He frustr me when lazy sloppy and not living up to their his full potential God damn as Bo that was also on my report card in need to go to therapy does anybody want to sponsor this show who’s a therapist and we’ll just send esbo to you in exchange for whatever we
Can do so we can been going once a week for like 20 years I don’t think it’s working can we turn it into some Die Hard content just those therapy sessions oh my God okay uh listen last night Gerald you told us that Grayson Allen uh politely
Very ever so kindly asked s’s fans if we could like work together a little bit more to create a better home environment and the way that you said it I was like okay yeah sure whatever Grayson and then when I watched the clip I was like oh
Man so we’re gonna make you guys watch it we’re gonna talk about it it was a lot about energy um the energy of the building was bad at points tonight uh like the crowd was booing which I wish they would I wish they would we would work together with
The crowd like I understand we weren’t playing well they paid for their tickets they can come out and cheer however they want to but man when we’re down like we want to be a great homecourt team and we have such a great crowd when it was so
Loud tonight like I wish they would cheer us on and help give us some energy in those times too um but in the fourth quarter when we went on that run the crowd was incredible it was the loudest I had heard it all season um and that
Kind of energy like that just when you have that kind of energy from the crowd you’re getting stops you’re running up and down the court hitting threes like it’s just flowing you have so much momentum uh everything is clicking it’s it’s like a a great spot to be in as a
Team like you feel like you’re doing everything perfect we feel like everything’s going to go right and part of that momentum that feeling from the crowd that feeling of being on that run is why we made all those shots because we’re getting good looks we made all of
Them because of the energy of the building the energy of the game um so that’s one of the things like this one of the things I just wish is that we would us and the crowd would work together a little bit more like seriously you guys tell me that this man
Hasn’t been to therapy before because he goes I just really wish that we could work together a little bit better like it’s on me as much as it is on us to make this better there’s no you it’s we and me how about I love it gra I I loved it
And I I look I I’d love it not just because he touched on something that I brought up before but like a he had earned the right to say that after last night’s game because as much as it was bad through three quarters and we could
Talk about like why are we going to cheer they’re not playing well Grayson was playing well so he was the one guy on the team through four quarters who could look into the camera and say that I I do think there is a difference look I I understand the validity to we paid
For a ticket this team is not playing well they’re not it doesn’t look like they’re trying they’re getting their ass beat like why are we going to cheer but at the same time there’s a difference between 177,000 judgmental eyes and 17,000 supporters and a lot of times
Like I said they could give up like an 80 run or miss some free throws or something and you’ll feel that nervous energy in the crowd and it’s I don’t feel like a lot of other NBA home Arenas have that to this degree and I think it’s because we’ve been hurt before in
This Arena I think it’s because expectations for this group are so high it’s because we haven’t gotten our big three out there a lot but I I do think the vibes from that 2021 finals run it’s very different in there now and I think that has to change and he spoke to
Something that has to change if we want to get back to being that home crowd so what you’re saying is the crowds hauling Nots it’s the prying eyes they’re watching you oh my God too too many references one show Too Many I tried it’s fine um I need to go
For more therapy Grace could help you probably maybe he prob he could set that up G just ask G to set it up that maybe that’s how Grayson can help everybody one-onone sessions with each fan we want to fix this well then they put in The Sweat Equity here oh my goodness don’t
You have a solution I do have a solution we talked about it last night and I think a big part of no this is a Ser this is serious this is not sarcastic okay well maybe a little uh I mean I always am but uh we talked about it last
Night I think part of the problem is that fans the the Diehard true fans in some cases are getting priced out it it’s inevitable I mean they tickets were were Dirt Cheap hell they were giving them away day uh and and you got a certain kind of fan that was able to
Attend and and die hard passionate younger that get in there now I think you’ve got the status symbol fan the the $100 bill cting kind of guy from the finals uh sitting uh sitting down there and the Clippers who are moving into the in Dome uh at the beginning next season
Have an interesting solution and while I usually don’t advocate for being like the Clippers we already broke that seal when we decided to have a terrible owner that we had to run out of town so maybe we should listen to them at least one more time right and follow their
Footsteps they’re they’re starting something called the wall which is 51 uninterrupted rows of passionate Clippers fans I’m not sure they actually have those but sure we can get 51 rows and include a standing only section that’s going to house 300 of our more energetic fans who will cheer loudly the
Section will hold up to 4,500 uh people people in it but the interesting thing is you actually have to register before you have to get something called a Chuck Mark which is just dumb marketing because it’s their uh their Condor there but you have to prove you’re a fan by submitting
Pictures of you in uh in Clippers gear which would sound creepy if the the old owner was still there but I think it’s legit now uh and if you were caught cheering for the other team uh wearing other teams gear any of these things you are removed from the section you are no
Longer to sit there your tickets are stripped and they will offer you tickets elsewhere so if you gift your tickets to somebody else you can’t sell your tickets if you know there’s all sorts of Hoops to get in this section it’s literally a DI hard section right and
And it’s re it’s reasonable it’s it starts $269 a month to to get yeah a month so to go to many G how many home games I need this the wall is one of the worst names ever by the way that is just terrible but I need some
Version of this in Phoenix we pitched something like this when I was with the team back in 14 or 1314 uh and we were like let’s get a let’s get a like a college kind of atmosphere a band whatever you can do to help bring it up
I want true fans in the building Matt ispia I’m looking right at you whatever it’s going to take let’s get true fans in the building at a price point that makes sense for them I’m not saying every ticket needs to be that but give
Me a section and not up in the 220s nose bleed I want a section down low where they can hear you we’ve seen a blueprint for this you know what Wells Fargo Arena used to be a morg sometimes it still is for ASU Basketball but they have the
Curtain of distraction I want to take a a page from basketball and from the Clippers give me an affordable fan section where it’s R loud and Rowdy and people do not want to come to Phoenix to play because it is such a force to be reckoned with give me that at footprint
Center the fans deserve it the players deserve it we need that atmosphere back and it starts by getting the people in the building that have given us that atmosphere over the years I know exactly where to put it behind the opposing team team’s bench how perfect would that be
Too yeah cuz it’s going to be so loud they’re going to get annoyed you’re going to have more Steve kerk comments instead of it being about the club music it’ll be about that dang fan section behind the bench that’s driving us all crazy and I love it I don’t need a
Scottdale Club I need the toughest place to play in the NBA give me the jungle behind the bench you know to go with the gorilla I want to hear everything loud I want you uh you know to be the most passionate damn Suns fans I want tutu
Fan and Mr orange and all these guys in one section with you know a thousand 2000 other fans going nuts because they didn’t have to pay an arm and a leg and mortgage uh their house to get into a game I want the passion back in this
Building so damn much yeah and I know the Bucks had something kind of similar to that a few years ago I don’t know if they still have it but that would be cool you could what would you call it center of the sun jungle jungle I like
The jungle with the gorilla okay I’m feeling it bro I I love this and you know what it’s funny Saul’s not on the show right now but we talked about this right the other night I think we when I read it the other day and when I read
I’m like holy [ __ ] they got something that’s going to be a huge hit and Sports in general you know people uh what’s that what’s that uh it’s it’s a copycat league right Sports in general is a copy cat League I mean life at this point is
Like yeah that’s fair so I I do feel like the Clippers are going to do this and this is going to start to kind of trickle down to other Arenas so why not why not line up and be next in line get the jungle going the the difference is
It could work in Phoenix this isn’t this isn’t a town where well no but the Clippers are they’re they’re everybody’s second favorite team they’re Lakers fans who get bored with the golden purple if they’re losing right Billy Crystal ain’t going to energize guys the crowd right like I don’t think these these Clippers
Fans can pull this off but Phoenix we could show them how to do it we could show the whole league this is the kind of place that you don’t want to screw with I mean I want to like gcu’s Arena I want to see the purple all over the
Place going nuts and nobody can handle playing here here’s a question if Emma Stone wants to sit there can she no oh yeah you know what I’m saying no Emma ston got to sit next to jro because jald deserves hang out with the Em going to sit on the bench I mean
She’s already waving at book and Grayson give her the slot on the Emma would be at the front of the section of the section or at least for a part of the game like if you have celebrities who are fans of the actual team that they’re
At at the arena for sorry that was a struggle bust of a situation but like if Emma Stone came to Phoenix like she could we could have something that that they can lead you know how like the car had that whatever crank thingy I don’t remember what it Wasing G
Right like that Phoenix has a flamethrower that the let’s do it give him a drum while like Welcome to the Jungle plays be perfect you would put it behind the visitor’s bench I mean somebody in the chat said that those are like some of the most expensive tickets
Um that you can get your hands on but I think even if it wasn’t like the first five rows or the first 10 rows like directly to where you have essentially courtside seats but it was that whole section from a certain level up I’d be okay with that too you know what
Sacrifice or in the corner next to the the bench or the opposing team’s bench like maybe not the section directly behind it but the corner section right next to I do like it right behind the basket sacrifice I do like it right behind the basket I think the Clippers
And did you mention in there that you can’t wear POS in gear yeah you can’t wear there there’s strict rules and now we’ll see if they enforce them but there strict rules that they’re going to have theirs is right the the whole section right behind the basket uh is like the
The whole end this is a a huge thing and I’m sorry but you’re a billionaire take take a little away from the profit to make this place uh this insane environment it’s going to pay dividends in the long run and you’ll make it up on the back end you you know that’s what
I’m saying like bro you’re a billionaire and you said that this wasn’t about like making money off of the Suns but like winning and creating a cool environment and cool fan base and all that stuff like okay well then lower the prices of the tickets a little bit or make a
Section where people who don’t have a ton of extra income to throw $500 a night for a single game makes them affordable for those of us who can’t afford that on a regular basis like yeah a take over in a junk would be crazy that would be awesome right and and the
Like the prices after finals run prices are going to go up but they’ve gone up so much to the the point that it feels like a lot of the fans that were going to some of those finals games and those playoff games for the finals game if you
Can prove that you bought tickets for a game when we won 19 games in a season you should be able to redeem that you should get like a 30% discount for the hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on you were there at that point a
Free t-shirt I survived 2017 you get the therapy from gron Allen with it too it would be great lizy hold on I stay I I’m getting cheated I need you to be my lawyer because for getting a damn ticket I was flying 3,000 miles playing for airplane you know Hotel run car airline
Tickets plus the tickets to the damn game and we was winning 19 games I was in that damn tunnel with espo man and man there was nobody there there was nobody there so yeah I’m with you you want to represent me I got you he need
To be reimbursed on his damn sure dud let’s work on that yo work on all right guys thank you for hanging out with us we appreciate you we’ll be back tomorrow with another show at 300 p.m. so plan to come hang out with us then uh before we
Get out of here we did had some really heartbreaking and unfortunate news in the NBA today uh Gerald I know you wanted to say something yeah Warriors assistant Deon milovich uh passed away today and he was a guy that touched a lot of different players around the
League including a couple on the Suns you of nerkish Damen Lee um it’s really tragic at 46 years old that he’s gone now and so suddenly um so we just wanted to say rest in peace to him uh we are praying and thinking of everyone around the league who is hurting with this
Tragic news um obviously this is never the type of thing that you want to see and it’s just a reminder that life is short and life goes so much further Beyond basketball it’s about the connections you make and the people that you meet um so rip to him and again
Thoughts and prayers to everybody who is grieving during this time and credit to the league not making him play this game tonight I’m glad that they’re letting them grieve appropriately rather again not putting profit ahead of people yeah so we’re sending all Good Vibes to all
Of them and all of you guys too um thank you again for hanging out with us we did really quick get an additional Super Chat from Nate thank you Nate they said I agree with espo on a fan section at the footprint Center the supporter sections in Major League s ER like lafc
Can provide tons of inspiration and and Nate says an affordable preseason game at mad house on McDale we tried to do it while I was there the facility can’t handle it they did a scrimmage but that was about it and that place has seen much much better and even scrimmage was
Rough it’s gonna take a a pretty penny to fix that place up to be able to handle that type of stuff okay uh you can give the show follow on social at PHX Suns you can follow me at lindsy Smith a you can follow Gerald at Gerald
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7 Comments
Anyone but booker? 🤣🤣🤣 yeah I’m logging off the things y’all say at times is hard to watch… “I’d listen to trades on anyone not named Devin booker”…. If kd is trade-able booker definitely is. Y’all never fail on trying to place book above kd 🤣
If anything get rid of Nurk and get a better big man or at least a stronger one other than that I would trade Allen
Trade Allen – just an indication what a hole the Suns have dug for themselves with respect to lack of anything of value
Need a PG. that is the only trade that makes sense.
nassir little was known as the only person that locked up zion when came to unc
There is no way the Suns are trading Grayson Allen. The Suns got what they wanted last summer and is working out. Grayson Allen is tying records for the suns franchise. You can’t ask for something better. He is not getting trade 😂😂😂
I dont want to see grayson go but if we can get miles brigdes and nick richards for grayson and nassir I can do thar lol