NBA TODAY | “Phoenix is a BIG threat in West” – Perk on Suns beat Doncic, Mavs; Devin Booker 46 Pts

NBA TODAY | “Phoenix is a BIG threat in West” – Perk on Suns beat Doncic, Mavs; Devin Booker 46 Pts

Welcome to MBA today presented by ESPN bet the entire Squad is here Chan gou Richard Jefferson Kendrick Perkins his new bling I’m Malik Andrews he’s smiling I’m happy to be here what’s it like sitting next to your rival oh is the week for it that would imply that we are

Comparable we are not definitely we are not well it’s not just in our studio CH Rivals weekend continued across the one try to grow is that me it was dein Booker and LC I mean Kevin Durant Devin Booker they’re pretty good they’re the second Duo to each have multiple 40o

Games in a Four game span the Suns they were 11th on Christmas and now one month later they’re fifth so Richard if they keep playing like this how far are the Suns going in the postseason H look I I I think to me they are a conference

Finalist Contender if you were to ask me what their ceiling is it’s the Conference Finals to go to the NBA finals the amount of team now do I they don’t have a complete roster there are things that they have lacking they’ve given away a lot of their assets that

Allow them to bring in new pieces to fill out their roster so they’re probably going to have to wait till the offseason in my opinion but this team can get it to a Conference Finals this team has that ability and in their first full year together I think that’s a

Compliment this may sound crazy we’re this may sound crazy but a team that has Kevin Durant Bradley Bill and Devin Booker this team feel like a sleeper in the west right like you actually could call cuz that’s not crazy no no because you just said they’re Silling is the

Conference Finals so obviously you don’t have them pick win the West do you have them pick to win the West so you’re basically saying they’re a sleeper to win at all this year yeah and it shouldn’t be that way like when they made this trade for Bradley Bill we

Already knew that they were going to be topheavy but they have three of the most prolific efficient scores to ever played a game of basketball along with one of the guys that’s considered an alltime great and one of the best in the game today so like it’s fair to say that they

Are sleeper because if they upset or beat a Denver Nuggets or the Clippers that we have right the question what what’s the question how far do you think is it a sleeper to go someplace I’m saying where do you think their ceiling is that’s stilling is the Conference Finals the

Conference I’m not arguing I’m not arguing with you but that’s still shouldn’t be their goal just because we said that’s their but it makes sense it makes sense I agree com finals that is their potential the realistic potential for right now I do think they could be a

Sleeper to come out of the West based off of what we’ve seen in the last seven games if they keep this momentum up they have a top 10 defense but do you guys realize that this is the hottest what’ you say I said Thank you somebody with s

Oh yeah I don’t know if I want that you know you take that Malika you take that but do I know right but do you all realize that this is probably the best shooting we’ve seen in the offensive game in a very very long time they’re

Number one in the last seven which is their win streak and field goal percentage but get this they have two of the best three-point Shooters right now you want to guess who’s number one on that list Grayson Allen leag leading the Le correct 49% KD career high threo

Percentage they’re snipers not just KD and his name but the entire roster so if they keep this up and manage their defense they have the tools matsh doesn’t want to hear this though they want to win it all they want to win it all when when when they traded for Kev

Durant when all of littleit I want a full head of hair like n look at the reality is I want to lose weight I mean it’s a lot of things we want in life I’m good at that absolutely true one of us can control the hair and

Wa but I’m just saying did you think that you were going to have the same chance of growing a full head of hair as they have to go to the to to the finals when I was the first one to say it I was like look they I was like one we were

Talking about who was going to run Point dein Booker answered that he was outstanding they done a great job of Distributing the ball that was one the next part is they don’t have a a very good they don’t have the depth they don’t have the bench they at times they

Don’t even have the size so they’re a very good team and this is the thing if they were to go to the NBA finals everybody on this panel would say no no we wouldn’t be surprised but we would believe that they are overachieving based off of what they have if they were

To win a championship I would say that they are overachieving compared to the other teams in the complete roster if they were to play against the Boston Celtics with that depth that size they were to beat the Celtics it’s because those top three average across and everybody else played

Outstanding I still have LA Clippers over them still have the Denver Nuggets over them so I guess it just a little bit wild to me that we’re talking about oh we’d be surprised to see Kevin Durant team up with Deon Booker and win a championship let’s the game changed a

Lot since they came to go that is absolutely true and the West got a lot better speaking of lucad donic let’s get to him because he certainly stuffed the stat sheet he had nearly a triple double here but it was his interaction with a fan that became a point of contention

After the game so our Tim McMahon reported that LCA donic asked security to eject a sunspan who was sitting two rows behind the midcourt Press section and the comment the fan made that Drew Luca’s wrath right was you’re tired get your behind on the treadmill so following the loss he used a different

Word Luca took exception to being asked about this incident I know I saw you when you said about the fan you know that was not a true all that was not the only thing he said um but I knew you would be the first one to to point out something like that

I’m not going to say what he said but I knew you were going to be the first one to put out something like that so I just saw him man it’s just funny you always seem to be the first one to put some bad stuff about me why did you ask for the

Fan to be ejected because he was cursing me the whole first half to why didn’t you ask be ejected in the first half then because I never would ja aan they pay for tickets but I had enough you know it’s a little bit of frustration you turned your head and looked over at

Him after he said that that’s I mean that’s what we saw yeah that’s fine be the guy the better guy in the media right it’s all right okay so there’s a whole whole lot going on there our Tim McMahon just put on social media just

Clarifying a man like me the fan left on his own he being too sensitive hell yeah he’s being too sensitive look at the end of the day you know why that fan didn’t get injected and he just left cuz they was getting their ass blown out the game

Was over so he’s like oh look I don’t want any heat last 3 minutes it’s not saw my te to see I saw my team do my do their thing and look luuka look Luca he didn’t even address the question he’s like I knew you were going to be the one that

Asked me those questions talking about Tim McMahon and you’re just like look at the end of the day Luca comes from a place where they play basketball where they have flares going off it is crazy in Europe to say that an individual was cussing all day he said it might have

Been a little bit of frustration I heard 10 paragraphs there was one sentence that I heard and that goes it might have been oh it might have been a little bit of frustration you you know what I you know what I you know what I did on

Sunday what you do did y did y’all know what I did on Sunday what did you do I actually went to church and I went heard my good brother Pastor Keon and you know what was the thing for that Sunday a little bit of frustration no purpose

Purpose right and so LCA walking into that Arena last night his purpose wasn’t to get that fan thrown out of the game or get into with the fan his purpose wasn’t to get into it with Tim McMahon after the game that was a distraction his purpose was to go in there and

Because it’s rivalry week to go at Devin book and get a win but the problem is is that the guy on the other end had a purpose okay and dbook and so dbook walked into his house didn’t knock on the door didn’t take off his shoes went

Sat on his couch went turned on his TV watch what he wanted to watch and he ordered a 46 piece wing dinner from Buffalo Wild Wings do you know the Killer part about it you know what he did he used Luca credit card cuz he door

Dash he door dashed it so that that was the problem right Luca purpose was to get at D book who by the way Devon Booker owns that matchup in that career he’s 10 and three against Luca Don that was his frustration did he did he turn

The AC down did he turn the AC down he had the fan blowing and everything did everything he wanted to do a he missed six shots look yes I think the difference here is that there were two guys with purpose and one of the guys Devon Booker had his team with him and

They have a mission right now the Suns we’ve seen what they’ve done the last few games as it pertains to Luca he’s doing so much for the Dallas Mavericks I mean number two 33 points per game and scoring like he’s holding them down without Kyrie in certain circumstances

Last night Kyrie was y but I think we’re all like every year we come in and say this is a guy that’s an MVP caliber guy is this is this a team that’s going to really take them over the edge it feels like there’s this idea this Aura of

Comfortability where it’s like okay this distraction is an excuse It’s a deflection from what actually our team is we have great expectations for Luka donic and he’s doing most if not all the only thing is the intangibles staying focused we’ve seen so many games from the last year to this year where there’s

A foul call there’s a I mean he’s got a mean star down 43 techs right over the last three seasons exactly but those techs you can even see they’re T they tend to be late in game I know certain times like this was a blowout but like

They’re late in game and they dictate the outcome he has to avoid those to provide the leadership but and it’s not just here in the league when you look at when he was playing international basketball this summer right he had a moment where he was you kicked out and

And and so it’s like look when you have that amount of usage rate right for a guy you might miss one or two foul calls for a player over the court when you are a guy that has that amount of usage rate yeah there might be four or five just

Because you’re involved in every single play but for me Luca if you’re going to let elevate your team to a championship team and I don’t think they have a championship roster no no no Kyrie so we’re not going to put too much stock in

The game but what I heard yes we are yes we are it’s Rober and help yeah but I’m saying but I’m saying K yeah book had help in the sense that he wasn’t having to chase around a Kyrie last night and so there is there

Is an element of there of like look book showed up did his job uh Luca was a little frustrated and we saw how manifested but it’s manifested in that manner multiple times other areas mainly with text that’s what’s worried real quick perk do you think that luuka is

Going to have to get this and I put the arguing with the refs the f I don’t I don’t want to put too much St into this one incident but this under control before he’s going to be able to get to that next level I mean I feel like we

Keep talking about this year after year so at some no but no but at some point at some point real quick at some point if a person show you who they are you got to believe him so I mean like we don’t want him to change his mindset in

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NBA TODAY | “Phoenix is a BIG threat in West” – Perk on Suns beat Doncic, Mavs 132-109; Devin Booker 46 Pts