Stephen A. says the Suns are the WORST TEAM IN THE 4TH QUARTER! | NBA Countdown

Stephen A. says the Suns are the WORST TEAM IN THE 4TH QUARTER! | NBA Countdown

The Lakers the Suns they Square Off in game two of our ABC double header and they are each battling to get out of the playin but when you take a look at all of this what also stands out is for the Suns their strength of schedule they have the single most difficult remaining

Schedule in the entire NBA so we need to turn to the mayor of Scottdale over here Mr Michael OB because looking at their last 12 games of the season in particular is there a path for them to get out of the play in Malika they look

Like a playin team right now the Suns do I mean these games that they’re losing you know most recently to Houston I mean they they they are still lacking they are still flawed in the ways we’ve seen all season now Bradley Beal has been out

But that is that going to be a Panacea when they get Bradley Beal back are they going to have Kevin Durant and Booker back when Beal is back so I know it’s been a limited size and they look great offensively when they have those three guys why with all all the injuries the

Suns have had the last couple years do we presume they’re going to have those three and just offensively we know by now we ought to know that in the playoffs that alone isn’t going to work and I don’t know that’s going to solve what ails the Suns but that schedule you

And I looked at last night and the last 10 games of it I mean you go four and six in that you could have played really really well and that’s not going to be good enough in the Western Conference down the stretch but when you look at

Those the Suns and the Lakers and they were could be lurking potentially in that play in those lower seed Stephen A should that scare some of those top four teams that are essentially locked in in the Timberwolves OKC the Clippers and the Nugget well it just scare them from

The standpoint of their experience that their Championship test that there’s a championship pedigree with all of those teams that’s going to be in the play in but remember those young thorough breads this is who they want they want those guys they want to knock them off because

That’s going to be their claim to fame Minnesota Oklahoma City they ain’t fearing the Lakers or the Phoenix Suns please they’re like bring them on let’s roll that’s number one number two this is the thing that we got to pay attention to when it comes to the

Phoenix Suns they’re the worst team in fourth quarter in the NBA in the fourth quarter they the worst team in the NBA I’m not talking about Kevin Durant who’s shooting 52% from the field 44% from three-point range in the fourth quarter everybody else they’re non-existent right now big perk three-point shooting

In the fourth quarter second worst in the NBA field goal percentage shooting in the fourth quarter third worst in the NBA and they’re tied with the Golden State Warriors for blowing 10-point leagues I’m sorry they they they’ve blown a league 10 times this season in a fourth quarter this is the Phoenix Sun

That we’re talking about here and so we could bring up and Booker and Kevin Durant not playing together necessarily because they’ve only played what was it about 22 of the 57 games together I get that part but somebody’s goingon to have to explain to me how you can justify

Blowing fourth quarter leads and you can justify looking so horrid in the fourth quarter particularly when you have somebody and Kevin Durant who’s a superstar who is showing up in the fourth quarter why is collectively why are the Suns looking so bad well I explain it to you right now they have no

Navigation I mean they’re riding down a busy highway with a paper bag over their head they don’t know which way to go and it’s part it goes on the part of the leadership and when I think about leadership I think about the interview by the way great interview Malik that

You did with Kevin Durant and he was talking about oh he leads just because he don’t lead like the like we want him the lead that don’t make him not a leader well sometimes you have to get uncomfortable and to be honest with you the Phoenix Suns haven’t had a leader

Since Chris Paul left you need that guy in the locker room like you need that guy that’s going to control both sides of the floor in the fourth quarter so that you don’t have these drop offs so sometimes you have to get uncom and on the court by the way they don’t have

They’re not organized I get you they’re not organized Frank vog Frank vog if you’re listening that’s absolutely positively inexcusable you won a championship of the coach you’ve been the several Conference Finals series you know how to coach why the hell do doated it’s got to be to some degree personel

They don’t have the guy to organize the team that’s what perk’s talking about don’t have it go to he can’t go to the bullpen just because you’re a Hall of Fame player doesn’t mean that’s your skill the skill of organizing a team particularly with the game on the line it doesn’t come I’m

Not I’m not absolving the players but what I’m saying is this will bar if you’re the coach damn it you ain’t playing what the hell are you doing if the team looks disorganized how the hell am I supposed to look at just the players you have a job where they going

To get the organization from I want you to answer that for me I don’t know the answer to that question I really wish I did but but let me say this to you you got to improve the roster but at the end of the day the coach got to do something

And as k pointed out when you talking about them in terms of what their level of production is all I’m saying to you is this I’m looking at the players and he talked about discomfort the greatest success the Phoenix Suns have ever had was with Barkley and obviously with CP3

Two players that did not mind making folks uncomfortable all right so the fact that you’ve got folks there that want to be comfortable is problematic yes it’s one of the thing but who is going to right be in that role who’s going to be in that role and I’m I’m

Talking about on the court you can see these meltdowns in the fourth quarter when they don’t have that floor General that director that GPS they’re not Stephen A Frank vogle is not GNA call on somebody and say you do this they don’t have that well he he

Need to that’s my point see see that’s what I’m saying to you I understand what your point is my point is you’re the coach you ain’t out there playing what the hell is your job then it’s your job if you can’t do that then somebody else need to be coaching they’re playing in

The fourth quarter they don’t have that guy

On NBA Countdown, Stephen A. Smith, Kendrick Perkins and Michael Wilbon join Malika Andrews to talk about the bigger playoff challenge for the top teams in the Western Conference between the Los Angeles Lakers and Phoenix Suns.
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