‘ABOUT TIME!’ 👏 Perk applauds the Suns’ adjustments vs. Lakers | NBA Halftime

‘ABOUT TIME!’ 👏 Perk applauds the Suns’ adjustments vs. Lakers | NBA Halftime

Hey welcome inside our Los Angeles studi Stephen A Smith Michael wilbon Kendrick Perkins I’m Malika Andrews the Phoenix Suns they are up 11 at halftime they’ve led by as many as 20 but really a balanced attack here four of five starters and double figures and bull

Bull with 11 first half points in this one Kendrick Perkins we talked about this as a a litmus test for both of these teams what have you learned I learned that it’s about damn time right Frank vogle like you know in b b letting him play through his mistakes and

Actually rolling with him and nerkish together nerkish got a double double right now he’s balling but it hasn’t been consistent I know they’re doing it right now but we haven’t seen this out of the fen Suns on a consistent basis and yet this lead sort of means nothing

They let by 20 in the first half no team in the league except maybe the Warriors blow leads as quickly and as consistently as the Suns and so you look at this . Le you’re like okay this is an even game particularly if if if LeBron

Sorts to have his way inside as we saw at times in the first half I would say this it didn’t mean a damn thing to me what I saw because the fourth quarter hasn’t arrived which is when we’ seen the Phoenix Suns blow leads having said

That I do want to piggyback off of what perk said to modify that position to some degree bow with nurkic with a Kevin Durant if this is the kind of team with that lineup that can be efficient against a team like the Lakers then it’s good to speculate about some things and what

They could do imagine come playoff time it’s bbo with nurkic with KD with Booker and Bill in the back court imagine something like that I mean it does get interesting it does get interesting but you need siid in the Western Conference you’re going to have to go against joic

You’re going to have to go against Rudy Rudy and car Anthony towns you’re going to have to battle with Sab bonus you’re going to have to face one of these teams in the Western Conference you need this size and you need this athlet need somebody with some girth though I mean

Nk’s got a little bit of it but let’s face reality when we talk about Big N what we really mean is tall as in KD and Bobo because together Lord I I mean you need them together to to to to to just have some weight on them I mean that’s

Not enough they need some more girth well on the other side of it I’m not going to say that but I will say big men right tall men they’re not big but the Los Angeles Lakers they have a couple of big men on that team down down nine

Check myself not 11 I need to work on my math today um down nine Stephen A in a game that really two playing teams they need to come out and win what more do you want to see from them well listen first of all Lebron is is is going to do

Some things obviously Anthony Davis needs to be a bit more active in this second half they only got him about four or five shots in the first half four shots or rather to be exact he needs to be more active and have his presence felt in the second half outside of that

I see Tori and Prince hting a couple of shots that was a good thing I want to continue to see that I want to see D’Angelo Russell get a bit more aggressive as well but get the ball to Anthony Davis this is this is the 40 plus million doll man get him the

Basketball and it’s not like he hasn’t shown what he could do with it with the great season he’s been having right 18 first half points for D’Angelo Russell as well in this one Kendrick Perkins so the Lakers have some of the pieces they just need to be able to get over the

Hump and it’s difficult particularly when Devon Booker is playing like this what can he do this in the four that’s the question about the Suns every game out now we’ll be right back

Stephen A. Smith, Kendrick Perkins and Michael Wilbon join me to speak on the Phoenix Suns’ outlook as they led the Los Angeles Lakers at halftime on Sunday.

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