KD went strangely quiet. – ESPN react to Dame, Portis both 31 Pts as Bucks beat Suns without Giannis

KD went strangely quiet. – ESPN react to Dame, Portis both 31 Pts as Bucks beat Suns without Giannis

Kendrick Perkins Bob Myers I’m Malika Andrews so with Giannis attent to kmbo 31 points a game on the sidelines this was truly the defensive Showdown we all thought it was going to be Milwaukee gets the 14019 win Michael wilan it is pretty rare to see a team shoot nearly 60% from

The field on the road and then walk away lose by double digits yeah it is it’s a weird game Malika but go and look when you when Giannis isn’t going to play and you’ve got the schedule the Suns have in their last 10 which looks as we’ve talked about impossible and you’re

Trying to avoid the play this is a game that you ought to be scratching and clawing and you shouldn’t be down 21 or 22 at the half right and the Suns come back but what what separate what has defined the whole Sun Season bad fourth quarter play they get within six or

Seven and what do they do consecutive possessions they turn it over bad turnovers with no shot this is what this is their move this is what they major in They Come Away with loss they drop right back into the playin Zone they look like a playin team with all that Firepower

And all that smooth offense you look at these numbers they have the same number of assists as Milwaukee 36 assists on 51 basket you can’t fault off their offensive production what you can fault though is mistakes critical mistakes in the fourth quarter 140 points given up 82 at the

Half I I mean you know it’s a hard thing to figure out I I I’ve been I’ve been looking around the league saying who’s guarding any who’s playing defense and and and there’s been a big to-do about scoring has gone down and you watch a game like this not enough and and the

58% in a loss and 42 from three in a loss if you just look at the stats like you said you say how did Phoenix lose this game they lost on the defensive side again I mean I I do like the Durant at the five lineup for offensive reasons

But for whatever reason this Sun’s team and and we looked at their fourth quarter stats in the previous segment 30th 30th 30th 30th it’s in close games it’s not going to work and it’s hard to explain if we pull up the Western Conference standings Kendrick Perkins this is a weekend where things are

Moving sliding shuffling doing the electric slide up and down the Western Conference playin situation but the Suns they are firmly right now in the playin the Dallas Mavericks play in our next game if you are to look into your crystal ball perk are the Suns a playing

Team in a couple of weeks when the playoffs begin I don’t believe so I I think they’re going to slide up I I can see them being in the sixth spot I don’t I don’t trust the Kings right the Kings have been inconsistent I thought they were going to take that leap and

Possibly be in the position that Oklahoma city is in or Minnesota right now so when I look at the Phoenix Suns again it goes back to the identity part and when you see a young team or a young Le team like the Minnesota Timberwolves and the Oklahoma City Thunder and they

Have an identity but then you’re watching a group of vets and the fenis Suns that don’t have a identity that’s that’s the disturbing and then you you you have a guy and I I hate to keep Haring on this and KD who keeps fighting this battle about leadership this is

Leadership at its finest like you go on the road in a basically in a must-win situation right could could continue to get better but also you trying to stay out of the play in tournament no Yannis an TPO you have your big three and you roll over only place that I would I

Would say I wouldn’t be surprised to see them in the play in is their next couple of games they have the 76ers Hawks and two games against the Spurs then it’s the defending champs it’s the Thunder the P win these four but this was a game they could have stolen you know what’s

Interesting about the Suns is you look at their team and you look at the shots tonight so Beal got 15 shots Grayson Allen got 14 Booker 22 Durant 10 Royce O’Neal 12 so here’s when we talk about this game manager right we talk about

How am I going to make sure we talk we we we criticize Durant 10 shots but you played how good was Rondo at making sure Ray Allen got his Paul kg who was not a guy that demanded a lot of shots right who is taking proper distribution at the

Right time you can have all the talent in the world and this is why Draymond and I were talking about this who’s taking care of the team meaning like who’s taking care of this team this Phoenix Suns teams because you cannot say you cannot look at their team and

Say well they don’t have enough Talent you know and and their bench is not great it’s not awful ingredient awful but who’s looking around going how do we take all of this and make it the best we can oh you saying the same thing I just

Said where the hell is the leader well over the next I you didn’t want to say it you know what I’m saying but I say it for you these are the questions the sons are ask before we shift our attention to the second game of our double header

Here on ABC no Giannis but Chris Middleton did come back in this one just just you here perk what did we learn if anything about Milwaukee in this game given that Yiannis wasn’t playing well offensively if they have space that they have the weapons around the perimeter to

To to kill you from the three-point line and again I’m going to H up on this is jiannis going to be able to embrace the role like Anthony Davis and play the center position because I think that’s where the Bucks are going to thrive at his best especially when he comes back

If he scored 35 points rolling and dunking the ball at the basket who gives a damn like that’s for the betterment of you also want poris in you want the two of them in together good news saying which is they they will put Giannis at the five in the playoffs they’ll do it

They they’ve done it before he will St okay push back this is like the Warriors used to do with Draymond you know you don’t you don’t put him there the whole time but with Middleton in the lineup now you put pors at the four Middleton at the three it’s a different team and

Now Beasley at the two you know he’s been playing better defense though you talked doc Riv but Beasley’s committed the defense so now you got a closing lineup changes everything with Middleton and this is the team that we’ve talked about is potentially being a little bit topheavy now we’re starting to see

Everyone sort of slot into those roles I do want to get to the second game of our double header here Luca Don and the Mavericks facing the reigning Champs the Denver Nuggets in this one is it if this point is it a foregone conclusion are we

Going to see Nicola yic win his third MVP in four years Michael we’re moving there we got some voters a couple on this who are you voting for you know what Joker has moved in one spot for me with no disrespect to SGA who’s kept I

Mean that’s a young team and he’s doing something in Uncharted Territory every night and of course my man Edwards who look if they finish one or two and I don’t think that’s really possible with cat out but if they do it’ll be because Anthony Edwards kept them there and he

Deserves to me serious consideration to be on the same line as Joker but it’s Joker right but Joker I feel like they they have said they are gunning they’re going for the one seed the nuggets are going for they’re 11 and one since the break you know what’s interesting about

When you face these teams in the playoffs you know this to me I’d be most afraid of Joker in any series I think anything was his great sh as far as scared of a player he is he he he can do it well I tell you this we’re about to

Actually watch the best Star in five in basketball and the devil nuggets cuz everybody crowned the uh Boston Celtics include me my apologies I guess everybody else apologize fore for fore relax you could totally trust me Dragon Flash spe penny for your thoughts your team has destroyed a tower CH First

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KD went strangely quiet. – ESPN react to Dame, Portis both 31 Pts as Bucks beat Suns without Giannis