Why have the Suns been eclipsed in the standings? And what on earth happened in their game against the Clippers before the 2024 NBA playoffs? This watch along reaction film breakdown details the Suns defensive issues, their offensive problems and how Los Angeles was able to keep them out of the paint behind Paul George and Russell Westbrook.
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Turns out trading all of your defense for old shooters is not actually a good strategy… Shocking
Trade booker, KD and give beal and bol bol the run of the team. Bol bol is better than wemby just needs more minutes
Booker proved he's not a point. He's a smart scorer, but not a smart passer.
Russ always well against KD.
KD…heh.
Hey, man, if you had stayed with GS, y'all would've had a good six, seven titles together…
But, you know, that ego got you…where again?
This aged well
Idk why the Suns thought the 33 win Blazers backcourt from 22-23 would be good enough. Eubanks and Nurk are solid players and they’re not the heart of the Suns woes, but they’re certainly not helping either.
Its like these guys just met and dont have any chemistry going. Poor effort, lacking communication. ishbia, thats stuff you cant buy. That game 7 loss to the Mavs was the start of the downfall of the Suns. I wonder where it ends
Not ball movement by the Suns
Its so good to see Bol Bol still making rookie mistakes in year 5… And carelessly jogging back on defence and getting outrun by zubac, i can see why he got pulled so fast
* Jettisoned their only pgs – Paul and Payne
* traded their interior protection – Ayton
* let go of wing protection – Craig
* wouldn't sign a coach with championship pedigree – Budenholzer
How are they supposed to compete?
They should have made minimal changes from last season — also keep Shamet, Biyombo, Warren, Ross — and see if they could get Doncic or Butler for Booker. If not, roll with Booker. Minimum 4/5 seed, with a real chance to compete for the title if they can get momentum at the right time.
Booker played some awful awful defence in this game. Think some of Ben's readings may have even been generous
I wonder where will durant go next?
I don't watch basketball so idk: is that one guy's name 'zubat'?
7:02 there is a travel. Does Nba not call these anymore?
Idk why anyone is surprised about the Suns, I’ve been saying all year they were not going to the Finals. Durcant needs to retire and stop stacking the deck just to fail. Just like LeQueen they only hurting their legacies 😂
AYO lol 7:19
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With the new post all-star "rules", PG13 was pushing Durant around and he did not seem to have answers.
On a number of those plays, he didn't go anywhere that PG wasn't making him go.
It's a real difference with Nurkic running the offense in the start but they don't go back to it in the 4th so it loses us games. Vogel isn't that bad of a coach but his rotations are so garbage sometimes. The bench can actually do something productive but since we didn't have any sense of urgency in earlier games, we lost those games and the 9 man rotation has to carry with heavy minutes now. This team knows it's talents and I believe has most gaps filled but have no real sense of direction; they just put everyone together and expected it to work in one season.
Thank you for this play by play analysis. You actually made me a jokic big facilitator like, rather than a traditional big. Seeing the basketball in a new perspective
Games like this is why I still don’t understand why Beal was the person they went after. There’s just so much overlap between him and the other two guys. Somebody like Jrue Holiday seems like it would have at least helped cover their weaknesses.
Pho lac watchalong is what I ordered last night at the Vietnamese restaurant
Suns offense looks to me completely like your typical "coach calls the shots" type of offense. Players arent making dynamic reads based on what the defense is doing, theyre running a script, or at least it seems so to me. Theyre forcing tough, contested shots, sometimes against double or triple coverage, while guys are standing wide open behind the 3. If you dont trust those players to take that shot then you have a serious problem, but Booker and KD are gonna need to realize being a good 1v1 player isnt the end-all-be-all
i love
Pho-lac? I thought we were having a noodle review.
The suns are slow afoot. And soft as a summer breeze. And not great 3 pt shooters.
Other than that, dream team.
Thank god you made a video about this nonsense
I said it when Beal was traded and I’ll say it again, a team built around 3 mid range iso artists cannot and will not win a championship in the modern NBA.
Offenses nowadays are just too efficient, dynamic and will destroy you from 3. The Suns are horribly stagnant and predictable in comparison.
I’d be shocked to see the suns get to the 2nd round this year especially in this Western conference
Suns were hailed as one of the "teams to beat".
As usual with this group, with thrown-together "superteams", and with KD teams, I really had to see it before I would believe it… I haven't seen it yet.
Love the watch alongs
They looked scared. Never thought I would see that this bad. Not from a team like this. Damn.
11:45 TRAVEL
It's a lot of high pick and roll that leads to contested mid-rangers. Like Ben said, they don't put any pressure on the rim, and don't force teams into rotation.
As a KD fan the off ball movement and screening on this team is non existent. By far the worst flowing group I’ve seen KD play with. They consistently try to run PnR like a MyCareer player on rookie. It’s almost like they think the game is easier than it actually is, Because they could be playing a lot smarter. All they have to do is adopt a few of Denver’s splits and use Nurk in a similar way they use Jokic. The fire power of Book, KD & Beal would actually suffice from there if the playmaking responsibilities aren’t placed on them. We definitely could use someone like Malcom brogdon or even Marcus smart & this team could truly contend. For now I’ll watch the playoff run n hope they knock off a high seed. Praying ishbia makes some good moves this offseason
They won next game vs clippers on the road. Make a video about that too.
Current Westbrook is a gift, really.