8/6/2023 0 Comments Suns nuggets preview![]() ![]() Could he, the guy lightly booed whenever he checked in, start Sunday’s Game 4? Speaking of which, Okogie struggled on Murray early and ended up at just 10 minutes. Look for Denver to play those two together more frequently to have an extra ball-handler out there, and for the duo to have a more aggressive mindset seeking out the mismatches. Wear-down effect played a hand there too. It was good enough from them, and there were plenty of times Murray or Brown took one try at them and then didn’t go back for seconds. Landry Shamet deserves a ton of props for playing a part in swarming Murray.Īnd here is Shamet hounding him right after that timeout. Way to work Tony Buckets (he hits a middy the next possession) /cEWcdNzlcJ Warren worked his tail off defensively to prove his doubters wrong. I suspect this will mostly be a Jock Landale sprinting thread /ryFyqdF67C … That’s really been our recipe since I’ve been here. We should have been playing like that the first two games. “I think we have to play like that throughout the series. “I think last night was our standard,” Craig said. Craig corrected me to further emphasize the point. Just the ebbs and flows of playoff basketball, right? Some nights you’re going to be the hammer and others you are the nail? No. Torrey Craig after practice on Saturday pointed out how the Suns got Denver back after they were the exhausted ones in Game 2. Now that Phoenix is missing Paul on a team with an already short bench, it’s now about how the Suns can do what the Clippers did to make up for it. In round one, it was a constant talking point because the Los Angeles Clippers were without Paul George and Kawhi Leonard for the last three games. The script has flipped on talent disparity. Murray was the man through three quarters. Jq6If9eQzdĪnd again at a little over five minutes to go. No surprise to see the shots not falling in the 4th. He was gassed during different stretches in this game. Look at Jamal Murray with three minutes to go in the third quarter.īut to that point, peep Murray. By the mid-third quarter to early fourth quarter, you could see it on the opposition. Booker’s ruthlessness turned into a signature team attribute. As usual, it grabbed a handful of strands from its most impressionable contributors. Three years ago, the Suns’ team DNA started to take shape. A murky path ahead to victory in this series cleared up. No substitute for Devin Booker, Suns' desperation in Game 3 winīut through that, to return to leadership, his group responded to it and followed suit. Until the Suns prove otherwise, it is a reality we have to accept, that he’s going to have to shoulder a seemingly untenable amount of responsibility. ![]() Krabs meme, wondering if nothing was ever going to change, no matter if the team was winning 20 games or 60. Long-time watchers of him in the purple and orange started feeling like the Mr. And then there’s people like this guy.īooker scored 18 of his 47 points in the first quarter just to have Phoenix within two. Lmao remember CP3 holding for one shot at the end of the first half? Book wanted blood! Foot on their neck! /Hm1eaas7HF But he couldn’t help himself from the bench, wanting Paul to lay it on ’em even further with a transition opportunity. Chris Paul made the smart basketball play to hold for one shot. Late in the first half of a 2020-21 win over the New Orleans Pelicans, Phoenix was up 22 with the shot clock off to wrap the first half. I ain’t neva eva seen you act like this b4 /BfHrAfETou This emanated off of him throughout the game, mostly when he was motivating his teammates, and when he had finally did the deed in the last minute, he let everyone know. There is refusing to lose, and then there is doing it while putting the other team in the dirt. But when watching back Friday’s Game 3 win over the Denver Nuggets, the fire he plays with exploded out of him, animating him in a new way. ![]()
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