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| Sentient Meat wrote: | | If the Suns had Rondo instead of Canaan, they'd be a playoff team |
They'd be good (and fun). Great coach too, but it'd take more to make the playoffs in the west. That's just how tough things are in our conference right now.
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| adkindo wrote: | | LKA wrote: | | adkindo wrote: | | I have watched all of their games this season....we "should" go to PHX, take care of business, and leave with the win. The Lakers are clearly the better team....but I can guarantee that the Suns will not back down, will expect to win, and is too young and stupid to know they should not win. Booker is the obvious big issue....but Warren off the bench has been very effective this year. TJ is averaging 20 PPG in only 23 MPG through the first 3 games. |
I hope Booker doesn’t eat Josh up |
crazy thing is TJ Warren is shooting 3's this season....shooting almost 5 a game @ over 57%! Not being able to shoot 3's has always been the knock on him. Most of them are corner 3's. |
Who knew Warren would morph into a 50/40/90 guy?
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| Inspector Gadget wrote: | | Suns will play hard but we should win cause they have no one that can stop LeBron... |
remind me who the Trailblazers, Rockets and Spurs had that was able to stop Lebron? |
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Ugh, Ayton. I'm more concerned about this one than I want to be.
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| AirKobe8 wrote: | | Sentient Meat wrote: | | If the Suns had Rondo instead of Canaan, they'd be a playoff team |
They'd be good (and fun). Great coach too, but it'd take more to make the playoffs in the west. That's just how though things are in our conference right now. |
He has a point, Rondo dishing out assists to Booker and even Ayton could have made the Suns a competitive team in the West, the Suns have also been searching for a starting PG and Rondo would have been perfect for them. |
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| Posted: Wed Oct 24, 2018 9:37 am Post subject: |
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| adkindo wrote: | | Inspector Gadget wrote: | | Suns will play hard but we should win cause they have no one that can stop LeBron... |
remind me who the Trailblazers, Rockets and Spurs had that was able to stop Lebron? |
Those teams are more into win now mode, and we still almost won against 3 of them even without BI and Rondo for the last 4 and a half quarters.. |
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LKA
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| Posted: Wed Oct 24, 2018 9:37 am Post subject: |
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| adkindo wrote: | | LKA wrote: | | adkindo wrote: | | I have watched all of their games this season....we "should" go to PHX, take care of business, and leave with the win. The Lakers are clearly the better team....but I can guarantee that the Suns will not back down, will expect to win, and is too young and stupid to know they should not win. Booker is the obvious big issue....but Warren off the bench has been very effective this year. TJ is averaging 20 PPG in only 23 MPG through the first 3 games. |
I hope Booker doesn’t eat Josh up |
crazy thing is TJ Warren is shooting 3's this season....shooting almost 5 a game @ over 57%! Not being able to shoot 3's has always been the knock on him. Most of them are corner 3's. |
Yeah I saw he had a good game vs golden state, not that it mattered .. but wow wasnt he horrible from 3 last season? |
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AirKobe8
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| Inspector Gadget wrote: | | AirKobe8 wrote: | | Sentient Meat wrote: | | If the Suns had Rondo instead of Canaan, they'd be a playoff team |
They'd be good (and fun). Great coach too, but it'd take more to make the playoffs in the west. That's just how though things are in our conference right now. |
He has a point, Rondo dishing out assists to Booker and even Ayton could have made the Suns a competitive team in the West, the Suns have also been searching for a starting PG and Rondo would have been perfect for them. |
I'm all in on saying Rondo would definitely make them better and be a great fit.
But they'd have to edge out one of GSW/HOU/OKC/LAL/DEN/UTAH/NOP/SAS (my personal 8 this year) with Portland and Minnesota on the bubble too. The Western Conference is just ridiculously deep.
In the East, Phoenix is definitely a playoff team though.
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Damn Warren went from 22% on 1.4 attempts to 57% on 4.7 attempts from 3
wonder if he keeps this up |
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| LKA wrote: | Damn Warren went from 22% on 1.4 attempts to 57% on 4.7 attempts from 3
wonder if he keeps this up |
If he wasn’t in a losing environment he would be talked about more as a potential all star. |
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| Posted: Wed Oct 24, 2018 9:52 am Post subject: |
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| First win for Lakers if Booker will not score 100 points. |
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LKA
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| Posted: Wed Oct 24, 2018 9:58 am Post subject: |
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| Inspector Gadget wrote: | | LKA wrote: | Damn Warren went from 22% on 1.4 attempts to 57% on 4.7 attempts from 3
wonder if he keeps this up |
If he wasn’t in a losing environment he would be talked about more as a potential all star. |
That teams gonna be good in a few years
I hate the western conference lol |
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| LKA wrote: | | Inspector Gadget wrote: | | LKA wrote: | Damn Warren went from 22% on 1.4 attempts to 57% on 4.7 attempts from 3
wonder if he keeps this up |
If he wasn’t in a losing environment he would be talked about more as a potential all star. |
That teams gonna be good in a few years
I hate the western conference lol |
Lakers and Suns rivalry will be exciting in a few years but I think we will be battling with the Warriors more in the playoffs. |
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| Posted: Wed Oct 24, 2018 10:09 am Post subject: |
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| The Lakers must control the boards and get out on the break. If we play decent defense we should win this game. GO LA! |
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| Baron Von Humongous wrote: | | Ugh, Ayton. I'm more concerned about this one than I want to be. |
Ayton should be concerned about Javale McGee. |
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| Posted: Wed Oct 24, 2018 10:10 am Post subject: |
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| Since defense is dead in the NBA first to 120 wins |
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| Posted: Wed Oct 24, 2018 10:12 am Post subject: |
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| Fracture wrote: | | Since defense is dead in the NBA first to 120 wins |
It sure seems that way!  .... new rule: Fractures Law! 
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LKA
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| Posted: Wed Oct 24, 2018 10:12 am Post subject: |
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| Inspector Gadget wrote: | | LKA wrote: | | Inspector Gadget wrote: | | LKA wrote: | Damn Warren went from 22% on 1.4 attempts to 57% on 4.7 attempts from 3
wonder if he keeps this up |
If he wasn’t in a losing environment he would be talked about more as a potential all star. |
That teams gonna be good in a few years
I hate the western conference lol |
Lakers and Suns rivalry will be exciting in a few years but I think we will be battling with the Warriors more in the playoffs. |
That’s the plan ..
Hopefully we win tonight so I don’t have to hear about the winless Lakers on tv for a few days 😂 |
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| Lakers gonna get 35 free throws today. |
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| This is a game we should win. If not, get ready for the potshots from the media as well as the LG meltdown. |
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I need this one tonight. We gotta beat the teams we are supposed to beat. I don't get too down about the season so far; it's been three good to great sides (2nd, 3rd and 7th seeds in a tough west last year) but the Suns are a lottery side every single day of the week.
We gotta beat the teams we are supposed to beat. If we don't get past the Suns then I'll start getting a little bit concerned, even if there is a ton of basketball left to play. |
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| Posted: Wed Oct 24, 2018 11:21 am Post subject: |
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| If we lose this game...I concede this season was an epic failure. |
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| Posted: Wed Oct 24, 2018 11:21 am Post subject: |
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| El Seano wrote: | I need this one tonight. We gotta beat the teams we are supposed to beat. I don't get too down about the season so far; it's been three good to great sides (2nd, 3rd and 7th seeds in a tough west last year) but the Suns are a lottery side every single day of the week.
We gotta beat the teams we are supposed to beat. If we don't get past the Suns then I'll start getting a little bit concerned, even if there is a ton of basketball left to play. |
I don’t think this team is one of those teams we had that ended up losing a lot of games to bad teams because of lack of focus, this team seems to know that they need to take care of business. |
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We could easily be 3-0 or 2-1 as 0-3. The Suns are a decent team... I don't think any team in the West is an automatic win.
As long as we play well and improve on defense... if Lonzo, Hart, and Kuzma continue to play well... if LBJ comes out motivated after his choke... we can still lose without saying the season is lost.
If we get blown out and the defense doesn't improve... then maybe I'd think we'd need either a coaching or personnel change. |
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