Suns in SIX. I think they close it out tomorrow night.
They really haven't played a good game as a team since game 1. I think they are due to finally get hot from behind the arc. Then that opens everything else up for them. The Clips are tough as hell. But the fatigue of 3 long series and big minutes to PG13 has to catch up to them at some point. And PHX has been a good road team all season.
PHX 114
LAC 102
They really haven't played a good game as a team since game 1. I think they are due to finally get hot from behind the arc. Then that opens everything else up for them. The Clips are tough as hell. But the fatigue of 3 long series and big minutes to PG13 has to catch up to them at some point. And PHX has been a good road team all season.
PHX 114
LAC 102
That was the Suns best game of the series and the Clippers just couldn't meet it. They've been playing every other day for almost a month and a half and they're without their superstar player but key point in the game to me (if there can even be a key point in a game a team wins by 20+) was when the Clipps cut the lead to 7 and CP comes back out of a timeout and Cousins is still in. That was absurdly bad coaching, like 1 of the worst moves I've seen in a long time. He just can't defend in the high screen roll against him and they got lit up in short order after it.
They weren't gonna win either way but to go down just giving the other teams best player open shots is pretty jarring to watch.
Tough to diss a coach of the inferior team too much when the team overachieved but not going small as much as they did vs Utah was also pretty bad. Zubac played really well which kinda made them stick with that but their offense runs way better playing 5 out as we saw in game 5. You're also the inferior team talent wise, you should embrace that variance. It somewhat made sense not to with Zubac but Cousins was just no chance on D unless his minutes were against 2nd unit rotations.
They weren't gonna win either way but to go down just giving the other teams best player open shots is pretty jarring to watch.
Tough to diss a coach of the inferior team too much when the team overachieved but not going small as much as they did vs Utah was also pretty bad. Zubac played really well which kinda made them stick with that but their offense runs way better playing 5 out as we saw in game 5. You're also the inferior team talent wise, you should embrace that variance. It somewhat made sense not to with Zubac but Cousins was just no chance on D unless his minutes were against 2nd unit rotations.
They are now 3-0 against teams that have had major injuries to key players. And now might play a team with a limited Giannis or Trae Young.
And you know what? I don't think Suns fans give a shit. PHX has never won a title and has been horrible for a decade. So it's just win baby. Doesn't matter how, who, or what the circumstances are.
That is why it is called a team. A team is not all players being healthy. That is how we look at it though. Very unfortunate when your team loses without a key player(especially a QB or elite basketball player) but that is why it is a team
Plenty of teams have won championships this way
I think if somehow all teams remained 100% healthy you would have many different teams who would have won in all sports
Does it tarnish things a bit? Probably. Especially in certain years
But in reality the team who wins it all is literally the best TEAM if they found a way to win it all using their roster
