The Phoenix Suns took care of business against Portland in Deandre Ayton’s return to the Valley for their fourth straight win.
Brendon Kleen of @justbasketballfans breaks down the win, how the Suns showed flashes of their defensive potential, Nassir Little’s big night and more. Then an update on the NBA Cup standings.
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10 Comments
Call it the Nurk report
Absolutely love this team!
Nassir had a game!
OKC beat this team 2 days ago by 43. A win is a win, but this shouldn’t have been in single digits with 3 min left in the game. Another weak showing if the plan is title contention.
Stat oddity should have been, how did the blazers have +11 more shots than the suns? This trend of opponents having substantially more shots is becoming a trend, and I’m not clear how it happened tonight as blazers had similar off rebound, steals, etc.
Anyone worried about the suns not even 20 games into the season is just not smart lol
Ight.,.. Brendan is missing the Forrest for the trees as usual
The first half specifically first quarter Portland said All right DA we're going to give you your opportunity to go at your old team and he scored 12 points.
Nurk as one could assume was probably feeling pretty salty I'm going in at halftime contributing very little in DA leaving his mark.
Second half third quarter Phoenix specifically went to Nurk allowing him to get some get back on his old team and not only that but also DA.
Later in the third quarter Devin Booker goes to the bench after he stepped awkwardly.
KD started bringing the ball up and he passed to Nasir Little three straight times for narcia to get some get back at his old team as well.
Those three four straight passes Kevin Durant gave Nasir Little and Nurk it's not something that will be happening all the time.
Furthermore Josh okogee made sure to get Nurk and Nasir Little the ball.
Typically Josh akogi would take those two three shots.. But instead he passed it knowing these two guys wanted to get back at Portland.
Nasir Little is 6'6" 220… He was always going to be in this rotation I have no clue why you or Aaron Edwards (whatever his name is)ever said he was not going to be in this rotation…
As usual you guys are wrong and here is Nasir Little in the rotation….
He will not be playing 24 minutes He's more of a 16 minutes a night guy and he's not a 13ppg 5 rebounds … He might get us 6 and 3 off the bench.
Why do everyone on podcasts breath so mf Hard! And they be swallowing they spit in the mic like damn bruh WTF!
This offense is hideous.
Cook'em up Booker gets the ball.. as soon as he crosses half court he is already going into his moves so he doesn't get blitzed and trapped.
Soon as Booker goes into his move he's either going to pull up get to the rack or make the play effortlessly. .. Devin Booker is a problem… But it's not sustainable offense.
The second thing we do.
A bunch of pointless motion, double screen one dives one pops out typically a kogi and Durant or Devin Booker and Nasir Little. ….and you switch this "bunched double screen" action between Booker and Durant which creates an easy look for Booker and Durant… Also not sustainable
Thirdly we give it to Durant on one side of the court clear everybody out. We send whoever is at the top of the key through the lane and to the corner and if the pass is there on the cut Devin Booker and Kevin Durant make the pass… If the past is not there they go directly into their move and try to get a bucket in ISO…
And the last thing we do is a dribble hand off with nerd at the top of the key where we catch it get the dribble hand off ball screen get a second screen behind that and then we have the same double screen bunched action between Nurk and whoever's playing the 4… Again one will dive one will show and Devin Booker and Kevin Durant will have the ball in their hand moving in action at the top of the key…
That's our offense 😮💨
I have no clue what Bradley Beal is going to do in this offense… And when Bradley Beal has the ball I had no clue what Devin Booker or Kevin Durant is going to be doing on any given play…
Outside of Phoenix obtaining Kevin Durant… I have no clue what the hell we're doing😢 schematically coaching personnel…. Like wtf 😒