The Phoenix Suns and Jusuf Nurkic fall to the Denver Nuggets and Nikola Jokic 119-111. Nurk had himself a night battling Jokic, he finished with a season high 31 points on 13-22 shooting and 6 rebounds. Kevin Durant moved into 10th place on the NBA All-Time Scoring Leaderboard and finished with 30 points and 11 assists. But it wasn’t enough to get the job done. Join the PHNX Suns Podcast for the Suns vs Nuggets postgame show and don’t forget to follow the show on social @PHNX_Suns.
0:00 Countdown
0:30 Intro, instant reaction
3:00 Nurkic’s “unnatural” foul
5:00 Kevin Durant had an off night
11:00 By The Numbers presented by DFCU
17:00 Jusuf Nurkic Big Bright Shining Star
28:30 Jokic with awful flops
36:00 Frank Vogel on KD’s second half
38:00 Kevin Durant enters top 10 in NBA scoring
40:00 Triple $$$, a check in on the Big 3
42:30 Gerald Bourguet joins the show from Footprint center
54:00 Reading your superchats
58:00 Nurkic posts on Twitter and if you could be top 10 in anything what would you choose
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24 Comments
Except Nikola eats everyone alive including Jusuf
He didn't dominate Nikola "" he played well against him I'll give him credit he played well and he played with with determination but no he didn't dominate him let's don't get carried away typical Phoenix fans
😂😂😂 Nurkic outplayed Jokic offensively?!?!? Jokic had 16 assists lmaoooo.
You seriously watched THAT game and the REFS are your main topic? Did you see Nurk explode into a billion pieces when he was screened by 180 pound soaking wet Peyton Watson? No flop there, eh? You are seriously arguing that an elbow to the face was a flop? Did you notice that KD should have fouled out and was sent to the line after absolutely zero contact no fewer than 6 times? Did you see the FT discrepancy? You sure as HELL didn't notice P-Wat clamp KD. BTW, I'm gonna need you to look at Nurk's results in his last 20 games vs Jokic if you think he’s a viable option in the playoffs. Jokic was purposely not defending because he can't afford foul trouble with Denver's 2nd/3rd best players in street clothes; same reason KD hid defensively on Holiday instead of MPJ. Nurkic fouls out in the first half if tasked with defending Jokic in the Murray/Jokić 2-man game. Best part is, you get Booker/Beal back and your defense only gets WORSE vs Denver. They get AG/Murray back and vastly improve on BOTH ends.
We need a point guard when Booker and beal are not in the game. Kd cant facilitate he is a scorer
Lol y’all will never learn
Complaining about the refs after the FT disparity is comical. FYI, even if it wasn’t a flagrant and instead a common foul, Nurk would have still fouled out. Just an hour of excuses
Do you guys really not think that Watson played great defense on KD? You just saying that all of the sudden KD missed 10 open shots in a row in 2nd half. Come on, we deserve less bias and more honesty than that…
Doesn't almost every single blow to the head become a flagrant foul?? I mean, look at every night of NBA gameplay for the last couple years, more than not a blow to the head is a fucking flagrant… Ya'll met a better team, doesn't mean the suns aren't a bad team and if any fanbase knows about bad officiating, it's the Nuggets'. I understand the frustration but KD was terrible in the second half, had some great passes and trips to the line but a lot of missed shots. For anyone to be mad at the ref's as a suns fan should check themselves, Sun's got to the line like 18 more times than Nuggets, c'mon man stop with that
This team ain't it. Gotta hit your shots. Can't make excuses when you get guys you know can't stay on the floor, then they don't stay on the floor, and you keep looooosing…
Jokic was still the best player this game and came Thur clutch unlike Kd
You guys might want to read your comments cause they highlight the parts of your show that you have opportunities to improve (a lot)
You guys are amazing: you have an entire segment on "Jokic flopping" after the amount of obviously bs calls KD got all night
You guys should really watch your sister/partner DNVR.. terrible takes, the big dude wearing purple pants was the worst.
Cant believe kd by himself had more freethrows than the entire nuggets team combined and still managed to lose them the game. Ishbia needs to undo all the bad braindead trades kd did to this team but it will be impossible and he will just move again to a new team at the end of his contract leaving booker in a really bad situation afterwards.
what going on with drew eubanks how many point did he even score in the pass 5 game? Suns need a back up center and a decent good enough ball handler point guard jordan goodwin aren't it.
you are not for this job anymore. You are bias and to much arguing not fun to watch.
The fact all these Denver fans commenting tells me all I need to know they got lucky this game suns started out soft defensively were the better team the 2nd half kd just didn’t make his shots no one’s scared of Denver they just had the most chemistry and healthiest team last year suns are a level above once healthy.
Flex is a moron😂
What the hell are you talking about? Wild elbow swing at head height shouldn't be a flagrant?
KD going cold in the 4th quarter again.
Strong cope here
You just never learn 😂😂😂😂😂
If Nurk plays like this in the playoffs when we have Booker and Beal we are winning the championship