GET UP | “Phoenix cannot stop anyone” – Tim Legler on Suns’ 128-14 loss to Luka Doncic, Mavericks
Win the West over in Phoenix Luca donic capped off the NBA slate of Christmas Day games with a 50o effort in the Mavericks 128 114 victory over the Suns donic is just the fourth player in NBA history to score 50 points in a Christmas Day game as for the Suns they
Have hit the skids in the month of December they’re just three and eight this month and have a scoring offense that ranks 26 in the league overall this season their prized Trio of Durant Booker and Beal have played a combined 24 minutes on the floor together which
Could obviously be part of the problem on countdown yesterday legs uh W said that he was being told people within the Suns organization can feel that Kevin Durant is getting frustrated How concerned are you with what’s going on in Phoenix I wasn’t that concerned based on the fact that Bradley Beal hasn’t been
There and you can’t pass final judgment on this team until you see three stars together for an extended period of time until I saw Kevin Durant last night I don’t think I’ve ever watched Kevin Durant more overtly look frustrated defeated his energy wasn’t there he didn’t look like he believed in what was
Going on um you know that Luca donic is having his way on one end of the floor as a star and meanwhile you look at Phoenix and the way they’re operating offensively it just feels disjointed there’s not a lot of flow Kevin Durant clearly was wearing his emotions on his
Sleeve and you don’t really see him do that remember this is a guy that just a few years ago basically took on the Milwaukee Bucks when he was in Brooklyn in a seven game series single-handedly in that series he he was going to do anything he could to keep his team
Afloat that wasn’t the case last night and it started early this wasn’t like after the game was you know in pretty much decided mid fourth quarter this was in the first quarter I was watching Kevin Durant shoulders drop come up the floor give the ball up go to the weak
Side of the floor kind of stand not engaged he only took 11 shots in the game Grayson Allen took 22 shots that goes to show you where Kevin Durant’s mind was in this game and I think you know the report that W gave that obviously is accurate because now Kevin
Durant isn’t just maybe doing that behind closed doors he’s doing it now for everybody to see at least in that game and I think that’s very concerning I think it’s Kevin Durant looking around at this team right now how they stack up with a loaded Western Conference and maybe realizing this isn’t a
Championship caliber team and that is what I was trying to find and put together in Phoenix the only thing I will say is let’s not pound that gavel on them until we see Bradley Beal and and Booker and Durant together for 15 20 games minimum to get an idea for how
Potent offensively they could be because that can make a lot of this go away winning miraculously cures a lot of these things and right now they don’t have enough Firepower against a lot of these teams to win be does have time to turn it around though as you mentioned
Rough December maybe things will turn around for them in the New Year we come back on get up are the Dallas Cowboys on the road to nowhere has their defense been exposed by Miami and buffalo we’re talking about that and it didn’t go great for them let’s pick up the action
Here a little over halfway through the second quarter with the Lakers down by six this is LeBron James finding Anthony Davis for three of his 40 points on the night also had 13 rebounds later in the second Celtics up by one Drew holiday to porzingis for three he had 28 early
Third quarter Lakers down one LeBron backs down Drew holiday and lays it in 65 years old still doing is not 65 we’ll look it up later in the third Celtics up by three jayen Brown drives and slams it home Celtics up by five Jaylen Brown had
19 in this game under five left in the third Celtics up by four Tatum drives and lays it in that put the Celtics up by six and now they are rolling 5 minutes left in the game Celtics up by 10 we got Derek white him for with the
Lob Celtics win 126 to 115 LeBron James after the game had this to say I don’t think we’re healthy right now I don’t think we’re where we want to be to compete versus the the top teams until we continue to get better and better continue to work our habits and
Uh for us we still trying to you know figure our situation out as far as how we want to continue to attack each game so um you know but we’ll be better Tim legler back with us and legs you heard LeBron say still trying to figure things out and kind of
Acknowledging they’re not ready to compete with the NBA’s Elite right now when you watched this game yesterday what did you think was the difference between these two teams yeah and I think I think LeBron was really feeling it what he said based on the fact that Anthony Davis came to
Play and typically if Anthony Davis comes with that level of of Engagement and that level of intensity the Lakers are in pretty good shape the fact that Boston still was easily able to control that game with Anthony Davis playing like that I think that showed LeBron the difference between the two teams right
Now and that is the next layer of star after the top two guys because look LeBron James Anthony Davis Jason Tatum Jaylen Brown a lot ofon night those four guys would cancel each other out in terms of production so let’s now start looking at that next tier and when you
Look at Boston the additions over the last two years of Derek white poringa Drew holiday gives them three guys that are multi-dimensional two-way players that can affect the game so much more than any else that the Lakers have on their roster and I think you really saw
That all three of those guys had their imprint all over the game um and the thing is you give up guys like Marcus Martin and Robert Williams you think you’re going to take a step back defensively well you go out you add a Drew holiday that’s pretty good
Replication of Marcus Smart on the perimeter defensively you add a porzingis that gives you great level Rim protection you add a Derek white who is a big-time perimeter Defender but all three of those guys capable of giving you 20 on any given night offensively so they they’ve really gone out and they’ve
Given themselves so much depth and versatility and it was glaring I think the difference between the Lakers and the Boston Celtics right now and that’s why LeBron James made those comments he’s being honest about it and he’s being accurate about it yeah well Celtics look loaded we’ll see if the
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GET UP | “Phoenix cannot stop anyone” – Tim Legler on Suns’ 128-14 loss to Luka Doncic, Mavericks
