The Phoenix Suns minus Kevin Durant try to figure out the Miami Heat minus Jimmy Butler | PHNX Suns
[Applause] Welcome in everybody to the phn xense pregame show presented by mlob Ultra I’m Lindsay Smith that’s espo that’s Sal Bookman it’s weird saying Espo’s name before Sals because usually it’s the opposite order how you guys doing tonight it’s opposite day it is opposite day we’re in the opposite Studios we’re
All kinds of things we’ll get it fixed before for pops SK oh okay perfect that works tonight the Phoenix Suns will be facing off against the Miami Heat and both teams are going to be shorthanded in this one let’s set the Mood by looking at the injury report set
The mood baby my mood is not great Bob because Kevin Durant nsio little and Eric Gordon are all out new this game the suns are injured Miami Heat Caleb Martin Jimmy Butler and Haywood heith are also all out so hey at least both teams are dealing with
Issues what is the MP joint I have no idea the first there’s multiple ones apparently so yeah I have no clue I just like listen I’m super bummed because I 100% did not feel like this Kevin Durant injury when we first heard about it the second night of the back to back earlier
This week I didn’t think it was going to be a thing I just thought you know second night of back back I get it KD’s been carrying a lot of the load sit out for a game maybe two and then and then yesterday all of a sudden now
It’s like oh it’s no longer soreness it’s an actual hamstring strain y’all this is like legit and I feel Bamboozled I’m just like every other day it’s the big three and then it’s not the big three and I knew we were destined for some KD Shenanigans like I’m not saying
That I wasn’t prepared for that but I guess I kind of wasn’t prepared that like I knew it was coming but mentally I wasn’t ready for it what bothers me is it feels like the Suns never give the full picture on an injury right away we hear soreness soreness then all of a
Sudden it’s a strin like they didn’t know like I think it’s which makes you feel great about their medical staff yeah it’s a strin guys and even the way that uh that Frank vogle addressed it where he’s like he called it a strain then he looks oh are
We are we saying that like like he’s even acknowledging hey we’re we’re kind of fudging this a little bit I don’t like that well and then he also was kind of like because obviously there were follow-up questions as far as like okay there’s different levels of strains like
How bad is it and he was like I’m not going to tell you that but he is technically still dayto day but I’m just like we’re all day to day that’s life I mean some of us are like minute to minute [Laughter] I listen I I don’t know you we’ve been
Talking all year about all the big three The Big Three The Big Three The Big Three like I have reserved myself to just hoping that I get two of the three on the court at the same time and I also have reserved myself to not making excuses for this Sun’s team if they
Don’t have all three on the court because I don’t want to keep saying well if if KD comes back this all changes or if Bradley Beal comes back this all changes or like we might legitimately get to the playoffs and still not have the big three I don’t even I don’t even
Know what to say about it it’s just you got to you got to deal with the stages of grief and move on and I feel like I have just accepted this I’m not there yet I’m still in the I don’t know it’s confusion one of the stages of grief
Because what if not then that’s where I’m at though because like I get it but I’m also just like I ain’t about that life yeah not accepted it I vasolate between anger and acceptance the anger is that people in the offseason may have been right and you put together three
Guys that are just injury-prone and it’s destined to be like this so but the acceptance is I think I’m there with Saul you can’t you’re not making any excuses anymore you have enough talent to win even without one of the big three you need to be doing it otherwise it
Doesn’t matter when uh when they’re all together because you’re going to be out of contention in the way you want to compete you you want to win a title and if if you can’t start winning games and and getting closer to you know home court advant advantage in the long run I
Don’t think this is going to be a successful season well I agree with you that you still have two of The Big Three out there you should be able to win games I’ve been saying that all year long like I’m fully on board with you on
That one um I just think so much hinges on having all three of them out there when we look towards the future of this season and into the playoffs that if we can’t get it semif figured out then we could be in for a world of hurt and I
Don’t love that for us but that’s what we’re dealing with tonight so we got some injuries which means the starting five is going to look a little bit different well I guess it’s the same that we’ve seen for the last couple of games but uh the bench is going to look
A little different tonight but starters we’re looking at Devon Booker Bradley Beal Grayson Allen Chi metu and Yousef nage so rolling with the same Squad nope they missed the opportunity this should have been the bowl bowl starting game I love me some chimzi but if you’re going
To if you’re going to go all in on this and and play him just start him but then who’s going to be our spark Off the Bench who’s going to start a little run for us who’s going to invigorate the Suns when we need that UDA deusi I or
You I did it again W Ani God I that’s how much I don’t think of UDA wanabi as part of this team I default to UDA so you can’t be UDA who does that clearly it’s got to be buo Boo’s got to come off the bench and continue to do
The things that we’ve seen him do the last couple of games so but I do think uh not having Eric Gordon out there could potentially be a little bit tough I know he’s hot and cold from night to night but the Miami he aren’t any scrubs when it comes to three-point shooting
It’d be nice to have a three-point shooting specialist you know tonight’s game you know what’s so cool about the Miami Heat is that when they play their their games they don’t make excuses about why Jimmy if if they had Jimmy Butler on the court then things are
Different right yeah um and I think sometimes that’s probably my main irritation is that like when we finally do get the big three sure we see things open up a little bit and it’s a little bit more fluid and things are move a little bit better of course but you’re
Also implying that this is the norm and it’s not the norm it’s abnormal to have the big three and you have to adjust and you and your your DNA who you are as a franchise has got to step up and we’ve heard so much about heat culture and as
Stupid as it might sound to us it works for them because they got guys stepping up left and right damn haime hakz is balling right now like he’s their third highest scorer on there who on our side is stepping up you know like to that level not not very many people
Like Grayson Allen you could make an argument for but even Grayson’s scoring is is kind of erratic but everything else is good with Grayson so I’m not going to dog on him but nobody else has been consistent and that’s just it’s it’s so infuriating and it’s frustrating
To watch that as a fan because you’re like I I thought I had bigger hopes for this bench unit I did and I’ll admit that I was completely wrong on a couple of these guys so far and I don’t know if there’s going to be a path forward to
Where they get better I just don’t I mean listen when it comes to the heat the heat culture it’s it’s real playing Team Basketball is a thing for them like 100% stepping up when players are injured uh they’re five- one in their last six games that they haven’t had
Jimmy Butler available and I believe six and four on the season when Jimmy is out so they’re they understand that like yeah Jimmy is super valuable to us and we need him but in the instances where he is absent somebody has to do something and majority of the time
Somebody does does does do something to to your point about heat culture and their eight-point win against the Lakers they played eight guys all of them had double figures exact like this is this is a team this is there’s not yes Jimmy Butler’s important they’re all important
But they pick up their their teammates when guys are missing uh when things aren’t going their way and you bring up three-point shooting tonight is has a potential to be brutal the heat are the second best three-point shooting team in the league at 38.8% you know they have Duncan Robinson
At 43% Kyle Lowry shooting 43% Tyler Hero at 42.9% and the suns are giving up the second worst three-point percentage to opponents in the game we’ve seen this story before with the Miami Heat when they came in last time and they just shot the lights out and you know you got
To defend if you’re going to beat the Miami Heat you better defend because they’re going to defend you and so I’m interested to see who’s going to step up and I have confidence that you know the usual suspects are going to play their game I think book is finally snapped out
Of his Funk hopefully I think you know Bradley Beal hopefully he he he finds more opportunity ities to score at a higher clip and become a little bit more consistent and Grayson Allen’s got to score a lot more than he did the other night like I I thought that he was he
Was kind Mia finished with 10 and 10’s not good enough it’s not good enough when you need everybody else to step up and score so who who is that dude who’s that dude I actually like the way metsu played uh last last game I know a lot of
People didn’t I actually thought he showed decisiveness quickness uh Around The Bigs but you know it wasn’t enough to really warrant him uh to be a significant part of this team scoring wise so who’s going to step up who’s G to ball because Miami’s gonna punch you
In the mouth they are who’s going to accept it and move on and try to punch them back I will say though if the Suns play the full 48 minutes like they played the second half of the game against the Clippers on Wednesday they’re going to be fine in this game in
My opinion it’s if you have a laxidasical first half or a laical second half and you only play for two quarters that you’re going to find yourself in trouble but if they come out knowing that they’re going to play the exact same way they played in the second
Half of Wednesday’s game I think things will be okay because the Clippers defense is one of the top in the league of course so you’ll be all right and they have to just be at the very least serviceable in defending that three-point line yeah but that if is is
A huge because what problem what have we seen when we seen we’ve seen a complete game from this team very rarely yes and tonight it really feels like they’re going to need that complete game and and there’s such a slim margin for error they’re averaging almost 15 turnovers a
Game and the heat are third best at steals at seven over seven and a half in the game so so if you get sloppy at all on either end of the floor you’re screwed tonight hands down you’re screwed no it’ll be interesting uh but fingers crossed that the Suns know what
They need to do and they actually come out and do it tonight but that remains to be seen until then es what what are they going to be wearing oh well they’re going with the elv yet again the city Edition and the heater going with their Association Edition white red and yellow
I I don’t mind these heat uniforms I prefer the old school throwback ones uh from the 90s but I don’t mind these the pink one oh no the Miami Vice ones will always be one of my favorite jerse yeah I like the the murder Ransom note I do
Too actually honestly I don’t know if you’re being sarcastic or not but I them they’re super fun I’m going gift one to asille for his birthday you guys have terrible do I I say this with all due respect to the L jerseys but they are starting to have a negative connotation
In my mind okay don’t blame the jerseys because every time I feel like we wear those BL the jerseys because the bodies inside the jerseys aren’t stepping up when they’re supposed to saying they’re like 500 this year I mean you could say that about about a lot of uniforms this
Year they’re not performing well in general just I’m just saying it aren’t we aren’t we like if we win tonight we’ll be back to 500 at home on the season so you can’t blame the alv jerseys that’s that’s just not fair to the alv jerseys all right who you guys
Got tonight by how much oh I’m not feeling good it’s a lot you all of you guys Gerald saw Espo’s Sons by one I I I went with the shrug Emoji but you know we made you pick a number Eric couldn’t I would have been able to get
It if it was calmer around these parts but it wasn’t so I I don’t know I don’t know it it entirely depends on how aggressive the Suns come out tonight in the first quarter and set the tone if they come out soft like they did against
The Clippers oh boy ain’t gonna be good yeah but I could easily see them coming out and balling out so I don’t know I have a little bit of Faith uh that Suns will win this game so I’m going Suns by three wouldn’t it be nice what who our
Friends at the bed Sports app thing yeah they actually favor the Suns by three and a half tonight which which surprised me I didn’t I did not expect a three and a half uh Point H favorite I thought it would be in that two range you know so it’s a
TR I don’t know I still think the Suns win I just don’t think it’s an easy game that’s the biggest thing I still think the Suns win they have all the tools and all the capability to beat the heat tonight it’s just matter of if they
Decide to utilize them I mean this is a a very even matchup the suns are better offensively than the heat the heat are are better than the Suns defensively but really you look at net rating the heat I have a net rating of 13 the suns are
14th so in theory this is going to be a very close game and if the Suns can take care of those few areas that we talked about they should be able to win at home but I don’t know that I have a whole lot of faith that they’re going to get the
Defense right from three-point land and not turn over the ball so yeah um and everybody asking where Flex is he’s in New Jersey we told you he went back home for a little bit but he’ll be back on Sunday don’t you guys worry your pretty low Hearts what are you guys putting
Your money on h i I went with a three- leg parlay tonight for plus 310 I said total points over 229 and a half Beal plus 20 points and Devin Booker plus 25 points okay solid I couldn’t go money money line in in a bet tonight it just did not fit I
Have ref I am stopping all moneyline bets from this point forward until I feel confident in either side of the ball uh I have a five leg parlay I got nerkish for over 10 and a half Beal over 21 and a half haime hakz over 13 and a
Half P for Grayson Allen of 20 plus and P of nerkish of over 20 plus I think those are all solid again I’ll probably miss out by like two points on something it’s going to be the Grayson Allen well that’s why I changed it instead of
Points I changed it to point P because he would have gotten p in 20 last time but yeah Grayson Allen is always such a tough guy to bet on because it’s usually by like one or two points when when you’re betting the points anyway for him
It’s always one or two but the game before the two games Before He’ll uh surpass that number but then the night you just you decide to put them in your parlay that’s when it’s a struggle um I went with a kind of simple one tonight we’ll see I haven’t done this one yet
This season so Devin book Booker to not miss a free throw in the game out of plus 125 you’re lose that early I mean yeah listen I just felt like I was going to try something different tonight this is one of the prop bets on bmgm so I
Kind of like their prop bets I just think they’re fun um this one they call the Rick Berry so I haven’t done it yet so good luck does he have to shoot him underhand like Rick Barry is that the he can do whatever he wants as long as he
Makes them Flex is going to be taking the sun’s money line tonight at a minus 140 that’s a bad bet so I don’t know this might be flex’s first win in a hot minute it might be really good for him which is great because it’s just the
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Mgm.com for terms and conditions us promotional offers not available in DC New York or Ontario get stuffed Ontario so there might be a little added emotion to tonight’s game I don’t know you guys tell me how you feel about this one but Bradley Beal said on a uh what
Was it like a video yeah a video blog on an stape the ESPN offshoot so this uh this past offseason he said and eventually it came to a point where Miami said they just can’t do it and that kind of was like a gut punch I was
Like dang that was my spot but it was an eye opener for sure initially Bradley be wanted to go to Miami before he ended up here with the Suns um so you think there’s going to be some feelings about that or no I hope so I hope he I hope he
Has a chip on his shoulder because of that like that was his number one we were number two I’m okay with that I don’t really care he ended up coming here so it’s cool but I guess maybe Miami just felt like he didn’t fit within their DNA and they were really
Going hard after Dame too we can’t forget about that they really wanted to they put all their chips into Dame first before Bradley Beal because they felt like he was more of the Difference Maker than Brad do you think it’s a DNA thing though with between Bradley Beal and the
Heat or do you think it was the fact that Brad has a thick ass contract I think it was both I would say it was more the money than anything that contract is thick but I I think it was both but I think I think Beal’s got to
Be motivated tonight right because you talk about it Beal really wanted to be there Suns came out of nowhere he actually was talking about the Knicks were another team there was like three or four other teams and it wasn’t until Matt ishia called him and said hey if I
Can figure out how to how to pull this off we want you here and that was when he thought oh okay this is an actual opportunity but he wanted to be in Miami and when you’re told you’re not wanted by somebody that you want yeah you’re
Going to be you’re going to feel a certain way about that and I hope he plays the spurned lover game tonight where he comes out and we see full Bradley Beal drops 30 you want somebody they don’t want you back no no no no I thought you said something different all
Right then but yeah I hope he comes out really fired up because of it and we have not seen a true vintage Bradley Beal performance since he’s been in Phoenix I hope tonight’s the night yeah and I mean now that he’s got a few games under his belt he’s starting to feel um
A little more comfortable within his body building a little bit more chemistry with his teammates maybe we’ll get that I at it like Bradley Beal please feel some type of way about the Miami Heat tonight uh we will all thank you for it in the postgame show I would
Very much like to see a nice thick number right there next to those points 38 38 Brad that’s a thick number let’s go how about 52 for the 52 million you’re going to owe him in the final year of the deal I think so maybe um
Listen guys I know a lot of you in the comments are asking us to talk about the Allstar voting and we absolutely will in the postgame show so you’re gonna have to come back and join us postgame for that conversation uh but we’ll give you a little teaser here it’s
Trash I believe it’s also cheeks cheeks I don’t think we need to do a post game show anymore I think you guys pretty much covered it but come back and hang out with us post game of course we are going to be talking about the game but
We will also discuss uh the All-Star voting as well and in case you forgot tonight is a watch along which means we’re going to wrap up this pregame show we’re going to go get set up and you guys can watch the entire game with Saul and espo I’ll pop in potentially
Occasionally here and there oh I thought it was just by herself nope yeah we only we set one we’re all going to sit there and watch the game in silence and I’m just going to take a few notes on my computer and then maybe I’ll tweet one
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Leave this feed and then in like 10 minutes or so you hop on that feed and then after that one’s done on the post game so we literally planned out your entire night for you you’re welcome welcome okay that’s it any final thoughts well let’s go get a dub all right Bye we all s like the May
The Phoenix Suns and Devin Booker will face off against the Miami Heat and Bam Adebayo tonight. Kevin Durant and Eric Gordon are questionable for the Suns and Jimmy Butler is out for the Heat. Join the PHNX Suns Podcast for the Suns vs Heat pregame show to get ready for the action.
0:00 Intro
1:00 Injury report has Kevin Durant on it AGAIN
5:45 Starting 5 for tonight.. should Bol Bol be there?
9:30 Who will step up for the Suns?
12:00 Jerseys for the night & score predictions
14:00 Betting
18:00 Bradley Beal wanted to go to the Heat
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