Bickley Blast: When will the misery end for Phoenix Suns fans?

Bickley Blast: When will the misery end for Phoenix Suns fans?

And marada mornings Arizona Sports the local sports leader Bley blast our misery has a born on date it All Began on this day 55 years ago and if the villain in the movie No Country for Old Men ever asked us what is the most we

Have ever lost in a coin flip Suns fans would assuredly be spared yes today is the anniversary of the we lost the right to select Lou Lindor in the draft a player who would wreck the association for decades and ironically that loss came to the Bucks just like the sun’s

Latest loss in the standings question is will our met misery ever have an expiration date and that is the question because this season seems to be spinning in a crazy Direction 14 games left Isaiah Thomas incoming and all that weird funky energy the team emitted over

The weekend so I’m hoping that it comes in like a lion all swaging attitude and I hope he brings an edge and an urgency to a team with an energy problem as in a lack of energy that would normally beit a team desperately trying to avoid the playin tournament and I’m also hoping

The latest round of intense criticism from the national media about the Suns will snap this team to attention cuz that’s kind of what happened last time and the Suns responded with a short-handed win in Denver either way let’s hope something sticks let’s hope something works cuz it’s getting kind of

Late for fake motivation desperation plays and Hail Marys all right today’s Bickle blast brought to you by my great friends at Chapman BMW who make luxury attainable find them online at Chapman bmw.com well I think anytime you pick up a veteran of his stature on a 10 day too which is

What it’s going to be initially I understand you got a plan like why would you do it right like why would you waste his time like you know so I imagine that he’s going to get his opportunity to play and prove himself and he will look the only problem with Isaiah Thomas over

The last number of years is he healthy like because we know he can play we know what he did in Boston matter of fact we know what he did for us when he was here so that’s not an issue the issue is the fit and what can he bring to this team

That will allow him to s and play a huge role well it’s pretty obvious guys the turnover issue for us like you know he is a guy that’s not going to lose the ball he’s going to get it up quickly and if you don’t guard him he’s gonna he’s

Going to destroy you I mean I don’t care what league you playing in the guy can flat out score that’s Eddie Johnson he was on the show with us yesterday uh talking about what Isaiah Thomas can bring to the Suns we’ll get back into that in a second because uh that is

Certainly happening for the Phoenix Suns could play tomorrow night against the Phil 76ers so today’s going to be an interesting practice for the basketball team huh one game in I also um man I had no idea today was the the anniversary of the coin March 19th 1969 yeah can we go

Back and retroactively complain about why that even took place yeah in a room with no Witnesses the suns were 16 and 66 as an expansion team 16 and 66 the Bucks were 27 and 55 it’s an 11 game difference brutal why did they need the help they were on the right track

Brutal absolutely brutal all due respect to the late Neil W yeah it was done yes it was done in a room F see that yeah couldn’t do that this day and age even when they did the coin flip and Friday Night Lights to see it went to the

Playoffs it was on television for now the NBA is just freezing envelopes so yeah so this so that was the beginning of it all I mean seriously and then and and then you think of everything that is kind of happened afterwards you could you could make a a

List from today from now till tomorrow yeah going through the Litany of cursed bad luck all that kind of stuff and the question is going to be is this season going to go down a as one of those colossal failures because of the stakes because of the expectations because of

Um everything that’s attached with this group Jared brought up a a really um a sobering thought earlier and that and and the question is going to be if the Suns don’t pull this off and don’t get on a higher plane is is this big three really working together is this thing

Really is this thing popping can it pop is it but I I and I don’t want to sound poana about it but you know what some people will ask if that’s the case if this doesn’t work out did they have enough time together do they need to run

It back next year with increased Health but are you ever going to get increased health I I’m all over the place on on this and and we’ve talked about you know expectations at the beginning of a season regardless of what sport you’re talking about if you have no

Expectations and the team that you are talking about exceeds the low level of expectations you had your expectations change MH I don’t think it works in Reverse when you’ve got really high expectations and you fail to meet those expectations I’m not one of those people that diminishes my

Expectations I thought when the Phoenix Suns made the Kevin Durant trade and followed it up by the Bradley be trade it was Championship orust mhm so I can’t I can’t work off that so if if it does fall short of that yeah it’s a massive disappointment yes yeah listen and and

The question of did do they need more time I I don’t think people are going to look at it that way that might be reasonable it might be logical maybe you do need more than 35 40 games but people are they’re not going to want to hear

That people are people are not digging this basketball team I’ll tell you that I’ve I’ve heard from people who are ticked off that Grayson Allen joined the victory circle of the Bucks those are his old teammates his old friends people are ticked off that Frank vogle was smiling and hugging Doc Rivers after

That game in Milwaukee every little thing now is bothering Suns fans about this team because they are so passive and they are so disjointed at times something is going to be the quote unquote scapegoat of this season if they flame out in the first or second round

Or play in or whatever yeah it’s either going to be they didn’t have the right pieces around them and they’re going to completely remake the roster around the big three it’s either going to be the big three which they can’t do anything to change or it’s going to be the coach

It’s going to be the head coach or they’re going to have to determine whether or not this was a poorly a bad match between head coach and basketball team or if this is just a bad roster and then when you look at the roster as as we played a little snippet earlier in

The Bill Simmons podcast with Ryan rillo why is a team that has Kevin Durant Bradley Beal Devin Booker and the best shooting three-point guy in the in the league why are they struggling Grayson Allen and nkit have been better than we thought they would this season and

You’re adding them to those three play why isn’t this better it’s a it’s a mind-boggling dilemma that they’re in it really doesn’t make any sense and that’s kind of the conclusion that but Bill Simmons and Ryan rillo came to and we’re trying to figure it out as well now back

To Isaiah Thomas we’ve talked about you know what is does he bring from a basketball standpoint and with all due respect to Eddie Johnson you know he’s talking and he mentioned look we know what he did when he was with the Suns that was 10 years ago MH that was 10

Years ago I know what we can what we know is missing one of the elements that seems to be missing from the Suns is a feistiness an edge a hunger at times y we look regardless of what Isaiah Thomas has left in the tank we know he’s going

To bring he’s going to have all attit all of those three things yeah and maybe that’s the influx they’re looking for maybe it’s not so much on what he can do on the court maybe it’s maybe it’s waking everybody up and creating a different vibe in that room yeah listen

Getting into somebody and motivating them to to be better than they’ve been yeah it’s it’s very very true and it’s it’s something where the big failure of this basketball team it might be the coach it might be the intangibles it might be the wrong mix of where’s the fury where’s the edge

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