NBA TODAY | “I’m done with this team” – Perkins on Suns ‘unacceptable’ loss to Spurs without Victor

NBA TODAY | “I’m done with this team” – Perkins on Suns ‘unacceptable’ loss to Spurs without Victor

In right now because things aren’t slowing down as we approach the final stretch of the Season here right the race that may have the most twists the most turns is the one to stay out of the play in tournament right entering last night the Suns just a half game

Separated them from both the Kings and the Dallas Mavericks so each and every game it counts for all teams but maybe none more than the big three out in Arizona so starting tomorrow’s Clash against the defending champs on ESPN every single team remaining on the sun

Schedule is against a team with a better record than Phoenix it is an absolutely brutal stretch all of their opponents they’re currently top six seeds and would be in the playoffs if they started today but take a look at this the Mavs the Kings they both are taking care of

Business last night so it was even more imperative right the Kevin Durant and Company capitalize on the cool 78% chance they had to win according to ESPN analytics against the San Antonio Spurs who by the way or without Victor wanyama it should be easy right well uh let’s

Show you what happened Kevin Durant and Company in San Antonio no Victor nice jacket though we’re going to pick this one up in the fourth quarter CH Devon Vel elevates extends do not sleep on that man Devin vasel but one thing about the sons Kevin Durant he has been on one

Since Allstar he’s been upping his field goals he’s knocking it down but he needed help Malika he needed more help to your point he had 29 Points eight rebounds six assist but still the suns were down Deon Booker getting crafty gets that one to go Brian how do they

Have 97 points with two minutes left in the game with that offense how well dein Booker looks to add to it there and all of a sudden the Suns take a lead in the final seconds here though of the fourth quarter for three soan yes that one’s good Chan so now letting him

Know are you not entertained San Antonio on its feet Devin Booker trying to cook this is the guy you want to take the shot oh and it rolls around but doesn’t go down that could have gone this one to looking Devin Booker another chance and can’t quite get it to go here’s head

Coach Frank vogle after arguably the sun’s worst loss of the Season yeah it’s just it’s unacceptable to lose that game you know for our guys you know we all said the right things we all uh did the right preparation to come in but we didn’t play with the necessary focus and

Disposition unaccept should that game especially after how we beat him last game you got to start the game off got fion down like 10 points to start the game off you got be better I think everybody’s feel in the pressure of in season you just control what you can

Control so the suns were outscored yet again in the fourth quarter that continues on their final frame woes here just look at those numbers Phoenix is the worst team in the league this season in the fourth quarter they’ve been outscored by more points than any other team for perspective over the last two

Seasons only the Spurs prei were outscored by Mo in the fourth quarter which is pretty astonishing perk how alarming was this loss here for the Suns it it’s very Al alarming number one right this son’s team is not going to be good until they like consistently involve Bradley Bill last night he had

11 shots that’s not enough they did not trade for Bradley Bill to be taking 11 shots anybody heard from Kevin Durant lately since he went on that little cute adorable postgame interview talking about you know dropping the word leadership and leader eight or nine times because if you have a leader then

You don’t lose a game like that against the San Antonio Spurs without Victor wi biama matter of fact before you take off and land in San Antonio that message is being sung all throughout the locker room on the team playing hey man get y’all Minds right when you get to the

Arena you supposed to have the the focus there to say you know what we got to go out here and handle BS business and get this win that we supposed to win and they didn’t do that so they could come out and they could talk about oh we had

The right preparation this is unacceptable we only could control what we can control what you know what you can control is not is stopping Sohan from having an awesome night probably the best game of his season you know what else you could could control sharing the damn basketball sharing the

Damn basketball getting others involved it’s not just the KD and de Booker show you have to get others involved especially Bradley Bill I’m right there with you perk with the exception of the Kevin Durant slander a little bit saying that oh he has to be the leader that

Gets everyone involved what more can Kevin Durant do he’s 35 years old he’s averaging 27 he’s being more aggressive the second half of the season this is a guy that is a two-time NBA champion a two-time Finals MVP who’s trying to be the most consistent he can be like a

Couple years ago this is a guy who tour his Achilles and now is back at Peak form so like okay I understand understand it takes everyone not just KD not just Devon Booker who by the way on that starting five outside of those two the rest of the starting five only

Combined for 21 points Beal is integral and I keep saying that Beal missing this you know uh incoming season being able to practice with the guys that has been crucial because now he’s trying to learn learn this offense learn how to play with those two guys on the Fly more

Importantly I’m looking at this loss as they have the hardest Road moving forward uh not too long ago they were in the playoffs now they’re in the playin this loss made me feel old because right now we’re looking at a plan I know per we’re looking at a plan that has LeBron

James Steph Curry and now Kevin Durant I’m like what’s going on with our gen our my I mean you and I no offense Wendy our all our together she said it she said it but somebody just had a birthday last week you just got older but here’s

The thing you mentioned it’s not just the hardest remaining schedule in the League this year right perk they have the hardest final 10 games of any team since the 20156 Memphis Grizzlies who that year had to play the 73 win Warriors twice and 67 win San Antonio Spurs twice in

That stretch you know what they went in that stretch CH one and nine they went one and nine and I wonder are the Suns lining up for the same fate and what would the ramifications of this incredibly expensive team be if they do fall to you know what you know what it’s

Not about the schedule it’s about being 30th in the league and offense and being the worst fourth quarter team in the league that’s what unacceptable and whatever happens to them at the end of this season will be a result of that of those failures not just a single game in

This run when you put it like that sure Phoenix Suns they have on their plate over these Porter junor missed the last two games due to what was cited as personal reasons here so the two games that were in question are on January 26th and on March 20th on

Both dates there was increased betting interest on the under for Porter props so Porter played just four minutes in the game against the Clippers before leaving with an eye injury and just 3 minutes before exiting with an illness against the Sacramento Kings and according to draftking sports book

Porters unders they were the two biggest money winners for any player props on both of those dates so Brian you were on the Forefront of this reporting but for some there’s sort of a sense of inevitability that a situation like this could Arise at some point how much

Concern is there around the league right that this could be a worrisome TR Trend that we’re seeing well I think the league is going to investigate right now to find out whether it was something was a trend or if it’s a one-off situation um I think a couple of important things

One there is no accusation that Jon Porter actually made a bet himself correct this is an investigation of suspicious activity around the situation that’s number one the second thing is um and and obviously with the increased focus on betting that that there there was this worry the sports books involved

Flagged this caught it you know the first time I think it was like something strange happened there and then when it happened the second time within 48 Hours it was flagged and he was deactivated he was deactivated on Saturday’s game he was already deactivated for last night’s

Game when this report came out um so the system you could argue kind of the Integrity system kind of worked and caught this as a flag but of course the issue is is there something that’s not being caught will this be something that happens in the future and I think what

The the thing is is that the NBA is just going to have to continue to look at ways to improve their policy one how they allow prop bets to be made for one n injury reporting because injury reporting even though the NBA has improved it there’s still some holes in

Injury reporting but one of the reasons why this was an issue was even though he had had an eye injury that previous week he was not on injury report with an eye injury right even as available to play he was not on the injury report with an illness obviously the illness could have

Happened happened at that moment but there was no so any warning to betters that this would happen so it was truly appeared to be information that maybe was or an event that was maybe had somebody had inside information for of course this is a situation that we will

Continue to monitor it comes on the heels of JB bicker staff saying that he has gotten phone calls to his home with betters saying that he did not cover a spread and being very angry about that it comes on the heels of Tyrese halberton saying that he does not want

To just show up for fans to yell at him about not making their prop bets so certainly this is something the MBA is going to have to continue to contend with and cowboy Carter comes out this week or really Di for spee fore speeech for speech Speech fore spee yeah for need for for for foreign speech

NBA TODAY | “I’m done with this team” – Perkins on Suns ‘unacceptable’ loss to Spurs without Victor