Can The Phoenix Suns Avoid the NBA Play-In Tournament?

Can The Phoenix Suns Avoid the NBA Play-In Tournament?

I’m sticking to the dayto day I think the main thing is handle your business on Friday let the Western Conference sort the themselves out they’re all playing each other they all running into each other and so it’s got to be a day-to-day thing but I actually like it

Because I think the suns are the only team in this Bunch that truly controls their own destiny so in seventh place in the west right now is the Suns uh we’ve got nine games remaining you all should probably know all of these ones but it’s the Thunder Pelicans Cales wolves Pelicans

Again Clippers Clippers again Kings and then the Wolves so prior to uh last night’s game we gave our predictions for the final 10 games of the season for the Suns I think I was six and four Gerald you were five was five Saul was five and

Five Flex was seven and three ESO you were six and four right I believe so yes so still feeling feeling pretty good about what we selected with when it comes to the Suns I am I think I bumped them up over these last nine I think I

Bumped them up to five and four which would put it at six and four versus five and five which was what I said yesterday um I I think the Thunder is a tough one but we’ll see about sga’s availability because that obviously matters a ton I think with two games against the

Pelicans you you might be looking at a situation where you split their um Clippers same deal although it’s it’s tough because they’ve been a train wreck over the last couple weeks so that and the Suns need to win both those games if they want to keep that tiebreaker alive

Because they’re 0 and2 against La so far this season um but that is a tough matchup the Kings won obviously important um and then you’ve got the Wolves twice as well which even though they don’t have cat they have been playing pretty well so it’s tough it’s

Tough when you play the same team twice in a stretch of games like that it’s it’s hard to beat a good team twice um so that’s that’s my thing why I got him going five and four over the stretch but I don’t know yeah I’m I mean what I do

Like about it is you control your destiny it’s laid out there if I mean I know we keep saying it but if you handle your business your path to uh to being you know five or six is right there I’m not going to go into the four R I’m not

I’m I’m not going to go crazy but but you have a real opportunity in front of you by just beating the guys on your schedule you’re not looking for for help necessarily as much if you just take care of your own now I don’t I don’t think they’re not running the table

They’re just not running the table and they still have they rank number one in the the win percentage of opponents over the last 10 games they’re at 56% it’s lower than what everybody said you know when you’re looking at what the projections based on overall schedule is

This year but it’s still the highest of anybody in the west still so it’s not going to be easy and I don’t know that five and four is good enough to for what you’re going to have to accomplish I mean six and three depending on who those six come against yeah five and

Four probably wouldn’t just because of the tie breaker scenarios so the Mavs own the tiebreaker there the Lakers own a tiebreaker over us uh we do own the tie breaker over the Warriors but I I don’t think we worry about them in the 10 spot um the Kings again it comes down

To that last game to decide we are one and0 against the Pelicans with two to play so even if you split the remaining two you still win the tiebreaker over them and then the Clippers like I said you’re 0 and2 so you have to win both of those games to keep that tiebreaker

Alive but yeah that that’s my biggest thing is like you probably want to go if you want to stay out of the playin you probably do need to go at least six and three and probably seven and seven and two can can you put the the schedule

Back up there for a second Eric thank you I mean it really depends I if who if you win the P both Pelicans games both Clippers games and a Kings game uh and you go what is that five five and four like you said and those are your five wins it dramatically probably

Changes the things too there too yeah it could it depends it’s just it’s impossible to say because there’s still too many games for those other teams that they could win those other games and lose the two to the Suns or whatever and it it’s just there’s too much to project right now

But yeah if you want to stay out of the play in just look I went through all of these team schedules and tried to figure out which games they’d win which games they’d lose if you’re the Suns you want to go like seven and two to stay out of

The plan otherwise and even that like you still might wind up in the playing just because of you got some ground to make up here and these teams are fighting for the same thing that we’re doing yeah we’re all on the same same path here but Luke in the chat is

Feeling real confident about the Suns going seven and two within this last nine game stretch they said the Thunder no sgaa Pelicans no Ingram wolves no cat Clippers will be locked into four and resting so they’re going seven do we know that SJ is that he’s he’s not out

Making assumptions he’s not out yet but I had a conversation last night with somebody I trust and he has a thigh contusion and so he I mean so the assumption is even if you plays he’s a little hindered so that you know not with discomfort listen man I yeah you can

Call me crazy I absolutely love this schedule I love it crazy I I love it I I’m I’m not backing away from it I I said seven and three when we were playing Philly I’m sticking with seven and three I think forecasting out is

Crazy I I think you take a game by game it’s they’re all going to have a life of their own you know you play Friday and OKC coming off of this big Denver win potentially no SGA you win that game after Friday you sitting there watching the conference play Friday you watching

Them beat themselves up on Saturday you watching them beat themselves up on Sunday when you come back Monday for your home game versus the Pelicans this whole damn picture is GNA be different all the we’re not not sorry for that word but all the stuff we’re talking about right now have you

Heard this program before no no no no because when I say I don’t want to be disrespectful to y’all I’m not saying that y’all are talking I’m just saying all the stuff in general all four of us are saying is I think going to be it’s not even gonna be relevant by

Monday it’s just not Monday there’ll be a whole different picture and that game will potentially mean a whole lot more for the Suns and so yeah I’m I’m sticking to the dayto day I think the main thing is handle your business on Friday let the Western Conference sort

The themselves out they’re all playing each other they all running into each other and so it’s got to be a day-to-day thing but I actually like it because I think the suns are the only team in this Bunch that truly controls their own destiny they have matchups against

Everyone that matters and if they handle their business they they’ be sitting down I know you said you don’t want to talk about four I’m not afraid to I’m not afraid to they can go seven- two in this next stretch and four is re four is

A reality because if you go seven- two and you sweep the Clippers they’re two and a half right now from from where the suns are so yeah it’s just a lot of basketball and I’m looking at the Pelicans got tough schedule Clippers got a tough schedule Maverick’s got a tough

Schedule King’s got a tough schedule this shit’s goingon to be fun

The Phoenix Suns have a hard schedule ahead of them to end the season, but they also control their own destiny. The PHNX Suns podcast discuss what Devin Booker, Kevin Durant & Bradley Beal need to do to make the playoffs.

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