Phoenix Suns Season On the Brink After Being Outclassed Again By Minnesota Timberwolves
Kevin Durant, Devin Booker and Bradley Beal are on the brink of elimination as the Phoenix Suns go down 0-3 to the Minnesota Timberwolves.
Brendon Kleen of @justbasketballfans breaks down the familiar pattern of Game 3, why this series has been so lopsided, and why the Suns’ deficiencies are nothing new.
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27 Comments
Here we go
I’m not happy. Not happy at all.
Definitely not surprised but I’m still disappointed
1. Coaching staff needs overhaul
2. Can’t do much with Beal contract (worst ever)
3. Need athleticism especially -5 Jusuf Nurkić is terrible and Eubanks not helping either
4. PF-4 needs damn good rebounders. Don’t expect KD to do all.
5. Bench is weak, need to move those 🧱 🧱
My recommendation – do like multi team trade deal and send KD to where he belongs – Warriors
Get Wiggins, podziemski (point guard), looney .. + picks
What happened to your mic?..
Pretty clear gap in this suns team. Lacking length, strength, and athleticism. Warriors have provided the blueprint for how to build around 2 or 3 talented offensive players. The other starting spots have to be big and athletic forwards. There are two moves right now that we’re both in the suns grasp that I want you to envision. If Ayton has to go can you imagine if they let Indy have him and this suns team has Miles Turner? Then imagine if they made the Miles Bridges trade this year. So you have a lineup of book, Beal, Bridges, KD and Miles. You can basically switch everything, every player can shoot and you actually have rim protection. If suns don’t understand athletic forwards are what they need after getting wrecked by a team full of them, the whole front office deserves to be fired.
yeah i come here depleted
It's not over yet, unfortunately. Suns have no choice but to dig deep now
in 10 years suns will be back……….
Another early departure outta the playoffs..Minnesota exposed phx. Changes will and need to be made after they are eliminated IMMEDIATELY and this is what happens when u think u don't need a PG. but the problems go past just needing a PG. unacceptable
Shameful effort and performance so frustrating
Stop with the excuses… it’s not about the defense, it’s about your so call superstar getting out played and bully by the Wolves. I’m not a fan of either team just being objective your bench is a problem but it’s about Durant, Booker and Beal getting outplayed
As I've written all season here and been ignored, James Jones constructs mentally weak rosters. You can talk about stats and schemes all day long. When it's winning time we fold. The fact half the crowd didn't even wear the shirts from what I saw just sums up our franchise. Just frontrunners. I don't like the Timberwolves at all but at least as a franchise they are all in and the crowd showed that. The Suns keep losing in the playoffs at home, because it's a crowd of casuals and because they have a mentally weak team. We are screwed for seasons now. They'll push Frankie V under the bus but it'll be the same mess next season, no one is touching Beal's contract. Book won't let them trade Kd for assets, it's a massive mess. At least with Scola and Gortat it was nice to get a win here and there with no hope. This season has been awful. I hope we get swept as that's surely the straw that will break the camel's back and Jones will be fired. The guy who doesn't believe in the draft.
a lot of this is on the coaching/scout depts. Suns look entirely unprepared. Anyone that's watched the Wolves this year know they're a 3rd qtr team. That's when they win the majority of their games. offensively the suns look like the plan was roll the ball out and let the scorers score. Defensively the suns look lost and it just seems like the plan was "we beat the wolves year, we know how to do it already, lets just get through this round. Some of it is on the players for sure but I think they know their game plan has no answers for what's being thrown at them and its hard to fight when you know youre being outcoached and have no answers.
Send KD where he belongs…. Back to OKC. The Return of the Prodigal Son
Is 36 still unbothered?
"I don't know how teams gonna guard us" yh right 😂
Lets face it. The Suns are soft. They just are. You may not be willing to say it but anyone watching can see it clear as day. Booker relies WAY too much on getting calls and flopping around like a damn fish out of water and this post season they're not giving those cheap fouls anymore. they're making you fight and earn everything and Booker cant do it without grandpa CP3 in his ear telling him he's good enough.
well, I hope the “buy a superteam” era will end because of this
Like I mentioned last time, here come the brooms and the dust pans. Suns are going to get swept .
Missing cp3
As a Timberwolves fan I just have to say look at us last year, a disaster. McDaniels broke his hand punching a wall for gods sake. Sometimes you just need to give them a season or 2 to put things together. Though I get that’s tough with KD being 36. But still next year should be much better from them if management makes good moves.
😭😭😭😭😂😂😂when these teams gonna stop throwing they future for KD
So the next round will gave us eventual champion. I really believe Minnesota and Denver are the best two teams. Not one of the rest of the league have structure, strategy, tactics, muscles and heart and brain even close as them
Booker is definitely not unbothered by McDaniels. Lol
Bro this roster was poorly constructed, your center can't finish a basket around the rim yes you needed a backup point guard. You have a coach who's unable to make in game adjustments no length so this team is heavily flawed you don't have a real leader there's no reason to have that much talent down 3-0. Your making excuses for the Suns organization failure
The era of 3 max players and a bunch of vet minimum is goint to be over