Phoenix Suns Lose Again As Jimmy Butler Attempts To Force His Way To the Valley
The Phoenix Suns dropped another road clunker as Jimmy Butler does his best to force his way to the Valley in a trade.
Brendon Kleen and Ben Garcia discuss the L in Charlotte before breaking down Bradley Beal’s latest comments about the trade rumors, the latest reports around Butler, and whether the Suns should still be all-in on Butler.
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26 Comments
Just so everyone knows I realize this isn’t the 5th straight loss since they won on Monday, dumb mistake lol
Lost to the 7, now 8 win hornets. Got out worked on rebounds and don't play defense. Even when Booker is scoring well, they still lose.
Well when you have to come on 5 nights a week and talk about this shit show it's hard to not become a little discombobulated. From what I remember nobody objected to the Beal trade at the time. We're stuck and have to live with it for years to come now. The windows closed.
Butter won't fix the Suns. Coach Bud has been blessed with all this talent but he's lost in space
I'm sad now. Not completely Brad's fault here. This is turning into a really bad and embarrassing situation.
dang suns need center big time
Suns are the laughing stock of the league right now
The Suns have clearly quit and just going through the motions
The suns front office needs to be studied. You go 64-19 and make the finals the previous year with a core of young players approaching their prime and a team with great chemistry only to blow that up and fail to win 50 games in the next two seasons. Not to mention they gave away all their trade assets for the foreseeable future and have a player on their roster making more than 50 mil a season for the next 2 and half years who is untradeable.
Butler does fix some things. All this talk about no centers but suns literally have no small forwards lol jimmy does fix that
What does beal expect he hasn't been healthy for more than 2 weeks since last year. He just needs a fresh start where he is the main guy on a young team.
START FUCKING BOL BOL AT 5 fuck it bro, and we need Beal out of here fr
Suns fans like Ben trying to copium speak into existence the Jimmy trade being close are😆. No one wants (48 games played per year the last 4 yrs) Beal owed 130 million the next 2.5 yrs (when he’s 31/32, 32/33, 33/34 yrs old). They’re stuck unless some team comes out of the woodwork!
the center rotation needs to be fixed before any butler trade.. i genuinely think at least half of the problems with the suns all stem from their atrocious center rotation. it affects everything – how teams guard them, how they guard teams, lack of high-energy impact plays such as dunks, blocks, etc. Get this team a competent center, and this team will be able to compete.
Suns: Butler
Heat: Michael Porter Jr, 2031 Suns Pick with protections
Nuggets: Beal, Dunn
They are so bad
When is Phoenix gonna call up the Rockets 😂. You need those picks back to fix this situation.
If we get the Center Rotation fixed and Jimmy comes here Let’s go
The Same with almost most of the Fringe teams guys the league is so good
KD and Booker cannot take all the shots as they like, even they have good stats.
Second chance points and Offensive Rebounds will tell the final score of almost every Suns game whether positive or negative
Suns ownership need to compensate Beal to waive his "No Trade" clause.
Why so many 3's. We are not a three point shooting team.
PG. T.Jones
SG. Bradley Beal
SF. Devin Booker
PF. Kevin Durant
C. Nurk
6. Grayson Allen, 3 ball
7. Roy O'Neal. Def
8. Morris. Pg
9. Dunn, Def
10. Oso
This is a squad!
Bradley Beal is expected to be playing at an All-Star level. While not playing in an all-star role. And the pressure's been getting to him and everything he does seems forced even on defense. And he's actually been playing defense better than Devin Booker.
Nurk, does not want to be on this team. He feels uninvolved on utilized unwanted. He intentionally passes up wide open shots to get the shooters "their shot" because that's the motto around Phoenix. Make sure Devin and Kevin get their shots because they're the stars and everybody else just get in where you fit in. Jackson probably has DeAndre Ayton
We've had Kevin Durant bringing up the basketball for the last 2 years wearing his legs out at the end of games where he just bricks every shot. If I have to witness another fourth quarter brick fest in the playoffs by Kevin Durant I'm going to lose my mind.
Devin Booker sees it all and doesn't give a s*** anymore. He just sees it as another season wasted in Phoenix.
The problem with this team is they don't like each other. And none of its personal. All of it is because of the business of the NBA.
Kevin Durant wants to be the main ingredient in Phoenix winning. It would be devastating to Kevin Durant's legacy to take a backseat to Devin Booker and win a championship. All three championships Kevin Durant has won would be attributed to the talent on the teams he played on instead of him. So Kevin Durant is doing everything possible to be the reason we win… And it's causing us to lose.
Devin Booker is the face of this franchise The best player on the team and the attraction that draws the tickets. Devin Booker's game has become "selfishly unselfish".
The high usage rate of Devin Booker and Kevin Durant is bogging down everybody else's game, opportunity and essentially it affecting the flows of the offense which trickles into other players effort on the rebounds and defense.
Now I watch the Jimmy Butler segments of this podcast.
On a second look at that 76ers postgame iv with Beal, I think it just confirms what I have suspected about Ishbia. He is just a jerk and has no idea of how to run a franchise. He seems to treat players like nothing more than chattel/characters in NBA2K. I tend to believe Beal that no one has spoken to him about a trade. That fits with my impressions of this baby owner. Aside from Beal’s shortcomings on the court, he has always acted with class since his arrival. In contrast, Ishbia strikes me as just another mini megalomaniac capitalist.
Beal has the worst contract in the league.