What led to Suns downfall, SGA, Warriors more trustworthy than Nuggets | NBA | FIRST THINGS FIRST
Nick Wright and Chris Broussard dive into the latest stories in the NBA, including what led to the Phoenix Suns’ downfall (dropped to 11th seed) this season, Shai Gilgeous-Alexander’s excessive free throw shooting and whether the Jimmy Butler-led Golden State Warriors are more trustworthy than the Denver Nuggets.
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Giannis the only one with deserved free throws
people say KD is top 10 lol, he's not top 20. don't wanna hear about "talent", KD fans only have hypotheticals, not actual results
Lowkey they shoulda signed Ayton. He’s a baby not a hard worker but they’re center position is straight hot garbage. Nurkic was a cancer and buns. Now u got bol bol jumping center court 🤣
“Warriors More Trustworthy Than Nuggets” aged like already spoiled milk left out on concrete in Phoenix all day long in August.
Hahaha trusting gs over nuggets… ahahahahah
Nick out on denver? omg more h8 please…
bradley beal when healthy and leading the point of attack is on par with devin booker, the factor of team role and ability to adapt is whats made him lesser, this is coaching, situation and intangibles regarding team morale
What is KD talking about. Luka does the same thing in the playoffs.
Denver take didn’t age well
Well Denver just beat GS without 3 of there starters. AG looks healthy finally hopefully no set backs there gonna be dangerous. Sha will get those calls in 1 round 2 round maybe not as many.
I love that the Warriors promptly lost to the no Nuggets who rested 3 starters.
The "FT merchant" narrative is all Sam Presti's doing to keep OKC being talked about. Check his fake x acounts pushing it 😂😂😂
Great call on warriors over nuggets. How does that feel today fools?
what's up with the voice brou
Bradley Beal ain't got nothing on AR15
The cut to Wildes' empty spot broke my heart 💔
Beal Sucks and KD is not that guy. Police: “He’s never been the driver, but he is the shooter”
Informative.
The Nuggets must have taken this personally because they got the W against the W's.
These stupid takes show that Brou is sicker then we thought!! Nick has no excuse!!
Oh man. I have to listen to these cl0wns and ALL I want is watch that hoodie commercial
Is nick crazy he worships king flop
That nuggets take aged very poorly very fast
Nick I wish I could reach through this video and slap the stupid right off your face
Sga is nothing like harden
He is #1 in drives to the basket
#1!!!
So of coarse he’s going to have more fouls
He averaged 8 per game!
That’s 2 under gianis..
Occasionally if he sees a defender put themselves in a bad spot he WILL take advantage of it which is smart
But he’s not a freaking flopper.
He goes down a lot on the drives to keep from landing wrong and hurting his ankles
1.5 gigabytes of 10 seed
Can we all admit that deep down we know the Thunder are a 2nd round exit?😂 was 6 games against the Mavs not enough of a clue? The best team Shai has ever beat is a Zionless pelicans team, we’ve never even seen him beat a good team yet. And I don’t wanna hear the seeding argument because THEY WERE FIRST SEED LAST YEAR😂
This aged poorly lol
"what led to the suns downfall?" Ah the traffic shows it , acquiring KD. Up 2-0 in the finals and eventually loose to bucks, next year #1 seed over 60 wins and then KD comes and 📉 but kd saves Steph remember 🤣
Denver gonna smash again
To be fair, Joel Embiid would also be on the FT list for being a bigger flopper then SGA
I'm here because Denver beat the Warriors last night.
Why don’t nobody just say that the Bradley Beal trade crippled the team?
Flopping, nick should include the master lebron 😅
Nick and Brou giving up on Nuggets is the best sign for the Nuggets yet. Honestly I was worried, but this gives me faith.
How dumb must brou feel now after the nuggets beat golden state at home without Jokic, Murray, and Braun? That game made Brou look terrible.
Sga is in the paint more than giannis
lmao they ended up not needing Jokic or Murray and CB. GO NUGGETS!!!
No one wants to talk about the amount of drives that okc takes per game number one in the league…bottom 5 in free throw attempts. Stop this ridiculous free throw narrative it’s a garbage take
13:50 I agree with you Nick, but I love Denver’s roster: MPJ, Aaron Gordon, Jamal Murray, Westbrook, and Braun.. then Jokic. I like them on paper
As Chuck has said, “Bus rider”.
I don't think this is Durant's fault at all. Unless he's involved in the roster, trade, and draft decisions. OR if you want to say the Suns overpaid for him.
This is a poorly constructed roster. Plain and simple.
The people in charge of the suns thought that big names win games. The more "ballers" you can put on a roster, the better the roster. So they put too much capital into guys with similar skillsets on offense, and ended up with a group of trio of iso players and not enough defense and spot up shooting.
It's the same thing that happened to the Lakers when Magic was in charge. LA talked about "ballers" and then went and built a backyard ball, Harlem Globetrotter-esque team. Flashy, great ball skills, fun to watch, and good at iso. Not an efficient offense. Little of no defense. Not a quality team. And these players are EXPENSIVE. Both in terms of capital to acquire them in trades and in terms of salary cap to pay them afterwards. You need one of them. Most teams don't go anywhere without a great ball-handler. Two is great IF you can have two without giving up all the role players on your team. But you can't be spending the kind of capital and salary the Suns spent to get Durant and Beal to join Booker.
I'm not sure I believe in the combination of Booker and Durant anyway, but the Bradley Beal trade was awful. Even if you acquire Beal for free in Free Agency, you can't be paying him that much to be the third ball-handler on the team. Think he went from 47 million to 50 million throughout his time at the Suns. For that amount of salary cap, you could have spent 15 million on a starting point guard, 12 million and 10 million on two bigs to go along with Ayton, and another 10 million on solid 3nD wing to spell Durant or Booker. Tell me Beal is worth all that to a team that already has Durant and Booker.
The Suns should’ve signed John Wall. He woulda averaged fitty