Suns @ Mavericks Friday Playoff game thread, R2, 5-6-2022 - Game 3

[dscher]

An offensive foul on Brunson you say....... With 11 seconds left you say..........

Not you too..

The refs were fine. We got beat by the better team tonight. Full stop. IMO.

 

[Chaplin]

Thought he was referring to Monty..

Yeah I think you’re right. I find it hard to believe anyone was saying anything good about the suns from espn.

 

[Evil Ash]

Payne can't hit the broad side of a barn

To be fair outside of Crowder and book, no one else could either.

 

[CardsSunsDbacks]

Well I predicted the Mavs would win one of their home games. Uglier than I would have liked, but we still have a chance to effectively end the series on Sunday.

 

[mojorizen7]

Cam Payne plays like he's alone in a gym.

Suns will take care of business in gm 4. Dallas played with more urgency tnite but that was to be expected. Suns looked a little tired with all the turnovers and reach-ins on defense.

Not concerned.

 

[Mainstreet]

Turnovers killed the Suns. They had 19 to the Mavericks 8.

 

[Evil Ash]

Cam Payne plays like he's alone in a gym.

Suns will take care of business in gm 4. Dallas played with more urgency tnite but that was to be expected. Suns looked a little tired with all the turnovers and reach-ins on defense.

Not concerned.

Quite frankly we couldn't have played worse. Yet somehow we were in the game at the end

Not worried

 

[TJ]

Heat scored 79 points tonight and got sonned by the 76ers. It happens

 

[Folster]

This team worries me at times. When the other team gets desperate and intense, we pucker up.

 

[95pro]

Bridges was crap tonight. Soft all game and finally tries to dunk. He had Luka and side steps him while he had 5 fouls.

Monty Monty Monty…

Mavs came with energy and the suns didn’t.

Zebras did us no favors with all the deflections going to the mavs that were not even questionable as suns ball.

Cp3 gets popped in the mouth and no call or review.

We were doa

 

[itlnsunsfan]

Mikal took the most shots. Book and CP with 12 turnovers between them. Maybe instead of sloppy passing they should've just shot the damn ball.

 

[Covert Rain]

All things considered we just took the Mavs best shot IMO. Plenty of bad play to go around. Chris just seemed so far out of his game tonight. Turnovers and passed up shots is just not him. Ayton just missed the usual easy shots. Bridges/Book/Cam J couldn't guard ANYBODY. The defense was horrid. I still think we are just fine.

Having said that? I feel like there is way to much pressure on CP3 and Book when they take a rest. Between Payne and Shamet they are not getting the support they need off the bench. Once again, Monty's lack of adjustments hurts the Suns sometimes. He seems to struggle with in game adjustments and his lack of adjustments out of loyalty is really putting unnecessary pressure on Book/CP3.

It's time. BENCH PAYNE.

 

[Finito]

Ayton was bad, but still 16/11 on 6/12 shooting

Booker was bad, but still 18/6 on 6/13 shooting

So not terrible but not great from either

Paul literally had the worst game of his career. 7 turnovers 4 assist. For him that is just so crazy.

Bridges was flat out abused.

Crowder was the star of the game

Our bench was laughable.

Cam Johnson has just been giving us nothing,

Payne is up and down tonight he was down

McGee is usually great tonight he was pretty bad

Shamet...3 points on 1/2 we didn’t sign him for that.

 

[dscher]

Turnovers killed the Suns. They had 19 to the Mavericks 8.

Between that and the horrendous defense positioning/rebounding, overall, I'm surprised we could keep it that close tonight. It was 9, but felt like 19. Those don't feel good...so hopefully they take that to heart for Sunday.

 

[Mainstreet]

To be fair outside of Crowder and book, no one else could either.

It's not shooting that hurt the Suns the most.

It was turnovers. Actually Phoenix shot slightly better than Dallas.

 

[dscher]

All things considered we just took the Mavs best shot IMO. Plenty of bad play to go around. Chris just seemed so far out of his game tonight. Turnovers and passed up shots is just not him. Ayton just missed the usual easy shots. Bridges/Book couldn't guard ANYBODY. The defense was horrid. I think we are just fine.

Having said that? I feel like there is way to much pressure on CP3 and Book when they take a rest. Between Pay and Shamet they are not getting the support they need off the bench. Once again, Monty's lack of adjustments hurts the Suns sometimes. He seems to struggle with in game adjustments and his lack of adjustments out of loyalty is really putting pressure on Book/CP3.

It's time. BENCH PAYNE.

True. The flow to this team is way off compared to last year IMO. I admittedly didn't watch much regular season.

 

[82CardsGrad]

Turnovers killed the Suns. They had 19 to the Mavericks 8.

Turnovers… Points in the paint… and hideous play from everyone not names Jae…

 

[Evil Ash]

It's not shooting that hurt the Suns the most.

It was turnovers. Actually Phoenix shot slightly better than Dallas.

The turnovers, defense and all around effort were just bad for us. Like I said we couldn't have played much worse and we were still in the game

 

[Mainstreet]

Kleber had 14 of the Mavericks 18 bench points. Someone has to guard him.

 

[82CardsGrad]

The Mavs took 14 more shots! Wow…

 

[Covert Rain]

Points in the paint. Mavs 50, Suns 32.

Under no circumstances can that happen. There is no excuse. We are 3 centers deep.

 

[itlnsunsfan]

Ayton was bad, but still 16/11 on 6/12 shooting

Booker was bad, but still 18/6 on 6/13 shooting

So not terrible but not great from either

Paul literally had the worst game of his career. 7 turnovers 4 assist. For him that is just so crazy.

Bridges was flat out abused.

Crowder was the star of the game

Our bench was laughable.

Cam Johnson has just been giving us nothing,

Payne is up and down tonight he was down

McGee is usually great tonight he was pretty bad

Shamet...3 points on 1/2 we didn’t sign him for that.

Quite the uninspired pile of friday night garbage. Smdh

 

[itlnsunsfan]

It's not shooting that hurt the Suns the most.

It was turnovers. Actually Phoenix shot slightly better than Dallas.

This. 17-8 turnovers. Almost impossible to win with that discrepancy.

 

[itlnsunsfan]

Well I predicted the Mavs would win one of their home games. Uglier than I would have liked, but we still have a chance to effectively end the series on Sunday.

Tracy McGrady says hello

 

[Mainstreet]

Monty should have given Chris Paul a present for his birthday.