Suns @ Mavericks Thursday Playoff game thread, R2, 5-12-2022 - Game 6

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This is a disturbing lack of effort for a close out game
 

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Bench all the starters the rest of the game, put in the scrubs and send a message to your top players your effort sucks
 

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He missed 17 games and averaged just under 33 minutes per game. I think you're looking for an easy explanation here and I'm not sure there is one.
How many times do I have to say it isn’t about how many games he missed?
 

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Booker had Ayton in front of the basket and shoots a contested three. Just stupid basketball
Ayton would have gotten the ball, dribbled and put up a soft floater from 2 feet that woulda bounced off the front rim anyway.

No one showed up tonight. In a close out game.
 

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Yup. Last year’s team is nowhere to be found.

It almost seems like they feel like they "proved" themselves last year and with the "great" regular season... and this post-season is being treated like an annoying formality, as if they expected they were entitled to win it all.
 

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It almost seems like they feel like they "proved" themselves last year and with the "great" regular season... and this post-season is being treated like an annoying formality, as if they expected they were entitled to win it all.
Been thinking the same thing.

Newsflash guys… you haven’t accomplished JACK SQUAT.
 

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Paul played better than this with one arm against the Lakers last year.
 

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Ayton would have gotten the ball, dribbled and put up a soft floater from 2 feet that woulda bounced off the front rim anyway.

No one showed up tonight. In a close out game.

We’ve just been so bad on the road I don’t get it
 

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How many times do I have to say it isn’t about how many games he missed?
So you're going to ignore minutes played and games played to hang onto your conclusion that we overworked him? I think you're wrong but heck, I have no perfect explanation for his struggles so who knows?
 
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