Man I hate this type of reasoning. There have been pretty detailed videos showing the changes the mavs made during the series that completely stymied the suns offense and defensively we were awful. Give that mavs team credit, they beat us. We were certainly unraveling at years end heading into the playoffs, but the mavs pushed the right buttons to wax us 4-1 after going down 2-0.
That and when he did get to the rim he was completely out of control putting up wild shots. Monty ended up playing CP3 and Book more than he wanted. I put that on Monty though. Holiday could have contributed, and IMO would have given us what we needed from Payne.
And Monty never made any adjustments.
I think it definitely hurts as far as depth add center, but as long as DA and BB remain healthy I'm really not that worried about the quality of play dropping off. I only have my bad memory and no numbers in front of me to support this, but my recollection was that we continue to get strong production from the center position when both DA and javal McGee were out for several games during the regular season.
I still maintain that 9 times out of 10, we win that series in 6 games or less. Of course, we had our own internal issues that led us to beat ourselves.
Correct (or at least it seemed that way). But you gotta factor that in as he’s still our coach.
Furthermore, I am view this from the perspective of the standings at the end of the season.
This is exactly why I think Suns fans overestimate the Suns. Regular season means nothing outside of qualifying for the playoffs. Winning it by a mile does mot mean what it did in the 90’s.
You are right, he forgot that part. I get his overall point though. People that think just because we dominated the regular season that translates into best team in the playoffs. Not always. In this case we clearly were not the best team in the playoffs.
Rain, I wasn't following before the 2021 playoffs; and stripped of context, what you described in some of those comments makes the situation of 2021 sound odd compared to now. Dario Saric was the leader of the bench? And why did Ayton go to the bench? Was coach mad at him even back then?
Ayton couldn't play every minute of the game. So, either when he went to the bench to rest or if he was in foul trouble, the lane became a revolving door. That's why after that offseason the Suns were determined to shore up the middle. So they went out and got McGee and Biz. It proved they were right. Our defense improved dramatically this last year.
I didnt forget it. Having home court now does not mean what it did in the 90’s. I just dont think its that important.
My hope is that Monty et Al Learned that lesson and won’t be so focused on winning games at any cost iand overextending playing time for the veterans
I don't know what Eminem has to do with it but I think that's a very questionable conclusion you've drawn. No player on our team averaged 35 minutes or more and only Bridges (82), Javale (74) and Shamet (69) played more than 68 games last season.
