Playoffs: Suns @ Nuggets Monday game thread 5-1-2023- Game 2

[Weenus O'Baggins]

Ayton played great, Booker played great and that’s it. Everybody else was a disaster including Paul and KD.

Cam Payne passing up multiple open shots he looks scared to death

Monty should go to their locker and shake their hand

 

[Chaplin]

Do people forget that the trade was made more for next season this this one? Anything we get here would be a bonus.

 

[outcent13]

Paul was playing decent I think.

 

[Finito]

Cause ayton is the softest damn center in the poffs and talkin shiat to trade him

Ayton wasn’t the problem at all tonight.

 

[Raindog]

Suns need to move on from both Monty and James Jones. Neither have done the Suns any favors with their "philosophies."

 

[Shaggy]

Troll. Go fluff the worst team in all of sports on the Cardinals board if you’re only going to show up here to trash the Suns.

I hope you're just joking...

 

[Proximo]

Ayton played great, Booker played great and that’s it. Everybody else was a disaster including Paul and KD.

Cam Payne passing up multiple open shots he looks scared to death

I don’t agree neither played great, they played well,

landale and biz were ok, everybody else sucked.

 

[JosiahLee]

Hard not to see Nuggets in 4.

 

[Covert Rain]

Do people forget that the trade was made more for next season this this one? Anything we get here would be a bonus.

Nobody actually believes that. If that was the case all the analysts and odds makers wouldn’t have said Phoenix was a favorite.

 

[dscher]

The body language is horrific.

They're just a team that knows they're outmatched. We got a cold nuggets team tonight, outside of joker and we still got smoked by the end of it. Donezo

 

[MaoTosiFanClub]

Yeah… we’d be doing much better with Bridges who humiliated himself shooting 27% from the field over his last 3.5 games of a 4 game series where his team was unceremoniously swept.

Right. KD was/is the right move.

The rest of the roster moves however…

The coaching has been an issue masked by talent and some fortunate playoff injuries for 2+ years.

 

[82CardsGrad]

Monty Williams and KDs horrible night did us in.

Seriously - what the hell do you want from Monty tonight?

 

[RON_IN_OC]

Right not Monty gotcha

You can bash him for rotation...sure. However, when you have arguably 3 of the top 100 NBA players, all time, on the court together, they need to be held accountable. How often would Phil Jackson let his stars play through adversity? All the damn time, because they were mentally tough and he knew they could fight through and right the ship more often than not. Phoenix has really never ever had that player mentality consistently in their history.

 

[Mainstreet]

Final:

Nuggets 97 - Suns 87

 

[Phrazbit]

Yeah… we’d be doing much better with Bridges who humiliated himself shooting 27% from the field over his last 3.5 games of a 4 game series where his team was unceremoniously swept.

We don’t shoot the three well, we don’t defend the three well, we don’t have depth.

We created these problems with the trade.

Our return? An aged superstar having his second straight extremely underwhelming playoffs.

 

[Proteus]

Suns only scored 14 points in the 4th quarter.

 

[Shaggy]

They're just a team that knows they're outmatched. We got a cold nuggets team tonight, outside of joker and we still got smoked by the end of it. Donezo

Suns were also cold. Colder then the nuggets really.

 

[Cheesebeef]

I hope you're just joking...

All that poster EVER does in this forum is trash the suns. Literally, only shows up when they’re losing and trashes them. Isn’t that the definition of a troll, Shaggy?

 

[BooksOrangePlanet]

Everyone said we'd get murked tonight

We did

Truth is Denver was slipping and got lucky, solid team

 

[Finito]

You can bash him for rotation...sure. However, when you have arguably 3 of the top 100 NBA players, all time, on the court together, they need to be held accountable. How often would Phil Jackson let his stars play through adversity? All the damn time, because they were mentally tough and he knew they could fight through and right the ship more often than not. Phoenix has really never ever had that player mentality consistently in their history.

Right Monty is Phil Jackson Gotcha

 

[Proximo]

Do people forget that the trade was made more for next season this this one? Anything we get here would be a bonus.

I don’t agree with that. It was made for this year, and it is failing.

I don’t expect the team to be better next year.

 

[82CardsGrad]

Hard not to see Nuggets in 4.

Joker will continue to roll… and Murray will score more than 10pts per game the rest of the way. The odds are strongly in favor of the Nugz in 4.

 

[MaoTosiFanClub]

Monty should go to their locker and shake their hand

Was honestly one of the most cringe things I’ve ever seen. Red flags were there with this guy.

 

[Mainstreet]

Nuggets fans chanting Nugs in four.

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[RON_IN_OC]

Do people forget that the trade was made more for next season this this one? Anything we get here would be a bonus.

Next season, when KD is a year older, Paul is over the hill and Jones has zero draft picks and collateral to rebuild the roster?