Suns @ Trail Blazers 10-10-18 (preseason finale)

[Yuma]

Layman scored as much as our whole team!

 

[Mainstreet]

End of 1 st quarter:

Blazers 39 - Suns 18

 

[StreetTruckinTitan]

Man this current lineup is not good!

 

[1Sun]

And now Ariza and Warren are zoning out as well. This team better get a point guard quickly, or this will turn ugly...as in first three games of last season ugly...

How in the world is Shaq Harrison still getting playing time? For the love of God, please cut him already.

 

[SirStefan32]

Poor Bender. Block a shot, turns around and gets dunked on because nobody rotated.

 

[Mainstreet]

A point guard cannot cure the Suns lack of defense.

 

[1Sun]

A point guard cannot cure the Suns lack of defense.

The team is pretty much quitting because the players know it has no chance without a point guard.

It's like what happens to the Diamondbacks when Shelby Miller pitches.

 

[SirStefan32]

OMG, Nurkic just traveled back to Europe and back.

 

[1Sun]

If Lillard and McCollum were playing, this would be shaping up to be a 60 point loss. Anyone still think this team is better than last year?

 

[AzStevenCal]

If Lillard and McCollum were playing, this would be shaping up to be a 60 point loss. Anyone still think this team is better than last year?

Yes. Once our best player returns. We won't be good but we should be better. Even if we have a horrible season, it won't be as bad as last year. How many wins do you think we would have had last season if every opponent took us seriously (virtually none of them did)? I think, maybe 12 wins or so. This year, it won't take long before they'll again start taking us lightly and we'll turn what should be a legit 20 win team into a 30 game winner or thereabouts.

 

[Proximo]

If Lillard and McCollum were playing, this would be shaping up to be a 60 point loss. Anyone still think this team is better than last year?

Yes.

 

[Folster]

This is bad. How do Portland's scrubs look like All Stars against us. I mean they have guys with zero draft pedigree just torching us. We can't get meaningful contributions from high draft picks like Bender. I think the losing culture has taken too stong a hold on this franchise and I'm not sure what can be done.

 

[Yuma]

If Lillard and McCollum were playing, this would be shaping up to be a 60 point loss. Anyone still think this team is better than last year?

I'd rather have this year with Ayton, than last year without him.

 

[Yuma]

This is bad. How do Portland's scrubs look like All Stars against us. I mean they have guys with zero draft pedigree just torching us. We can't get meaningful contributions from high draft picks like Bender. I think the losing culture has taken too stong a hold on this franchise and I'm not sure what can be done.

Portland has better scouts.....

 

[1Sun]

Yes. Once our best player returns. We won't be good but we should be better. Even if we have a horrible season, it won't be as bad as last year. How many wins do you think we would have had last season if every opponent took us seriously (virtually none of them did)? I think, maybe 12 wins or so. This year, it won't take long before they'll again start taking us lightly and we'll turn what should be a legit 20 win team into a 30 game winner or thereabouts.

Except Portland took us lightly tonight, and we're still getting blown out by a lineup of G Leaguers.

 

[Proximo]

Yes.

How could it not be, no significant player losses, but we gained Ayton, Ariza, Anderson, and Bridges

 

[1Sun]

This is bad. How do Portland's scrubs look like All Stars against us. I mean they have guys with zero draft pedigree just torching us. We can't get meaningful contributions from high draft picks like Bender. I think the losing culture has taken too stong a hold on this franchise and I'm not sure what can be done.

Getting a legitimate NBA point guard, so we aren't playing 4 on 5, and so our own players don't see the team as a joke, would be a good start.

 

[1Sun]

How could it not be, no significant player losses, but we gained Ayton, Ariza, Anderson, and Bridges

And we look worse in the process.

 

[AzStevenCal]

This is bad. How do Portland's scrubs look like All Stars against us. I mean they have guys with zero draft pedigree just torching us. We can't get meaningful contributions from high draft picks like Bender. I think the losing culture has taken too stong a hold on this franchise and I'm not sure what can be done.

A lot of veterans versus a lot of kids. Age matters in this league. There is the occasional exception but even good young players lose out to good experienced players.

 

[1Sun]

A lot of veterans versus a lot of kids. Age matters in this league. There is the occasional exception but even good young players lose out to good experienced players.

I wouldn't exactly call Jake Layman, Jusuf Nurkic and Seth Curry "good experienced players", nor would I call Ryan Anderson, Trevor Ariza and T.J. Warren "kids"...

Layman is younger than Warren and much younger than Ariza...

 

[SirStefan32]

BENDER!!!

 

[Mainstreet]

Halftime:

Blazers 63 - Suns 44

 

[Folster]

It'll be alright. Booker just needs to transcendent. It's going to be okay.

 

[AzStevenCal]

I wouldn't exactly call Jake Layman, Jusuf Nurkic and Seth Curry "good experienced players", nor would I call Ryan Anderson, Trevor Ariza and T.J. Warren "kids"...

Layman is younger than Warren and much younger than Ariza...

Anderson, Ariza and Warren have played 18 minutes combined so far. And Nurkic and Curry are far more experienced than our young guys. But we're talking about the team, not a couple of players on both teams.

 

[AzStevenCal]

It'll be alright. Booker just needs to transcendent. It's going to be okay.

Nice mantra. But the words will likely start to sound strange after we say them a thousand times this season.