Phoenix Suns Roasted by Kyrie Irving and the Cleveland Cavaliers, 101-90

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“The Phoenix Suns looked simultaneously like an aging squad and a young, inexperienced one.”

Unfortunately, this line is probably one of the best descriptions I’ve seen for this team so far. Usually older teams are filled with savvy vets and consistent play which makes up for their aging players, but because of the Suns’ constant flux of new and different players surrounding their two aging superstars, the Suns manage to look both old and inexperienced at the same time.

Our basketball players aren’t that great. And boy are they unathletic.

i have a good feeling about him

This was, personally, the worst/painful game I’ve watched this season, the Cavs was a much needed W and we let it slipped thanks to allowing Kyrie joining to the Suns Killer list along with his teammate Antawn Jaminson and Varejao.

And the question arises, Are we worst than the Cavs ? Because if so I don’t wanna keep this “last run” with this team, something needs to happen..

Gentry/ET/DanMajerle what is up guys? I know talent is a big issue but there is so much inconsistency in our roster that is hardly possible to make things work, E.G Brown’s role, he can be HUGE and I mean REALLY HUGE for us, but he needs to drive to the basket and get rebounds, occasionally spot up at the 3 point line and shoot it, instead he is just dribbling around without no plan whatsoever resulting on him jacking up turrible shots, same for Dudz who does not have a definite role, is he a defender or a scorer ?,Wasn’t him going to be a key in our offensive game ? Gentry used to light Dragic when he was shy, why not do the same with Dudz? Honestly if Redd plays well, Dudz seems pretty expendable, Hakim/Lopez are not playing as much as we NEED and our defensive rotations are turrible too, one could argue we have been above decent so far, but we always let 12 ppg players have career nights agaisnt us, the Milwaukee game as the Portland game were not a victories, we didn’t win, they lost, and if we are not gonna take the best out of each win and lose and play like a different team every game, I’d want a PG in the next draft thank you.

I’d like to apologize for my extremely bad mood during the gamethread but this was a very heartbreaking game, let’s go for a win tomorrow with our Savior Redd!

I wish we could just fast forward to off-season of 2012 instead of having to watch an old, yet still great Nash wear down. Hopefully we can make the playoffs and we certainly have a shot, but that’s just it, a shot… It’s hard to root for a team that only has a chance to make the playoffs. If not Championship Contender, I’d settle for the next best thing, a young, playoff team and if not that, I’d rather settle for a top 10 pick versus a playoff contender. Oh well, that’s not going to happen, so I guess I just have to be patient. This season is going to be rough, but at least it won’t be as bad as 07-08.

By the way, Redd looked good out there.

I feel like it shouldn’t have happened and now I feel like those two great games were a fluke. :(

After a loss in L.A. I concerned that we were going to have a letdown against the Cavs at home…. And here we are…. Irving and the boards killed us.

He mentioned working on other things offensively and saying they are just not gifted to rebound the ball as well as other teams.

To me, the season is lost, our starting 2 and 3 just do badly with their shots that Brown is having to play despite not being a basketball player.
The good stuff for us going forward are;
1) Morris
2) Gortat, if he learns to box out he man, he’s man is always left unboxed allowing boards to become 50-50. That’s the one thing Lopez does better.
3)Morris
4)Once Redd gets in shape, I won’t have to see too many stupid shots from Brown
5) High pick resulting from being (probably the worst team this season), leading to another piece to add to MORRIS

Nash needs to score more, it seems the team needs a 20 PPG guy, I think Redd will be that, but we need 2 guys more to put up 15 to 18 per game, and our options right now are Nash, Gortat (if he stops settling for jumpers), Frye, Morris (same as Gortat, especially going into the post more often)

While I’m a bit disappointed, I’m not entirely shocked. We are an average team at best. So we’ll occasionally lose winnable games and win difficult ones.

What happened to BAMF? I heard he left because of a bloody nose? We’re going to need him big time to be competitive. He’s really gotta step it up.

And Michael Redd’s statline looked pretty good for a guy who hasn’t played in about 2 years. Once he’s back in game shape, I think we might have ourselves a poor man’s version of a Ray Allen (which is a huge improvement over Shannon Brown).

All in all, I must say you guys missed me in the game threads. 1500 comments only in 2 threads? Let’s go for 2k next time, ok?

I shouldn’t have watched the game. Realized it’s black friday here…

move on. we face NJ tomorrow, and I’m not expecting a win either,.

Irving play was #1 on NBA.com last night. That was really awesome to see even if it was on the other team…

I didn’t see the game – how was Redd’s D? Turrible or mediocre?

I’m sad because we lost, that is all.

I didn’t watch a game. I have a question. At this moment Suns best scorer is MG. When I looked it stats I see that he made about 10 attemps to shot. Why we don’t have more oportunity to shot for him. Suns Still looking long shot. If MG is really good that give him more ball in offense. Don’t get me wrong. Suns didn’t create scorer who can score even 16 pts per game. Gortat scores with 62 % efficiency. Lets try him. We’ll see how big will be effect.

Seems to me that Antwan (raised from the dead..) Jamison would have not gone bonkers llike he did with Hill. Maybe Kyrie Irving doesn’t do a Chris Paul imitation either.

I dare say I am about as positive as we come, but this was a painful game to watch. Redd can shoot, but boy does he make an already unathletic team even that more immobile.

I will continue to believe we make the playoff, but we need a Suns teams that comes ready to compete each and every day. It’s the only way we overcome our deficiencies as a team. I know it will take time to indoctrinate Redd, but we still gotta rebound and play defense.

That being say, I believe we can do it…Let’s Go Suns….!!!!!

But at least we aren’t the Hawks. Al Horford is out at least 3 months with a torn pectoral muscle.

This could either be bad news for us or good news. Good news if the Hawks fall out of the playoff hunt, and decide to hold a fire sale on pricey vets (netting us Josh Smith). Bad news if the Hawks stay in the hunt and have to rely on Smoove to get them there (most likely).

Now that that’s out of the way, the play that pissed me off the most last night (and there were quite a few) was this one…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2fNoOrYfGU&t=1m29s

Watch Shannon Brown on this play. It makes me want to throw my laptop out the window. Brown has to be aware of Casspi there and yell to Frye that there’s a player cutting behind the zone. Channing needs to be more aware too, but god damn.