Here comes the Suns...Wolves/PHX GDT
Posted: Sun Nov 17, 2024 10:08 am
We righted the ship in Sac-Town two days ago...barely. Now we have a chance to build on that success by beating a team we had some head-scratching results against last season...losing every regular season game, and then sweeping them in the playoffs. We exploited their lack of a true PG in the playoffs, and they responded by going out and getting two pass-first PG's in the offseason. And the results have been as good as expected...winning 8 of their first 9 games. Tyus Jones has his customary terrific assist to turnover ratio (5.8) and Monte Morris is even better at 6.5. That's just what a team with sharpshooters like Durant and Beal needed to turn their fortunes arou...wait, what did you say? Durant and Beal are out today? And Allen and Nurkic are game day decisions? Well, that changes things.
Yes, the Suns fortunes have changed since the injury bug hit them, losing 3 out of their last 4. They have lost their past two games by a combined 40 points, and last game started Josh Okogie and something called Ryan Dunn. Meanwhile the Wolves continue to have terrific health...nobody is on the injury list today. Obviously this is a game we should win, and Vegas has us as a 7 1/2 point favorite. But that hasn't worked out well for us in the past week when we were big favorites in games that we were big favorites with opponents missing key players. I worry again about Ant for two reasons. One, he doesn't always seem ready to play in afternoon games. And two, his post-game comments after the second Portland loss were that it was difficult to get up for subpar teams. Undermanned teams usually play hard, and if we don't, there will be a lot of despair on this board. We need to win this one and the next one in Toronto, because the schedule gets a lot harder after that.
Yes, the Suns fortunes have changed since the injury bug hit them, losing 3 out of their last 4. They have lost their past two games by a combined 40 points, and last game started Josh Okogie and something called Ryan Dunn. Meanwhile the Wolves continue to have terrific health...nobody is on the injury list today. Obviously this is a game we should win, and Vegas has us as a 7 1/2 point favorite. But that hasn't worked out well for us in the past week when we were big favorites in games that we were big favorites with opponents missing key players. I worry again about Ant for two reasons. One, he doesn't always seem ready to play in afternoon games. And two, his post-game comments after the second Portland loss were that it was difficult to get up for subpar teams. Undermanned teams usually play hard, and if we don't, there will be a lot of despair on this board. We need to win this one and the next one in Toronto, because the schedule gets a lot harder after that.
