Game Debrief: What Went Right And What Went Wrong?

I find it funny that folks in here clown me for wanting our second best defender on the team to actually play when we have to have ALL of our starters play heavy minutes just to beat the worst team in the NBA’s BENCH unit.
Insane.

 

It's over.

Good: Luka's 1st Q.

Bad: everything else.

Team was flat, no energy and got destroyed by a Brooks led Suns. That's so gross I have to go shower now.

Bron was God awful. Austin was terrible. Bronny would've been better than Rui tonight. Ayton's stats lie, cause he was dominated. Luka was sloppy.

Defense was not something even entertained tonight.

 

Well that was embarrasing - looked like a repeat of the Atlanta game
I have nothing good to say
Luka's turnover was awful - he may have created more Phoenix points then Lakers points
Lebron looked ready to retire
AR got outplayed by even weaker looking white guy
Dylan f***ing Brooks looked like an MVP candidate

Swear anytime this team sees something easy (booker) out they just think it's over

Need Smart back ASAP - they need an FU, let's go guy badly at times

 

It’s a shame we don’t have a 6’8 defensive wing to insert in the game to hound and frustrate Dillon Brooks (Vando).

 

Turnovers very lazy, flush and move on

 

Vando aint it

 

JJ put Lebron on Brooks and that basically ended the Dylann run. About the only thing of note Lebron did the whole game but I do think JJ should have gone to that sooner or put in Vando. You got to change the look when he's torching Reaves and Laravia

 

Vando must have told JJ to f off or something. The only guy that didn't play.

 

yeah I'm no vando fan but I think I would have given him a shot just so you don't get punked out there

 

After the waltz with the Pels I thought we could lose this game: we were on a BTB but PHO wasn't. I didn't think we'd look THIS tired, though.

!st Q: even
2nd Q: PHO won by 14. At that point you come out in the 3rd and punch them in the mouth or die a quiet death; we chose the latter. And it blew.

All-around pug-fugly game and I'm not saying that just because we had to keep looking at Dillon Brooks.

Flush it the eff DOWN. 15-5 now.

2 days off to think about this DUD, then on the road to face the much-improved Raptors. We best show up for that one.

Starting with the Pels game it feels like the doldrums "it's a long season" vibe has set in, though.

We're not the only ones: DAL went into DEN tonight and won 131-121. AD: 32/13/4; DAL shot 52% from long. Joker: 29/20/13 but it wasn't enough.

 

Well that sucked there was nothing good.

 

Depressing is what that was.

 

How does Rui play 23 minutes and have 0 pts and 1 reb?

 

I was weirdly expecting the loss. We haven’t been playing that well. Hopefully it’s a motivator.

 

I feel like LeBron’s presence affected everybody’s rhythm, in and out of the line up in a day’s notice might not be a good idea going forward

 

What a disgrace that was

 

denver lost at home to dallas and houston lost to utah. strange night.

 

Yeah. We got lucky that everyone mailed it in last night.

 

Terrible game for all the reasons everyone has mentioned.

I thought we could lose since it was a back to back but we rolled over which is always frustrating.