I for one, was not even remotely expecting this

The NBA has an insane effort problem and suns are exposing it. It’s pathetic how much NBA discourse is “I wish my favorite player can sit half the season and win meaningless awards so I can argue about accolades in the future”

I didn’t think about it at the beginning but this far into the season shows how important it was to the Cavs. Great hire

Nobody did, its one of the most wild stories for the Suns

I expected them to be much better than people thought, but I didn’t expect them to be this good, or be this good without Jalen Green especially.

I figured with my luck as a Nets fan the Suns picks were gonna wind up being a goldmine the moment we traded them away. Shoutout Booker and Gillespie for being good lmao

So the chips are fresh and the seats are clean?

I was optimistically hoping we could be a ⁹⁄₁₀ seed, this is so much better than I could have imagined

Fucking annoying, and even more annoying cause we lost too! Stop with the prolonged pain basketball gods!!

My wife would love it if I could give her those 13.5 seconds

My app was stuck 110-106 for like 3 mins and I was thinking if someone died or a fight broke out or something 

End of nba games is awful

They need to take something from the WNBA that actually is a great idea. They let you advance the ball to half court, but you don’t get the timeout

No reason for the last 20 seconds to take 15 minutes

What happened in those 13.5 seconds mate?

Darkest future in the league and 14th seed in the West baby.

Ringer predicted we would have the 30th ranked defense out of 30 teams.

Worst situation in the history of the NBA or something like that.

Vogel probably not. Bud definitely not. The Monty squads, at least before his final season here, it probably would. Ironically, it would have most likely been Mikal in the Grayson role.

Are we completely rewriting the Monty era? The KD overlap was a bit off, but those teams were not phoning it in.

It definitely would’ve happened under Monty those teams played extremely hard minus Ayton lol

Kenny Atkinson looking funny in the light without Ott on his coaching staff

I think it’s a combination of Ott and Brooks pest defense rubbing off on the team. 

Really happy for him. He was on the Nets for years, and he’s proving to be an amazing coach on a team that many counted out.

Either him or Mazzulla

1000%

I don’t know you but I love you 

Thing of beauty

every team needs a DAWG

sad because brooks energy is what the alll star game needs

He really could be this year though. They gotta fill the world team.

He hasn’t played with a real first option his entire career. 

A player averaging 20+ a night playing elite defense on every opposing teams best player is a(n)________. 

You’re not serious if you say role player cmon 

He deserves to be an All-Star this year. And let’s be real: the NBA All-Star game would be 10x better with Dillon. Maybe he will actually make the thing entertaining by being himself.

That said, probably won’t make it, but there’s a real argument he should.

Honestly get a bunch of dawgs who can defend well, hopefully shoot some 3s, and have a star around them, that’s enough to make the playoffs usually. Idk how some teams have been building these dumbass rotations with no defenders like the Lakers, or no athleticism and youth like the Clippers and Warriors, expecting to do great things.

The schedule for cup teams has been a bitch, Josh Hart got hurt, and the shooting that propelled that start has massively tapered off, plus KAT has been kind of awful for around two weeks

Suns are good 

My theory is they got the flu that was going around NY for the last couple weeks

Knicks schedule has been brutal since the cup win, little rest

He really turned it over foul baiting, kinda gross

I think a lot of the reasons brunsons foul-baiting looks so much worse then others is cause of his big head

It kinda blows outta proportion how much he really does it cause its just so egregious looking lol

Today was for sure one of the days he went for the foul-bait at the end but he doesn’t do it nearly as much this season (which I’ve been thankful for!) so it’s strange to me he’d go for a really bad one now.

Especially with how fine he’s been with his low FTA, makes no sense for him to go for it!

He is the most shameless of everyone I think right now.

Zero attempt to even shoot the ball, just plays for the foul everytime.

for this game it was as soon as the clock goes under 9 minutes in the 4th, literally didnt got any point after that

FUCK FOUL BAITERS I FOR ONE WOULD NEVER SUPPORT A FOUL BAITER AND IM HAPPY THERE ISNT ONE ON ME TEAM ^(I miss you trae :()

This but also ctrl+v Brooks 

I heard popcorn is good for fowl baiting.

Mike Brown might be a terrorist after all

if you hate it so much we will gladly take mikal back

I hate this fucking Knicks team too. Glad we are in agreement.

Same

yeah me too, Mike Brown is trash and KAT is so unbelievably difficult to watch. not to mention we STILL have no wing depth.

ya its sad when the Knicks go like that

Both teams looked hideous in the 4th

I think the Pistons are legit contenders. People just arent watching 

Cleveland just whooped our ass

i think it’s just the knicks really

Not really that surprising to me, honestly? Like the start of his career was pretty rough but I feel like he’s been a solid defensive player for at least a few years now.

He does that sometimes.

A game or two ago he tried flopping on a drive, and a slight push by a defender caused the already in progress flop to go hard into the floor.

Yes, this years team is. Last years team would have folded up in the 3rd

This year they’ve been a very physical team.

We’re short but we thicc

Yes we’ve been much more physical all season

Jordan Ott is the man

Team started off 1-5 this year but got in rhythm by the 6-7 game and since then we went 22-10 . It’s why we’ve been on the outside looking in the standings .

Suns offense is hit or miss when shots aren’t falling but they do always play hard on defense

I don’t watch a lot of the Knicks but I swear OG always fucks us up

Except those free throws were brutal lol

Neither can I

Nobody knows that more than suns fans lol

Yeah it was pretty brutal for Suns fans this decade. 

2020-21 was our surge year after the promising 8-0 in the bubble. It hurt big time to lose to Giannis in the finals in 6 (we were even up 2-0), but we went from a 34 win team to the finals and believed into next year.

2021-22 we bounced back and had a franchise record of 64 wins, with key pieces we drafted improving like Mikal Bridges, Cam Johnson, DeAndre Ayton.. We looked unbeatable then suddenly our team went dark. Booker got injured in round 1 vs Pelicans and it took CP3 heroics to get us out of there in 6. The day he turned 37 he got zapped of all his powers it was crazy to watch in real time. Then of course, the Luka Mavericks Game 7 (we were also up 2-0).

2022-23 The team was clearly affected by what felt like the worst upset elimination since the 2011 Mavericks vs We Believe Warriors. CP3 regressing, locker room issues with Jae Crowder and Ayton… We cash all our chips in and go for KD at the deadline. Chip or bust. KD gets injured in practice warmups, leaving us only 8 games to play with him. Still, we went 8-0. We get through an injured Clippers team in 5 in round 1. We go down to the Jokic Nuggets in 6 despite heroics from Booker and KD.

2023-24 We bought the Kool aid. Booker was coming off an All-NBA season and him and KD were insane in their short time together. We make BIG moves. We ship out a rapidly regressing CP3 for Bradley Beal, which at the time was considered a big talent upgrade as long as Booker can handle being a PG. We ship out an unmotivated Ayton for Grayson Allen and Jusuf Nurkíc. We fire Coach Monty Williams that got us all this success and hire COVID Bubble Lakers championship coach Frank Vogel. We got players to take paycuts and be vet mins to come play with us to ring chase 

Did not work at all. Beal was always injured, Booker started regressing / couldn’t handle being a full time PG, vibes were off, many players underperformed. We get swept by the Ant Wolves.

2024-25 the wheels already were falling off. Beal was just as injured, Booker was regressing from a top 10 player to 15-20, Nurkic became washed, etc. Vibes were incredibly bad and painful to watch this team, even compared to our 19 to 25 win seasons in the 2010s. Couldn’t even make the play in when the post Luka Mavericks were so injured they needed hardship exceptions to not forfeit games…

2025-26 we are here. We get effectively a late first round pick every other year until 2032, no control of assets besides some very late 2nd rounders, not much talent on the team on paper. We are paying Beal 20-25m/yr on a stretch and waive for the next 5 years which will severely hamstring our ability to roster build in this new CBA apron system. We sell KD for Jalen Green, Dillion Brooks, 10th pick (Khaman Malanuach).  Green is injured before opening night.

So, in my experience. You have no idea how it’s going to go. Suns fans still don’t expect us to get much past a 2nd round exit, but the fact we’re not bottom feeders this year and the way they play with heart and hustle has been absolutely enjoyable. Which funny enough, had we not gone for KD / Beal, we probably would of just had a more talented version of that. But maybe the vibes were off after those brutal playoff defeats.

This team is full of vet mins, 2nd round picks, 2way players that are legitimately contributing. We may actually be 10 deep in the playoffs.

Honestly we can work with it cause brunson at least tries on defense

the issue is when him and KAT are both on the floor, when thats the case, KAT has to be at MINIMUM average but more often then not is still worse then brunson on defense during that time

Shhhh!! Don’t give away our secret

I was watching the knick feed at the end, and I enjoyed hearing OG destroy Mike Breen’s strats in real time

Suns won the Dillon Brooks trade

I think you guys genuinely played no D in the thitd, but in the fourth you tightenup much better. Goddamn Mitchell Robinson owned the boards

If i can give oso credit, i thought he played good D on Brunson at the end

Cleveland whooped our ass

The Suns lost to the 7 seed Cavs a little over a week ago…