Post-Game Thread: Phoenix Suns (1-1) defeat Golden State Warriors (1-1), 111-96 | NBA Play-in Tournament | Apr 17, 2026
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Sucks to lose, but we got to see Steph and Dray have a legendary game against the clips, we get to avoid getting swept by OKC and we get a lottery pick.
Damn it, I wanted to see Lu Dort and Draymond fight in the first game.
Brooks and Dort will be as entertaining too. Psycho D(ilion) vs Reckless D(ort). I don’t care if the suns lose, i just want to see some juicy antics. I want to see players getting feelings hurt.
Speaking of suns can we fire this dogshit post game format into one?
On my mobile it works amazingly well. I like it.
what are you using an app? I use the browser and everything was working well but now that thing is so big it doesn’t let me scroll when i land on it and also I liked the classic box score way more! I wanna see the stats for each player not the just the top two!
The Reddit app, yeah
Stephenyahu Chokcurry cheated the game, carried & bailed out by greater teammates all career, paid adam silver whistles for valueless runs despite chucking us out of games and choking. Yet still feels a necessity of overrated glaze just to cheat the real world too!
I could not believe Lowe and Goldberry picked Warriors over Suns tbh
this post game thread format is so ass please revert it
new reddit is trash garbage
it’s hard to fathom how anyone uses it, why it hasn’t been seen as a spectacular failure, how they haven’t reverted, why anyone would ever make a post that isn’t supported by old reddit etc.
I can’t stand the app or new Reddit.
Old.reddit in a web browser is the only way.
Yeah if they get rid of old reddit I think I would legitimately stop coming to this site and I’m a fucking no life terminally online loser. If old reddit isn’t working for whatever reason I just do other things
I think Reddit admins are sending bots for us. I can’t believe there are people out there that are for new Reddit…
Reddit is more like a forum than social media, new Reddit is like shit algo driven social media.
Give me forumish Reddit every day.
facts
Yeah I’m pissed that this vibe coded junk doesn’t get enough hate š
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Praise the lord, a readable box score table. You’re doing god’s work here.
yes thank God this is what the people want!!
its crazy that you go to the game thread and there’s no box score.
Like, wtf are we here for?
This should be pinned. Why was this removed from the main post?
they work.
they’re seriously trying to “enshittify” the site for some reason…no for whatever reason websites always enshittify. Trying to get us to do something else.
thank you, i hate the new ones
if green continues this path, i can see the suns ruffle some feathers versus the thunderĀ
Torch has been passed. Brooks is now okc’s problem. Tbh I don’t see the suns getting swept. The Thunder are a young team. Brooks’ antics would rattle them for a game or two.
They’re the defending champs. That “young team” shit went out the window after the Denver series. They constantly mention that’s the one that forced them to reach the next level.
warriors best player was podziemsky. they are done.
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Preach, preach, preach
Yikes
I definitely wasn’t stressed at all.Ā
I’m super happy to see Jalen Green play so well in the play in. I hope this has exorcised Book’s elimination games demons, but that’s just me lying to myself.Ā
Time to blow it up, Warriors
After next year. Nobody is trading for their big contracts now
I think they got one more shot next year if Curry, Butler, and Zinger can stay healthy (at least starting in the second half of the seasonā¦I know, itās still a long shot though) and be healthy going into the playoffs; they could be a dark horse. But if they canāt be healthy together for the playoffs, theyāre definitely cooked again like this year.
Can never trust Porzingis to be healthy. Curry also seems to get injured by the time playoffs come now
I know, thatās why itād be a miracle for them to all be healthy for the playoffs haha. But if it happens, itāll be real interesting next year
Steve Kerr sure is a good coach
Lmao
Man I was rooting for the warriors too
I said this in the game thread, but the lineup choices by the Warriors felt so bizarre. Did Porzingis and Curry play any minutes together? Last play in game I felt like they were an electric duo. None of the lineups the Warriors sent to the floor felt like they had any rhythm.
Also shout out Jaydee, I enjoyed his reporting.
porzingis reinjured himself and asked out
Porzingis only played 15 minutes
It was over when he was put on minutes restriction
Porzingis was battling ankle issues. Problem is all these dudes are on some type of restrictions.
I think he also tweaked it in the clippers game
That would explain a lot of it. Still felt like some of the choices were odd but you could tell Curryās knees were close to shot towards the end
Ok so can we stop acting like Steph is the goat for flopping around and getting a few threes to fall after being out all season for his team
No one reasonable thinks Curry is the goat, just an all timer.
LOL calling curry a flopper of all people just shows you just a hater. GOAT? Heās one of the greatest PG ever. Thatās not even debatable
Yea, he gets the least amount of FTs vs any other superstar and they donāt call anything done to him when heās flying around off-ball. Sounds like someone whoās never watched a game.
I’ll never forget what he did in the most recent Olympics.
Steph is one of the GOATs who has forever changed the NBA, weird take.
They were 24-19 when Steph played, 13-26 when he didnāt play this year and thatās including games before Jimmy Butler tore his ACL.
So he took a garbage team with no second scorer to the play-in at 38 and thatās āflopping around and getting a few threesāā¦ yea ok
The entire Warriors team looked like they couldnāt move. Iām used to teams looking like that after a seven game series in the conference finals, not so much the second play in game.
The elimination was a blessing in disguise for the Warriors. Based on how they looked midgame, injuries seemed inevitable with any games against OKC in their future.
Just need to roll the dice next year and hope Jimmy, Steph, and Dray can make it to the playoffs healthy. Itās pretty much their only hope short of Giannis changing his mind.
Post-game interview they asked Dillon Brooks about OKC and he called them a bunch of foul baiters lmao
Whereās the lie?
In the fact that apart from Shai no one on that team even shoots 5 FTs a game.
shows you why these play-ins are actually fucking pointless lmfao
Is it because the Clippers got eliminated?
no cuz they wouldve gotten massacred by the thunder lmfao
We had two thirds sample of great games with stakes and this is your conclusion?
hornets and warriors got sent home cuz they never belonged in the playoffs lmfao
They had memorable games. It’s entertainment.
Clippers faded lmao
Hornets got belt to ass and curry with a no show ššš
Green and Goodwin were the highlights, but credit to Book for steadying the ship the entire game.
Didnāt shoot well in the first half, but he made the right play over and over when Golden State doubled him.
A lot of āSuns fansā should be ashamed for some of the most low IQ takes Iāve seen being spouted about how he played today.
The playoffs are starting, brace yourself for the most boneheaded takes after every game.
We are facing OKC, it’s high likely we will take at least one blow-out, the next day will be just like wednesday
Book looking pretty cooked compared to what he used to be. Unless he can turn it around next year his time as an elite player is done.
He isnt 100% and he played team ball rather than be a hero. We take that shit
Dude got 8 assists along with 20 points…. C’mon bro.
Whatās your point?
…that he put up 20 points and 8 assists as the most targeted Suns player for double teaming. That’s pretty good and the other dude is saying he’s cooked cause he didn’t score 40.
My bad, I thought you were replying to my comment.
It’s all good, man. No worries
He also only had 1 turnover and was a team high +25x we got killed in the short time he rested tnght, didnāt even rest in the 2nd half because of that. He played a very good game tonight even if he didnāt score a whole lot, he was extremely impactful and the people acting like he was trash cuz he only had 20 pts are dumb as hell
He would have had 40 easy at his peak.
In the post game on Prime, Nash said something about Bookās health not being 100%, and heās in an advisory role with the team so maybe thereās something going on.
Nevertheless I thought his playmaking today was excellent.
I wasn’t impressed with him during the second and third quarter. He did some solid stuff when GS was in desperation mode, but I don’t think that is very impressive.
He has definitely had some health issues. I just think if he can’t overcome them during next season he is no longer a max guy.
Thatās fair. I donāt think thereās any question that he isnāt worth the contract purely based on production. Realistically thereās only 3 or 4 guys that are actually worth that type of money. But Book means so much to the franchise and city that it really was a no brainer to sign him to that deal.
Dray going out as a legit WWE heal is hella fitting. good game, feels nice to get the win. now we go into to the meat grinder of OKC. Looking forward to the next phase of GSW, great franchise.Ā
warriors winning another title before the suns will with finals legend devin booker š
Absolute haramball from Steph and Dray
corpseball
Low key glad to not get mollywhopped by OKC in first round. Although that Curry performance against the clips and Kawhi almost had me hooked and sold again like a crackhead relapsing.
Praying for Dyboozterilson
They didnāt air the replay of Green punching Booker in the stomach because they wanted to show him hugging Curry and Kerr.
Gotta cover up your future coworkers sociopathic tendencies
Draymond Green and triple singles.
Name a better combo
Man, Warriors went all out to get OKC another draft pick and had no gas left
Edit: another lottery* pick. Wrote with no brain
They gave us KD so we got em back. Even Steven.
We had that pick regardless itās just a lottery pick now
Yup meant to write lottery pick* good catch
Finish 14th in the west and under 32 wins, idgaf if we get blown out by the thunder the fact the suns made it the playoffs with the expectations that low on them is amazing
Any word on what took Kristaps out?
Had to be lower body dude was struggling to move after he asked to be subbed out
Yeah he was not looking good mobility-wise and it was a miracle he even made that last 3. I think he tweaked something in the Clippers game because he definitely didnāt look anywhere near as good
I was really nervous Scott Foster was washed but he had signature 4th Quarter that showed heās still one of the best in the game
This guy better get a retirement tour
cant keep a goat down
LeBron š¤ Scott Foster
Beating Father Time
ScBron LeRef
GSW got Sunned tonight
Jalen Green showed up and showed out tbh, Warriors score was a lot closer then how the game felt, tbh unpopular opinion I see potential next year for a deep run from the Warriors. Iām rooting for the Suns now I would love a good old upset.
Why a deep run? I only see Warriors getting worse, they are very old so injuries will be common, and other teams will just get better like the Spurs, Thunder, Nuggets, Lakers, Wolves
Itās honestly all about health. Obviously odds are against the Warriors due to age and Butlerās recovery, but if by some miracle the Warriors hang in there and can sneak into the playoffs and have a healthy Curry, Butler, and Porzingis for the playoffs, they could be very dangerous.
Just need to get to the playoffs without our 2nd and 3rd best players out…
Clutch 4th quarter by Scott Foster. He went nuclear in the last 2 minutes.
Heāll be locked in for Game 7 between Nuggies and Log Dogs
GGs to the suns, dubs were very clearly too gassed to show up tonight at all
So sad seeing another year of curry gone itās tough because I really think that this was a good team if we could have stayed healthy but I think healthy seasons are a thing of the past with these guys now theyāre just too old
Interesting to see how next season goes, Iāll never stop believing in the chance of a run while we have curry on the team
Yeah thatās how it be sometimesĀ
Jalen Green was incredible tonight. Truly.
Congrats to the Suns fans out there.
We had absolutely no answer to him and I was getting so mad everytime a defender gave him space. I was like do yaāll not realize heās cookin you tonight???? š¤¦āāļø
Who the hell was this sideline reporter dude? Weirdly dramatic and I got caught so off guard when his accent came out, I didnāt know that British people that werenāt Luol Deng/Anunoby/Ben Gordon knew what basketball was.
steve kerr rotations are so bad
This season is finally over Lottery here we come
Jokes aside, Warriors had one of the greatest runs ever. Took maybe the most irrelevant franchise and Curry and co. turned it into a global brand and basketball juggernaut. No shame in that.
Congrats to Phoenix. Great turnaround. Whether they win another game this season or not, this has been a helluva season for the Suns. Fun team
March Jalen Green in April! What a sight to see!
Twice In a row. Putting up 36ppg in postseason
Green the cook, Dray the troll, Foster the bum
ppl sayin he took away spotlight from suns win but w/ kerr’s (probable) final season w/ warriors and it only being a play-in, I just wanted to see dray yell for the rest of the game lol. funny af
It cheered me up ngl I wonder what he said to trigger Booker like that lol
idk but i thought he was sayin something like “did I punch you” to book or somethin like that from lip reading
I honestly kinda like dray, also brooks. I dig some of the “in your face” and shit talking it contrasts nicely with clean buckets lol. but fuck intentional injuries always
Yeah it surprises me how much he engages in trash talk and altercations, doesn’t look the part
It’s gonna be fun to see what shenanigans Brooks has in store now the he’s not playing my team
Love them or hate them, Warriors Dynasty was a MUST WATCH TV. So long, SPACE WARRIORS!
the Suns deserve our respect like any other team. best of luck.
If the sun is setting on a fading dynasty, that means the Warriors are heading into a dreary night.
That win is on Green. Or Brooks and Booker start to play better or we get swept easily vs OKC.Ā
Suns are a fun team. But they can bring their A-game every night and it will still be OKC dog walking them in 5. Unfortunately for the suns of course. They are a fun team. And Iām just playing. If the suns play their absolute best best I could actually see it going 7 surprisingly
Booker played fine. If JG is cooking Booker is not going to ice out his team mate. +25 BPM I’ll take it every time.Ā
Only issue was the fouls but one of those was an awful call
Good to see Dillon Brooks on good terms with Kerr and Curry given their history.
Surprisingly didn’t try and injure Curry today, so things must be different.
Brooks is more reckless when his team is losing.
Very true.
I gotta say if yall was killing Kawhi stop deserve the same treatment even though he was injured he still played in this game.
The most fitting end to Draymondās run in Golden State possible. Foul out AND ejected afterwards. He was just missing a flagrant 2 on the way to the locker room to max out all 10 fouls in one game
Not enough dicks kicked
Idk if Iāve seen someone get Tād up after fouling out. Only Draymond
Sucks to end on a weak Curry game, but Jalen Green looked so good, he was going down the lane - seemingly twice as fast as the Warriors defence. WP Suns - good luck against the Thunder!
Draymond sucks.
What did Booker even do?
They were just yapping and then fosterās bitch ass decided he wasnāt getting enough attention
Foster had a weak 1st 3 quarters but then he came out strong in the 4th! Great game by the veteran
Didn’t want a brawl to break out when the game’s over.
The Curry era Warriors had a great run. They won 4 championships which is more than most teams can claim they have won. They should do a full rebuild instead of sacrificing their future just to potentially content with Curry for a few more years.
If Curry wants to stay he deserves to stay. If he wants to go he deserves to go. It looks like Curry is happy in the bay though so while thatās the case weāll continue to try and do what we can.Ā
Send that man to Boston or some sht
RIP to the warriors dynasty. It was a lot of fun for the last decade+
Bruh if we’re gonna lose like this it is much better to lose vs Clippers and not give OKC a lottery pick. I blame Draymond for that cause he got Kawhi in prison.
Also Steph as much as he’s guarded like hell by Goodwin he can’t move that much with that knee. He can take my knee.
that’s gotta be one of the top 10 worst officiated games I’ve ever seen. someone post that booker travel in the 4th ššš
Draymond built a career on illegal screens going uncalled, sit this one out
do you actually watch nba thinking only the warriors commit illegal screens šš
Are you incapable of reading? Where did I say that at all?
Go to bed, you’ve got school in the morning.
they don’t call “illegal” screens in the nba because every play does this but you’re a casual so it’s probably a surprise š
They do call illegal screens when the screener moves too early because that is the rule. (Except for Draymond, he’s got a longer leash than the one your stepdad uses on your mom.) I guess only casual fans actually read the rulebook.
You’re right, I don’t watch every single NBA game because I’ve got a family and a career to worry about. The kind of stuff you’ll start seeing your friends do in 10-12 years. Enjoy having a parasocial relationship with adult men who will never know or care that you exist š
Lol blame officiating in a game that wasn’t even close. The Warriors played like dog shit.
suns just about fouled every play but needed touch fouls on offense to survive an injured warriors team š
Survive? They Suns won by quite a bit.
Glad we won. But damn if Ott would just play man man and Fleming we are winning these kind of game by damn near 30.
We can give the Thunder a run but its gonna be a quick 4 without those 2 getting significant minutes
this was an old tired beaten up warriors team that didn’t have Steph hitting tonight. The thunder will not be the same.
Dude. I likeĀ Man Man and Fleming as well but they’re not the difference between us winning and losing the series lol.
Playoffs are won by the stars. The stars need to go nuclear.
Bigger issue for us is Mark Williams injury if that keeps him out.
Man man is better than Mark Williams. The biggest issue is Ott won’t play him. Best rim protector in the league since the all star break. 48 rebounds in his last 4 games with extended minutes (more than 10 minutes). does all the clean up duty, hits a 3 occasionally. also has the same number of blocks as he has fouls since the all stare break. Guy is a bonafide difference maker.
Fleming is our best perimeter defender and is shooting 40% from 3 since the all stare break. athletic enough to stay in front of anyone, long enough with a 7’5 wingspan to keep space from SGA to avoid bumps and flops.
These 2 are legitimate difference makers and all people keep saying is “I can’t wait till they are good” but they are good right now. and the teams ceiling is 100% tied to them.
They have the potential to be what you describe, but they are not there yet.
people been saying they aren’t ready for this, they aren’t ready for that and have been babying them all year. Every time they get on the court they prove they are ready now. The only one not ready is Jordan Ott.
They should play, that is not the argument. My argument is that they are not the best center and not the best perimeter defender. The plan is to develop them to be exactly that.
draymond going from a nice moment hugging curry and kerr to immediately talking shit to booker and getting ejected with that exit stage left was hilarious
Draymond getting kicked for potentially his last game as a Warrior is picture perfect.Ā
It wouldnāt be Dray otherwise. štier defender, instigator & showman.
i personally loved the egging the crowd on with that look on his face, so so good. He plays a great heel, the league will miss having a guy so easy to hate
Legendary
Curry drop off gotta be studied. Heās becoming hella streaky ššāļøšš¼
He’s clearly hurt
Heās just old & the mileage is catching up with him.
Enjoy your win tonight and your flight tomorrow Suns. 1:30pm on Sunday will come quickly.
please make quick work bro
The thunder would have bent yall over too š
Him commenting like the Thunder fan has any ability to affect the outcome of the series is peak r/nba
Jordan Goodwin š¤ Lonnie Walker IV. Lakers legends eliminating the Warriors
Warriors did a great job all things considered!
DILLON BROOKS KILLS THE WARRIORS DYNASTY
This is the dumbest shit I’ve read all day and Donald Trump is President.
He was on the team that beat this fucking pathetic corpse so its is true. So has Amir Coffee by technicality
I mean not being able to tell truth from fiction did get you trump as president in your country sooo makes sense your not able too deduce dillon brooks ended your fucking dynasty.
Yeah, double down on a shit take.
Double down on your shit team
I’m not a fair weather fan you fuckin loser
Your even worse, prideful about a shit team. I watched bad raptors team but i don’t get salty and cry when they lose and watch them get dunked on the internet so i can feel bad and complain at those that do, i just know they suck and move on.
Yeah youre a perfect angel. Fuckin dipshit.
jesus christ fucking 4 championships and your this mad damn LOL
Not mad. I just think you’re genuinely fuckin stupid. I’m fine with warriors losing, “dynasty” has been over for years. this nonsense back and forth started because you said something objectively dumb as hell.
My only solace is that Brooks was basically a non-factor tonight
Where’s the dude asking if warriors are in contention after beating aspiration clippers?
He was up against Dillon Brooks bro. Understandable loss
Jalen.
Fucking.
Green.
I’m glad he went off
I’m so glad that this Suns team made it to the playoffs. No one expected them to be in the post-season this year. They hustle and play such great team basketball. Yeah, they’ll probably get punched in the mouth by OKC, but it feels like they would put up more of a fight than the Warriors.
I imagine that Ott likely has COTY locked up by this point, no?
Nah that’s gotta be Bickerstaff
I think Mazzulla will win it actually.
Oh theyāll lose but they could win a game at least
New game threads suck donkey dick
This is the best outcome for NBA fans. Seeing these uncs try to go against OKC defense would’ve been frustrating as hell. At least suns will make it interesting
Honestly may hurt seeing Booker score 2 points against the Thunder as well. I have no idea what happened to his offensive IQ this year but hes in for a rude awakening next round