OFFICIAL AROUND THE NBA THREAD - June 2021

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  1. THE HCP

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    Me and Sly been telling you ALL SEASON this Suns team was the best and Denver was trash ass team!
     
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    I feel sorry for Jokic....... he deserves a better team!
     
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    You know that without the green font this is gonna go over more than a few heads………?
     
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    Dame for The Joker ......
     
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    Roster has NOTHING to do with losing to Denver. We were a far more talented team than them. Maybe if we faced Phoenix and we lost you could have said that but no, we had plenty of great pieces to beat an injured Nuggets team.
     
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    The Suns after Sweeping the Nuggets...

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    Flawless victory.
     
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    Yes, pieces, but not a unit. Our pieces didn’t mesh, and that’s on Olshey
     
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    curious what you think a coach's job is.
     
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    To get the most out of the team he or she is given.

    Stotts basically exceeded Vegas win totals every year. He had 3 of the worst NBA defenders not only on the roster, but in the rotation. Not a lot of options. He is not the best for making adjustments, but again, not a lot of options defensively.
     
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    stotts is the one who played Melo and Kanter ahead of Jones/Little/RHJ. Even when it was painfully obvious all season this pairing was awful, it took until game 4 while down 1-2 for Stotts to make this basic change of taking Enes out of the rotation.

    I dont understand how you attribute blame to Neil when Stotts was the one making decisions on the floor. How Terry justified taking our best on ball wing defender completely out of playing warrants the firing by itaelf, never mind his million other faults.
     
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    Stotts is no longer our coach.
     
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    Breaking News: Kyrie is out for game 5, KD asked Steve Nash to suit up as player coach to help him.
     
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    Excellent. I hate when they do it. Even when Dame does it
     
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    The rest of the media and league disagreed this past summer. I'll go with what experienced NBA veterans say over what you say. No offense.

    Stotts has had PLENTY of options but he's too obsessed with giving veterans minutes. Nobody put a gun to his head and told him to play Tolliver last season over Little or Kanter over RHJ/Giles.

    Half of the Suns rotation wouldn't get minutes under Stotts because of how young they are.

    The excuses are tired and predictable. Stotts should have beaten the Nuggets with his roster in the first round of the playoffs. It has nothing to do with Olshey.
     
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    No Blazers on either of these lists.

     
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    Stotts is no longer our coach.
     
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