Amir and Sully

[Smitty77]

How do both Amir and Sully for all practical purposes simply NOT show up tonight?  Especially Amir after he seemingly found the fountain of youth and health over the last several games!!  Amir seemed to get man-handled by Len over and over again on rebounds.

Sully had a 2 PER for the Suns' game.

http://popcornmachine.net/bs?date=20160326&game=BOSPHO

Thank goodness for Marcus and Jerebko and Turner tonight.  Notice that I didn't say IT.  He literally about gave away the game in the 4th quarter.

Thoughts?

Smitty77

[trickybilly]

Len is a great rebounder. V strong. That zone really killed our pick and roll, and seemed to confuse Amir greatly.

Tonight was the perfect example of Marcus' amazing value. Awful shooting, but just consistently creating turnovers, affecting shots, pushing guys away from their spots, outrebounding bigs.

Shooting and temper is all he needs to work on, and maybe developing some craftier drive moves; going left etc...

Great win considering that garbage heap shooting performance in the 2nd half.

[Smitty77]

Len is a great rebounder. V strong. That zone really killed our pick and roll, and seemed to confuse Amir greatly.

Tonight was the perfect example of Marcus' amazing value. Awful shooting, but just consistently creating turnovers, affecting shots, pushing guys away from their spots, outrebounding bigs.

Shooting and temper is all he needs to work on, and maybe developing some craftier drive moves; going left etc...

Great win considering that garbage heap shooting performance in the 2nd half.

Anyone would look like a great rebounder IF they are allowed to push someone under the basket and then literal go over the back and onto the shoulder and neck and grab a rebound with NO freaking over the back call as Len CLEARLY did with under 1 minute to go.  I simply could NOT believe it.  He did something similar about 30 seconds before that.

I agree that Len is a strong guy, but he should have to play within the RULES of the game and not just push Amir and jump over his back!!!!

Smitty77

[Denis998]

How is this Isaiah's fault?

[Surferdad]

Smith. I think you answered your own question. Different guys step up every night. No one said Amir and/or Sully are the final answer in the front court.

[Smitty77]

How is this Isaiah's fault?

They are NOT connected Denis.  Please do not connect dots that I am clearly NOT connecting.  How many turnovers and missed (or bricked) threes did IT have in the 4th??

Smitty77

[Smitty77]

How is this Isaiah's fault?

IT was 1 for 4 from the floor in the 4th with 3 freaking turnovers and he shot 1 for 2 at the line with 13 seconds to go.

That, my friend, is hardly clutch!!  It is almost as if he was tired for some odd reason, as he seemed to be a totally different player than in the first 3 quarters!!!  IT only had 1 turnover in the first 3 quarters COMBINED!!

Smitty77

[Snakehead]

Amir has had a number of off games so that was not surprising to me at all.

You're also going way overboard killing our scorer for missing shots.  It happens.  He has also been unbelievable with taking care of the ball so he doesn't deserve to get killed for that either.

[Kuberski33]

It's the NBA.  It's impossible for anyone to bring their A game 82 times a year.  Cleveland got beat by Brooklyn the other night.  So it happens.  Some guys bring it more often than others - which I think may be a function of talent.  And as a whole, this team shows up to play more often than probably any other team in the NBA save for Golden State.

Amir in particular (from my view) has been playing very well lately.  Sully on the other hand, may be dropping off a bit (conditioning?) 

[greece66]

Amir has been streaky all season. If he were consistent, he would still be an elite big.

I'm more worried about Sully. Looks like he will enter the playoffs in bad shape.

[BitterJim]

Amir has been streaky all season. If he were consistent, he would still be an elite big.

I'm more worried about Sully. Looks like he will enter the playoffs in bad shape.

I thought the same thing last year, he tends to turn it up when the spotlight is on him, though

[Hemingway]

Well Amir and Sully literally have millions of reasons ($) to be bringing it every night from here on out. The playoffs, and the run up to it, are when people really start watching and caring.

I lie Jerebko, but the fact that he consistently beats out Sully for the end of games, does not bode well for Sully's next pay day- at least from us.