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How The Suns Came Crashing Down To Earth

The Phoenix Suns finished the regular season with the NBA’s best record, eight games better than the next closest team. They led the league in net rating and were the only team in the league to sport a top-five offense and a top-five defense. And yet, their disastrous defeat Sunday at the hands of the […]

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The Bucks Have All The Momentum. How Can The Suns Get It Back?

tchow (Tony Chow, video producer): Dre, Jared and Louis, we’re back for another NBA Finals chat. I believe it was Pat Riley who liked to say that a playoff series doesn’t begin until the home team loses. Well, by that definition, we’re all still waiting for these Finals to start in earnest, but a LOT […]

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The Suns’ Rotation Doesn’t Have A Weak Link

Basketball has always been a strong-link sport. The “strong-link/weak-link” theory, first posited by authors Chris Anderson and David Sally in their 2013 book, “The Numbers Game,” is simple: A strong-link game is one where a team is generally as good as its best players allow it to be and a weak-link game refers to one […]

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