Suns exploding for season-best offensive evening, beating fighters

On By Littum

One season-best offensive evening, Phoenix Suns burned to a 130-105 win over the Golden State Warriors Friday night.

Phoenix exhausted a season high 41 assists, made 19 3s and shot 56.2% off the field. Assists are most of Suns since December 2007, the 19 triple is a top-five brand this year, and 56.2 fg% is the third best brand this season. It made it possible for the rare blowout victory.

Suns played an OK game defensively where most of the mistakes came in transition and had too many revenue that gave Warrior’s free curve. But when they are this elite offensively, they can overcome their shortcomings. It has been an under -discounted sublot of their disappointing season, not to be the nuclear offensive team they should be, and instead just pretty good for solid on most nights.

This game had severe blowout energy a quarter and a half in, with Golden State (24-24) that didn’t control much violation in the half-lane, while Suns (25-22) was ultra-effective at a huge pace and not getting out of out of control in the other problem areas. But then Suns’ revenue and transitional defense was silly and put Warriors within six on a 10-3 race for a game that Suns controlled.

Phoenix’s response to these changes in Momentum was there in Monday’s victory, but was definitely not in Wednesday’s loss. It found one for this spurt, an 8-0 wave to go back up 14. Suns made 13 of their first 17 shot attempt in the second quarter and finished the first half up 11 on the back of 20 assists on 24 field goals.

Suns opened the third quarter of an 11-4 spurt thanks to constant energy games from Ryan Dunn and Nick Richards. It set Phoenix up 18 across three and a half minutes and offers Warriors a chance to fold, something they will often do in that situation, with Golden State coming in 1-18 when they pull after three quarters. It just had to be a question of whether Suns would give them a window to find some of the aforementioned momentum again.

Phoenix expanded the lead to 22, an effort helped by Warriors, missing 12 straight shots and had to finish the third quarter without a rest Stephen Curry. But a Brandin Podziemski 3, Moses Moody and One and another Podziemski 3 held it within 19 when Kevin Durant began to warm up, giving Curry a shot in the first few minutes of the last frame to make things interesting.

Golden State scored on four equal possessions (with three via Curry) to cut Suns’ lead down to only 18 because Phoenix answered all those with his own scores. Suns continued with this on Warriors’ next two trips that resulted in points, and at that time Phoenix was up 23 with seven minutes left.

After tying a career height of nine revenue on Wednesday, Devin jumped back to the recognizable form he has been II most of January. He was 12-of-23 in 32 minutes for 31 points with five rebounds, 11 assists and two revenue. Durant didn’t even have to play in the fourth quarter and added 19, while Bradley Beal mostly compensated for his five revenue with 21 points on 9-of-12 shooting.

Grayson Allen ends the month of January shooting 53% from the range of 3-point and is now within the reach of its league-leading 46.1% from last season of 43.5%. Injuries got him off to a slow start and it was only a matter of time before he rediscovered his form. Allen had 11 points, six rebounds, seven assists and a steal on Friday. His name has come up in trade speculations, specifically as a player that Suns could move to acquire more draft capital for a Jimmy Butler trade, but he has shown the last six weeks why he is valuable to this team.

We have learned “Mathematics” in this room, also known as the possession struggle and difference 3-point shooting can do. Take more shots than the opponent via control of offensive rebounds and turnover while doing more of the shots that count for another point and every night you will be in a great position to win. Oklahoma City (revenue) and Houston (rebounding) are the kings of two of these categories, and turmoil is the two leaders at the Western Conference.

This made a fantastic test for Suns on Friday, against an opponent, they have far more talent than that, could overcome it by winning these margins crucial.

Coming into the game there was a big gap between these two troops in rebounding and 3s. During the two-month period, since Golden State’s withdrawal began, it was seventh in the offensive rebounding percentage and Phoenix was 29., per. Cleaning the glass. For defensive rebounding is Warrior’s third, and Suns is 24 .. In 3-point attempts per Fight took Warriors nearly eight more. And in their last 10 games, they were on average an inappropriate 45.2 at night.

Revenue is where Phoenix should seem to be some of this, an area that both troops have been perfect for this period.

But oh, when you shoot 19% better than the opposition and turn down three 3s, so will. Suns defeated, who tried seven fewer shots and lost both the second chance point 9-4 and points of revenue 15-12. Most notable was none of these two numbers for the Golden State in the range of high teens to mid -20s, when things have been really messy.

Phoenix put Ryan Dunn back in the starting lineup played after he only played nine minutes to return from an ankle sprain. Head coach Mike Budenholzer said afterwards that it didn’t have much to do with the injury, an indication that a fully healthy team meant a drop-off in Dunn’s minutes and Dunn was only 13 minutes on Friday. Even with a high influence that he had in the third quarter, it seems that Dunn will make way for Beal, Royce O’Neal and Allen.

Richards placed 14 points and 16 rebounds with two blocks in just 24 minutes. He will make mistakes, but it is the type of production and presence around the edge that will continue to be a great help to Suns.

Warriors did not have Daymond Green (left calf stem) or Jonathan Kuminga (right ankle sprain), making this the second straight game that Suns played an opponent without two of his top-five players in minutes per minute. Match. It is especially harmful to the Golden State, as it is not special to meet hype when it comes to depth and lacks a constant production from other than Curry and Andrew Wiggins.

Curry was kept in chess for 14 points on 5-of-14 shooting, while 17 each from Wiggins and Moody Plus 13 from Buddy Hield, wasn’t almost enough firepower to compete in a shootout.