From Bright Side Of The Sun

  • What to focus on in Game 4 as the Suns face elimination

    A playoff showing that’s left plenty more to be desired now sees the Phoenix Suns on the brink of elimination for the duration of the first round. I’ve maintained that the Suns will win at least one game this series off talent alone. My major entity in it all also remains that they’d have to out-execute Minnesota three separate times for 48 minutes to garner the series victory. Now, with their backs against the wall, two of these three dynamics of the games are non-negotiable areas that have to...

  • Game 4 Preview: It's win or stay home for the Suns, trying to fend off the Wolves tonight

    Who: Phoenix Suns (0-3) vs. Minnesota Timberwolves (3-0) When: 6:30pm AZ Time Where: Footprint Center, Phoenix, Arizona Watch: TNT / Arizona’s Family 3TV / Arizona’s Family Sports Listen: KMVP 98.7 It is strange how the belief is already back for me after the Phoenix Suns lost to the Minnesota Timberwolves in Game 3, leaving everyone speechless and sleepless. It is hard to turn your back on a team that will make you feel every bit as worried as a mom does for her children. Even at the age of 35,...

  • The writing was on the wall for the Phoenix Suns

    ‘Twas the night of Game 3 at the Footprint Center. The Wolves and the Suns played, wrestled, and bantered. As the game and the third quarter went on, so did Phoenix’s chances of moving on. Now down 3-0 in the series of the first round, it appears the Valley’s squad is going down. Am I stunned that the Suns are on the verge of getting swept tonight? Absolutely not. As great as the Suns have shown to be, they are unreliable. There’s no way around it, the 2023-2024 Phoenix Suns left breadcrumbs...

  • Once more unto the breach, dear Phoenix friends

    My fingers have nearly reached their creative maximum output capacity. There isn’t much more they can produce relative to the 2023-24 Phoenix Suns. The passion has dwindled into a soft flame in a dark house of horrors we know and understand as Suns fandom. It shines, but the only light it casts is upon the memories of hope and the shadows of reality. The 2023-24 Suns will be remembered for their utter lack of execution. As the team that could not get it right, nor did it appear they cared to do...

  • Game 3 Recap: Suns spliced, diced, and iced at home, down 0-3 after 126-109 shellacking by Timberwolves

    The Phoenix Suns hosted their first game of the 2024 playoffs, and just like the last time they played in the Valley of the Sun during the postseason in Game 6 of the Second Round last season against the Denver Nuggets, they disappointed a home crowd with a frustrating loss. In both instances, their season ended, although tonight’s 126-109 loss to the Minnesota Timberwolves hasn’t officially ended the year. But no team has ever come back down 0-3 in NBA history. It was the same script as the...

  • Suns' Grayson Allen out for Game 3 against Minnesota due to right ankle sprain

    Phoenix Suns guard Grayson Allen will not play in Game 3 of the Western Conference first-round series against the Minnesota Timberwolves. Suns head coach Frank Vogel said pregame that he would be a GameTime decision. That decision had been made. Allen did not participate in pregame shoot around. Grayson Allen is the NBA’s top 3-point shooter but sustained a right ankle injury he re-aggravated early in the third quarter in Game 2 on Tuesday. More to come on this story.

  • Open Thread: Game 3 of the Suns and the Wolves

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  • An in-depth look at the offense for the Suns prior to Game 3

    Coming into Game 3, the Phoenix Suns have compiled an offensive rating of 100.0, third worst in the playoffs. They’re also 4th worst in the halfcourt at 86.7. They’re spending 83.8% of their possessions in the halfcourt and against Minnesota’s set defense — which isn’t ideal. Additionally, they have just 35 assists on their 68 field goals made, with 34 turnovers and 19 of the live ball variety. Execution and ball security in being better, are the chief entities for any adjustments spoken on....

  • SBN Reacts: Suns want to win? It could be as simple as holding on to the ball

    The Phoenix Suns host the Minnesota Timberwolves tonight, and the hope is that the team can get on the scoreboard with a win in the series. The fans will show up. Let’s hope the team follows suit. We’ve been racking our brains over the past couple of days trying to understand why this is happening and how it can be fixed. Many of us have landed on the simple fact that this team does not have the foundational ability to be better than they are; that they are their own worst enemy and sessions on...

  • Suns list Grayson Allen as questionable for Game 3 against Anthony Edwards, Timberwolves

    Phoenix Suns guard and the NBA’s 3-point percentage leader, Grayson Allen, is questionable for the Suns’ Game 3 in their first-round series against the Minnesota Timberwolves at Footprint Center on Friday. Allen said at Thursday’s practice after he re-aggravated the injury suffered in Game 1 with 9:37 left in the second quarter of the team’s 105-93 loss in Game 2. Allen is someone the Suns will need to roar back from a quiet offensive start to this series. He is yet to be a factor but Phoenix is...