Why does Dillon Brooks think it was good for Suns to get ‘slapped in the mouth’ in opener?
The Phoenix Suns went down by as many as 52 points during their season-opening loss to the Portland Trail Blazers.
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The Phoenix Suns’ season-opening game against the Portland Trail Blazers couldn’t have gone much worse.
Phoenix started the game down 21-0 while looking completely out of sorts on both ends of the court. They ended up losing 124-83.
Where did Phoenix miss the mark the most?
“Communication, energy and togetherness,” forward Dillon Brooks told reporters. “We got spread out, we weren’t talking as much and we weren’t stopping the bleeding.”
The Suns didn’t score their first points of the game until Devin Booker made two free throws with 5:54 left in the first quarter.
Despite losing in this fashion, Brooks said it was better “to get slapped in the mouth like that” this early in the season.
“It’s not good that it’s the first game,” Brooks said. “But it’s not like game 50 where we’re in a predicament with seeding or whatever it is … so we’re going to learn from it.”
Brooks finished the game with 10 points and four rebounds on 4-for-11 shooting.
The Suns will look to get their first win of the season in their home opener on Saturday at 7 p.m. MST when they’ll play host to Stephen Curry and the Golden State Warriors.
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Booker is washed up. No center, no rebounding. Porous defense. No shooters other than Luke, who is already hurt. Suns will be fortunate to win 30 games this season.
Listen, I like the Suns logo on center court - but they really need to bring back the Phoenix BIRD. And for godsake: Suns need to bring back ORANGE uniforms! And it turns the stomach to have say again: Vince Marotta as PA announcer needs to be FIRED!
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Dillion Brooks is CLEARLY the voice in the locker room now - lost by 41 and we’re down by as many as 52, and it’s called a slap?
The Villain contributed 10 pts on 4-11 shooting.. With 4 bds, 0 assists, 0 steals, 0 blocks and 2 turnovers.. We already have the nba record for worst season opener.. We lost that one by 48 in 2017, vs these same blazers and only won 21 games that year..
And take this how you want, of our 10 worst losses of all time, 8 are from the Booker era including the top 4!
Now the question becomes of how bad we “were” or how bad we “are.”
Let’s go Mr Leader! Get this team righted and go out and put up another All defensive year! That would make a difference!