Ding ding.

How about we can just watch basketball?

How about we can just watch basketball?

Good morning and welcome to the NBA Daily Ding here on the Athletic NBA show.

I'm Jared Weiss.

I'm joined by Mo Dekeel.

We got Andrew Schleck on the boards here.

And let's get right into the Suns beating the Lakers 108 to 90. Will the Suns ever lose again?

We'll see. I mean, it's possible, but I don't think so. I don't think they'll ever lose again,

Jared. I think that's, I think they're just on a impressive role. Three-game win streak, never losing again after this. They've won, is it 24 of their last 26 now? This is definitely one of the best ones. I mean, they started out one in three, folks, and they're 24 and 5 now. So y'all do the math, because I'm not going to do it. But it's still pretty damn impressive. Yeah, I was going to try to do the math. I'm pretty sure it's 23 and 2 cents, but it's a little too risky for me. So, yeah, I mean, Chris Paul was, again, just so unbelievable in controlling this game. Another one of those great games, or he didn't really do much on the box score. But if you watch that game watch that game it was hind just running everything he had 11 points and nine dimes and only 29

minutes and the sons obviously killed them in the second half yeah I mean the big thing Jared

was they didn't shoot well at all in the first half they went like I think it was three for

20-ish in the first half from three but only only made three-threes in the first half. They come out in the first three minutes of the third quarter and knock down three-threes. And they begin to kind of get going. And the Lakers didn't take advantage of that, right? With the sun struggling, they didn't build up a lead. They actually went into halftime down two. And it allowed the Suns to just be like, yo, we got this.

We're just going to hit some shots. And this thing is going to be over. And the way the Suns have been going about this season has literally been a very business-like mentality of like, we're just going to start running through everybody until we get to the finals. And I mean, the sun's just had such clean ball movement in so much of this game.

And, you know, McHale Bridges did a great job of attacking out of the corners because he was shooting so poorly. He was five for 17. He would keep it moving. Book had that great run right at the beginning of the second half where he hit was it three threes in a row and a dime in the

middle there to hit bridges on one of the few shots that hit bridges actually hit on the night it was

just they kind of just smacked the lakers coming out a half time and credit to russ russ went on a little

run there and lebron was pretty persistent in that third quarter and they kind of kept going but you know

the lakers were just stuck in

these ruts where they kept moving the ball, running it down all the way to the end of the shot clock. It would eventually go to like THT, he would brick a shot in the corner. I mean, just look at the Lakers box where you have. LeBron had a good night. He had 34 points. Russ shot 10 for 20. That was good. Trevor Reza hit all of his shots. And then everybody else was horrendous shooting the

ball. Isaiah Thomas was one for a points. Russ shot 10 for 20. That was good. Trevor Riza hit all of his shots. And then everybody

else was horrendous shooting the ball. Isaiah Thomas was one for 11. T.HT. 1 for 13 from the field. Mello was having a bad shooting night. Then he got a quick tech and was suddenly ejected. That was, that was pretty confusing to happen so quickly. But the Lakers just really had nothing going offensively around LeBron and Russ.

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