Joe House

I defy you to find another game for Denny Abdia that was more important for him than this game, this moment, this stage, this franchise, his identity in this franchise, his rise right now.

And the same is true of some of those guys

You know, in Charlotte, tell me a game that LaMelo Balls played in his entire basketball life, his whole basketball life, that was more important than tonight's game.

Right.

And, you know, it's a fair comparison to make.

You had Denny with an incredibly efficient 15 of 22 for 41 points, 12 and 7.

And, you know, we'll get to LaMelo in due time.

Yeah, yeah.

And didn't get a couple calls, too.

15 to 17?

What really kind of revealed itself is this overachieving Suns team.

They have a talent deficit.

And that's not a knock.

This was supposed to be kind of a transition rebuilding year to wash out the horrendous taste that was left in their mouths from what they tried last year.

And it turned out that chemistry matters.

the book of basketball, the secret that I learned from the book of basketball is that chemistry matters.

Yeah.

And lo and behold here, we just watched it, but you know, um, they couldn't, uh, at the end of the day, outscore Portland because Portland had, had one guy that was unstoppable.

Ah, who knows?

I mean, we know.