Isaiah Thomas did not have a big role for the Phoenix Suns this year, but he had an interesting takeaway after the team's disappointing exit from the NBA Playoffs by being swept by the Minnesota Timberwolves, saying that despite having the trio of Kevin Durant, Devin Booker and Bradley Beal, the team did not have a point guard to properly distribute the ball to them. “I think we just tried something that really hasn't been done before with not having a point guard, and I think it just paid a toll on us in a series where we played against a young energetic physical team, that kind of knew, okay we're going to pressure these guys the whole game to see if they can last,” Isaiah Thomas said on All The Smoke. It was a massively disappointing exit for the Suns, who brought in Kevin Durant and Bradley Beal to play with homegrown star Devin Booker, hoping to win a title.
If ever there was a game for the Denver Nuggets to strike back in what's shaping up to be an epic clash against the Minnesota Timberwolves in the second round of the 2024 NBA playoffs, it's in Game 2. Rudy Gobert was not able to suit up after the birth of his first child, and his absence was going to be huge, as it could open up the paint for the Nuggets after Gobert played a starring role in slowing down their offense in Game 1. The Timberwolves played more suffocating defense than usual, and the Nuggets struggled as a result. Nikola Jokic turned the ball over many times, Jamal Murray was flustered with all the contact the Timberwolves were seemingly getting away with, and as a result, the Nuggets fell down by as many as 28 points before the break as Minnesota took a 61-35 lead into the halftime locker room.
While it may be hard to remember now, the Detroit Pistons were once one of the NBA's beacons of prosperity, a perennial deep playoff contender in the late 1980's and early 1990's and winners of the championship multiple times under the leadership of legendary Hall of Fame point guard Isiah Thomas. Of course, the Pistons are now the league's symbol of ineptitude and have been going back the last decade-plus, but every once in a while, it's fun for fans to relieve their stress by remembering the glory days that Thomas, Dennis Rodman, Joe Dumars, and others brought back in their heyday. One of the most controversial moments of that era of the NBA occurred when Thomas was not selected to participate in the 1992 Dream Team for Team USA at the Olympics.
No | Player | P |
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8 | SG | |
27 | C | |
3 | SG | |
11 | PF | |
1 | SG | |
35 | SF | |
14 | C | |
23 | SG | |
10 | SG | |
38 | PG | |
25 | PF | |
20 | C | |
00 | SF | |
2 | SG | |
21 | PF | |
4 | PG | |
12 | SF | |
30 | PF |