Sonnen drive hot shooting, youth movement to beat kings

Phoenix watch it at short notice or see it in the long term on Friday 122-106 Phoenix Suns victory against the Sacramento Kings, which you urgently needed.

With regard to the consistent game, it was the best thing that the suns have been since the beginning of February when they really started to fall down the overall ranking.

Phoenix (31-36) led almost the entire game, increased its advantage in the second half and did not stumble across the fourth quarter so that it could go comfortably into the cold night.

This was by no means perfect basketball, but the white-hot used white-hot shoots with a high season of 24 3 (24-against-43, 55.8%) and an absurd high of 38 points from Sacramento's 19 sales to keep the majority of the evening a pillow. The kings (33-33) were now 8 out of 32 (25%) from the depths and were less efficient from errors, with 14 solar sales converted into 16 king points.

“This is usually what bites us for a few nights. So it is good if we can turn it and use it against our opponents when we see how easy the game is when we get distracts and help each other,” said Sun's striker Kevin Durant.

Phoenix managed that the decent point was with the shared goal scorers Devin Booker and Durant with 22 points, and the duo did not even combine 50% (15- against 32, 48.7%). This can do so much insult from your defense.

While basketball is rarely as simple as the rotary decisions that decide how well a team plays or not, these profit efforts were clearly through a long overdue youth movement that brought energy.

“We can definitely feel (it) – you feel that throughout the game. … these energy games make a difference and turn it around, ”said the Sun Guard Tyus Jones.

Make room for the Suns newcomers

Phoenix was again for the second game in a row without Grayson Allen (left footstem) and Nick Richards (right ankle resilience). The lack of everyone made it possible for Rookie Ryan Dunn to log for 17 minutes on Wednesday after he had indeed signed a few DNP CDs in March. Richard's absence paved the way for Rookie Oso Ighodaro to get his first legitimate minutes since Richards had been acquired. These increased both competitions when Mason Plumlee was ejected (more on this in one minute).

Understandably, there was an outcry from the fan base for both players in the first year in order to get more playing time, especially Dunn.

While they screwed up and have their own mistakes that violate the sun, their energy alone would be upgraded to other positive aspects, the more proven decisions. The suns are not primarily in this position due to a lack of talent or because pieces do not fit. Most of it is the commitment to the details and the consistent commitment/efforts, which you can always prove with something from the boys.

Dunn got a starting nod instead of bol bol. Bol was tacitly a key factor for Phoenix inability to find Dunn-Minuten, and it is fair to say that in the past few weeks, his resolution and dislike in a rotary role has looked at a decent look at him, enough to look somewhere else after not getting this role on Friday.

The changes went to Collin Gillespie, which Jones checked in front of Jones, a deserved (and late) movement, as Gillespie affects Phoenix's win of the season at the beginning of this month.

Dunn played 33 minutes and contributed 16 points, five rebounds, three assists and four steals, while Ighodaro added 11 points, six rebounds and assists, theft and block in 32 minutes. Gillespie landed only 11 minutes, while Jones had a strong night of 20 points in 24 minutes.

The first quarter was another bizarre Blip with great defense, one of a handful that we saw in the past few months that quickly fade. A 36-22 suns in the first quarter was counted from a second quarter of 35-26 Kings, which Phoenix 'leadership rose up to 19 to just five at half-time.

The Suns received a few 3s to start the second half, and reached 15 knockdowns less than three minutes compared to three for Sacramento. Many of them were from King's sales.

A clear turning point apparently came against the sun.

Plumlee ejected (again)

Plumlee was expelled for the second game in a row, whereby it was far more justified. When a dash of the middle of the third quarter went on with the sun with nine, Plumlee turned and placed a forearm directly into the upper chest and neck of Kings Center Domanta Sabonis. He was thrown after a review. Phoenix clearly needed a kind of reaction to be pushed around, but Plumlee is so far 0-to-2 if he does this in a way that on the

These difficulties, as Ighodaro Sabonis had to defend, who will overwhelm some of the strongest big ones. But the suns only drilled 3s and Sabonis did not get the ball as much. Phoenix extended his lead that 15 entered the fourth quarter before it became briefly into the frame.

Sacramento cut it to 15 with 5:26 before Durant and Booker were converted to three times to seal it.

The Kings, who are now 8-9, since Zach Lavine made his debut after the craft of De'aaron Fox, had all five starters in double-digit figures, but only 18 bench points.

Cody Martin finally available, team debut is still expected

Sun Wing Cody Martin, who was part of the return in the Jusuf Nurkic trade, was available for the first time since trade on February 6th due to a sports hernia. Martin is one of the best overall defenders in the squad and gives the sun a good reason to find it for minutes. In addition, Martin has an additional non-guaranteed year for his deal for $ 8.6 million. Assuming that the Nurkic was not just an all-out salary failure, Phoenix is ​​interested in Martin's skills, but a valuable month of the evaluation to make this decision.

A few minutes from the heavy Booker/Durant/Bradley Beal -Workloads and the development in the last month in which Jones' minutes were stored, and that's enough scope to reach 10 boys if they are healthy for Dunn and Martin to play. Friday showed how additional sportiness and defensive intensity can change for Phoenix. Martin brings even more.

The race around the 10th seed in the west shows all four teams in a crawl. The Dallas Mavericks (33-35) lost 37 in Houston, while the San Antonio Spurs (27-38) Charlotte gave up 145 points.

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