Stephen A. and JJ Redick DEBATE the Suns’ NEW Big 3: Chasing championships? 🔥 | First Take 

Facts 💯

The team is mostly intact. They'll resign their top role players and maybe have a couple new faces if DA gets traded. The same team that took Denver to 6 but add BB and subtract CP3. Boom!!

Solid take.

Keep talking. We know what’s going on behind the scenes and who the DA trade is going to bring to PHX that will leave you pounding your fist into a wall in anger.

If they’d take a different approach or even had a DIRECTION for the gm franchise after the 2019 season, things would looook a lot differently! I think the ownership move came too late & James Jones is far too conservative a GM for the current make up of our roster. We’ve got some chemistry but none of the depth has really emerged to fill the voids that are now Bridges & Johnson.

They will play with a bunch of high school kids whom they won’t pay.

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Lmfaooo bro agrees with both

The real reason the super teams haven’t worked is because of injuries. The Nets and Clippers couldn’t stay healthy. It’s rare a super team is formed with all the players being under 30, because it’s always older stars it means more injuries. It’s crazy Beal isn’t 30 yet but he will be before next season

@@OscarUnrated Book is 26 and Beal is 29, the real concern will be Durant who is 35. KD is more of a hooper than an athletic type. I think he can stay healthy as long as they don't put a ton of minutes on him on the regular season.

@@cryptokey1986 yeah as a nets fan it was frustrating seeing KD get hurt every year and our standings tank. That’s why it makes sense to have 3 all-stars, 2/3 should be playing at all times. Suns were .500 without KD KD is weird though because even though he misses a million reg. szn games he’s been healthy every yr in the playoffs (since Achilles). I think it’s because the Nets & Suns didn’t rush him back, he’d get an injury and they’d say 3-4 weeks but it’d end up being like 10 weeks. Probably better for KD to play 45-55 games if it means being healthy in the playoffs.

I hadn’t even heard him talk yet, and knew he’d have a good take.

I like Redick because no one is untouchable, including moody Larry Bird . If LeBron is able to take criticism so should Bird .

Also the one that’s full of himself the most

Bro sounds like a parrot repeating what anyone else is saying, u got anything original to input?

All three of them avg around 5 assists per game. One of them is going to have to turn into a James Harden type and start dishing the ball more, and score less, and that's probably going to be Beal, but not sure if he has the court vision.

I have a strong feeling. The trio is gonna have stretches where they are averaging 90 points, getting 10 points or less from the bench and giving up 115 to their opponents

This is the NETS 2.0, it will implode.

​@@Got_Em_Coach_Fishingit's not about the effort. When it comes to the game of basketball, hundreds of players were more gifted and more athletic. But in punditry, not many (if someone) out there smarter than him.

They better keep Ayton. We all know Beal and Durant will miss half the season next year.

Nuggets are a more balanced team

@@baldeagle4710and suns are still better

@@King__Tonecap . No one NO ONE is stopping Jokic . MPJ will be better . Murray will be an all star. Nuggets are the more balanced more complete team in the league.

@@King__Tonenot with the depth they have rn

They said the same thing about the Bucks …. Supposedly Bucks would be unstoppable and can repeat and 3 peat Warriors we’re Suppose to repeat and the lakers were suppose to repeat lol

You must have James Jones confused with Rob Pelinka

@@doublez_ true 😂

@@KarloBlaze is James Jones best move acquiring cp3?

@@doublez_ I would say yes. CP3 brought the team with huge potential on a whole new level. His veteran experience helped them a lot in that Playoff run few years ago. I don't like the moves they did after that, allegedly Isiah Thomas has a lot of influence in that. This move looks terrible as well, but what do I know? Who knows what else they have in mind for this offseason.

Honestly they might not even have to trade Ayton...they can get another big body in free agency and maybe one more shooter for catch and shoot scenarios....but at the very least another big to help down low

Brooklyn Nets 2.0

If it doesn't work how is it a great move

That don’t make sense how is it a great move if it doesn’t work out lol?

The ego of Kyrie Irving and James Harden far surpasses Beal and Booker you don’t have to worry about Beal and Booker having off court antics coming to work fat and lazy or Mr Basketball is not the most important thing earth flat Irving

@@t.dot8565 you good bro?

Stephen A. really said "Kobe-esque".

His offensive style is Kobe like but he's not near the defender or the leader kobe was . Because kobe would've closed the bucks out while Booker and cp3 sold back2back games in the finals .

AKA discount clearance aisle Skip Bayless

​@@MarcoG353he's way more likeable than Skip lol

@alphadog3586 That's true. He atleast has humor and energy

He sucks. Stop the cap

JJ and Tim Legler are the best together IMO

And I usually still lose

It's amazing how everything that should be attributed to LeBron somehow is being thrown onto KD 🤣

@@smoothsavage2870don’t you know, lebron meat riders are mad for kD getting help because the groupies only allow their choke artist savior lebron to get it. Lebron tried to recruit every super star in the league and his delusion no brain groupies turn their eye.

​@@smoothsavage2870attributed to lebron how lmaoo kd is still making superteams lebron doesnt have no superteam kd had 3 big threes in his career now played with 3 mvps in their prime lmaoo fkin delusion kd nutsucker 😂😂😂

@@smoothsavage2870 - It's really not the same, though. LeBron spent the first 7 years of his career playing with a bad-to-mediocre squad and still made a Finals... and on that Finals team, Larry Hughes was the 2nd best player and he only averaged 14 points in the regular season and 11 points in the playoffs. Then yes, once LeBron went to Miami, he's always had a superstar or 2 for teammates, but the difference between him and KD is LeBron's been to 10 Finals overall, while KD's only been to 4... and those 3 were on a team that was already making Finals before he got there AND it wasn't even 'his' team (it was Curry's). The point is... LeBron actually did something productive with his super teams while KD has floundered most of his opportunities for one reason or another. I mean, KD has only had ONE year in his career where he didn't have a future Hall of Famer as a teammate and that was his rookie year in Seattle.

Have seen Ayton against some of the best big man? He got owned big time

Wats your point ?? Do y’all say the same for lebum nope but he’s a goat lol y’all some haters

@@kingajames2ayton is a punk and the suns have 3 dudes who NEED the ball so yeah, this isn’t gonna work out.

​@@itsjmell3768at least LeBum gets results

@@itsjmell3768of course they don’t lol they would be quit if kyrie came to lakers

You love basketball but never heard of Beal until a few days ago? 🤔 Interesting...

SAS IS THAT YOU??!

@@chinonsoude this is not AI. I'm a person. Middle-aged woman writing a comment.

It's also about who is going to learn to spot up to score. Other thing about those successful trios is Chris Bosh and Love totally change their games. They could always shoot, but they were primarily post up players. They instead started to space the floor and try and knock down threes. They stopped getting plays called for them - especially in the post. Bradley Beal has to be ready to knock down open 3s. That's not really his game. More of a midrange scorer, but he needs to be hitting threes and spotting up waiting for the ball. It's a tough role to have.

All of this true, I think their biggest hurdle will be health. All 3 over the past few years have had issues staying healthy. 2nd issue I have with them is who will be the playmaker? I know Booker has it in him at times, but still don’t see him as a PG/ Playmaker. This can obviously be addressed in FA or possibly trading Ayton. Then there is all the stuff you mentioned with roles, this team has too many questions right now

I say it’s Beal. There’s no real pressure on him to perform, to me it’s all on KD. He’s the team hopper chasing championships.

@@leir2005I agree more on KD than anyone

Definitely beal. He's the worst out of the 3

They got blown practically in every L they took that series. Double digit losses

@@doublez_ They lost game 2 by 10 points and that was with CP going down in the 3rd quarter. 1, 5 and 6 certainly weren't close games to be fair, but that has a lot to due with Booker and KD carrying to much of a load to stay efficient. With a 3rd legit scorer the team won't need to lean so heavily of Book and KD to take all of the shots and play 40+ minutes every playoff game.

Some people might think Book is better than KD now, his playoff numbers were great, but coaches don’t seem to agree. The Clippers & Nuggets defenses definitely were focusing on KD. Booker was saying every press conference how great it was that KD was shifting the defense’s attention. People forget about KD’s defense, he’s not an all-time defender but at 6’11” he can wreak havoc. It showed every time he was subbed out the Nuggets went on huge runs (KD +/- was -5 for the playoffs, Booker was -37). By midway through the Nuggets series they were doubling KD & Booker, and the Suns role players were missing wide open shots. Now they either don’t double or leave Beal wide open, I wouldn’t be surprised if Beal’s stats looked the best out of the 3 in the playoffs because of the defensive schemes.

@@doublez_ a lot of those games were competitive until the fourth when KD & Book looked gassed. But what team didn’t get beat down by the Nuggets? The Lakers games were closest but they couldn’t even win a game. In four series the Nuggets took four losses, Suns gave em half of them.

@@cobra7282 and that’s how it going yo be in the foreseeable future for them. Look at the last 5 champions and notice none of them needed what Phoenix is getting

Not a good deal on the pacers end buddy hield and Myles can ball the pacers actually can make the playoffs with that roster they already got haliburton and nemhard why would you trade two of your best players if your rebuilding and headed in the right direction

Deandre Ayton isn’t goood as you think he is either he’s hardly better than Myles 🤷🏾‍♂️

And Pacers only sign high character players for the most part

@@genosnatsuki I’m convinced a lot of people don’t even watch basketball. You just look at a stat sheet and then say anything. There’s no way a coherent person could watch Kobe, then watch Booker and think they are on the same level.

I have heard an orthopedic surgeon say that a major leg injury …even if you’re healed..is equivalent to at least three years of normal aging.

Sound like the rest of these haters say so much negative about one person which who don’t control teams but somehow kd name always in the convo

Bro did you watch the playoffs ?? 😂

@@itsjmell3768 kd hasn’t played with all the talent he has by simple luck.

@@Sucka41Love yes. I saw KD average 30 and whatever but on decreased efficiency, which is normal for in the playoffs when teams stop letting him go 1on1 at a high frequency. He’s only gotten over the hump in GS when curry and Thompson allowed him to consistently go 1on1. He shot 57% in the regular season with BK and PHX all the way down to 47%. Come playoff time, that physicality goes 📈 and his efficiency goes 📉. Not to mind he turns the ball over more.

KD, Lebron, and CP3 can form the new Geritol and WD40 super team. Who could stop them

Lakers in 3

Did I hear an "if"

Maybe , kinda how sabonis started thriving

yup. mad dog hilarious tho lmao

he is the wrong shade for Stephen

Craig is solid no need to trade him.

Blaming covid and the owner over kyrie is weird. Especially because you could've just pointed to injuries that ruined their chance against the bucks

@@xcwilliams7980 1st I said mayor and Covid since it was his decision that kept kyrie from playing“no one is above it” and that extra bull affected hardens decision to leave or stay

I got the shoes 😂😂 he trynna force Molly to his house to get the shoes