Analysis: Suns win despite sloppy play and mistakes

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00:00What's up everybody, Coach Jordan Ott of the Phoenix Suns had a point after Monday's win,

00:05he said he was proud of how his team fought through the holiday distractions, but let

00:09me tell you, those distractions showed up big time on Friday, in a seriously sloppy

00:14game against the New Orleans Pelicans the Suns, now 17-13, survived it with a 1-15-108

00:19win, but look at this, 18 turnovers, they gave up 42 free throws, and from deep, a brutal

00:258-40, that's just 20%, they did just enough at the end, to avoid, what would have been

00:30a bad, bad loss, 7 turnovers in just the first quarter, they got lucky the Pelicans, who are

00:368-24, only got 3 points off those, the Suns led early, but letting the Pelicans hang around

00:42just gave them confidence, all Phoenix needed was one decent run to take control, their

00:48lead got to 9 early in the second half, and right on cue, turnovers brought it back down

00:53to 4, Coach Ott called a timeout, and whatever he said, got guys like Dylan Brooks fired up,

00:59Brooks even sparked a little kerfuffle trying to steal a pass, waking up the half-asleep

01:03Pelicans crowd ready to boo him, Ott had to take another timeout, after Brooks took a wild

01:08deep 3, not a true heat check, that led to a Pelicans triple, that cut the lead to 1 point,

01:14there was still over 15 minutes left, but from that moment, Phoenix's chance to grab control

01:20was gone, the game turned into a wild foul heavy mess, here's the crazy part, entering

01:26the 4th, the Suns had 21 second chance points, but gave up 16 free throw attempts in the third

01:32quarter alone, that's the kind of self-canceling margin that's been a problem all December,

01:37then, Phoenix committed 4 fouls in under 2 and a half minutes, putting the Pelicans in

01:42the bonus for most of the 4th, 3 were on Zion Williamson drives, the kind of fouls you can

01:47live with individually, but they piled up, fast, after one of those fouls sent Zion to

01:53the line, he sprinted back off a Suns miss and found a wide open Trey Murphy third for

01:58a corner 3, that put New Orleans up 5, now, the officiating was poor, but let's talk facts,

02:05coming into Friday, per Cleaning the Glass, the Suns were ranked 27th in free throw rate

02:11and 25th in opposing free throw rate, and it's no contest who attacks the rim more, the Suns

02:16are 28th in rim frequency, the Pelicans, they're ranked first, it stayed a one possession game

02:22until the final minute, then, a Colin Gillespie mid-range shot, a Ryan Dunn block, and a lob

02:29to Mark Williams in transition put Phoenix up 5 to seal it, Williams' rim runs were huge

02:34all quarter on a bad offensive night, Mark Williams was Phoenix's best player, 24 points, 13 rebounds,

02:402 steals and a block in just 27 minutes, that's 2 straight bounce back games, we'll see if he

02:45makes his back-to-back debut on Saturday in New Orleans, Devin Booker finished with 30 points

02:49on 10 for 16 shooting plus 9 rebounds, 5 assists, 4 steals and 2 turnovers, Dylan Brooks added 14

02:55points on 5 for 12 shooting, now, some, injury, stuff, Ryan Dunn took a scary hit early in the

03:02second quarter, a teammate landed on his right leg under the basket, and he immediately grabbed

03:07his right knee, he went to the locker room, rookie Rashear Fleming, got his third chance,

03:12at rotation, minutes this season, Fleming missed 2 corner threes, but then scored 2 buckets in

03:18transition, coach Ott, kept him in with the starters, and Fleming scored on an offensive rebound

03:24while guarding Pelican's rookie Jeremiah Fears, he played 7 decent first half minutes, those shifts

03:29build confidence for when more minutes come, Dunn was available and returned in the second half,

03:35Fleming got 3 more minutes in the fourth, tough few weeks for Royce O'Neal, at this point in his

03:39career, he struggles as an on-ball defender, he's the guy team's target, and he's prone to mental

03:44lapses, at his best, he's a two-way connector who helps the offense flow, and Phoenix's 3-point

03:50volume, but once this team is healthy, he's the perimeter guy whose minutes could drop, he had 3

03:56points, 2 rebounds and 3 assists in 25 minutes, Grayson Allen continues to be sidelined with a

04:02right knee issue, it was first called soreness, then updated to right knee injury management,

04:06he was questionable, then doubtful, then straight out for Friday, that lack of progress is concerning,

04:12so the Suns got the win, but, it was messy, they overcame their own mistakes and a tough Pelican's

04:17crowd, my question to you all is, can a team that plays this sloppy, ranks so low in getting to the

04:22rim, and relies on surviving bad stretches make a real run, or are these the kind of wins that hide

04:28bigger problems?

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