Entries Tagged as 'Markieff Morris'

Minnesota Timberwolves 105, Phoenix Suns 93 — Turnover troubles

April 13th, 2013 · 38 Comments

The Suns have admitted they’re not a team with a lot of room for error. They didn’t play that way at Minnesota, attempting behind-the-back and no-look passes, proving that the Suns can indeed play loosely.
Just not efficiently.
Against one of the best defensive perimeters in the league (Ricky Rubio, Luke Ridnour and Andrei Kirilenko average a combined [...]

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Tags: Goran Dragic · Hamed Haddadi · Kendall Marshall · Luis Scola · Marcus Morris · Markieff Morris · Minnesota Timberwolves · Phoenix Suns · Phoenix Suns Recap · Wesley Johnson

Stuck in the middle: How the Morris twins reflect the Suns’ uncertainty

April 12th, 2013 · 19 Comments

There’s no rule book on being a bad NBA team. It’s one reason for the ongoing discussion of tanking being a legitimate option or a sorry excuse for what used to be called “rebuilding.” The Phoenix Suns and especially president of basketball ops Lon Babby have maintained they are against it. And though they’ve done [...]

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Tags: Marcus Morris · Markieff Morris · Phoenix Suns · Phoenix Suns Analysis

ValleyoftheSuns Live: The Suns are officially tanking & more on the Morris twins

March 27th, 2013 · 17 Comments

Hide your kids, hide your wife and hide your husband because the Phoenix Suns are tanking out here. As Paul Coro reported from Utah prior to the Suns’ game against the Jazz, that the Suns front office was holding out point guard Goran Dragic against a Jazz team that can theoretically chase down the Los [...]

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Grading the Phoenix Suns’ trade deadline deals

February 22nd, 2013 · 4 Comments

No Josh Smith, no Al Jefferson and nothing too notable. The Phoenix Suns were pretty conservative in their moves before Thursday’s trade deadline, and that’s OK. It’s what most of us hoped for with the new collective bargaining agreement pushing every NBA team away from scary-big contracts. Phoenix acquired Marcus Morris for a second round [...]

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Luis Scola reinserted back into starting lineup for Markieff Morris

December 12th, 2012 · 5 Comments

PHOENIX — The adage goes that if it isn’t broke, don’t fix it.
But for Alvin Gentry and the Phoenix Suns, the complete opposite may be true these days.
Stuck in the middle of a seven-game losing streak — the franchise’s longest since February 2004 — Gentry has proven that he is willing to do whatever it [...]

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Tags: Alvin Gentry · Luis Scola · Markieff Morris · Phoenix Suns · Phoenix Suns News

Phoenix Suns 114, Portland Trail Blazers 87 — Complete victory

November 22nd, 2012 · 28 Comments

PHOENIX — Alvin Gentry made two changes to his starting lineup, but the way the Suns played it almost seemed like he swapped out his entire team before Phoenix’s 114-87 victory over the Portland Trail Blazers on Wednesday evening.
This night was different from all other nights because the Suns shot 59.7 percent from the field [...]

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Tags: Marcin Gortat · Markieff Morris · Phoenix Suns · Phoenix Suns Recap · Portland Trail Blazers