Both still doing the adjustment and with these 2 consecutive losses, it might need for coach Kidd to call them out and find the better
system that will going to fit for both stars.

Kyrie already played with other stars and with the way he loves the game professionally, I can
say that he can adjust to how to help Luka.

It's a matter of time and playing together to build and established good chemistries between them
while the season is still ongoing.

Yeah, it's just part of the growing pains for this 2 superstars to jive very well in such crucial situation. So it's too early, let them learn this hard lessons for this lost and perhaps in the future they are going to figure it by themselves. The only draw back is that only 3 players on their side score in double him, both of them and Christian Wood. At least a fourth member should have contributed more in the offense and they might not see this position in the last seconds of the game and could win it.

Love the game "professionally"? Are you sure?
He isn't acting like he is a professional player IMO.

No offense to what you said though, but I see Kyrie differently. When he was in Cleveland, he destroyed the Big 3 of him, Lebron and Love because he isn't getting the respect that he wants thus, he requested a trade and went to Boston. When he went to Boston, he said that he will resign with the team, but what happened? He got traded and before that, he is already complaining with his team saying that they are young to win a title, and he is also complaining to their coach back then which is Coach Stevens. Now he went to Brooklyn because Durant requested it. When he got KD and Harden on his back, he ruined it again by not playing because of vaccine mandates etc. etc.

My apologies for what I've said, but Kyrie was never and will never a professional player to me. He will continue to destroy whichever teams he will play to. Unless we see some changes with him now that he's with the Mavericks then I'll change what I said.

As with Luka-Kyrie duo, give them some time to play. It isn't like Thanos where chemistry will be there in just a snap. It will take time, but aside from that, I hope that they will get good defensive role players. I hope they'll get Beverley now that he's been waived.

Luka and Kyrie are both playing great. It takes time to figure things out when you make such a major adjustment to the roster. That or maybe they gave up too many pieces to get Kyrie and need to figure things out or get themselves some more role players. The fact they’re both playing well and still losing isn’t the greatest sign, but at least they’re both playing well. It could be worse.

I don't see Luka moving away from the ball much...  This is because he's a big guy who isn't the most athletic.  He's never going to be running around like Steph away from the ball.  He'd be dead tired in 2 minutes.  I think it's just a bad pairing between two ball dominant players. 

We do have a couple good games on tonight.  Celtics vs Bucks and Warriors vs Clippers.  Both games televised on TNT which should lead to some good discussions about the trade deadline magic.  With the all star break right around the corner, it won't be long before we get a look at the Durant led Suns. 

Yeah, they need some time to fit in, I mean we thought that it's going to be a W for them and if I'm not mistaken, they are the favorite in this game. But the outcome is very different and it's not clear as who's going to take the last shot.

@LogitechMouse - no need to apologized, I also see your point, even with the Boston Celtics, he says that he won't leave, and same with the Nets and KD, they said they will work together. So it's hard to believed what Kyrie says because it's very different from what he is going to do in the future.

One thing about Suns is that they have way too much offense to their very little defense. CP3 is not the defender he used to be, Booker is not a great defender, and Ayton is a good rebounder but couldn't say he was a rim protector, not a feared one at least, and Durant is great at defense but he will be pretty tired on scoring constantly on offense, so he can't really put all his efforts on defense.

This concludes that they won't really have a great defense, could be good, just good, but not great and they may have some trouble on playoffs. They can play a lot better on regular season because people don't defend that hard, but playoffs could be a trouble.

Not many play defense these days. It's a lot of 3 pointers and rebounding in todays NBA. Everyone is all about being flashy or the go to guy on the team. Like Ja Morant for example. The guy is great to watch as a 1 man show, but if he didn't get the ball 90% of the time, would he still score like he does?

True, that's why they also given up something in return getting KD, they don't have the twins anymore which is their perimeter defender and willing to sacrifice their body. So we will see if the acquisition of KD is worth if they get into the finals as least.


It will be a big test for them tonight at home against a good defensive team like the Kings. If Sacramento stiffles their main offensive weapon like Booker or CP3 and not allow Ayton to play his inside game, offensive and defensive rebounding, then it could spell trouble for them in this game.