Our great Devin Booker has defined our 2022 Playoff journey as the Phoenix Suns' Revenge Tour after losing in the NBA Finals last season. He did so by acknowledging the great Phoenix crowd. Anybody in attendance in games 1 and 2, and anybody who had the TV on and watching with all their energy — thank you — for the Suns have most certainly picked up off of all our collective energy.
Last week, I did two episodes of Suns Mode. Our Thursday edition was released just before the game 6 of the Suns vs Pelicans series as well as the game 6 of the Mavericks vs Jazz series, and in that episode I talked about the early parts of the Suns/Pelicans series with a focus on how to win game 6 in New Orleans. The Suns would go ahead and pick up the win, and the Mavericks would go ahead and pick up their win as well.
This set us up for the Suns Mode Bonus episode released this past Sunday, which was focused solely on the matchup ahead between the Suns and Mavericks. If you listened to two episodes this past week I could not thank you enough. If you have not listened to the Bonus episode from this past week and still want to learn more about the matchup, it is still not too late. I feel like most of my insights have really not changed even though we are nearly halfway through the series
In this episode, I talked about the series of events that occurred in game 1 and game 2, following up on many of the predictions I made about this series and how the Mavericks would try to match up. We start by talking about game 1.
From there, we moved onto game 2. I had assumed coming into this series that game 1 would be a fairly easy win. We know game 2s don't come that easy, as the Suns would drop one at home in the previous series. It started off as a very tough game, but the Suns would end up coming into their usual dominant form and create a blowout out of game 2.
I end the episode by previewing the next two games. The Suns will travel into Dallas to play games on Friday and Sunday. If the Mavericks are lucky enough to pull one out, they will travel back to Phoenix for game 5 on Tuesday. Regardless, I am at least 90% confident that the series will be over by the next time we talk on Suns Mode.
Expect our next new episode of Suns Mode to be released next Thursday. Hopefully, we will be recapping a great Suns win but I can imagine we will also be talking about the series going on between the Grizzlies and Warriors. I think they will still be in the heat of things.
Remember to spread love and #ValleyExcellence AND KEEP THAT ENERGY FOR THE REST OF THE REVENGE TOUR.
WHILE WE ARE FEELING THIS GREAT, MAKE SURE TO TAKE THE TIME TO LOVE YOURSELF.
LETS GO SUNS LETS GO SUNS LETS GO SUNS LETS GO SUNS
SWEEP THE MAVS
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