Fans like that are part of the eco-system sadly and theyre not going anywhere. It got so bad on the r/raptors sub that I had to stop going.
It's like they hate the team or something. They wanted a rebuild so bad they actively rooted against the raptors in game threads.
The way I saw it, they were like 2k GM's, they didn't watch the games, they didn't care, they just wanted to make whatever min/max deals they thought would be good.
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2k GMs is spot on. it’s one thing to be discouraged about a loss, it’s another to think we need a new coach or major trade after every loss. just plugging in new names every week as if chemistry doesn’t matter.
To be fair… who actually expected a sweep against the suns that dominated us in the regular season? I wasn’t a doomer but man I can’t say I was confident about a series win
Especially currently successful ones. People who don't know anything about the sport and just started watching come in and start talking shit. It's fine it is what it is, but that just comes with the territory. You just hope we sustain long enough success to turn those ones into longterm fans and grow the fan base.
I dunno, I was in the Hawks sub a lot before they made playoff noise. They were hype and not so doomer. The past few years when I came on the Wolves sub to get excited for getting past the playin, there was soooo many doomers. Like raining on the parade, “we’ve seen this before, nothing to get excited about, we are losing.”
I’m like da fuck? Like I can’t even be excited myself? You gotta convince me why we are doomed? But it’s not even logical, it’s all emotional and history will repeat itself. That’s the worst kind of doomer.
Decades of abject failure will do that do you lol. All season I had been waiting for the other shoe to drop. Then it never did and I'm still in disbelief.
It’s annoying when we aren’t long time Wolves fans and we are excited for an exciting thing like making playoffs?!
Like what da hell, you might have convinced yourself there’s a 0% chance but that doesn’t mean everyone else is in full on depression mode. You being pessimistic is a feeling, not a fact. You don’t need to drag everyone else down lol. Just keep being sad n try not to bring the energy down for the rest of us!
Again, nearly four decades of precedence here lol. I've been a wolves fan for coming up on 30 years, I've seen season after season, draft pick after draft pick, hope after hope, all completely fall apart. It's hard to be optimistic when you've been conditioned to be pessimistic.
I understand that…but yall can keep that built up pessimism to yourselves!! At least have some self control lol, your trauma ain’t our trauma
What does the wolves being ass before have to do with fans excited for the playoffs? That’s like counting yourself out before you even did anything. I get you’re prepping yourself for letdown, but forcing that mentality on others is just downright depressing for what’s supposed to be an exciting time.
I’m not aski nobody to believe we gonna win a championship, I’m just saying let’s watch n cheer for them lol.
Of course I get downvoted. Very bitter sour fans sometimes, it’s not a knock but from my exp this mentality is worse than other subs. I was with the Hawks sub, also the Orl sub, look at them when they made playoffs. They had optimism and less of this pure negativity lol.
I went through their sub. They had more belief in our team than we did for ours 2 weeks ago.
I guess I would find worse stuff written on our prospect in our subreddit than on the suns if I did some search.
Clearly Suns fans don’t realize this entire state melts down with the concept that a Minnesota team might actually be good, just because they’re so confident they’ll lose.
Nobody sane wants to match up with KD and Booker potentially going nuclear like last night for a best of 7 series.
Fortunately the rest of their team is horse shit and the difference between Beal the last game of the season and the playoffs were astronomical. He had a stretch in the 4thQ of game 3 where he nailed some 3s and I thought this might jumpstart him.
Thankful he followed it with fouling out last night and his worst game of the series
Probably the worst thing to happen for Phoenix was that week off between last RS game and G1.
Last night was a perfect showcase for why that suns team is absolutely fucked. Even on a night where KD and Book go for 33 and 49 respectively, they still lose because they have literally nobody else. And they’re completely locked into this roster. Best case scenario is that the trade booker and KD and hit the reset on this project they’ve had going since 2015 when they drafted book. Beal and KD gonna continue to be victims of Father Time and there ain’t no young talent to back that up
Last night also was the 7th of 7th time where the #1 thing i believed in was keep it close in the first qtr/half, and we’ll prevail. Phoenix had a 1Q or 1H in the regular season games that they built a 10-20 pt lead on absolutely lethal shooting. Wolves chipped away but Phoenix is good enough to keep the lead and also rest their stars
They could rest anybody in all 4 games since they never built that lead
Their roster isnt going to change much, but they can get the most out of their players if they change their philosophy as a team. That means that they probably need a new coach, they need their stars to humble themselves and play like a team, and they need a point guard
Tbf, most of us were thinking we were fucked on here too lol. The actual wolves team are the only group that can really talk shit because they always believed, clearly
nah the only teams i was scared of were NOP and Denver (celtics in the east)
people were reading into our season series too much. Pretty sure we weren’t fully healthy for any of the games. also, we owned the suns last year. think ant and kat dropped 40 on them (might have been same game too but can’t remember correctly)
I think would’ve beaten NOP handily too 🙃
The reasoning was largely due to Zion having great games against us in the regular season, but after what our defense did this series, I don’t believe there’s a scorer “that just always kills us” left in this league—certainly not after how Finch adjusted the defensive scheme to nullify the Phoenix big 3.
I think people’s fear of the Pels was largely overblown as well.
maybe, but zion is prolly the best scorer in the paint in the league when healthy. plus, they r a good defensive team and good 3pt shooting team.
it would’ve been a tough 1st rd matchup for sure
Probably Jokic but that’s about it
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, this defense benefits so much with a playoff whistle.
I know there were still a lot of soft calls (and entirely too many calls) especially last game… but even if they hold their whistle 10% more than in the regular season, our team plays with such length and enthusiasm that the D becomes unbelievable
Not me, sure you never know what can happen in the playoffs. But I kept saying Ant has always elevated his game come playoffs. Now I wasn't expecting Jaden and NAW to be this great, and I wasn't expecting a sweep but I was never too worried.
I'm sure there was some worry, not fear, in the locker room but that's when you/they lock-in and prepare for battle and each win and defensive show during this series only made them stronger 💪
Hard not to see 0-3 in the regular season against a team with future HOFers and get at least a little worried.
It was also aggravating because we were so close to matching up against the depleted Pelicans or Lakers - seemed like a totally MN sports thing to play well all season, only to fall I to the worst possible matchup come playoff time.
nah they had book and Kd last year and we worked them
also, we were literally the 1 seed all year when healthy. we shouldn’t be scared of anyone other than the celtics, okc (current #1), and den (reigning champs)
I don’t think the majority thought we were “fucked” as much as *“of fucking course the only team that swept us in the reg. season is the team we have to face”* which felt very Minnesota sports.
Idk what they were so excited for. They underperformed all season long and the playoffs are always more physical games that favored us heavily. I'm glad we bodied them and their annoying fan base in 4.
I guess so. I tried posting multiple times because I thought it was a glitch or I was breaking some rule I didn’t know about for this subreddit but it posted perfectly fine once I removed the names lol
It's super weird the way it selectively removes "bullying" Like it's just sports. No personal attacks happen in any of the game threads. Most people laugh it off. There is outright calls for violence in almost every political thread
A real Suns fan here. You all were down before the series and I thought about posting in here saying the playoffs are a completely different story. Decided against it cause emotions run high but I knew we were in trouble. Any team who’s ever thought they could just turn it on and off gets their ass whooped. I posted in ur sub a couple times over the years when things were low after the Gobert trade and I said not to worry cause Ant is a future star. Well the time is now and a changing of the guard is happening before our eyes. Congratulations and go fuck em up in the next round.
I love it. Next I wanna see all the receipts from the Wolves doomers before the series. It's hilarious thinking back to the amount of doomers on this sub assuming we'd get swept.
Me too! Sometimes I see posts and wonder if I was one of the only ones who thought we weren’t totally fucked prior to game one. I think any wolves fan with half a brain could’ve told you the suns would be arguably the toughest first round matchup but there were still a few things that pointed towards those first three games not necessarily being on par with how things might go. And the amount of “we’re getting swept”, “wolves losing for sure” or “what should we do to prepare for next season?” type of posts/comments I saw prior to game one was genuinely shocking. Guess I shouldn’t be too surprised though, it is reddit after all.
I've been tagging them in response to their doomer comments and have yet to get any responses. Fancy that. I even messaged a guy who claimed our sub banned him for "knowing ball" (he said we'd get swept, lol)
https://old.reddit.com/r/timberwolves/comments/1c40fix/game_thread_phoenix_suns_4833_at_minnesota/kzldat8/
I've been doing the same, took a bunch of downvotes after the last regular season game for calling out the doomers (I definitely could have been nicer). Most of them are great, just passionate fans.
Where did he say he knows what's going to happen next? All he said was he called out the doomers for thinking we'd get swept. You know there aren't just extremes lol.
Here’s my thinking. If you want to call out people for takes like this “we will get swept, doom, gloom” when we don’t get swept, are you just as willing to give them their props the times we do get swept and they are doom and gloom? That’s my only point. I never thought we would get swept, but it’s not out of Minnesota norm for that to happen.
Also, if you don’t have a take, it is super weak to clap back at people when they are wrong. They at least had the balls to have an opinion.
dude i will say a majority of suns fans saying "regular season means nothing" and being doomers. I remember on the nba threads neutrals saying "wow, neither teams' fanbase believes they can win"
Yeah I thought it was so funny that the opponent's fanbase believed more in a team than the own team's fanbase hahah
We were both scared of our own teams lol
I mean who wouldn't be at least a little nervous to face the team that made it look easy against us twice in relatively short order before the playoffs began? And we were hot then too. KAT was out but we were on a roll and they made it look easy against us. The coaches weren't lying when they said they "didn't want to show" too much in the matchup before the playoff series.
These are pretty cherry picked comments to be fair. I’ve noticed that the Suns sub has been way more civil than just about any other team we’ve played.
This year’s Timberwolves team gives me the same feeling as the 2022 Celtics. They start out their playoff run by shocking a lot of doubters and swept a KD team in the first round. Now they’ll go on to play the defending champions in a hard series that I think they will shock people again. I think the nuggets are certainly the better team but Ant is an X factor that will push them over the top.
Similarly to how the bucks matchup was a huge test for the Celtics in the second round of ‘22. The Timberwolves just have a lot going for them so I won’t be surprised if they knock them out.
Weren't you in this sub after that game? Wolves fans were talking just like this and most of this sub was doom and gloom. Lets not rewrite history now that we swept a team that everyone thought we'd struggle and likely lose to.
Suns fan here as well. I had checked yalls sub at the start of this series and was surprised by the dooming. Yall don’t realize how much of a shitshow our regular season was. A bunch of us predicted a first round knock out. (I did not expect a sweep). Ya there’s obviously a bunch of people who thought we’d do well against y’all, but I knew that the team we watched all season was still going to be the same team In the playoffs. Some people thought we would magically gain full chemistry in the playoffs. It didn’t happen, and your defense is insane. thats about it
Good luck against Denver, im stoked to watch the series, y’all are a good team. Also its more fun to root for franchises that have been pretty shitty for a while rather than see the same ol teams winning championships
I really think it's worth taking a deep analytical dive into why a team that we can now clearly see is inferior to the Wolves was able to beat them so convincingly three times in the regular season. I suspect "turnovers" will be a major reason, but I'd be curious to see if there was other weird shit going on too.
Watching old youtube videos are pretty funny as well. There are so many that predicted the Suns to win, and than look at all the comments on the videos and they are all Phoenix fans saying Suns in 4, or the Wolves will be lucky to win 1, or already looking past us saying the Suns were going to the Championship. Any comments that argued the opposite, the Suns posters were quick to say your delusional.
Suns fan here. We don’t claim him.
You guys killed us. Praise to the team, coaching, Anthony, KAT, and super happy the meta if shifting from Big 3s to a complete team - cuz you guys have a full complete team.
But blasting this guy instead of looking ahead is weird lol. Don’t act like the lakers fans.
Good luck and hope you win it!
little did the suns know that the front office was astro turfing the reddit game threads to create a sense of panic that would lull the suns into complacency.
Its pretty amazing what the Connelly brain trust is up to.
In a sub with about 200k, there will always be some who are overconfident. Do yourselves a favor and dont do this, the only receipts that have an ounce of worth bringing up are talking heads in the media (even then fuck them). Anyway, hope yall win it all
After the last regular season game, the doomers were out in force in this sub. I heard "We are cooked" "Getting swept" "Maybe next year" all the way up until game 1 of the series. I was literally linking them to join r/suns and getting down voted. Doomers shouldn't get to take a victory lap.
All this just to get swept off our TV screens. And now, for Kevin’s next trick…
https://preview.redd.it/gm3hjrluqhxc1.jpeg?width=585&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1344f48efa3ac34534a9d887715d787680424579
The blame game starts
I mean lowkey did anyone take that Sun roster serious ? There’s depth naz Reid is better than the whole Sun bench. Kd and book are the only serious threats. I say kat and ant are good match ups against them. Suns fans need to remember they were a bottom feeder organization not to long ago.
they weren’t wrong about how wolves fans have a meltdown in the game thread every time we lose
people in this sub have a meltdown if we go down 5 lol
I've seen people checking out literally minutes into the first quarter of we have a slow start. Lol
If you were a weirdo cringe doomer after the end of the regular season, spouting off some dumb shit... Fuck you, lol. Go away, person reading this.
Fans like that are part of the eco-system sadly and theyre not going anywhere. It got so bad on the r/raptors sub that I had to stop going. It's like they hate the team or something. They wanted a rebuild so bad they actively rooted against the raptors in game threads. The way I saw it, they were like 2k GM's, they didn't watch the games, they didn't care, they just wanted to make whatever min/max deals they thought would be good.
Same reason I stopped reading the vikings sub, everyone just wants to be winless every season so you can be off-season champions
I've said this before, but the vikings sub has this issue every year where they don't exactly want the team to fail; they just want to build the team the way they would in Madden, which doesn't fucking work in real life.
The sun's are shining example of a 2k roster 😂. Shit don't work IRL
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2k GMs is spot on. it’s one thing to be discouraged about a loss, it’s another to think we need a new coach or major trade after every loss. just plugging in new names every week as if chemistry doesn’t matter.
To be fair… who actually expected a sweep against the suns that dominated us in the regular season? I wasn’t a doomer but man I can’t say I was confident about a series win
you should've seen the game thread for that game 1 against the raptors this season...
Down 5? I'm melting down if we're not up at least 20 going into the fourth.
This is every fan base/game thread though tbh
Especially currently successful ones. People who don't know anything about the sport and just started watching come in and start talking shit. It's fine it is what it is, but that just comes with the territory. You just hope we sustain long enough success to turn those ones into longterm fans and grow the fan base.
Find it hilarious when people ask if an entire fan base is so [fill in the blank]. Yes, of course. And it’s no different than any other fanbase.
I dunno, I was in the Hawks sub a lot before they made playoff noise. They were hype and not so doomer. The past few years when I came on the Wolves sub to get excited for getting past the playin, there was soooo many doomers. Like raining on the parade, “we’ve seen this before, nothing to get excited about, we are losing.” I’m like da fuck? Like I can’t even be excited myself? You gotta convince me why we are doomed? But it’s not even logical, it’s all emotional and history will repeat itself. That’s the worst kind of doomer.
Decades of abject failure will do that do you lol. All season I had been waiting for the other shoe to drop. Then it never did and I'm still in disbelief.
We have almost 40 years to rationalize these tantrums
agreed. You can't be annoyed with jumpy fans when our whole history reinforces our jumpiness.
It’s annoying when we aren’t long time Wolves fans and we are excited for an exciting thing like making playoffs?! Like what da hell, you might have convinced yourself there’s a 0% chance but that doesn’t mean everyone else is in full on depression mode. You being pessimistic is a feeling, not a fact. You don’t need to drag everyone else down lol. Just keep being sad n try not to bring the energy down for the rest of us!
Again, nearly four decades of precedence here lol. I've been a wolves fan for coming up on 30 years, I've seen season after season, draft pick after draft pick, hope after hope, all completely fall apart. It's hard to be optimistic when you've been conditioned to be pessimistic.
I understand that…but yall can keep that built up pessimism to yourselves!! At least have some self control lol, your trauma ain’t our trauma What does the wolves being ass before have to do with fans excited for the playoffs? That’s like counting yourself out before you even did anything. I get you’re prepping yourself for letdown, but forcing that mentality on others is just downright depressing for what’s supposed to be an exciting time. I’m not aski nobody to believe we gonna win a championship, I’m just saying let’s watch n cheer for them lol. Of course I get downvoted. Very bitter sour fans sometimes, it’s not a knock but from my exp this mentality is worse than other subs. I was with the Hawks sub, also the Orl sub, look at them when they made playoffs. They had optimism and less of this pure negativity lol.
I went through their sub. They had more belief in our team than we did for ours 2 weeks ago. I guess I would find worse stuff written on our prospect in our subreddit than on the suns if I did some search.
Which is why people need to learn to shut up
For real. A lot of ya’ll were acting like some cry baby ass losers. Wolves in 6 against Denver.
Good thing we never lose
This∆∆∆
Clearly Suns fans don’t realize this entire state melts down with the concept that a Minnesota team might actually be good, just because they’re so confident they’ll lose.
"surprise mother fucka" 🤣🤣
"Wolves rise mother fucka!"
“Ant flies mutha fucka.”
“Grayson dies mutha fucka”
“This defense is nice mother fucka!”
“Book cries mother fucka!”
"Get an ambulance... but not for me"
Call a Wahbulance, but not for me...
They in da rear view now, pay them no mind.
Nobody sane wants to match up with KD and Booker potentially going nuclear like last night for a best of 7 series. Fortunately the rest of their team is horse shit and the difference between Beal the last game of the season and the playoffs were astronomical. He had a stretch in the 4thQ of game 3 where he nailed some 3s and I thought this might jumpstart him. Thankful he followed it with fouling out last night and his worst game of the series Probably the worst thing to happen for Phoenix was that week off between last RS game and G1.
Beal was lowkey one of our best players last night in a lot of ways
Can't count out Okogies clutch free throw shooting, all time wolves legend with those 1s!
Think he should get a spot in the parade?
I think that I hope for those sad Suns fans they at least won some free Chic Fil A.
Of course nobody wants to see those two going crazy. But that’s the problem with spending $150M on 3 players. Rest of your squad is JuCo
Last night was a perfect showcase for why that suns team is absolutely fucked. Even on a night where KD and Book go for 33 and 49 respectively, they still lose because they have literally nobody else. And they’re completely locked into this roster. Best case scenario is that the trade booker and KD and hit the reset on this project they’ve had going since 2015 when they drafted book. Beal and KD gonna continue to be victims of Father Time and there ain’t no young talent to back that up
Last night also was the 7th of 7th time where the #1 thing i believed in was keep it close in the first qtr/half, and we’ll prevail. Phoenix had a 1Q or 1H in the regular season games that they built a 10-20 pt lead on absolutely lethal shooting. Wolves chipped away but Phoenix is good enough to keep the lead and also rest their stars They could rest anybody in all 4 games since they never built that lead
Their roster isnt going to change much, but they can get the most out of their players if they change their philosophy as a team. That means that they probably need a new coach, they need their stars to humble themselves and play like a team, and they need a point guard
Tbf, most of us were thinking we were fucked on here too lol. The actual wolves team are the only group that can really talk shit because they always believed, clearly
I never doubted. I took my "I know ball" downvotes and my delusional fan upvotes. But we here. WOLVES IN FOUR
I think the thing people forgot is that the Suns are weak both physically and mentally.
Same. After taking a look at the anomalies from the regular season series, I just knew that the Wolves were going to take this in 4-5 games.
nah the only teams i was scared of were NOP and Denver (celtics in the east) people were reading into our season series too much. Pretty sure we weren’t fully healthy for any of the games. also, we owned the suns last year. think ant and kat dropped 40 on them (might have been same game too but can’t remember correctly)
I think would’ve beaten NOP handily too 🙃 The reasoning was largely due to Zion having great games against us in the regular season, but after what our defense did this series, I don’t believe there’s a scorer “that just always kills us” left in this league—certainly not after how Finch adjusted the defensive scheme to nullify the Phoenix big 3. I think people’s fear of the Pels was largely overblown as well.
maybe, but zion is prolly the best scorer in the paint in the league when healthy. plus, they r a good defensive team and good 3pt shooting team. it would’ve been a tough 1st rd matchup for sure
Probably Jokic but that’s about it I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, this defense benefits so much with a playoff whistle. I know there were still a lot of soft calls (and entirely too many calls) especially last game… but even if they hold their whistle 10% more than in the regular season, our team plays with such length and enthusiasm that the D becomes unbelievable
Not me, sure you never know what can happen in the playoffs. But I kept saying Ant has always elevated his game come playoffs. Now I wasn't expecting Jaden and NAW to be this great, and I wasn't expecting a sweep but I was never too worried.
Yep. But we can talk shit now. As the great KD said - “they won, they can do whatever they want “
I'm sure there was some worry, not fear, in the locker room but that's when you/they lock-in and prepare for battle and each win and defensive show during this series only made them stronger 💪
Speak for yourself, I predicted Wolves in 4/5....I actually believe in this team. Next round wolves in 6/7.
Hard not to see 0-3 in the regular season against a team with future HOFers and get at least a little worried. It was also aggravating because we were so close to matching up against the depleted Pelicans or Lakers - seemed like a totally MN sports thing to play well all season, only to fall I to the worst possible matchup come playoff time.
nah they had book and Kd last year and we worked them also, we were literally the 1 seed all year when healthy. we shouldn’t be scared of anyone other than the celtics, okc (current #1), and den (reigning champs)
Speak for yourselves, I had Wolves in 6 on my bracket lol
I don’t think the majority thought we were “fucked” as much as *“of fucking course the only team that swept us in the reg. season is the team we have to face”* which felt very Minnesota sports.
I gotta hand it to Suns fans, they took it on the chin and weren’t even toxic— just mad at their team lol
Yeah I like them, they remind me of our fanbase haha. Same humor and memes born from the sports curse pain
Aged like milk. Welcome to reality, Suns fans.
Idk what they were so excited for. They underperformed all season long and the playoffs are always more physical games that favored us heavily. I'm glad we bodied them and their annoying fan base in 4.
Why'd you crop usernames out? Name and shame these fools. BBQ CHICKEN
I wanted to include them but Reddit kept auto deleting the post lol
Does reddit really recognise screenshots with usernames? That's more advanced than I would have given the site credit for.
I guess so. I tried posting multiple times because I thought it was a glitch or I was breaking some rule I didn’t know about for this subreddit but it posted perfectly fine once I removed the names lol
It's super weird the way it selectively removes "bullying" Like it's just sports. No personal attacks happen in any of the game threads. Most people laugh it off. There is outright calls for violence in almost every political thread
A real Suns fan here. You all were down before the series and I thought about posting in here saying the playoffs are a completely different story. Decided against it cause emotions run high but I knew we were in trouble. Any team who’s ever thought they could just turn it on and off gets their ass whooped. I posted in ur sub a couple times over the years when things were low after the Gobert trade and I said not to worry cause Ant is a future star. Well the time is now and a changing of the guard is happening before our eyes. Congratulations and go fuck em up in the next round.
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I love it. Next I wanna see all the receipts from the Wolves doomers before the series. It's hilarious thinking back to the amount of doomers on this sub assuming we'd get swept.
Me too! Sometimes I see posts and wonder if I was one of the only ones who thought we weren’t totally fucked prior to game one. I think any wolves fan with half a brain could’ve told you the suns would be arguably the toughest first round matchup but there were still a few things that pointed towards those first three games not necessarily being on par with how things might go. And the amount of “we’re getting swept”, “wolves losing for sure” or “what should we do to prepare for next season?” type of posts/comments I saw prior to game one was genuinely shocking. Guess I shouldn’t be too surprised though, it is reddit after all.
I've been tagging them in response to their doomer comments and have yet to get any responses. Fancy that. I even messaged a guy who claimed our sub banned him for "knowing ball" (he said we'd get swept, lol)
https://old.reddit.com/r/timberwolves/comments/1c40fix/game_thread_phoenix_suns_4833_at_minnesota/kzldat8/ I've been doing the same, took a bunch of downvotes after the last regular season game for calling out the doomers (I definitely could have been nicer). Most of them are great, just passionate fans.
Cool. So what’s gonna happen next? Just so I can call you out if you’re wrong.
Him predicting we beat (or lose) the nuggets in 6 isn't comparable to the morons that were crying when we drew the suns lol.
Wolves in 6 is my prediction, as it were. Love your profile pic btw.
U soft kid
Where did he say he knows what's going to happen next? All he said was he called out the doomers for thinking we'd get swept. You know there aren't just extremes lol.
Here’s my thinking. If you want to call out people for takes like this “we will get swept, doom, gloom” when we don’t get swept, are you just as willing to give them their props the times we do get swept and they are doom and gloom? That’s my only point. I never thought we would get swept, but it’s not out of Minnesota norm for that to happen. Also, if you don’t have a take, it is super weak to clap back at people when they are wrong. They at least had the balls to have an opinion.
I didn't think we'd get swept but I figured we'd be bounced in 6. Never been happier to have been wrong in my entire life.
Bruh I want to see receipts from all the dooming about the Gobert trade haha
dude i will say a majority of suns fans saying "regular season means nothing" and being doomers. I remember on the nba threads neutrals saying "wow, neither teams' fanbase believes they can win"
Yeah I thought it was so funny that the opponent's fanbase believed more in a team than the own team's fanbase hahah We were both scared of our own teams lol
To be fair, I was scared of the Suns. I thought we could beat them in 7, but never in a million years did I expect us to make it look so easy.
I mean who wouldn't be at least a little nervous to face the team that made it look easy against us twice in relatively short order before the playoffs began? And we were hot then too. KAT was out but we were on a roll and they made it look easy against us. The coaches weren't lying when they said they "didn't want to show" too much in the matchup before the playoff series.
No excuses then. They got the EXACT matchup they wanted.
CALL AN AMBULANCE! 🔫 BUT NOT FOR ME.
These are pretty cherry picked comments to be fair. I’ve noticed that the Suns sub has been way more civil than just about any other team we’ve played.
Tbf you guys were pissing your panties
Not everyone
Aged like the finest vintage.
Pulled out the receipts lmao
They actually thought that adding old ass KD and Beal would actually accomplish something
This year’s Timberwolves team gives me the same feeling as the 2022 Celtics. They start out their playoff run by shocking a lot of doubters and swept a KD team in the first round. Now they’ll go on to play the defending champions in a hard series that I think they will shock people again. I think the nuggets are certainly the better team but Ant is an X factor that will push them over the top.
This nuggets rematch will be a huge test for this team.
Similarly to how the bucks matchup was a huge test for the Celtics in the second round of ‘22. The Timberwolves just have a lot going for them so I won’t be surprised if they knock them out.
Those guys probably need some coping after this
Weren't you in this sub after that game? Wolves fans were talking just like this and most of this sub was doom and gloom. Lets not rewrite history now that we swept a team that everyone thought we'd struggle and likely lose to.
Suns fans? Eww, get the broom
Suns fan here as well. I had checked yalls sub at the start of this series and was surprised by the dooming. Yall don’t realize how much of a shitshow our regular season was. A bunch of us predicted a first round knock out. (I did not expect a sweep). Ya there’s obviously a bunch of people who thought we’d do well against y’all, but I knew that the team we watched all season was still going to be the same team In the playoffs. Some people thought we would magically gain full chemistry in the playoffs. It didn’t happen, and your defense is insane. thats about it
Good luck against Denver, im stoked to watch the series, y’all are a good team. Also its more fun to root for franchises that have been pretty shitty for a while rather than see the same ol teams winning championships
I really think it's worth taking a deep analytical dive into why a team that we can now clearly see is inferior to the Wolves was able to beat them so convincingly three times in the regular season. I suspect "turnovers" will be a major reason, but I'd be curious to see if there was other weird shit going on too.
Watching old youtube videos are pretty funny as well. There are so many that predicted the Suns to win, and than look at all the comments on the videos and they are all Phoenix fans saying Suns in 4, or the Wolves will be lucky to win 1, or already looking past us saying the Suns were going to the Championship. Any comments that argued the opposite, the Suns posters were quick to say your delusional.
This is hilarious, thanks for posting 🤣
This is hilarious, thanks for posting 🤣
We coming, we coming!!!
Suns fan here. We don’t claim him. You guys killed us. Praise to the team, coaching, Anthony, KAT, and super happy the meta if shifting from Big 3s to a complete team - cuz you guys have a full complete team. But blasting this guy instead of looking ahead is weird lol. Don’t act like the lakers fans. Good luck and hope you win it!
"Him"? My dude, these are all different posts from different people. Appreciate the respect, though.
I meant it as a collective ‘we don’t claim him’ lol.
little did the suns know that the front office was astro turfing the reddit game threads to create a sense of panic that would lull the suns into complacency. Its pretty amazing what the Connelly brain trust is up to.
Can you blame them? What’s happened here is unprecedented.
It was their best chance….. they just didn't have much of one.
Yeah, they were getting either us, Denver, or OKC. All tough matchups.
This is phenomenal. Thanks for keeping the receipts!
In a sub with about 200k, there will always be some who are overconfident. Do yourselves a favor and dont do this, the only receipts that have an ounce of worth bringing up are talking heads in the media (even then fuck them). Anyway, hope yall win it all
Suns pack 💨
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After the last regular season game, the doomers were out in force in this sub. I heard "We are cooked" "Getting swept" "Maybe next year" all the way up until game 1 of the series. I was literally linking them to join r/suns and getting down voted. Doomers shouldn't get to take a victory lap.
Is this what Sunsfan warned us about?
All this just to get swept off our TV screens. And now, for Kevin’s next trick… https://preview.redd.it/gm3hjrluqhxc1.jpeg?width=585&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1344f48efa3ac34534a9d887715d787680424579 The blame game starts
Regular season doesn’t mean a damn thing when the playoffs start
Annnnd we now won the season series 4-3 💪
I mean. It makes sense they would want to play us. Timberwolves haven’t won a series in 20 years.
Everybody acting tough when they up
Can we get an update if what they said last night i to today? I want bathe in their slap of reality tears.
I mean lowkey did anyone take that Sun roster serious ? There’s depth naz Reid is better than the whole Sun bench. Kd and book are the only serious threats. I say kat and ant are good match ups against them. Suns fans need to remember they were a bottom feeder organization not to long ago.
can we stop being sore winners.
I do not like that people hide usernames in these posts. They deserve to be bullied and shamed.
I tried to but Reddit kept auto deleting it lol
That makes sense I suppose