Kevin Durant and Devin Booker were declared sacked from the team by their head coach due to a disagreement they had.

Kevin Durant and Devin Booker were declared sacked from the team by their head coach due to a disagreement they had.

Due to a disagreement, the head coach of the team declared Kevin Durant and Devin Booker to be fired.

The Phoenix Suns have the potential to become the first team to win a playoff series after falling behind 0-3, but they have no intention of doing so since they don’t think they can.

To be honest, I don’t think they give a damn, and Vogel’s going to get fired because of it.

I’m incorrect if I’m not. (Everything has its first time.) But this is not incorrect of me.

Devin Booker declared, “We just got beat,” following his team’s 126-109 defeat in Game 3 of their Western Conference playoff series opener against the Minnesota Timberwolves. “(It) was emphasized coming into the game to stick together through difficult times. We just failed to execute.

A guy by the name of “nickel” made twice as many 3-pointers as Booker and Kevin Durant combined because it was that terrible. Not to disparage Nickeil Alexander-Walker, who made four out of ten long-range attempts. The Suns stars, who combined to shoot 2 for 8 from behind the arc, should be held accountable for this.

Big games call for improved play from the guys with signature shoes and more admirers than there are elderly church ladies in the Deep South.

Why aren’t they acting on our knowledge that they are capable of doing so? What precisely is Minnesota doing that is making them so dysfunctional? Why haven’t they teamed up with the first healthy Bradley Beal in years to defeat Anthony Edwards and the Wolves?

With regard to the Minnesota defense, which has Booker feeling as frigid as a brand-new air conditioner in the summer in Phoenix, “they pressure everywhere and funnel you into (Rudy) Gobert,” Booker remarked.

Is head coach Frank Vogel not trying to prepare them? Forget about it for a moment. I simply believe that the Suns players are irritated and allowing their arrogance to get in the way. The role players are rolling over as a result of their failure to pay attention to their coach.

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Anthony Edwards currently resembles Kendrick Lamar to Durant’s J. Cole and Booker’s Drake. (That’s a joke about rap music for anyone who could use a little assistance. “Big Three? It’s just me—a huge me!

By now, Vogel ought to have been able to get through to Booker and Durant. Even though Beal is playing with passion and fire, it is insufficient. This group is not his. It is Booker’s group. And it belongs to Durant if it’s not his.

If it’s not theirs, then Charles Barkley owns it, as the best player in franchise history hasn’t even bothered to take off his shoes, and he’s had his feet on the couches in their minds. Throughout the season, he has been criticizing the Suns for their lack of player leadership.

Barkley said the Suns were soft, and while I don’t agree with him, these guys definitely shouldn’t be laughing when Karl-Anthony Towns pokes them in the belly.

Whether Phoenix should have kept Deandre Ayton is a question that some fans have. No, I would say. The score would have been 50–50 if he had been present.

But Monty Williams was so good in Detroit that the entire city began watching football for the first time since facemasks were put on helmets, so if they were going to turn over the entire team, they ought to have held onto him.

What does Frank Vogel do next?
Frank Vogel is not exempt from responsibility, but he also deserves better than this.

It is his responsibility to win guys over to his idea. This club currently appears to lack vision, and in teams lacking vision, postseason prospects are doomed.

If Vogel is coming up with plays and defensive systems that his teammates won’t run, perhaps that’s where he belongs—as a commentator on NBA TV.

After a year, there will be plenty of opportunity to discuss whether or not he should be sacked. (Which, in my opinion, is unfair, yet it occurs frequently in professional sports.)

There will be plenty of time to discuss potential successors. (With Kevin Young at BYU, I believe that the only guys who ought to receive calls from Mat Ishbia and James Jones are Earl Watson and Mark Jackson.)

And there’ll be plenty of opportunity to vent about the roster’s shortcomings. (They do require a point guard. Not Chris Paul, please. (They seem to need a younger version of Rajon Rondo.)

For the time being, though, the Suns are going to lose on their home court in the playoffs for the third consecutive year.

The Suns have a chance to become the first NBA team in history to overcome a 0-3 playoff deficit. If someone believes, nothing is impossible for them.