Suns are the weakest 60+ win team ever?

[GrayGoat]

Thoughts? This loss is embarrassing

[FilmyCogTurner]

2015 Atlanta Hawks have something to say about that...

[SATAN]

It's one game without Booker in the second half.

Time will tell if they do a 93-94 Sonics style choke job.

[Kawhi_Why_Not]

They faced clippers without kawhi

Nuggets without Murray

Lakers without Davis

They got lucky last season. Fake ass reg season team hahahaha

[ImKobe]

They faced clippers without kawhi

Nuggets without Murray

Lakers without Davis

They got lucky last season. Fake ass reg season team hahahaha

Plus they played an injured Giannis in the Finals and still got backdoor swept with an epic chokejob :roll:

[ClipperRevival]

2015 Atlanta Hawks have something to say about that...

That was Bron's GOAT accomplishment out East, how dare you.

Korver's Hawks were juggernauts.

[Akeem34TheDream]

:oldlol:Embarrassed so much by one win that you had to belittle Suns

[BarberSchool]

List all the 60-win squads since 1980.

[iamgine]

I mean, lots of the greatest teams have lost 1 game in a series.

[HylianNightmare]

2015 Atlanta Hawks have something to say about that...

That team was trash

[hold this L]

It's one game and it means nothing, really hope Book is back at 100% by game 3 or 4. Nothing will be as pathetic as 15' Hawks like Turner said.

[SouBeachTalents]

Why do people insist on throwing around the word "ever" so often? There have been nearly 70 60 win teams in league history, you expect us to believe you'd be knowledgeable on all of them :lol Including the ones from 40-50 years ago?

The 2015 Hawks are undoubtedly worse than these Suns, as are the likes of the '16 Spurs, '07 Mavs & '95 Spurs. Obviously if last night proves to not be an anomaly and the Suns lose this series, that'll a different discussion.

[Axe]

2016 spurs should have been in the wcf but they folded prematurely.

[Johnny32]

duh cp3 suns have yet to beat a team that wasn't decimated by injuries in a playoff series.

[tpols]

Why do people insist on throwing around the word "ever" so often? There have been nearly 70 60 win teams in league history, you expect us to believe you'd be knowledgeable on all of them :lol Including the ones from 40-50 years ago?

The 2015 Hawks are undoubtedly worse than these Suns, as are the likes of the '16 Spurs, '07 Mavs & '95 Spurs. Obviously if last night proves to not be an anomaly and the Suns lose this series, that'll a different discussion.

2016 spurs with prime Kawhi better than these suns. They were extremely competitive with those stacked thunder who went up 3-1 on a 73 win team. Dirks mavs were also a Finals team the year before 2007 just like the suns except they didn't have the injury luck in their gauntlet.

The 2011 Bulls deserve a mention. Rose basically tore the regular season up and then was ass in the playoffs

[SouBeachTalents]

2016 spurs with prime Kawhi better than these suns. They were extremely competitive with those stacked thunder who went up 3-1 on a 73 win team. Dirks mavs were also a Finals team the year before 2007 just like the suns except they didn't have the injury luck in their gauntlet.

The 2011 Bulls deserve a mention. Rose basically tore the regular season up and then was ass in the playoffs
Kawhi clearly had not taken the leap offensively in 2016, he was putting up Scottie Pippen level scoring without the playmaking. I’d pretty easily take Booker/CP3/Ayton over 2016 Kawhi/Aldridge/Parker. Ditto Dirk/Howard/Terry. That’s not even getting into the clear advantage the Suns have over both depth wise.

[tpols]

Kawhi clearly had not taken the leap offensively in 2016, he was putting up Scottie Pippen level scoring without the playmaking. I’d pretty easily take Booker/CP3/Ayton over 2016 Kawhi/Aldridge/Parker. Ditto Dirk/Howard/Terry. That’s not even getting into the clear advantage the Suns have over both depth wise.

Kawhi averaged more points on way better efficiency than Scottie Pippen best run. Kawhi was better than Devin Booker for sure, he was an elite defender as well. LMA and Ayton cancel out. Paul a choker no better than the combo of spurs vets. I don't think the suns beat the 2016 thunder or Warriors. They would have been a 1st round exit last year without ADs injury as he was smoking them. Overrated team.

[tontoz]

No. They had the 2nd best record in the league last year and have been by far the best this year.

They also had some injury issues this year like most teams.

Crowder just can't hit a shot all of a sudden.

[8Ball]

Thoughts? This loss is embarrassing

I would say some of the 90s 1 year wonder teams like 93 Phoenix suns, Supersonics 96 are some of the weakest 60 win teams ever.

This 2022 phoenix suns made the finals in 2021.

[Naero]

I'd easily take these Suns over the '15 Hawks and '18 Raptors just out of recent memory alone. Even as a Bucks fan, I admit Phoenix is currently better than the '19 and '20 (on-pace for 60-plus wins pre-lockdown) iterations of my team as well.

It's only been one loss where the hot-handed Booker—who the Suns were riding—didn't even play for most of the second half. If they continue laboring this series and flame out later in the playoffs, maybe this'll be worth revisiting. For now, this just reads like the hot take of the night.

The Suns played convincingly enough last postseason (even accounting for oppositional injuries) to consider them a legitimate title-contender, and they'd be the reigning champions as we speak if it weren't for one of the GOAT Finals debuts by Giannis. I think they deserve the benefit of the doubt until further notice.

[jayfan]

Suns won 64 this season. Here are the other 60+ win teams over the last 15 years.

2019 Bucks- 60
2018 Rockets- 65
2017 Warriors- 67
2017 Spurs- 61
2016 Warriors- 73
2016 Spurs- 67
2015 Warriors- 67
2015 Hawks- 60
2014 Spurs-62
2013 Heat - 66
2011 Bulls- 62
2011 Spurs- 61
2010 Cavs- 61
2009 Cavs- 66
2009 Lakers- 65
2008 Celtics- 66
2007 Mavs- 67
2007 Suns- 66

[Wally450]

07 Mavs didn't make it out of the first round.

[ArbitraryWater]

Kawhi averaged more points on way better efficiency than Scottie Pippen best run. Kawhi was better than Devin Booker for sure, he was an elite defender as well. LMA and Ayton cancel out. Paul a choker no better than the combo of spurs vets. I don't think the suns beat the 2016 thunder or Warriors. They would have been a 1st round exit last year without ADs injury as he was smoking them. Overrated team.


no he wasnt. not even close.

[dazzer87]

2009 Cavs- 66…..Lost to Howard….:lol

[Axe]

Suns won 64 this season. Here are the other 60+ win teams over the last 15 years.

2019 Bucks- 60
2018 Rockets- 65
2017 Warriors- 67
2017 Spurs- 61
2016 Warriors- 73
2016 Spurs- 67
2015 Warriors- 67
2015 Hawks- 60
2014 Spurs-62
2013 Heat - 66
2011 Bulls- 62
2011 Spurs- 61
2010 Cavs- 61
2009 Cavs- 66
2009 Lakers- 65
2008 Celtics- 66
2007 Mavs- 67
2007 Suns- 66
But they've only won 61 that year. :kobe:

And you forgot to include 2013 thunder rt which won 60 games. Also 2009 celtics with 62.

[Full Court]

I mean, lots of the greatest teams have lost 1 game in a series.

But to a 9th seed that shouldn't even have been in the playoffs? I don't want to make too much out of 1 game, but even without Booker the Suns should be destroying the Hawks. We'll see if that game was an anomaly or an omen.

[GrayGoat]

Op appears to be correct :biggums:

[kawhileonard2]

2015 Atlanta Hawks have something to say about that...

That team wouldn’t even make the playoffs today. Shows how bad the east was

[1987_Lakers]

Horrific thread

[Mr. Woke]

The Suns are stacked lol. CP3 and Booker have no excuses. If they don't win the championship, it would be really embarrassing.

LeBron and KD would kill to have the supporting cast that CP3 has.

[j3lademaster]

List all the 60-win squads since 1980.

It goes into the 70's, though.

https://www.statmuse.com/nba/ask/most-60-win-teams-in-a-single-season

edit: it isn't all 60 win teams just ranks the most wins

[Akeem34TheDream]

Is this the worst thread of all time?