Paul Phoenix Puns

Anyone recommend one over the other? I bought a 32 phoenix using LP size chart but the width for the legs was tight and the length a little short (they would get slide up .5-1 inch up my thigh and get stuck when I lunged). I'm debating between a size 34 Phoenix and a pair of Ecostars. I value comfortability/mobility and quality of material over protectiveness. Any thoughts on either knickers is helpful. Thanks

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>Chris Paul says that living in Phoenix this last year, he’s really only been to two places, the arena and the practice facility, and specifically mentions he hasn’t been able to go bowling with the team

>Chris Paul was asked about his athletic ability at the age of 36 and he referenced something Kobe Bryant once said that you've gotta fall in love with the repetition of work it takes year-round to maintain that.

Lol this man deserves to bowl

After the Milwaukee Bucks lost so handily to Miami in the second round of last season’s bubble playoffs, they assembled a list of players to pursue to flank Giannis Antetokounmpo and Khris Middleton with a top-flight lead guard.

One of Milwaukee’s best options to create a true championship-worthy troika, seemingly, was Chris Paul.

The Bucks indeed considered a trade run at Paul for many of the same reasons that the Phoenix Suns ultimately did. Milwaukee was perceived to be far closer to title contention than Phoenix after posting the league’s best regular-season record in back-to-back seasons, but the Bucks had a clear need for Paul’s veteran know-how after bitter postseason disappointment.

Turns out that the Bucks, though, liked another Western Conference guard even better than Paul. One source familiar with Milwaukee’s thinking insists that constructing a trade with New Orleans to acquire Jrue Holiday was their preferred scenario.

Perhaps that’s what you would expect to hear now, since the Bucks are committed to Holiday for the next four seasons at nearly $135 million and relying on Holiday so heavily to emerge from his recent shooting woes entering Saturday’s Game 5 of the NBA Finals against the Paul-led Suns in Phoenix. Yet that stance does compute when you note how enthusiastically Holiday welcomed a trade to Milwaukee, as I detailed in this New York Times piece heading into the playoffs, and then factor in Paul’s well-chronicled determination to play on the West Coast for family reasons. The Bucks were naturally drawn to a player who wanted them … and Holiday’s arrival duly helped convince Antetokounmpo to sign a five-year contract extension worth $228 million.

As a reward for the professionalism and leadership Paul displayed throughout the 2019-20 season, in the wake of his trade exile from Houston in July 2019, Oklahoma City promised to work with him on re-routing him to a contender via trade after one season together. A swap with Milwaukee would have sent the Paul in the wrong direction and proved a short-lived possibility. The combination of the Suns’ proximity to his family in Los Angeles and the presence of Devin Booker and Deandre Ayton as such promising sidekicks had Paul pushing to go to the desert.

Some eight months later, Holiday and Paul will match up Saturday night in the biggest game of the season to date, both desperate to re

>Phoenix Suns have a 97.7 Offensive Rating with Chris Paul on the floor in these Western Conference Finals. It's been 112.5 when he's sat.

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>The funny part is the pace. Since Game 3, Suns have a pace of 93.39 with Paul on. It's been 104.39 with him off.

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Hornets

Before CP — .220 W%

After CP — .463 W%

Clippers

Before CP — .390 W%

After CP — .606 W%

Rockets

Before CP — .671 W%

After CP — .793 W%

Thunder

Before CP — .598 W%

After CP — .611 W%

Suns

Before CP — .466 W%

After CP — .720 W%

Career Stats

1070 Games played

18.4 Points per Game - 9.4 Assists per Game - 4.5 Rebounds per Game - 2.2 Steals per Game

Career Shooting Splits 47.1/37.0/87.2

Attempts per Game 13.7/3.7/4.7

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https://www.basketball-reference.com/players/p/paulch01.html

https://www.statmuse.com/musings/when-chris-paul-goes-to-a-new-team-that-team-gets-better-hornets-before-d82be447

And the thing that makes them even more dangerous is that Bridges, Johnson, Crowder, and the rest of their wings can shoot. So if they get the pick n roll and the switch and they don't like the shot they can pass out to the open shooter. I was one of the people that was on the analytics side about mid range shots but now I'm moving closer to that being a big part of someone's repertoire.

Tweet >I asked Charles Barkley about Chris Paul's player option for next season to stay in Phoenix.

>"You know I like to drink right? I've never been drunk enough to say no to $45 million dollars."

>Paul has a player option for $44.2M to stay in Phoenix next season.

Chris Paul put on probably the greatest performance of his playoff career, as he put up 41 points and 8 assists on 16/24 FG. However, he only had 14 points until the Clippers made the 10-0 run to cut the lead to 7. This is because for the next 7 minutes and 54 seconds, Chris Paul by himself outscored the Clippers 24-10.

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