“I felt we quit tonight, which is something you never want to see,” Malone said.
For the second straight game, the Suns dominated the Nuggets in the second half, outscoring Denver 72-56 and running away down the stretch.
“I saw one team that wanted to be here, that played with a purpose and urgency, and one team that did not want to be here and played with no urgency,” Malone said.
“That was probably the only silver lining to a really rough night all the way around, was Will Barton, who hasn’t played in over seven weeks, in his first game goes out there, gives you 10 and three …
And there’s a reason that their crowd is yelling ‘Suns in 4!’ and they’re calling for a sweep.
We had no juice, no energy, no passion, no fight, no urgency, no grit, whatever adjective you want to use, we did not have it.