Markieff Morris is really happy Jeff Hornacek is gone

DeMar DeRozan is averaging 26.3 points during the past three games for the Raptors. He had a. 417 shooting percentage from three-point range and shot at an. DeRozan scored a season-high 35 points January 8 at Washington and matched a career-high with 11 rebounds January 14 during an NBA Global Game in London, England versus Orlando. Morris disliked his coach so much that one time he threw a towel at him and got suspended for it. Towel related suspensions are usually not very good.

He joined the Suns staff in July 2015 as an assistant under the fired Jeff Hornacek, who was an assistant coach when the two were with the Jazz from 2010-13.

“My job now is to get these guys on it every single night”, Tucker said in January, per Paul Coro of AZCentral.

Morris scored 14 in the first quarter and Goodwin banked in a 35-footer at the buzzer to give Phoenix a 32-28 lead after one.

Booker had 27 points, 18 of which came on three-pointers.

A lot of teams will likely be looking for players like Tucker as the deadline nears so it is likely he will get dealt.

Suns: Goodwin’s previous career best in assists was six….

The Toronto Raptors now sit at 30-15, second in the Eastern Conference and 2.5 games behind the Cleveland Cavaliers.

Rookie Booker has scored in double figures in nine straight games. He was averaging 11.0 points per game, third on the team…. As for James Johnson, another Toronto small forward, he is now on crutches with an ankle injury and got an MRI on Tuesday, according to Ryan Wolstat of the Toronto Sun. “We weren’t coming out there, we weren’t playing with energy and we weren’t playing with passion”. F Norman Powell made his first start of the season in place of D DeMarre Carroll….

Marc Stein of ESPN reported the Toronto Raptors are among the teams to contact Phoenix about Tucker, who is expected to command a “nice pick”.

As a rookie with the Seattle Supersonics, Casey, then an assistant to George Karl, took Watson under his wing.

“We are embracing people for who they are, not changing them to become something else”, Watson said of his general approach.

Watson said he will have a set rotation, that players will know when they will be in the game and how long they will be on the court.

Toronto guard Kyle Lowry scored 26 points and DeMar DeRozan had 22 as the Raptors spoiled Phoenix interim coach Earl Watson’s debut in a 104-97 victory over the Suns on Tuesday at Talking Stick Resort Arena. I really liked him a whole lot. Watson, 36, is the youngest head coach in the league….