The Phoenix Suns Going All-In is Blowing Up in Their Faces

The Phoenix Suns Going All-In is Blowing Up in Their Faces

Going into the NBA season the expectation for the Phoenix Suns was Championship or bust like really there was no way of getting around it when you have an aging Superstar and Kevin Durant who you traded multiple firstr picks to acquire when he was 34 years old at the

Time and still under a massive contract this of course was after the Phoenix Suns disappointed the prior season which they got embarrassed on their own home court in game seven of the West semis by the Dallas Mavericks a series in which they had a 3-2 lead to then somehow

Doing the same thing and getting embarrassed in the west semi in The Following season on their own home court getting blown out this time in game six against the Denver Nuggets this of course happening after they made the inseason trade for Kevin Durant to then this past off season further bolstering

Their star power by trading for Bradley Beal effectively giving up any remaining draft Capital they had to get him as well as moving on from their starting point guard in Chris Paul to later being in the three- team deal that involved Damen Lillard getting moved to Milwaukee

Where the Suns moved DeAndre Aton to the Portland Trailblazers in exchange for use of nerkish all of these moves all of these transactions for a team that went from being a lottery team after the bubble to going to the NBA finals The Following season and now doing

Everything in their power to go all in to ensure they finally get over that hump and win their franchise’s first title in its 56 years of existence it was the definition of a super team a team with one of the highest Championship odds in the preseason the

Highest payroll in the NBA there was no question that it was Championship or bust and the window to win a championship was very small with Kevin Durant being in his mid-30s but so far this season that really hasn’t been the case and while yes the Phoenix Suns have

Had their fair share of injuries most notably to Bradley Beal who has only played a small portion of the beginning of the season and Deon Booker who has missed nine games already in the early going but even despite the injuries which I’ll speak to shortly the Phoenix

Suns have truly been the definition of a mid team an average team a team that does not look like a roster that is contending for a title nor does it even come close to looking like a team that has the capability of making it out of a stacked western conference with the

Rising teams like the Timberwolves the Thunder and of course the defending Champion Deber nuggets but while most will say the Phoenix Suns early struggles are surprising and it’s concerning whether or not they’re even going to be able to turn things around at this point to get to a place to even

Have home court advantage going into the playoffs this really shouldn’t CB as much of a surprise and really the challenges of this team and their flaws are quite simple when you break down what we have seen thus far and it’s what we’ll be talking about further in this

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Right off the bat the reason the Suns haven’t looked that great is because of injuries once they’re healthy they’ll be one of the best teams in the NBA no question well a few things on that one I always hate the injury excuse because while no one wants to see injuries

Happen to any player it is part of the game and every team in every season always has some sort of injuries that inevitably throw off the overall chemistry and cohesion of the roster but here’s the thing while the Phoenix Suns have been without one of their big three

In Bradley Beal it’s not like they’ve been hit with a season ending injury to Kevin Durant and while Devin Booker has missed some time he’s been available playing alongside Kevin Durant for the most part and you would expect the Suns to be better than they are even with

Just Kevin Durant and dein Booker because as good as Beal as a player is Booker and Kevin Durant are the two best players on this team they’re the superstars and Bradley Beal is the third option outside of Bradley Beal the team hasn’t been hit with that many injuries

And to further add on to Bradley Beal and him only being in six games so far this season should we really be that surprised Adrian morowski said this on the NBA Christmas Day special that there has been growing frustration in Phoenix particularly from Kevin Durant with the

Lack of help since Beal has been hurt and the Suns gave up a lot to get him and that they don’t have quote unquote much time first of all Kevin Durant needs a reality check because he’s arguably had the most help of any Superstar throughout his NBA career

Going from Team to team in the most ideal situation but we’ll save that for now but honestly what did the Suns think they were getting with in Bradley Beal you’re talking about a player who over the course of the last four seasons hasn’t been able to play more than 60

Games in a year the last two seasons he suffered two significant injuries that had him missed the end of each respective season he’s now 30 years old and a player who has been injury-prone since he was 26 did you really think you were getting Prime Bradley Beal who

Could put up 30 on a nightly basis and play all 82 games you really thought a player like Bradley Beal could be relied upon to be available on a nightly basis based on his injury history come on now like I get it injuries are the worst and

The fate of a lot of teams could have gone very differently throughout the course of NBA history had it not been to injuries to some of their key players but for the Suns to trade a plethora of picks six second round picks and a handful of first round pick swaps for a

30-year-old Bradley Beal on a super max contract with four years left on his deal with his injury history just doesn’t make sense you had to know this was a big gamble a huge risk not just taking on Beal as a player but mortgaging that amount of your future

After already handing over a lot of your first round picks for Kevin Durant and having these guys locked up under contract for the foreseeable future on max deals so while yes I get it injuries are unfortunate and yes the Suns likely would be a little bit better if all

Their players were healthy but that’s just not the reality to expect that in today’s NBA especially when you’re taking on players who are older with a history of injuries but here’s the thing it’s more than just the injuries on why this team has been so average and really

Boys to the fact that this roster is not well constructed a very topheavy team with Superstar talent and limited Talent down the line with one of the worst bench units in the NBA which I guess how do you expect to fill out the rest of the roster outside of just handing out a

Bunch of M deals when three players comprise $130 million of your payroll and will be over $160 million 3 years from now but for the Phoenix Suns a team that is ripe with offensive Firepower on paper with their big three just isn’t quite the reality in practice because

While there are some games where Kevin Durant Deon Booker can get hot in a hurry and then the suns are easily able to blow out their opponent on the other side of the token having too much Superstar power too many Egos and guys who are used to demanding the ball and

Getting up their shot attempts it sometimes backfires and in this case of the Suns while KD and book share their respective shot attempts pretty well and defer to one another the fact of the matter is the Suns offense and the way they are structured as a team does not

Fit well in today’s NBA in N of basketball that is heavily predicated on high octane High motion fastpac and space offense the suns are quite possibly the antithesis of that the Suns at the time of this recording are 26th in the league in Pace they’re 24th in the league in three-point volume and

Three-point rate and their overall time of possession is one of the highest in the league because the ball is very sticky when you have one player pounding the ball playing in isolation while the rest of the guys stand around and watch their overall motion ball movement player movement is few and far between

At least relative to what we see with some of the best offensive teams in the NBA and they turn the ball over at a very high rate despite their veteran experience 26 in the league in turnover percentage and 23rd in the league in turnovers per game what’s also

Fascinating to me is that the Suns simply put don’t get enough shots up in a game they rely way too much on getting to the foul line which getting to the line is a good way to generate overall offense but it slows down the pace of

The game and it’s a problem when you’re second to last in the NBA and overall field goal attempts you can’t win games consistently in today’s NBA when you’re struggling to get shots up because you’re not moving the ball quickly enough and here’s the thing it’s one thing if your offense is average which

The suns are currently 15th in the league on offense but if your defense is top-notch you’re a lock down team defensively say like the Minnesota Timberwolves who are an okay team on offense but Elite on defense you can still be a great team that produces consistent winning but for the Suns

They’re not even above average on defense 17th in the league in defensive rating 16th in net rating they are quite literally the definition of a mid team in in the NBA and look it’s still relatively early on in the season only about a third of the way through the

Year and I’m sure some will say it’s early they’re eventually going to figure things out especially when they get healthy they’ll make their way up in the standings but usually by Christmas by Christmas in an NBA season we have a pretty good understanding of what a

Given team is and for the Suns while I do think they’ll get better and start stringing together some wins for a team that had Championship or bus expectations to be sitting here at the end of December below 500 currently outside of the playe in the western conference sitting 11th in the standings

And yes seeds 4 through 11 are only separated by 3 and 1 half games but for the Suns they have a major uphill battle de climb and we know full well that all the teams currently in front of them aren’t suddenly going to go on big losing streaks barring any unforeseen

Injuries to Major players on the roster of course yes the suns are still going to make the playoffs this notion from NBA fans on Twitter and Reddit that the suns are going to somehow miss the playoffs is preposterous but just making the playoffs isn’t what this team set

Out to be and it isn’t good enough considering they have very little to work with for the future in the form of draft capital and young players and just making the playoffs and seeing an early exit would be a massive failure considering how hard they pushed all of

Their chips in on this roster and quite frankly I really don’t see a world in which this team as currently constructed can win the NBA championship not even close let me know what you guys think though do you think the suns are still considered title favorites let me know

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