Who should be the Phoenix Suns point guard?

Who should be the Phoenix Suns point guard?

Beginning of the season I thought Devon Booker should be the point guard because he’s been he’s been playing in the system for a while he knows the system and I thought he was the better option at the moment now seeing Bradley Beal do what he’s been doing the last week or

Two I do think that Bradley Beal is the better option at at Point MCO let’s hear what Frank Vogel had to say about Bradley Beal’s point guard I think Bradley Beal the last two games has done a phenomenal job organizing us um there’s a lot of talk about us having

A point guard not having a point guard he’s doing a great job playing a point guard for us you know playing a point guard like leading our team and quarterbacking um and there’s there’s not there not even a lot of point guards around the league that can touch the

Paint the way he can touch the paint so um he had eight assists tonight um could have have a lot had a lot more with uh you know the guys making more shots but um he’s doing a great job was wasn’t just Frank vogle that touched on it

Though Kevin Durant also had some things to say about Bradley be a point yeah I mean coach is expecting Brad to um play a role I mean he brought the ball up before but I think he’s playing like traditional point guard right now where he’s setting up the offense every

Single time down um he’s giving up shots for his teammates you know he’s penetrating every time trying to kick out you know so um he’s one of those players that can do everything and any situation you put him in he’s going to figure it out and he’s unselfish player

So when you unselfish and you got the skills that he has that then you can adapt to anything so we’ve heard from the coach and one of the superstars on the roster but why don’t we hear from Bradley Beal himself on his own thoughts of being the point guard yeah I mean uh

A little bit yes and no you know I still am Attack Mode I still have the mindset of a score and still have that ability but also understand that I have to be able to generate shots for us and get us good quality looks and uh you know find

Ways to get Guys open ones you know find ways to get care easy shots and you know just generate good offense you know we know we can score we know we’re very talented but we still got to make sure it’s flowing you know Pebbles and

Smoothly you know so we we have a really good flow of that and good understanding other coaches have given me film to break down and and uh and kind of see where we can we be better at and generate a lot of good shots so what are

Your thoughts on what Bradley Beal has been able to do without Devin Booker being that primary ball holder you know at the beginning of the season I thought Deon Booker should be the point guard because he’s been he’s been playing in the system for a while he knows the

System and I thought he was the better option at the moment now seeing Bradley Beal do what he’s been doing the last week or two I do think that Bradley Beal is the better option at point because listen Bradley Beal’s not the shooter that the other two are okay he’s a

Scorer he’s not really as efficient a scorer a shooter as as KD and book so why not free up those two to be able to come off the ball and and have the potential you know space to do what they need to do getting set up by Bradley

Beal who you know listen they all said the same thing that we said on the old head podcast that’s dropping tomorrow morning by the way um is that you know he’s he’s a Creator too he can get to the rim he can he can dish and he can

Drive and penetrate like uh I mean sorry drive and pass uh and I just I and I think the biggest thing for this team the biggest thing is the tempo the tempo the tempo the tempo the faster they get into their sets the faster they can run

Their offense the more options and the more time that they have the better uh you know walking the ball up at the court is cool but it’s not as cool as scoring points so I want to see the tempo get pushed up and the numbers reflect that when they push the tempo

The numbers go up when they slow it down the numbers go down so between the two I would I think I would opt more for Beal to to to be that traditional quote unquote point guard and set the other two guys up because I think it’s more

Beneficial to this team yeah I mean listen the best version of Devin Booker is what he’s always been an an assassin two guard that can come off actions and make you pay for it Kevin at 35 you like to free things up for him Brad Beal’s

Tempo his ability to Speed the game up his ability to be Shifty and just attack the paint get a foot in the paint collapse the defense it opens up a lot of lanes he’s not he’s not your Dynamite super efficient scorer he’s more I don’t want to call him a streaky scorer but

He’s he’s a flow of the game scorer like he’s one of those guys that you know you don’t you don’t expect Brad Bal to come down and hit five six Jumpers in a row um but he he works his way into games that’s naturally the way he he likes to

Attack and so because of that I think to to Saul’s point you free up the two guys that are assassins you let them work off actions you let them work off of his dribble penetration and his collapse into the defense I like to think that some of that is helping Grayson as well

You know being able to collapse the defense free up a guy get a open you know rotation of Grayson so yeah going into the season we thought you know I I’m not going to say I’m completely abandoning Point book but at this point I think the suns are on better hands if

You let Brad be that guy and and let these other guys be who they naturally are I do want to say one thing about your SC in uh you know Brad Bradley Bill might not drop five or six shots in a row but I do think he will score four or

Five times in a row because not only will he pull up he’ll take it to the rack you know he’ll do a variety of different things and when you could tell when you could tell he’s been feeling good this last week because he’s got that little he’s got that little bounce

About him and he’s like kind of hopping around you could tell he feels really good and when he’s in that mode then usually good things happen yeah so my thing is I think I think there are advantages and disadvantages to both and I think the suns are in a position where

They don’t have to pick one or the other and I think it would behoove them to split it a little bit more because book is the better he’s still the better passer and he’s still the bigger threat with the ball in his hands because of his scoring and his slight Advantage as

A passer but I do think there are advantages to what Beal brings to the table which is namely he’s a walking paint touch like uh he has been downhill a lot this is actually a stat from our friend David Nash he has 62 drives over the last three games and that averages

Out to just under 21 per game that would rank second in the NBA behind sheay gilis Alexander this season so he’s made it his focus with Booker out to get in the lane and that sets up their entire drive and kick game so book he can get

To the basket but he doesn’t have that same downhill approach that Beal has which is an advantage because we’ve seen over the last few games when they are moving the ball they get more threes up and that’s huge for a team that’s a really good three-point shooting team so

I think for pushing the tempo absolutely because that’s one big thing that they’ve been talking about they’ve been wanting to do they’ve been starting to do it it really helps their offense but in the playoffs when it slows down to a half court game sometimes there will be

Advantages to book handling the Rock in those possessions and I think it’s good that they have both options to expl I think we’re getting a misconception of of of playing with Tempo and people thinking that’s like transition it’s not necessarily transition it’s even as simple as getting the ball out of from

Out of bounds and jogging up the court as opposed to walking the ball up the court you save three or four seconds that way on the shot clock you know that makes a big difference for this team yeah I wasn’t the whole point in constructing a team like this that it

Could be either of them at any point bringing you know running the offense and I think what happened was with Beal’s early injury you defaulted to book being the main guy and it kind of remained that way uh when Brad got back and then went out again uh as well and I

Think now we’re seeing what it looks like with Brad so now you got to change a pace which I think is important because it keeps teams off balance you can’t just you know cheat in any way when all three of them are playing now because you do have two guys that can be

The primary ball handler that have different styles and I think it is important to have Brad run it a lot with that Tempo because it puts book uh in that assassin role as as Frank vogle likes to say off Ball but you also can lean on Devin Booker to do those things

When you need it especially in the playoffs where you get into a half court uh you know set a lot and it slows down like Gerald said so I think it’s Both Worlds unique that that’s why when I was making my point I don’t want to abandon

Point book I don’t um I think there’s a world like G is saying where you can incorporate the two of them I also I mean I say this a lot and some people go at me for saying it but you know when when injuries happen I like to there’s

Always a blessing in disguise for me when the book injury happened the blessing in disguise was we got no choice now Brad Brad’s gonna have to be Brad and kev’s gonna have to be Kev and in the last two games we’ve seen that Dynamic work we’ve seen them take over

The overtime in Denver right we’ve seen them in spots yesterday pick their spots and okay when it’s getting a little too too uncomfortable Brad get to the bucket Brad get two free throws KD hit some so I I do think that the blessing in disguise now is that you’re seeing kind

Of what the blueprint has been all year but without book being out I don’t think you get to see this iteration of it and so now you know now it’s going to be interesting here’s the counter to that now it’s going to be interesting when you reincorporate book whether it’s

Tomorrow or against Cleveland when you reincorporate book do you kind of stick with what we’re doing or do you go back to what we were doing before the injury because I I think if you go back to what you’re doing before the injury you’re doing yourself a disservice I think you

Kind of stick to what we’re doing incorporate book and then go to book in spots as Point book throughout the game but I just like this I like I like Brad bill being able to touch the paint like you said and get to the free throw line

And just cause defenses to collapse cuz when that is we just become a better shooting team we and we get more volume shooting well and you’ll continue to stagger be and books minutes so when one’s off the other ones out and so you’re naturally going to get correct

Each of them running that I do I do also think that you know I I’m kind of interested to see the evolution of these two as you move forward through the season you know as as jald pointed out you know book has been you know he’s been a good he’s been serviceable point

Right um but I also wonder you you want want you want the peak of each player right what’s the best thing for the team and what’s going to get them to that highest level uh and as Bradley Beal kind has kind of gotten a little bit more comfortable in this particular you

Know iteration of his role I I can see the vision a little bit more of him being the facilitator versus book and KD because I think he would be a better facilitator than score and book would be a better scorer than facilitator because he’s so efficient from the field

Wants with KD and book wise rather their passing ability because I think if you sacrifice their scoring for the passing that lessens our potential

Devin Booker and Bradley Beal have both taken a lot of reps as the Phoenix Suns “point guard” this season, the PHNX Suns Podcast breaks down who should do it when fully healthy.

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