What Will Be the IDENTITY Of The Suns? Plus, Why Nigel Hayes-Davis And Nick Richards WON’T PLAY!
Phoenix Suns fans, get ready for a deep dive into the team’s potential 2025 identity. What’s more important: making the playoffs or establishing a winning culture?
Host Benjamin Garcia breaks down the Suns’ projected starting lineup, featuring Devin Booker at point guard and Jalen Green at shooting guard. He analyzes how the team’s physicality and toughness could become their calling card, potentially frustrating opponents and stealing games. Garcia also discusses key rotation players like Dylan Brooks and Ryan Dunn, while examining which young talents might make the cut.
Tune in to hear Garcia’s bold predictions for the Suns’ future and his take on building a championship-caliber team culture.
0:00 Intro: Phoenix Suns identity and rotation in 2025
5:07 Suns’ offensive identity: Devin Booker mid-range game
8:42 Defensive identity: From bullied to bullies
13:16 FanDuel sponsorship and NFL betting insights
14:48 Projected Suns starting lineup for upcoming season
19:52 Key rotation players and minutes distribution
24:29 Players unlikely to make regular rotation
30:05 Outro: NBA season approaching, stay tuned
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Love you fellas! Appreciate you all, seasons around the corner! Let me know who I should bring as a guest on the show this week! ⬇
Also, let me know some topics you might wanna get my opinion on! 🎙
Do you think we will fill the final roster spot by the start of the season or by the deadline? Any suggestions for free agents?
Ben make a comment on Charlie Kirk
Make stops and try to get easy transition buckets
Nigel is a dog. I dont see how he won't play. He averaged 16 points in Eurobasket playoffs and its harder to score in Euro League (no 3 second rule).
I've been on the Suns band wagon since 2019-20. I noticed Book plays at his best when he's next to a pass first pg. If you want the best version of Booker, you'll need a pass first pg. The combo guard look won't work. Also i see Nigel Hayes as a starter. Time will tell
Bro I can’t believe we have Dillon Brooks on our team.
So many things wrong with this roster, actually with the entire franchise as a whole. This franchise is doomed from the top down. These content creators and fans are on their knees at the absolute mercy of Devin booker begging him to stay so they can have something to talk about. I think the fans have woken up and realized this teams isn’t going anywhere and it’s time to ship book to a contender where he can play meaningful basketball and fully utilize his prime. This channel would be more exciting to watch if you spoke about something more realistic. like rebuilding through the draft and possibly getting a generational talent, or some real top 3 lottery picks instead of clinging on to the delusional hope of making a play in at best which likely isn’t even going to happen. None of these players truly want to be in phoenix, they all want out deep down inside. Once this team starts to lose enough games it will just be guys playing isolation ball trying to showcase their skills enough on the court in hopes that another team makes a trade for them and they can play meaningful basketball elsewhere in a better market.
I respectfully disagree. Nick is going to play. He's the back-up center until at least Jan (and spot starting whenever Mark Wiliams is injured…which is likely a lot). How else are we gonna trade him for more than a bag of chips if you put a 18 yr old rookie ahead of him in the line-up??