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Welcome to Inside the Suns, your weekly deep down analysis of the current Phoenix Suns team. Each week the Fantable – a round table of Bright Siders – give their takes on the Suns’ latest issues and news.
Fantable Questions of the Week
Q1: Jordan Ott’s continuing reliance on “small-ball” lineups isn’t popular among many fans. What’s your opinion of them and your best guess as to why he continues to use them?
GuarGuar: I think there’s a is a time and place for small ball lineups, however, we have been running them way too much vs teams where it’s not so beneficial. I like Ott’s willingness to try unconventional things, but we can’t run small ball for 20 minutes in a game where our season is on the line. I think he really likes what the small ball does offensively and is willing to concede on defense.
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Diamondhacks: Based on the record, I respect Ott’s judgment and unconventional lineups more than his actual roster. If you’d told his internet critics beforehand that our four primary expected drivers of success (Booker, Brooks, Green, MW) would miss 109 combined games, I suspect most of them would’ve penciled us in for twenty-something wins.
Instead, this clueless rookie coach (who probably doesn’t even WATCH the games or CARE!!!) has cobbled together a surprising WC play-in berth from a roster of castoffs that is – when healthy – ostensibly “led” by three of the NBA’s more polarizing, overrated “stars”, apparently competing for the league’s highest USG%, most techs…and likely not much else.
In “short”, no coach is infallible, but based on everyone’s respective track records, this coach looks to me demonstrably less flawed than his top players or most fan expectations.
Ashton: Coach Ott is screwing up. Multiple articles and poster comments have pointed out the fact that he is trying to shrink the roster to the best 8 players. And they are all small (6’ 5” – larger than me). This is not a working formula.
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He really should zag when others zig, or whatever. Play the bench and set up for next season.
But this is why you wait until the last…
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