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The Phoenix Suns don’t look like a team on the rise. Mat Ishbia has repeatedly told us this team is ascending, but the Suns’ recent disaster against Portland suggests otherwise.
For starters, we are going to have some very uncomfortable conversations about Devin Booker this season if we see more performances like we saw on Wednesday. A -43 in the box score with no 3-point attempts from the best player on your team, who consistently struggled to create separation and did not look confident shooting the ball at all, is a losing formula for the Suns this season. The Booker decline over the last few seasons is hard to ignore, even though we have all done our best (myself included) to convince ourselves that it was mostly external factors.
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Next up, we turn our attention to Dillon Brooks, Collin Gillespie, and Miles Bridges, three talented players who are obviously flawed and will likely not substantially improve for the rest of their careers. Brooks had a career year last season and may score a ton of points this year, but at what cost? He is not going to transform himself into a high-level playmaker or rebounding machine overnight. As for Bridges, the defensive lapses and fine rebounding stats were enough in Charlotte, but to expect any improvement from him as a shooter or defensive pest seven years into his NBA career seems to be wishful thinking at best. Gillespie is what he is at this point too: a lethal 3-point shooter and great backup point guard or capable starter. But it is unlikely he will become an elite player maker or an efficient three-level scorer for the rest of his…
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