The Suns need to search for another scorer alongside Booker

With the season off to a slow start, many Suns fans have expressed frustration with the team, myself included. Whether it’s how the starting lineup fits, the lack of cohesion on defense, the lack of a second star, or frustration with shooting percentages, there’s something for someone to pick at and be mad about. For a team that was supposed to build on last year’s success, it hasn’t looked that bright just yet. They have shown in spurts that they can be this solid, but ultimately their shortcomings seem to overpower their positives.

Injuries to the team’s frontcourt at the start of the year forced the Suns into a situation they may not have been as prepared for, and it has ultimately cost them. Then you add Jordan Goodwin being out and missing his hustle and rebounding, and there seem to be some issues. Especially when you look at the fact that in two games, Devin Booker has dropped over 30 points and the team has lost by a landslide; in this recent game vs. the Spurs and the one last week against the Trail Blazers, Booker was on and showed he can be that number one option for this team. He can hunt his shots, find them, and, most importantly, he is not washed.

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Sadly, in both of those games, Booker had no one else show up offensively to help him. This is where the main problem comes into play, as the Suns’ owner, Mat Ishbia, wants to win a championship, and one with Booker at the helm. Unfortunately, when your second-highest-paid player is the same position and functions best in the same role as your 1A star, you have a problem, and that is where Jalen Green comes into play.

Now it’s not all Green’s fault, since they’re asking him to play a role he’s never played in his career, and he’s not too bad at it. Yes, he turns the ball over a lot when he mishandles it, but he can make some nice passes to create plays. The problem is that since he always has to make the pass, he also wants to hunt his shot when others are out. That doesn’t work for Green, though, because it forces contested looks or shots, disrupting the team’s rhythm. His averages this year clearly show this: his worst in six years.

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Publish date : 2026-11-11 21:00:00

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