Inside the Suns: Collin Gillespie, early-season player trades, the deep bench players

Welcome to Inside the Suns, a deep-dive analysis of the current Phoenix Suns team in which the Fantable — a round table of Bright Siders — give their takes on the Suns’ latest issues and news.

Fantable Questions of the Week

Author’s Note: All questions were sent out to the Fantable members before the Suns/Clippers game was played.

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Q1: Offensively, Collin Gillespie is not performing well this season (6.7 ppg, 31.9 FG%, 29.4 3PT%). Are you concerned about this?

zenzino: We got these questions right after the Spurs game. My answer was ‘yes, I am concerned’. Gillespie had a tough final 3rd of last season, and he kinda picked up where he left off. He’s not bad; he’s just not as good as he was the first half of last season.

The other effect of him not shooting well is he’s passing up shots he should be taking, which sometimes leads to ill-advised passes.

I’ve seen some comments to the effect of ‘he’s got his contract, so now he’s coasting’. I call BS. You don’t fight through the things he had to fight through and call it good when you get your first contract. He’s a competitor.

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Over the last two games, it seems like he’s finding his range more. It’s only two games, but there is some progress. As the 3s go down more, his confidence will grow. He’ll take shots he should be taking and hopefully hit key shots like we know he can. So, I’m a little less concerned now than I was at the beginning of the week.

Ashton: It is funny in that there are a lot of players not playing offensively well, so just to call out Gillespie is a bit hypocritical. Yes, three-point shooting is abysmal across the board, and Gillespie is not helping his case there. But look at Kennard vs. Charlotte. He went 0-for-5 from the perimeter as the Sun’s backup sharpshooter but still carved a role out facilitating and making mid-court jumpers.

So, I am not overly concerned about Gillespie as long as he finds a role on the team as the games go on. And that role is to probably assist Booker as much as possible. Would a starter role help pull him out of a funk and make him consistent? Perhaps, and the season is still young enough to…

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