Deandre Ayton is actually having a good sophomore season

[Lebron23]

19 ppg on 55 FG%, 12 rpg. His defense improved this season. Hopefully he improve his offense once the Phoenix Suns draft a pass first point guard. Ayton is clearly over shadowed by Young, and Doncic who were both having historic season.

[insidehoops]

The Suns badly need him to shine.

[Horatio33]

As long as Devin "Book" Booker is on that team, they will continue to suck.

[Stanley Kobrick]

:cheers:

[Lebron23]

As long as Devin "Book" Booker is on that team, they will continue to suck.

He is another mr empty stats guy. Needs to improve his defense. Most of his assists were kobe assists. They badly need a pass first point guard

[MrFonzworth]

Steroids.

[Undrafted]

Pass first point guard = Ricky Rubio

[wagexslave]

Their problem this year wasn't needing a pass first point guard or Devin Booker "sucking". Their problem was nobody on the damn team knowing how to stay healthy(along with Ayton's 20 game suspension).

There's no doubt in my mind that they would have been at least a low-seed playoff lock if you take away those 2 issues. They're only 6 games out of the playoffs rn as it is despite all the injuries. Keep in mind, the Suns weren't getting blown out and embarrassed this year. They were playing hella competitive basketball, beating quite a few top dogs and at least giving most of the toughest teams a run for their money. The majority of their losses were stupid close. Their point differential was a mere -1.4, which is better than multiple teams who have a better w/l record than them. There were so many 1-2 possession losses with 3+ relevant players sitting injured. It was just a rotating door of injuries/sickness all season long. Like ****... 2 key players go out, 1 comes back, 1 gets injured, 2 come back, 3 get injured, 1 comes back, 2 get injured, 1 comes back.

If I recall the team only ever played with their full healthy roster for 1 game AKA the first game of the season. But I don't think it's unreasonable to assume that they would have won the majority of those 1-2 possession losses if they weren't missing multiple key players. ��*♂️ Oh well. Hopefully now that they're quite healthy they will make a splash in the Orlando bubble and win most of their games and have something to build off of for next season. And if miracles exist maybe they move up in the draft for once.

[ImKobe]

As long as Devin "Book" Booker is on that team, they will continue to suck.

I don't think the offense was their issue. Ayton missed 35 games and Baynes (his back-up) missed 23 games as well. They looked good early in the season with Baynes replacing Ayton, but then Baynes got injured and they had neither for a while, that's when they fell apart. A healthy Suns team would have been a 7-8 seed, I don't think you could ask more out of that roster. Booker's only taking 18 FGA in 36 mpg.

[East River Livn']

If highwey hasn't responded to this thread that means he's dead irl.

RIP :(