Deandre Ayton, the No. 1 overall pick of the Phoenix Suns is now on his way out after a blockbuster 3-team trade that included Damian Lillard, Jusuf Nurkic and other players. But what went wrong in Phoenix and how did the Suns get to this point with what was supposed to be their center of the future? Eddie Johnson and Saul Bookman break that down!
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If DA wanted more touches, he should have improved his post game & developed his ability to create. He never did that, so he became a secondary option. Maybe he figures that out in Portland?
More touches to do what? Every time he got the ball inside, he'd either throw it back out or turn it over
Nothing went wrong,, , what's with this title of the video now, we're just creating headlines for no reason, they were fine with DA staying this whole summer, now they flipflop in this ,the main goal is to have Vogel can create an actual system that helps Book DA and KD elevate their game more balancing to the next level so that hopefully they don't force iso ball all the time which Monty didn't do, after Ayton got traded, I can't believe this is the DA what went wrong video, 🤦,
How did we get to this point it's real simple when joker was out rebounding 4 people and ayton was standing in the corner looking around like he didn't have a job to do I knew it was over then
DEANDRE AYTON GOT 13 SHOTS PER GAME AND AVERAGED 18 POINTS A GAME. SO WHAT IS THE PROBELM WITH HIS GAME. THE PROBELM IS THAT THE NBA 😊DOES NOT WANT BLACK CENTERS TO BE A BIG PART OF THE OFFENSE .THEY WANT BLACK CENTERS TO LIMIT THEIR GAME TO RIM RUNNING . TO BEING CLINT CAPELA.
Eddie making excuses for Ayton. Shaq and Charles flat out said u can force them to give u the ball
Yeh I wanted ayton to be a second option but my guy has handles for 3 ft minimum
Eddie, you are right, 100%. You draft a number 1 and not make him a part of the offense. Eddie, you offer a better alternative than the narrative everyone else is running away with.
DA lost the confidence of some of his teammates. I think especially Booker wanted him out. He’s a better player than Nurk. Grayson Allen and Booker will make the Suns the heel team of the NBA this year.
As an outsider, It look like Suns organization quickly gave up on DA (probably to early) and DA lossed trust in the organization because my thoughts were Ayton and Booker was supposed to be 1 n 2 punch, the next Kobe n Shaq so to speak. But then Cp came in and pushed him down on the hierarchy, and then KD came in and push him down some more, and then Beal came in and pushed him down even more!
So i think it's overall everyone fault because Suns didn't feed Ayton the ball enough and it's Ayton fault for hardly showing that he deserves the ball more.
Ishbia has no vision for what comes after KD, all he has shown is that he is hell bent on the next 2-3 years and he is kicking the can down the road as to what will actually happen after KD's decline.
With few 1st round picks possibly a very late 1st until 2029 it will be very tough to do a roster rebuild until 2027-2028
It seems Booker was fed up with Ayton's quitter demeanor. If he wanted him on the team, he'd still be there.
Ayton:
1) is useless for the Suns, because he doesn't rebound or defend. He's good offensively, but the Suns don't need that.
2) has one of the worst contracts in the NBA, which was almost immovable.
We should be happy. Nurkic is a better fit and even if he isn't, we don't have a useless player, with an untradeable contract.