The Phoenix Suns NEED to put Kevin Durant & Devin Booker in a better position to succeed

The Phoenix Suns NEED to put Kevin Durant & Devin Booker in a better position to succeed

You got to start putting Devon in better spots too yep like Devin listen Devin is not Devon Booker right now I I’m I’m telling y’all he’s not Devon Booker right now that’s not the guy we’ve been watching for eight years like that’s not the Guy you can call whatever you want they need to be better like they they need to be better and and the offense has devolved and I think part of is because and this is not to lay it on Kevin Durant’s feet because he’s the only player who played worth of damn tonight

But I do think there is a lot of deferring to KD especially when he has it going that results in a lot of that ISO ball I think a lot of times they’ll run an action on offense it’ll get to KD in one of his spots the movement will

Stop and the Suns will be content to just let him go to work and don’t get me wrong he’s one of the greatest scorers ever one of the greatest ISO players mid-range players whatever but coming off the hamstring injury playing 36 nights 36 minutes last night 35 tonight

Like he’s going to run out of gas in that fourth quarter more than likely we saw that a couple of times missing some makeable shots and it just feels like that ball movement that they have for three quarters doesn’t extend to the fourth quarter because it’s just kind of

Like all right Kevin go ahead and bail us out well and a lot of times I feel like they set him up for failure in those situations as well you I mean you could say that for any of the guys in the fourth quarter it’s like again you

Let the sh clock run down to where it’s like okay we got to do something and then it’s asking somebody to bail you out yeah and that’s the worst part about it too is it’s like okay if you were going to let Katie cook then set him up

For Success get him the ball where you know he likes the ball in a timely manner and let him do his thing right don’t give it to him with 10 seconds left on the shot clock in a terrible position on the court and be like please

Save us yeah like who who does that help I’ll ask you again you’re right I agree with you who does that fall on all of the above literally all I mean you know there’s a there’s there has to be a real conversation at this point players coaches everybody everybody because if

If I’m coaching the basketball game and my guy is walking it up and I don’t want him to walk it up you know what I do I call a [ __ ] timeout and I say yo stop walking it up but if that’s what they’re asking for then that’s a product of the

Whole system so you watch book do it he’ll walk it up you watch KD do it he’ll walk it up Brad picks it up a little little bit more but it’s still like I every time they get the ball I’m looking I’m worried about a 8sec violation every [ __ ] time they get

The inbounds I’m looking at the clock to make sure they don’t get a a8c violation because they’re casually going into an offense and then it’s exactly what Lindsay said okay eight n seconds hi High lob to KD try to go oneone bail us out and yeah so again I’m going to keep

Pouncing the players have responsibility but we got to we got to be better on the coaching St too what was the pace last year with this team I mean it was it was it was it was slower I mean it was it wasn’t High yeah what’s the common

Denominator in this offense because you don’t have the point guard that we all thought was slow it seems like a system thing it was I’m not I’m not staring at the Playbook I don’t know what they’re saying in practice but on base level it looks like a system thing and that

That’s problematic in and of itself but also to Lindsay Point yeah if if it’s not working these guys can try to push the issue too and another thing I don’t know maybe they have and it hasn’t change but I can tell you one thing 72 to 38 that’s what they’ve been outscored

In the last two fourth quarters combined and that ain’t going to get it done at at any stage of of basketball I don’t care if you’re walking it up if you’re running at 100 miles an hour doesn’t matter if you get outscored like that you’re going to lose games well they

Keep talking about wanting to push the pace and and we’re just not seeing it at all like we they’ve been talking about this since preseason we haven’t seen it at all and like like to your point Lindsay they’re not putting KD in advantageous positions where he can do

What he does best like yeah he only got six shots in the second half and that’s a huge part of the issue they’re not getting the guy who carried them in the first half enough looks down the stretch and last night it was a case of him

Tiring out in the fourth quarter this game it was different but I still think that they when Booker has the ball when Beal has the ball when Durant has the ball they get a switch and then that’s it everything stops stop right there you can do that for stretches in the

Playoffs and tight games when you need a bucket one-on-one but in the regular season that ball Movement we see through three quarters goes to hell yeah and to clarify for the chat I’m not putting this on KD I was pretty explicit about that but apparently listening goes out

The window when your favorite team loses my point is like they need to put Durant in easier scoring opportuni so that his life is not lell where he has to go one-on-one or one on two every time to score a bucket late in games that’s not

A recipe for Success no matter how good you are in this league and and you make a good point you gotta put KD in a better spot you got to start putting Devon in better spots too yep like Devin listen Devin is not Devon Booker right

Now I I’m I’m telling y’all he’s not Devon Booker right now that’s not the guy we’ve been watching for eight years like that’s not the guy right and it’s because he’s bringing the ball up he’s trying to figure out an offense said I don’t know what I I can I’m starting to

Feel sometimes I watch him and I’m like he’s trying to figure out what the [ __ ] going on on the Fly I don’t think they have a system it feels like it’s just like a bunch of mumbo jumbo so he’s an assassin Frank Frank vogle said it himself off the ball Devon Booker he’s

An assassin on the ball right now he looks like he’s trying to figure it out I got nothing I resort to KD or I take a bad shot and that’s not Devon Booker that’s not the guy that’s an all NBA first team guy and and damn it I’m going

To be very clear I’m seeing people talking just like you said they’re going about KD they’re call saying Devon book is not a superstar he was first team on NBA a couple years ago he is a [ __ ] Superstar right now it’s not working they got to do a better job of making

Life easier for KD making life easier for Devin Booker and then you could worry about Brad B but until those two guys get fixed man I just feel like you’re right back where you were at Christmas asking lot of the same questions in terms of system and whatnot

And it it feels like we keep pushing off certain things because it’s well they need to be healthy but again the only thing consistent is this team’s been horribly inconsistent yeah in a lot of ways but the offense starts to look the same no matter who’s out there and I

Think there’s a lot of the the offense and the defense at at at times you’re seeing a lot of the same mistakes so so the questions have to be there what why regardless of who’s on the floor why does it continue to start looking the

Same way why does the ball stop why does it turn into ISO ball why are you not pushing the pace why why are defensive rotations not crisp and and start to systematically go okay is this roster construction is this system based is it all the above and what do you do to to

Try to fix any of it because the clock to change your roster is ticking and it’s getting louder with every day because the trade deadline’s right around the corner and you know you have limited resources there too yeah it’s it’s a lot of little problems that are

All building up into this one big problem and and I feel like for book I I know a lot of people are completely out on the point book experiment and I get it but at the same time I don’t think adding a true point guard is going to

Change the way the offense devolves into is ball down the stretch I we’ve heard these guys speak and even Vogal talk about like we feel like a KD ISO or a book ISO or a be ISO against a mismatch is a good shot for us so that mentality

Alone has to change it has to be we have to keep running offense we have to keep moving the ball we have to go to our drive and kick game which is dangerous when it’s three of them and Grayson Allen out there at the same time we

Don’t see any of that we see one guy going one-on-one like it’s pickup ball with every everyone else standing around and watching and that’s just not a recipe for success and it’s not a recipe for building reps either or continuity because we can talk all day about how

Little time they’ve had out there together but if all they’re doing is [ __ ] they could do in an empty gym by themselves on offense that’s not going to help either and that’s not even the biggest issue like the defense is a way bigger issue they gave up 138 points

Tonight 111 should be enough to at least keep you in the game not lose by 27 like the defense for me is the bigger problem 259 in two games I totally get the defense is probably the bigger problem here but can we just circle back to what you

Just said real quick about the players and the coaches talking about how they think that that’s a really good shot for them when it’s like sure in theory but in in real life when we go and we look at the games and it it doesn’t work out majority of the time against quality

Teams at what point do we revisit this well and maybe say hey like we want it to be good we think it should be good but it’s not working out in the way that we anticipated so let’s try something else where where where is the checks and

Balances of who’s being like hey quick question is this really working well that’s what I’m asking Gerald brings that up so now I want to talk about that coaches went public and said that they went public and said you know what sometimes KD book Brad be one-on-one ISO that’s that’s that’s not bad

I’m I’m gonna be honest when I first saw that I I didn’t want to I want to speak on it now when I first saw it I thought it was lazy I thought it lazy that’s a that’s a lazy thing that’s like okay yeah KD 101 is a great shot so we gonna

Live with it book one1 great shot ISO we gonna live with it nah bro like no that’s not if that’s your offense I mean are are you almost admitting that that’s what you’re looking for no look I’m G ask you g cuz you there every night is that is that almost admitting that’s

What you’re looking for I don’t think so I think because this was a few weeks ago when this question was asked about it was in a certain situation where it devolved into ISO and he said no like KD ISO is one of the best plays that we can

Run I think it was a case of vocal sticking up for Durant because the question felt like not an attack on Durant but kind of asking like yo you think you went to Durant too much ISO do you think he wore him down because it

Was one of those games where he played a lot of minutes and KD is guy but and in moments turning to him for that I guess every single time every single night right does sense that’s like say hey you know what a cupcake is good but if it’s

My entire diet I’m going to die a quick death right right yeah KD ISO book ISO Beal ISO in certain situations is a good play but when you’re when you’re relying on it too much it will kill you eventually and it also doesn’t set your players up for Success either because

Then when [ __ ] goes south now people are mad at KD or book or be or whomever and it’s like okay but is it their fault or are you setting up your players for failure here it’s not basketball like I so that’s that’s something you do every

Now and then when you have a when you have an opportunity that’s not something that you do predominantly just run ISO ball and that’s what we’re seeing and again that’s that’s part of the offense I mean again I’m going to keep pouncing on it Grayson Allen took three shots mhm like

At what point do you call a timeout or do you go to the locker room and you’re like okay we know we got KD book and Bill but we need another person like somebody else got to come to the party yeah can’t take three shots how about

You say hey Eric Gordon take a few less of those and hey let’s get it to Grayson on on a night where he’s not shooting well but you bring up that and we’ve heard Frank vogle talk about this that we want to play with Pace but then they don’t

Like I I don’t there’s some disconnect between what is said and what they do di that back recently yeah especially because we’re talking about the turnovers and it’s been like this whole yes we want to play faster but we also are very focused on taking care of the

Ball and when we play faster we get more lacks when it comes to taking care of the ball CRA though because we’ve seen it in the in the slow down half court that they get lacked I’m not saying it’s true I’m saying what is being said like

You get a you get in equal parts yes we want to do this but we also need to do this so it’s a balancing act yeah they’re talking out of bull sides of their mouth and their ass at the same time like that’s that’s the problem here

To me you know like no got hurt tonight right but what he have eight shots uh nerk had eight shots yeah three for eight I mean if I came in if we were doing pregame and I told you nerk and Grayson combined going to have 11 Shots

Tonight yeah I would have told you this is exactly what happened so I mean sometimes you just got I mean I just I I can’t feel life for me understand that

The Phoenix Suns clearly have a lot of problems as they inch closer to .500 on the season, the PHNX Suns crew dissects what needs to be done better to extract the best out of Kevin Durant, Devin Booker and company.

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