Where Does Bradley Beal Fit On the Phoenix Suns After Down Season?

Where Does Bradley Beal Fit On the Phoenix Suns After Down Season?

today on locked on suns nobody on the 2023 24 Phoenix Suns had to adjust more had to deal with more and eventually dealt with more a from the Suns fan base and Bradley Beal can he bounce back and how might that look under coach Mike buen holer and hopefully a new look Sons roster we’ll break it down today let’s go you are locked on suns your daily Phoenix Suns podcast part of the locked on podcast Network your team everyday and we’re back this is locked on Phoenix Suns part of the locked on podcast Network your team every day I’m Brendan clean your host credential media member covering the Suns for the past seven seasons and the host of the just basketball show thank you for making locked on suns your first listen to kickoff your Friday welcome to the show if you haven’t already hit follow or subscribe wherever you’re finding us we’re free and available everywhere including YouTube when you hit that button you get a new episode in your feed every single Monday through Friday become an everyday right here get locked on to the Phoenix Suns all off season long where there is sure to be some Madness uh I just saw sham shiran report that the suns are actually interested in bron James so we’re not talking about that today but you know we’re we’re just in the in the middle of all the shenanigans joining us as he does every single Friday to wrap up the week is Stephen pjon he is a writer over at bright side of the sun he is a podcaster over at phnx and today’s episode guys before we get into it brought to you by prize piix the easiest and most exciting way to play daily fantasy sports go to prize.com locked on NBA use the code locked on NBA for a first deposit match up to $100 all right Stephen so Bradley Beal part of why I was waiting to do this episode with you is I think heading into the season before you were on every week we talked about Beal when you just came on as a guest and I feel like we that might be one of the things about this team we disagree with the most disagree about the most is did he have to adjust what was his role going to look like none of us really knew but I felt like you and I were somewhat far apart his season ended up being very Rocky he finishes with 185 and four per game becomes this team’s like lead perimeter defender on top of being a scorer and of course Flames out in that game for fouling out shooting the ball like crap and I think Suns fans are looking at him quite a bit here as we head toward an off season a training camp and another season for this big three to try to figure it out so when I just ask you now having seen 53 games of it and in a whole a whole year of this what is Bradley Beal’s ideal role within the structure of at the very least this what we know this big three will look like on the court heading into next season what what’s going to get the most out of him what should it look like I think for one it should be him initiating offense in a little bit more of a balanced variety with Devin Booker in particular uh almost closer to 5050 in my opinion gives the offense two different flavors from the Inception Point Bradley Bill is going to push the pace a little bit more he’s going to get you in the movement from that inflection point uh with more consistency whereas Devin Booker is more than likely to be a little bit more pick and roll than movement going into a next action so I think there’s a difference there that can be positive in contrast for the team looking at their General offensive process and then in addition to initiating offense a little bit more also think Bradley Bill being a piece that you use to move around the chessboard consistently in terms of running him off of stagger screens running him off of a variation of wide pin Downs or middle pin Downs not unlike Mike buen hoser saw with his usage of Chris Middleton who was Notorious for those middle pin Downs getting those touches around the elbow or nail working at isolation or going into a mid-range pick and roll from there I think that’s the best template in terms of usage for him when we did see him used in those ways it was quite quite effective a lot of empty dho action with nerkish where he’s working and read and react off of The Leverage that the Defenders defending him with if he’s top lock which they usually would like to do the back door is wide open because of nerkish pulling a X5 or opposing Center away from the basket and if they decide to play him in Lock and Trail comes off of the dhos and his Tempo and CAD is either pulls over help from the nail or he’s able to Garner the attention of that big and they can hit nkit and getting a playmaking from there so I think those are the best ways to use him on offense I’m curious where your mind is on that after seeing him this season and um yeah just kind of generally what you think about it yeah well I agree it’s the basic premise of what you said and I can already again we’re going to get the comment of please put video on the screen or terminology look we don’t have mind the game level production guys uh Stephen will Stephen will Circle back on the definitions as we need to but I like we saw some of it and I think I continue to wonder about nurkic’s role in in this team and not only if you’ll be on it from a salary matching just you know salary how this stuff has to look standpoint but if he’s going to fit in what this new version of the team looks like but even if it’s not him a lot of the dribble handoff and manipulating of the defense types of things that you’re talking about there that was what I was pulling my hair out about the most this season is why do you not why did we not see the the best three players on this team working together on offense enough I don’t have a great answer for that obviously it happened at times but I’m not just talking about one guy passing it to the other I’m talking about making the defense have to react to at least two of those players at one time regardless of how that even ends up happening and that’s part of why I’m optimistic about bud and I know Suns fans like would I might sound like a hypocrite there because I was and I know you were kind of a a champion of nerk so to speak just because he was the guy that most consistently could get them to run offense and actually manipulate the defense at all I would just like to see maybe if nk’s not on the team or even if he is okay great he did that but if he’s not one of the best players can you get Durant to do that more often can you get Booker to do that more often within the the confines of of this team and I even looked to Washington last year well now two years ago and I said this a 100 times I feel like on the show but it’s still true they seem to do that better with porzingis and kozma as Beal’s co-pilots than the Suns did with two future Hall of Famers in Booker and Durant doing that and maybe Booker future Hall of Famer is a little ahead of ourselves but whatever those guys are better than porzingis and kozman and yet it felt more sticky and more awkward and I don’t really understand that so that feels like easy uh loow hanging fruit to me I think the obvious other one that that I want to hit is just another thing that I would imagine bud will help with here Stephen is it’s it’s we’re all broken records but it is what it is Beal is number one to me on the list of guys who can and should be taking more three-pointers um you know at his Peak he was taking s eight a game and that was even with you know Po in his Prime when he’s making All-Star games post John Wall this is not me asking him to do something he did when he was a kid he did it at his Peak and and to Great results so he just has to have that quicker trigger and let it fly and I could see a lot of those things working hand in hand where he’s coming off screens he’s working off ball he’s starting a possession on the ball and then you know spacing or or doing some of that from there and getting it back and take like him scoring him being aggressive doesn’t have to be one or the other with the shooting and I think both of those have to happen for him to get back into the 20s per game and just be more of a threat out there and and make this offense harder to guard yep I I think you you said that on the T and you knocked that out the park his uh especially that especially that latter end the shop profile for Bradley Bill in particular is extremely important and I feel like that’s pertaining to Bill that’s probably the outside of the movement stuff that’s the biggest thing that I was hammering home and emphasizing on Twitter as well as with my writing and that’s just the fact that for one like you said following that game I think it was uh late December early January if I’m not mist taken against the Lakers where he knocked down seven or eight threes and immediately in postgame with Chris Haynes he talked about like yeah my coaches were on my butt about me getting three getting up three-point opportunities they said that the chances are there I just gotta mentally approach it the right way and from that point on he was certainly better but they need that on a lot more consistency especially with the amount of cash and shoot opportunities that the big three are able to generate and I think another point that you made uh well before I get to that one the other big thing for me with Bradley Bill talking about his shot profile were the drives for him so you got the three-point shooting and then you got the drives he is looking at the offense and looking at the roster as a whole the by far the best driver of the basketball on the team is Bradley Beal he averaged 12 drives a game this season and stemming from his drives the the the um Sun shot 53.1% and they scored on 52 and almost 52 and a half% of the times that he actually drove the basketball so those numbers are good I would like to see that number of 12 be a lot closer to 15 a lot closer to 18 because he is that Elite level driver no one can stay in front of him for more than two dribbles most people can’t stay in front of him for more than one especially if he’s getting it off of movement and I think that’s where the blending of his usage within the offense really starts to have a little bit more impact and then the other thing I was going to transition to outside of his individual shot profile you mentioned the fact that you would like to see the big three used in action as a trio and then having two other players spaced I’m thinking about those moments that we talked about uh really on the last two episodes that we were on the last two weeks with bud and one of the things that we both are looking forward to most with him the creativity that he brings to the offensive side of the ball I think there were certainly Pockets where and I certainly highlighted them on Twitter where we saw Devin Booker Kevin Durant and Bradley Bill on an empty side in a three-player action where they’re getting into their dribble handoff variations with those three players that’s naturally forcing switches and now one of those two players especially if it’s Kevin Durant that gets a switch can now just walk his man into the post and you get to that action with 16 seconds left on the shot clock Durant gets the switch they’re going to send a double and now you got the dominoes falling from the defense and now you’re able to generate those catch and shoot three-point opportunities that are of the highest value for this Phoenix Suns team I think they they left a ton of food on the table in terms of that particular realm of their process on offense and I also feel like that’s something that bradleyville can be spearheaded I also think it’s something that uh Mike buen hoser is going to enable even more so because we saw that quite consistently with his big three in Milwaukee in that Championship season that was a staple for him in crste play yeah just to give some of the numbers before we transition to role and Personnel aside from the big three a little more um he did take more threes this year than he had since uh the co shortened the the year the Suns made the finals 2021 season but barely and his Rim attempts went a little bit down and I think how he gets them to your point is also important there the drives and everything else his low center of gravity his ability to stop and start you know that I could see him doing a lot of the things that we’re seeing you know the the moves and the taking advantage of space that we’re seeing guys like Jaylen brown or Anthony Edwards do we’ve seen him do it before I think his skill set should be flourishing in a in a in a system like this in a on a roster like this but he just has to kind of get back to I think what made him special but let’s talk about uh oh the other thing I was going to say his free throw rate went way down that was part of what I was going to bring up there and that that goes hand inand with a lot of this get get inside attack mismatches attack Pockets more aggressively and those easier points will come too it it really kind of fell off a cliff it was his worst since his second season in terms of how many free throws he took compared to field goals so um let’s talk about where those pockets might come and what it might look like next year we don’t know what the Suns will do but again we know the coach and we know some of what their needs are heading into the off season so we’ll get into how that could morph it all coming up next first Today’s Show brought to you by PR picks the best place to play daily fantasy sports my favorite place to play daily fantasy sports April is behind us but the NBA playoffs are continuing get in on the playoff action and win up to 100 times your money on prize picks as you and the world’s best players take the game to a new level during basketballs postseason turn one uh $10 into 1,000 winning up to 100 times your money with as few as four correct picks on prize picks it’s that easy it’s 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out there and it was out there during the regular season but I think it’s picking up steam as the as Suns fans look about at maybe a point guard or um Wing depth or any of the non Center needs that I think we can all agree this this this roster has this idea of bringing Bradley Beal Off the Bench um I’ve always approached it from the standpoint of like just get real like this this is this is an all-nba player this is a number three overall pi a guy who’s represented his country and and makes a Max salary we can dream whatever we want to dream but that’s not happening but from a basketball standpoint I think to drill down a little bit better why do you still have optimism that Beal can be part of the solution to what the Suns what went wrong for the Suns on the court last year and not somebody who has to be kind of mitigated in order to improve the team because I feel like that’s what Suns fans think is well he didn’t cut it let’s bring in a different guy less of Beal is the pathway to a better team why is that not the case it’s not the case because I just don’t feel that the big three were optimized in terms of how they’re used on the court when they were sharing time on the floor together and the beauty of having three top tier players like this is that you should be able to stagger them in multiple variations whether it’s one of those three on the floor and the offense takes on a complete different look or two of those three and the offense takes on a different look than when all three on the floor and you should be able to pull out the the strings of your defense of the opposing defense in multiple ways to where they can’t catch up to figuring out and solving the Riddle That is your big three when they need to most that’s something that should be a dictating point for this team regardless of who the opponent is you spend that much money and you spend that much uh Capital to facilitate to your Coaster’s roster that you have for that exact reason and the fact that they saw the struggles that they did last season especially with the spacing in the pieces and complimentary fashion that they had around them it just speaks to those three in particular not being optimized in their usage together it lends itself to a little bit of the stuff that we talked about in the last segment it also lanss itself up to in particular you talked about the Bradley Bill free throw attempts only 2.5 a game uh he only he shot I think he had 15 games if I’m not mistaken of the 53 that you said he played last season where he didn’t attempt a single free throw and you can take one game away that he he exited early but even with that game included that’s 28% of the games that he was available for you where he didn’t attempt not one single free throw that’s that’s partly on him but that’s also the usage of him and how he’s being featured you have to optimize those big three before you do anything else with anyone else and you kind of look at the sun’s process as a whole outside of Kevin Durant who else are they gonna throw the ball into to invert offense there was no one Yousef nerkish gets gets a post touch but it’s to facilitate it’s not to score so look at it from that perspective the best way for them to Inver offense especially with the spacing that they do have is to get paint touches from Bradley Bill first and foremost before anybody else and when they’re lacking that that means they’re being a lot more predictable in their process defenses can load up in the gaps and we see some of the um inconsistencies that we saw from this offense over the course of their regular season especially even more so in the playoffs yeah that’s all that’s all good stuff I’m so I think we’ve covered the that it can fit and you and I have both been on the same page we talked about it in previous weeks that bringing in a playmaker a ball handler nobody I don’t think anyone would say no to that you know um I think it’s about who that is and how they fit within the context of the rest of the roster I want to flip to the defensive event and then we’ll go into more specifics on I have some like rapid fire Personnel stuff to throw at you to close the show but defensively I do think they’re in a unique situation because turning him into their point of attack Defender at the end of the day his size is always going to lend itself to that being one of the best ways you can deploy him and he he held up decently well now when it’s Anthony Edwards and it’s a playoff situation and teams are scheming consistently to try to break you down I think it went less well he probably shouldn’t be put into a position of being the only effective point of attack guy for this team next year talk about needs but because he’s not very big because he’s you know maybe not a switchable player and all these other limitations just because of his size and you know maybe trying to protect him from injury a little bit too there is I think an understandable tendency to say Well he kind of has to guard the lead small guy on the opposing team and I think that goes back to a lot of why you and I kept saying that putting more size around that makes more sense you can only have so many guys on the court where that’s your answer right if if that’s kind of the same thing you would say about Grayson Allen you don’t really want him to be off the ball too much cuz he’s not going to be able to make an impact you’re going to feel small out there oh and also Deon Booker kind of has to be put off in the corner cuz he can be exploited and he’s not super big either you’re just running into problems regardless of what Beal’s doing so how much what do you think of his defense with all that said because it is a little bit of a paradox there it’s like well that’s what he’s best at but he’s not great at it so what do you do yeah there there is a bit of a paradox there um just I like my biggest thing with with Bradley Bill like just off of watching his film and just watching him generally over his career when he’s engaged he can be an extremely active and impactful defender in rotation so you imagine him off the ball you imagine you have that player that you feel comfortable with size at the point of attack and Bradley Bill is one of those players on the weak side of an empty Corner action he’s able to make those clothes and recover and contain the ball type of scenarios run three-point Shooters off the line arrive there on the catch like most Coes want from their defense and be able to contain the ball keep your defensive shell intact he’s also again when engaged a player that’s good with showing helping the gaps he has solid hands He’s Able he has a for his stature being a lot a little bit shorter than you would like his wings span is very good is a plus and that’s something that enables him to get those uh jab or stun and recover scenario type of steals this Ling of the ball when somebody’s driving into a gap that he’s responsible for I think you lose some of that value when you have to consistently put him on the ball and again he’s also a player that can be averag on the ball in terms of point of attack defense and just guarding his yard the issues start to come in when you’re asking him to navigate 50 ball screens a game and guard Anthony Edwards in isolation for 15 possessions a game that’s not his cup of tea that’s not what he’s built to do it’s something he can do but it’s not something that he should be forced to fit into as a role on consistency on a game by game basis that speaks to a flaw roster in terms of the construct now if you get somebody not going to say it’s rce O’Neal directly but if you get somebody to f a role similarly to how Royce O’Neal can and showed that he can uh when he was featured with that starting lineup now you see Devin Booker who can be a stout Health Defender with his subtle moments and rim protection secondarily and little things like that and like I just talked about with Bradley Bill as a rotation Defender now you have those pieces in position in addition to Kevin Durant being off the ball to where everybody’s close to their optimized version of themselves within your defensive scheme and now you can expect more consistency because you are facilitating to their strengths and their weaknesses based off of your roster construct that’s why I feel like they have to knock this ancillary piece of adding a bigger Wing or two that can facilitate a point of attack and Wing defense to help just reorganize the pecking order and be able to keep things a lot more in alignment and play to the strengths of their big three not just on the offensive side of the ball but also on defense yeah execution goes a long way I think with all of this and you know the breakdowns and the the problems we might have all felt like were happening with the sun’s defense and oh they’re too stretched out and and this and that it’s like if everybody’s just doing their job and there’s less exposed space that’s not supposed to be there because of mistakes and miscommunication and and mental G lapses and all that stuff then I think you’re able to identify needs a little a little bit easier and you’re also just able to have less fluctuation so I think that’s why coaching change Personnel increase improvements can can help there but at the end of the day I do worry they’re just up against it in terms of being too small unless they can really find somebody to plug in there uh next to the big three plus a center who’s ideally at least as big if not bigger than Allen and Booker both from a height standpoint but also a a sturdiness and and weight standpoint so let’s get to Personnel maybe discuss some of those options and what that could look like coming up right after this all right let’s close out the show um I’m going to throw a few questions your way Stephen about this roster and what they’re looking at here in the context of of kind of Beal and maximizing The Big Three I guess my a first one is do you think they’ll be able to find anybody that you would trust more than Roy O’Neal to fill in there and knowing that bud prioritizes size I think he’s probably more likely and with the reset of a season and less you know disrespect so to speak of benching out should we just be thinking of Royce O’Neal as the fifth starter for this team as we’re talking through all this stuff yeah for all the reasons that we spoke to I think I think so uh just because it’s going to be hard to navigate the second tax apron uh stipulations and if you can uh offload some of your bigger contracts what are you getting in return is it going to be something that appeases to that particular weakness that’s a lot of ambiguity in addition to like you said addressing the center position so I think we have to look at things through the lens of Royce O’Neal being at piece I do feel like he can help I just don’t feel like again he’s not even being U optimized because he can’t be the sole piece that you’re relying on to facilitate all of these different things again he’s good as an in addition to he can’t be your default end all Beall we need one stop we’re gonna put Royce O’Neal or Anthony Edwards to win this game for us on defense we need one stop we’re putting Royce O’Neal on LeBron James to get this stop for us like he can get it done he’s showing he can but he’s not supposed to be the your feature number one Defender that can’t be it and that person that is in that position should be good enough to where you’re not even contemplating putting Kevin Durant there either but I’m curious what do you think about that question because that’s a good one and it’s something that they have to answer if they want to take a step uh getting closer to that contending which they certainly desire to do I just think about how Bud played and there’s this I think a little bit of a misperception that misconception that because he is this guy that’s kind of known for SI and everything that they always played really big which they didn’t and I always remembering going back I don’t even know how I end up here but remembering the season um I guess it would have been after they made after they won the championship Brook Lopez missed like more than half the year I had completely forgotten that that happened and they didn’t really like bring in some other difference making Center partially because they didn’t have the flexibility to do that but they just played Giannis and poris and you know they had a little of Ibaka they had Sandro mamuk KES V who I think could make sense here he is on the Spurs now but he started out there he played a bit but they went small and they still figured it out their defense obviously took a little bit of a hip but Bud can execute those principles with positional size even if he doesn’t have a traditional Center I just worry that while that might be true the idea of EX Center whoever that might be whether it’s nerk or somebody else in a drop aggressive help even with the value that Durant can have in a system that’s firing on all cylinders and I do think he’s somebody that whether we like it or not his effort is going to be higher when he feels trust in his teammates and you got to earn that even if all of that works a bunch of 64 65 guys in that situation I just don’t like as much as what bud was often working with where the smallest dude on the court even if Brooke wasn’t out there was Drew holiday who’s you know the most upward uh you know positional like can guard up of maybe the anybody in the entire NBA that was his smallest you know most uh what do we do with him piece a lot of times in some of those lineups that’s that’s a hard problem to solve for so I would tend to say just put as much size out there as you possibly can and hope that your team structure kind of gets the job done maybe you switch a little more than well they they were switching quite a bit by the end of the season last year in Phoenix but maybe you keep doing that and you you see some initial you know penetration and rotation but you just trust that you’re going to contest and recover and and kind of take away the paint through the course of that better than you did last year and I think the ceiling [Music] on hard the opposing in order to get there but uh feel free to jump off that if you want but the other question I had to personnel-wise is just if you could think of a center even if it’s not a specific player I know you know you brought up Al Horford on our last episode there’s free agent names out there if I don’t know how familiar you are with the draft guys I’m not super familiar myself but what type of Center would you want to be playing 30 plus minutes a night for this team in terms of what they do on the court what their strengths are as a player to maximize everything we’re talking about about I think as archetypes um having an athletic center that can provide uh vertical spacing on offense and rim protection on defense is certainly something that can help I think this this team would greatly greatly greatly I can’t say greatly enough benefit from having a center with scheme versatility to their to their uh their defensive versatility to unlock some hedge and recover type scenarios to unlock some uh obviously switching five out switching potentially in emergency situations and generally as a template for the defense from the onset also somebody that can be up to touch with great consistency even if they are ultimately getting back into drop coverage and you know one of the names you talked about Al Horford is certainly somebody that could consistently do that now obviously there’s a lot of things that have to take place for that to happen so I’m not saying that it would happen I’m just saying he’s a template for a type of player that could certainly benefit from being with the sun’s context defensively and that their defense can certainly benefit from having as well in turn I think Robert Williams is another example of a type of player that has that type of scheme versatility that has the type of size yeah I meant to bring him up you wrote about him on bright side this week yeah if he’s healthy he’s perfect correct and that’s the that’s the key part of it if he’s healthy but I think when you’re pigeon hole with the situation that the suns are in with the second tax apron and all of that stuff you’re really you don’t have really a choice to be picky uh you’re Beggars can’t be choosers and you have to be begging for a team to even facilitate a trade with you to give you some cap relief and actually add to your roster talent wise so I think Robert Williams is about as good as they could do in terms of if they’re stripping a player from someone else’s roster uh another piece that I would like to see with this team and it’s gonna come with some uh Shack a fo type of situations that may come up just tip my hand Andre Drummond Andre jum just had one hell of a season for the Chicago Bulls started a handful of games but obviously even more importantly he played off of the bench as a Reserve Center he’s the type of piece that brings a physically imposing presence in the paint he’s a piece that has levels of skiing versatility that you don’t necessarily think of but if you actually look at the numbers outside of him being you heard of adum this season the best defensive rebounder in NBA history off of percentage of rebounds that he grabs when he’s on the floor that stuff is dope he closes possessions but he has scheme versatility to him to where he can play Drop coverage with consistency he can be up to touch with his drop coverage for almost the entire game and he has the foot speed he has the um he has the versatility in terms of being able to move laterally with his uh quickness and he also has the hand speed to be able to get his hand in that passing Lane and potentially even disl the dribble from whoever it is that’s coming off of a screen he’s the type of player that can help behind somebody like Robert Williams and he’s consistent enough with health to where if you have to start them for 20 25 games because Robert Williams is hurt and you undo your front court and insulated with those two that’s something that you could work with you could work to budge strengths as well it can kind of help bridge the gap from what was to what is yeah I think I might have just phrased that question wrong because I think the reality is they’re probably not going to get anybody who plays 30 plus minutes I think the because of their limitations and everything MH and I think I honestly probably what they would have preferred even this past season by getting ner or by getting Eubanks by getting metu and and even like bull or whatever was to not even have nurkic have to do that but if they can Cobble together and maybe nerk stays around and he just has less to do and he’s in a more limited role that’s probably what this is going to end up being like cuz Robert Williams is not playing 40 minutes a night you that would be malpractice Al Horford is you know too old to be doing that at this point if you want to keep him healthy and you know if you’re drafting somebody at 22 which I think there’s a lot of good options that fit some of the things you just said there well that guy’s not going to play that much either he’s a rookie so it’s probably about having the options um more so than it is this is our guy you know so uh we’re out of time but I do want to just highlight a player I talked about a little yesterday who you’ve been on uh on another part of the rotation which would just be Delon Wright it would be it would be this I I said it yesterday this it would be this year’s Eric Gordon you’d have to really be convincing him that a role here and a the value that he would have as a vet and a high minute player is worth his while above the money that he could get elsewhere cuz I think he’ll have more than a minimum on the table from other teams uh if he’s healthy but the Suns can say you’re our sixth man you know what you going to get a better role anywhere else probably not so come on over and I think he would provide enough additional size to he’s basically as tall as Roy o’ ear and everything as it pertains to Bradley Beal so hopefully you enjoyed the week of shows hit follow or subscribe to get more next week becoming every dayer here with lock on suns read Steven’s work at bread Side of the Sun and all the good stuff they do all offseason long we’ll catch you guys next week

Bradley Beal was nowhere near his best for the Phoenix Suns this season, how can they put him in position to succeed alongside Kevin Durant and Devin Booker going forward?

Brendon Kleen of @justbasketballfans is joined by Stephen PridGeon of @PHNX_Sports to discuss Beal’s season, the impact Mike Budenholzer can have on Beal, and how personnel improvements can maximize Beal in Year Two in Phoenix.

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