Game 1 Of The NBA Finals Showed How Far Away The Suns Are From Contending
the thing that stands out to me is like you look at that total and you’re like man the Suns probably would have gotten like 17 or 18 threes in that game especially with the way that they can guard guys one-on-one and that’s just not going to cut [Music] it Gerald as always you’re a sicko and you found a way to turn game one of the NBA Finals into the Phoenix Suns and what they have to do uh the first one that you talked about and you just mentioned it this game once again proves the Suns have to make more threes or at least take them because the Celtics shot 42 of them uh in game one record for both teams right for most three-pointers attempted yeah I mean that’s crazy the thing that stands out to me is like you look at that total and you’re like man the Suns probably would have gotten like 17 or 18 threes in that game especially with the way that they can guard guys oneon-one and that’s just not going to cut it so you’re hoping that Mike buen holer is able to come in like he talked about at his press conference and emphasize the importance of that shot how it’s going to be part of their offensive philosophy uh because I was looking this up since the Suns have been a playoff team again in 2021 out of 16 playoff teams each year they’ve ranked dead last dead last 15th and 14th and three-point attempts each time they don’t take threes in the playoffs like they just don’t and you have to change that about your DNA because look at what like the two teams in the finals right now were number one and number two and three-point attempts all season and it’s not a direct correlation there but you got to get up a lot of Threes in this league now especially if you’re looking at a team like Boston if you want to keep up like you just can’t be down 15 20 attempts anymore uh and that’s kind of where the Suns regularly found themselves to be fair M if UDA Wabi doesn’t have a [ __ ] you know we’re right there five more attempts we’re right there my boyi metu with his beautiful shot would have just took three four more boy yeah you brought up a couple other points too and it it’s things that we’ve talked about but this finals already is hammering at home more size and defense on the wing and the center spot needing to evolve do you guys think that this is something that can actually be addressed this offseason because I know we’ve gone through a lot of different minations of what could trades be vet minimum guys and we have more to do but I don’t know that you can fill both of these holes gaps with what you’re able to do this off season I I I don’t think you can I don’t think you can Shore up all these um you might be able to minimize them to some degree but I I what I do feel is this I feel like the Suns need to identify what they think is going to be their identity and what they think is going to work best for them and their and their team as it’s constructed and then you have to enhance that if they don’t do that and you’re trying to mimic another team’s style you’re going to fail because you don’t have the parts or the pieces to be able to do what Boston’s doing um and you unless you’re G to trade everybody and start from scratch and just try to draft these guys right yeah so you have to work with what you have and I think they have talent that’s not disputed it’s just how can that Talent work together to get them to Boston’s level and it’s going to have to look a little differently but as long as you have an identity of what you want that to look like they can get there yeah I I I do think listen to get to Boston’s level I mean that’s that’s hard right but then do a deeper dive you just nailed it uh Chris T porzingis was a guy nobody wanted right they got him they got Drew holiday because they had Malcolm brog right and so so some of the the way this came let’s be honest Derek white like Derek White’s a good basketball player I still can’t believe they gave that to Austin for that that’s what I’m saying so so the way that that came together M it doesn’t feel impossible it doesn’t feel impossible for me to say is there a way to flip ner contract for a guy that maybe is not valued right right now but if you put him in his system thrives um because that’s what those three guys with the exception of Drew Drew’s fantastic but a guy like Dereck white and Chris daab they weren’t World beaters when they got to Boston necessarily right I mean there were injury concerns yeah there were injury concerns they had their issues so that’s why I think there is some hope and then ultimately the the end of it is we got to shoot more threes and it starts with the big three like KD book and Bill have to be the guys that set the tone in that game I know they’re the mid-range Mafia but if they gonna try to win they better start shooting more damn Threes And if they can start to kind of set the tone there um we have pieces a guy like Grayson Allen Royce O’Neal those guys are gonna shoot threes I I think boen HOSA has to really put a stamp on that [ __ ] though and say we’re g to be a three-point shooting team much like the mob the mid-range was cool in the 80s and 70s and 80s it ain’t ain’t much of a thing anymore right like I I and I I get what you’re saying that those guys have been available but I haven’t seen this front office find him right there you go he’s GNA [ __ ] I mean you go you go look at back to our [ __ ] conversation yesterday I mean but I’m exhausted from talking about that last night sorry the the availability sure is there but you have to know what you’re looking for and figure out how to make it happen and we haven’t seen that the guys that the sons have gotten have been guys that want to come here Chris Paul wanted to be in Phoenix right he’s the guy that that made that happen Kevin Durant wanted to be in Phoenix he made that happen Bradley Beal For Better or Worse wanted Phoenix he helped make that happen I have not seen the find that guy that is the diamond in the rough and bring him here the closest we’ve seen campaign back in that bubble season uh and you need that this off you need to find that guy that is completely undervalued and rehabilitate the [ __ ] out of that and you’re gonna find it on the cheap this year I would say Tory Craig too that first year the first and I would say not to that same extent in terms of diamond in the rough type stuff or like value being lower but I would say that I think the Suns valued Grayson higher than a lot of people did and and they got Vindicated in that but yeah to your point like I I was watching this series and I was looking what christops and Al Horford were doing in terms of spreading the floor holding their own on switches and protecting the rim like they were they had five blocks between the two of them I think yeah um those are you need more athleticism you need more shooting you need guys that can hold their own defensively at that spot and wings you just need more bigger defensive wings like you can’t have Kevin Durant be your go-to designated lockdown guy and you know do what he does offensively at age 35 going on 36 again I just think the identity part is it’s what’s you know at least with Monty you know Monty had a type right and so at least whether you think that that’s a that’s you know your identity or not at least he had a type and that’s kind of what he stuck with so you knew exactly what players were probably going to get more playing time than others and and what he was really looking for then when we fast forward to vogle vogle was like I wanted to use colorful he was a nice guy like listen man he didn’t know what the hell was going on like in terms of identity like he Scrappy as hell downfall like that that was just what it was like this team was not Scrappy as hell they didn’t have a defensive identity they didn’t have an offensive identity to a large extent either and so you know when you’re lost like that it’s up to the GM to kind of impose his will to form an identity for your team based on the Personnel that he brought in and I don’t think James Jones has really done a good job of that either especially in the last two years in terms of formulating this roster enough to know exactly what you want to be and who you’re trying trying to uh to identify as and that’s that’s the big project for this offseason is what is your identity going to be what is Mike buen holzer’s input into that identity and what kind of players are you gon to find to be able to bring into this program and m match that kind of DNA and if they don’t do that they’ll find themselves unsuccessful again next year
On the latest PHNX Suns Podcast, the crew discussed Game 1 of the 2024 NBA Finals between the Boston Celtics and Dallas Mavericks, and where the Phoenix Suns need to improve in order to catch up to them.
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