NBA Countdown | The Suns will be threatened in West if their Big 3 aren’t at full strength. – Wilbon

NBA Countdown | The Suns will be threatened in West if their Big 3 aren’t at full strength. – Wilbon

Set for the first of our Christmas Day games today Middleton he’s coming off of a 20-point performance in Saturday’s win over New York now remember he hasn’t had consecutive 20-point games since March of 2022 that was 649 days ago but he’s starting to find his rhythm here coming

Off of that injury all right friends let’s check in on the Suns they have lost seven of 10 games here in December and with a little bit surprising given their personnel right is they’re struggling partly because of their offense the Suns have ranked in the bottom five this month and Phoenix they

Sit at 500 despite having played the League’s second easiest schedule entering chis Christmas let’s just take stock here right Bradley Beal he’s only played in like six games this season Yousef nerkish is out today for personal reasons Eric Gordon he’s talking about how he feels like he should be playing

More so this feels like sort of a moment where tectonic plates they could be shifting in Phoenix like Whispers of the Nets Vibes with the big three where they couldn’t stay on the court so wo what is the temperature inside Phoenix right now well start with Kevin Durant you talk to

People in Phoenix and around that organization you know they can feel the frustration with Durant part of that certainly uh is the Miss games for Brad Beal this team was built around those three stars uh The underwhelming Supporting Cast that comes from those massive trades for Durant and Bradley

Beal that really gutted uh the organization and left them you having to sign a lot of minimum players to fill out the payroll and then and then understanding uh that they lack the asset the draft picks the the trade Capital to go out and really improve this team this is something they’re

Going to have to manage in Phoenix with Kevin Durant you’ve seen it before and it reminds you it is a stark reminder of how short of a window and how this team has to win big and they have to win big quickly uh based on how it was constructed and having Kevin Durant

Still playing at an all NBA uh level and a healthy Kevin dur Durant and there’s a lot at stake for this organization it’s got to change soon okay mayor of Scottdale you know this team inside and out given all of that how confident are you that they’re going to figure all

This out I’m not first of all they can’t get on the court and W is so right start with Bradley Beal this team was constructed you knew going into this that their three starters their three stars had to be Stars pillar or post all right but this this is a reminder how

Many times are we going to keep going back to a model CU it worked twice of this big three situation where you could just throw people together because of their names they’re going to be great they haven’t played together and even when they have first of all they should

Be better with two of them and they’re not it’s a flatline team you watch them and you wonder where’s the emotion where is it well personalities matter perk knows is when you’re building a team as opposed to just slapping one together temperament matters personality matters chemistry matters talk about Draymond

Green right and the instigation and why is it worth it despite all the suspensions and the drama to have him because you still have that in the mix the sons have none of that and when you watch them play you’re like my my goodness Stephen A and I were talking in

The commercial break about pace of play that’s reflective of what they don’t have where’s the fire they’ve been bottom five in Pace of play when you got those players if they’re on the court and they’re not where is the pace of play what is that about where’s the fire with this

Team watching them Flatline through games and blow double digit leads no I have no confidence you know what the big three haven’t played together and they got KD and Devin Booker they could save the excuses a lot of people make more excuses for the Phenix Sons than a brother going to jail

And I don’t even want to hear it okay and when it comes down to it is you talk about the pace how about getting stops cupcakes is what I see them they creamy in the middle they lack physicality Stephen A they lack physicality will Bourne they lack mental toughness if you

Want to get out transition how about getting deflections and steals how about forcing turnovers so when I think about this locker room and I think about Eric Gordon comments Malika right he talked about oh he’s a offensive weapon basically right he should get more touches be more involved in the offense

He’s on a vet minimum that shows lack of leadership and when this team formed I said that Kevin rent just like when he went to Golden State and Draymond and steep was a leader to him he needs to be a vocal leader to these guys in this

Locker room because they don’t have one and when you lose games like to the Portland Trailblazers it goes to show you that you don’t have a voice that’s a extension of Frank vogle and that’s why I always say your best player is not your leader all the time your best

Player is not the one that’s in the locker room that’s that’s giving the voice of holding people account 2008 on the Celtics kg wasn’t a vocal leader Paul wasn’t a vocal leader it wasn’t uh Ray Allen it was James posy M you need a vocal leader are you ready

For this the Phoenix Suns are a team are you ready for this they’re a team when it comes to there’s a whole bunch of people that sh a blame ain’t just one person there’s a whole bunch of blame to go around let’s start with ownership doing your homework on the availability

Of Bradley Bill this ain’t the first time he’s been injured no all right so you got take that into consideration we know it’s not on purpose it’s not his fault that he lands somebody with his ankle stuff like that it’s not his fault but the reality is is that durability

And availability have been things that he hasn’t had uh you know at his disposal that’s number one okay the recommendations for Frank vogle Frank vogle could coach he’s a champion as a coach I’m certainly not here to cast any asures on him but there is something to

Be said about being able to touch on the pulse of your team okay that was a question mark for him with the Los Angeles Lakers wasn’t a question Mar Mark with him when he was the coach of the Indiana bases years ago but it was a question with him with the Los Angeles

Lakers thereafter winning the championship it’s a question now as you watch these things these matters unfold then we have to get to the Superstar Kevin Durant who’s the league leader in three-o percentage shooting at over 47% who’s one of the top three scorers in the league averaging over 30 but it

Appears to me nothing why because leadership ain’t just with how you perform on a basketball court it’s your ability to Galvanize the people around you to maximize their potential he doesn’t seem to be able to do that Devin Booker is averaging 27 a game so you’ve got a superstar averaging 30 you got

Another one averaging 27 and y’all still three in and eight over your last 11 games or something like that this is a team that appears to be leaderless this is a team that doesn’t appear to have any kind of Direction any kind of motivation whatsoever they certainly

Don’t have health on their side you already brought up their bench W there’s nothing to look forward to in Phoenix because I’m looking at the rest of the Western Conference and some of these young thorough breads going to come up the reigning defending champions in Denver M LeBron leading the Los Angeles

Lakers you can’t count them out and then I’m looking at the Phoenix Suns hot garbage hot garbage how patient is Kevin Durant willing to be with all of this well listen we you you’ve seen certainly in Brooklyn there were very different factors uh with the Nets and their

Inability uh to ever put that together but the one thing you came back to in Brooklyn was uh the players that he came to play with and that he helped bring in James Harden Kyrie Irving they never played together I think they played 17 games together the three of them and I

Think that’s going to be the question I think for the Suns is Bradley Beal getting healthy and then Durant and Booker staying healthy because we haven’t seen what these three look like together but they’re going to have to be markedly better with the all three of them you of the world everything okay

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NBA Countdown | The Suns will be threatened in West if their Big 3 aren’t at full strength. – Wilbon