Monte Morris Is The PERFECT Backup Point Guard For The Suns

Monte Morris Is The PERFECT Backup Point Guard For The Suns

I don’t think that there’s too much to worry about if he’s healthy I think he’s going to perform at a high level probably get back closer to that 10 points a game average that he was at before um and those shooting percentages if anything should go up uh because he’s going to be surrounded by guys that could just flat out shoot the rock so I think this is a great signing MCO jams reported that Monte Morris plans to sign a deal with the Phoenix Suns and of course our guy Gerald boray was telling us all about this yesterday that Monte Morris was high on the list of targets for the Phoenix Suns to bring in and also you’ve got a little bit more for us Jerald yeah according to a source this is a one-year contract um and it’s obviously for the vet minimum that’s all the Suns can offer so given the salary uh structure for veterans Monte Morris has been in the league for seven years so his deal is going to come in at $2.8 million um but it is just a one-year deal for Monte Morris uh so yeah we got a point guard point guard point guard point guard let’s go mon Morris is a nice player you know he’s he’s a good backup like if you think he’s gonna come in here and he’s gonna be a starter or try to run this team from the jump like that’s not that’s not what he’s being brought in here to do he’s just helped he’s just here to facilitate and help these guys get to from one point to the another and that’s that’s all you could want he’s as good as you were probably going to get out there um I know some people were probably looking at other options like Cy Lowry and stuff like that but Monte moris is a is a good shooter uh he’s a good facilitator and uh when he’s healthy he can bring a lot to a team and I know people in Denver uh have a lot of admiration for Monte uh still to this day and uh you know things didn’t work out last year he was a little injured here and there but I’m I’m excited about this right so let’s dive into that a little bit first by looking at his stats from last season so in 33 games he had average five points per game 2.1 assists per game 1.7 rebounds shooting 40.5% from the field and 38.6% from Deep now these are much lower than his total career stats but that’s because he was dealing with an injury and so and he also swapped teams moved to the Minnesota Timberwolves while he was still trying to come back from that injury and rehab and of course trying to re re uh connect with your body after after an injury while also reconnecting with a new team can be tough and he struggled to really find his spot on that Squad it felt like so how much Faith do you guys have that well this is what we have to go off based of last year that he’ll be able to get back to kind of his career averages I mean nothing’s ever certain when you’re coming back from injury um but you know listen Monte is has always been known as a as a as a good solid hard worker um his teammates have have always you know revered him they they’ve loved him so I don’t don’t think that there’s too much to worry about if he’s healthy I think he’s going to perform at a high level probably get back closer to that 10 points a game average that he was at before um and those shooting percentages if anything should go up uh because he’s going to be surrounded by guys that could just flat out shoot the Rocks so I think this is a great signing and again when you’re dealing with vet minimums you you you’re trying to get you know Rolls-Royce prices at a Kia budget and um and this is as close as you were going to get they didn’t get a Rolls-Royce this may not be a Rolls-Royce but this is like at least a used Mercedes but like recently used Mercedes not old I would go with that exactly right no that’s that’s great I think this is a good signing I know a lot of people wanted Chris Dunn we had reported yesterday that it was kind of down to Chris Dunn Monte Morris and Kyle Lowry um Chris Dunn was going to be tough to get because you can’t offer anything more than a vet minimum somebody was going to come in with an offer probably more than that we’re still waiting on details from what the Clippers agreement is going to be but it’s probably going to be more than a vet minimum um and then Kyle l you were going to have a hard time prying him from Philadelphia his hometown team and also like the guy’s 38 so as much as low is experienced he would be able to R run the ship uh steer the ship in that regard I like getting the guy that’s 29 instead and is still a very active Defender he’s really good on that end actually um there were multiple clips that I found of him from his time in Minnesota the number one defense in the league where he’s just harassing guys following them navigating screens and in his last season with the Wizards where he was fully healthy he was one of the top guys if you look at ball screen navigation on ball perimeter defense all these different Advanced analytics that are out there so he’s going to be able to help with the point of attack defense and he’s also very good at taking care of the ball which as we know was a huge concern for the second unit for the starters for everybody on this team uh he’s not a starting caliber point guard but he is a guy that can come in and make plays facilitate without turning the ball over yeah bees in the chat said this is a guy I wanted to get on this team he does a bit of everything and specializes in playmaking also still in his prime I mean again I think the the turnover thing cannot be overestimated yes or underestimated however you want to put it it’s he he takes care of the ball and this team was averaging sometimes it felt like they were turning the ball over 30 times a game you know even though they never came close it did feel like some games were they you could look at this Sun’s team and make an argument they could have won 10 more games if they just saved about three to four turnovers a game you know what I mean so uh when you bring a guy like this in Off the Bench uh he’s going to be able to take care of the ball he’s going to and he’s going to hold other people accountable about turning over the ball too because typically guys that don’t like to turn the ball over absolutely detest if you do so hopefully he’ll hold them accountable and man I’m just hoping for the best I think we all kind of learned a lesson last year not to get too high on some of these vetman guys yes um and this year that’s definitely the approach I’m taking just hey I hope works out I’m optimistic let’s just move on yeah so meatloaf in the chat said you could be the worst point guard ever and look good you got Beal book Durant Grayson OMG let’s go also it’s undeniable that this is an upgrade from what we had in that spot last year yeah you didn’t have anybody in that spot once you traded Jordan Goodwin like it was Jordan Goodwin and then it was nobody as a backup point guard so as much as I don’t think they need a starting point guard and they didn’t really have the means to go out and get one realistically they now have a backup who can come in you can stagger him with the big three as they come in and out of the game um and he can play on or off the ball that’s the good thing about him like he can facilitate he can uh create some of his own looks but he’s also a very good catch and shoot guy I think he shot 42% on catch and shoot threes last year he’s at around 42% for his career in that category so he’s a guy that you can spot up off the ball and he’ll be able to knock down an open look he’s a guy that can run pick and roll or you can create with with the ball in his hands so that versatility on that end is good and defensively same thing like he actually spent some time guarding Wings occasionally with Minnesota obviously they have a ton of length as well around him so that he could do that but if you have a guy that can guard two maybe three positions in a pinch that’s a good thing to have um especially on a vet minimum deal

On the latest PHNX Suns Podcast, the crew discusses the news that Monte Morris will sign a one-year veteran minimum deal with the Phoenix Suns in 2024 NBA free agency, as well as what he’ll bring to the table as a backup point guard.

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