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Galloway would be the perfect marksman off the bench for the Suns. They combine for 15.5 of the team’s 27.2 assists per game, meaning the rest of the rotation still generates almost 12 per game themselves. “It definitely feels like a tournament, a big AAU tournament, the March Madness tournament,” Phoenix’s Cameron Payne said Friday. On the offensive end, Booker takes what is used against him on defense and flips it to pick those same units apart; the bubble has served as an elevated stage for his offensive handiwork. There are no individual awards at stake, so all that’s left is team pride and spirit.

Overall the Suns are just a team that can’t shoot real well from the outside, contributing mightily to their 16th-ranked defense (mid-pack) despite being so good at creating easy looks.

“We’re not here for no reason.”.

Suns JAM Session Podcast: Into the Unknown. “An off-ball scoop, an on-ball scoop, hunt the hand like you’re James Harden. Strengths and weaknesses of the Phoenix Suns as Bubble games begin, Watson explains why he really wanted Tatum and Murray with Booker in Phoenix.

But if you’re in the bonus, it doesn’t matter because you’re going to get the free throws regardless.”.

Knowing that Phoenix’s margin for error was slim coming into Orlando, Toppert figured that Booker’s offensive load would increase.

“What was our chance [of making the playoffs] coming in here, 0.01 percent, something like that?” Saric said after the Suns beat the Thunder on Monday. Maybe Mikal Bridges?

As he said on The Woj Pod this week, he finally became a student of the game during his 25-game suspension for a failed drug test.

That has trickled down to help even the Suns defense, which is fourth best in the bubble and is about four points per 100 possessions stingier than their unit was earlier in the season.

What’s most interesting about the era Beane and Morey operated in is how it was shaped by the cultural narratives of its moment. Plus: Is it too early for Christmas music? He’s routinely getting double-teamed with, as he put it, “junk defenses.” But the catch now is that he’s good enough to still score 30—and the team around him has been good enough to make defenses pay for those double-teams. Please also read our Privacy Notice and Terms of Use, which became effective December 20, 2019. As a team, they are only 12th in total field goal percentage, 19th in three-point shooting and 21st in effective field goal percentage (that adds those two numbers together into one composite number).