You have to make the match to win a ring. Along with the Phoenix Suns understand better than anybody how hard that can be.
Forty-eight wins did not get the job done last year, but the Suns, undaunted, will give the punishing Western Conference yet another crack in 2014-15. This time around, they’ll have Isaiah Thomas rounding a deadly three-guard spinning that–hopefully–will also incorporate the newly paid Eric Bledsoe to get a complete season.
Goran Dragic was an elite performer last year, and he will seem to replicate the most remarkable individual offensive season we’ve seen in the post-Steve Nash Suns era.
Channing Frye’s departure to the Orlando Magic will hamper Phoenix’s spacing on offense, but the team that led the NBA in fast-break points per year ago can play with enough speed to compensate for this loss.
The bad news is that the Suns could have yet another excellent season and fall short of the playoffs. The fantastic news is they’ve got enough limit flexibility to re-sign Dragic next summer and also pursue a significant free agent who could place them on the top.
This season will be too much fun to term a throwaway, but the truth is that the Suns are a year away from actually raising their own profile.
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