You have to make the playoffs to acquire a ring. Along with the Phoenix Suns understand better than anyone how difficult that can be.
Forty-eight wins did not get the job done this past year, but the Suns, undaunted, will give the punishing Western Conference another crack in 2014-15. This time around, they will have Isaiah Thomas rounding a deadly three-guard spinning that–hopefully–may also incorporate the recently paid Eric Bledsoe to get a complete season.
Goran Dragic has been an elite performer last year, and he’ll seem to duplicate the most remarkable individual offensive season we’ve observed in the post-Steve Nash Suns era.
Channing Frye’s death to the Orlando Magic will hamper Phoenix’s spacing on crime, but the team which led the NBA at fast-break points per year ago may play enough speed to make up for this loss.
The good thing is that the Suns may have yet another superb season and still fall short of the playoffs. The fantastic news is they have enough cap flexibility to re-sign Dragic next summer and pursue a major free agent who could put them over the top.
This season will be too much fun to word a throwaway, but the truth is that the Suns are a year away from really raising their own profile.
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