In the radius of the most controversial leaders in the league, he occupies a place of choice behind Nico Harrison now. Mat Ishbia is the man who defeated a team of Suns Finalist NBA in 2021 to collect superstars. And set up his famous “Big Three” with Kevin Durant, Devin Booker and Bradley Beal.
In view of the accumulated talent and the millions spent, experience is a total failure. A year after being “sweep” by the Wolves in the first round of the playoffs, the formation of Arizona is not even certain to know the final stages. With 30 victories and 36 defeats, the Suns occupy a sad 11th place to the west, with more than three victories behind the MAVs, last qualified for the “play-in”.
“” I still believe in our team. I still believe in coach (Mike) Budenholzer. I believe in our players. And at the same time, at the end of the season, if we do not reach the objectives that we set ourselves, I will have enough data and elements to know if it did not work or if it worked. We will then make decisions according to these elements », Mat ishbia for ESPN, which devotes a long article to the team.
After buying the Phoenix franchise in early 2023, with the ambition to bring the title there, it should be a season ” very disappointing. Very disappointing. There is not a person in the organization who does not feel it. We had great expectations. We felt very well before the season and we did not meet any of these expectations. We were well below what we all expected. »»
Keep Devin Booker “In the Flower of Age”
The leader, who still thinks that his team will not make life easy to anyone ” if [elle] Go to playoffs », Does not really have an explanation to move forward on the turn of events. The Suns thought they had made the necessary adjustments during the offseason, by replacing Frank Vogel by Mike Budenholzer on the bench, and finally recruiting a playmaker in the person of Tyus Jones.
But despite the start of the seamless season, the injury postman, from Kevin Durant and Bradley Beal in particular, was added again to the equation. Worse, the major five has known sacred updates, the old Wizard being a time pushed towards the bench, and juice Nurkic, downright towards the exit, being finally exchanged for Nick Richards.
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Despite these attempts to relaunch the team, she has kept a negative assessment since mid-February. She has only a month of competition before her, with a full -bodied calendar, to save her season. And probably this “big three” project. Because a disappointment, according to Mat Ishbia, would induce a new orientation: a project centered around Devin Booker, while the other two stars, whose names circulated a lot last February, would leave the ship.
No complete “reset” therefore, because the owner, accustomed to the “All-in” strategy, does not even imagine a transfer from the historic back, to the club since 2015.
“” It will never happen. It's silly. I guess Booker in the age flower. To win an NBA title, you need a superstar. A complete reconstruction seems unthinkable anyway insofar as the Suns have given up control of their first draft choices until 2031 under its direction.
Bradley Beal imagines options for this summer
The good news for the Suns and him is that the 28 -year -old rear seems to be in line with this line. Devin Booker, on whom the Rockets would have inquired, the man of a franchise then? “” I have been proud of the Phoenix community, people who have supported me since I was 18, when things were not going well. So I want to do it, and I want to do it here. It is the responsibility of a 'Player franchise', and I wear it with honor “, Defends the back.
Bradley Beal displays another speech. The former Wizards player, who had come to win after his years of scarcity in the capital, did not really experience this passage on the bench.
“” Whether it is me who comes out of the bench, let me start, I will do it. Does that suit me? Obviously not, but I will not be this guy. […] It's very hard. We have the right to question what is happening, to say to ourselves 'why me?' », Lantes Bradley Beal, again holder since.
The latter, which has a non-transfert clause that he would have used to refuse a departure to the Bulls, believes that during the offseason, “ More options “Will be on the table … Unless a spectacular turnaround, it is difficult to see how this group could remain intact in the coming months. Especially since Mat Ishbia, who does not count ” save His money, does not like the long time, as we will have understood.
“” I could have arrived with few expectations and say: 'Over the next five years, we will try to build this club in the right way. In eight years, we may win a title. I arrived and I said, 'Let's try to win now'. And guess what? I will repeat it next year and the following year, and one of these years, we will win “Maintains the manager without excluding the current season …
| Shots | Rebound | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Players | MJ | Min | Shots | 3pts | Lf | Off | Def | Early | PD | COP | Int | Ct | Fte | Pts |
| Kevin during | 53 | 37.1 | 52.9 | 41.3 | 83.0 | 0.4 | 5.8 | 6.2 | 4.3 | 3.1 | 0.8 | 1.3 | 1.7 | 26.8 |
| Devin Booker | 60 | 37.5 | 45.7 | 34.6 | 88.9 | 1.0 | 3.1 | 4.1 | 6.8 | 2.8 | 1.0 | 0.2 | 2.7 | 25.9 |
| Bradley Beal | 46 | 32.7 | 50.6 | 39.3 | 82.4 | 0.7 | 2.7 | 3.5 | 3.7 | 2.0 | 1.0 | 0.5 | 2.6 | 17.7 |
| Grayson Allen | 53 | 24.8 | 45.0 | 43.4 | 81.1 | 0.5 | 2.6 | 3.1 | 2.2 | 1.1 | 0.9 | 0.4 | 1.5 | 10.7 |
| Tyus Jones | 65 | 28.2 | 44.3 | 41.3 | 88.5 | 0.5 | 2.0 | 2.4 | 5.8 | 1.3 | 0.9 | 0.1 | 0.9 | 10.3 |
| Nick Richards | 25 | 23.1 | 62.3 | 0.0 | 80.7 | 2.5 | 7.0 | 9.5 | 0.6 | 1.3 | 0.2 | 0.9 | 2.7 | 9.9 |
| Royce O'Neale | 60 | 25.4 | 43.1 | 41.5 | 73.1 | 0.8 | 4.0 | 4.8 | 2.2 | 0.9 | 1.0 | 0.5 | 2.0 | 9.4 |
| Nurkic juice | 25 | 23.7 | 45.4 | 32.2 | 69.6 | 1.8 | 7.3 | 9.2 | 1.9 | 2.3 | 0.9 | 0.6 | 3.1 | 8.6 |
| Bowl bowl | 30 | 14.0 | 50.9 | 33.0 | 76.9 | 0.6 | 2.7 | 3.3 | 0.6 | 0.6 | 0.3 | 0.8 | 0.7 | 7.5 |
| Josh Okogie | 25 | 14.0 | 49.1 | 38.1 | 68.8 | 1.3 | 1.6 | 2.9 | 0.6 | 0.6 | 0.8 | 0.4 | 1.1 | 6.0 |
| Ryan Dunn | 58 | 17.0 | 43.0 | 30.4 | 44.4 | 0.9 | 2.1 | 3.0 | 0.8 | 0.4 | 0.4 | 0.6 | 2.1 | 5.7 |
| Monte Morris | 40 | 13.0 | 40.4 | 30.1 | 85.0 | 0.3 | 1.2 | 1.4 | 1.7 | 0.4 | 0.4 | 0.1 | 0.5 | 4.9 |
| Mason Plumlee | 65 | 18.1 | 61.8 | 0.0 | 64.6 | 1.6 | 4.7 | 6.4 | 1.8 | 0.8 | 0.4 | 0.7 | 2.2 | 4.7 |
| Damion Lee | 17 | 6.1 | 34.0 | 22.2 | 94.1 | 0.1 | 0.7 | 0.8 | 0.5 | 0.4 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.3 | 3.4 |
| OSO IGHODARO | 45 | 14.2 | 58.9 | 0.0 | 52.8 | 0.8 | 2.3 | 3.1 | 0.9 | 0.6 | 0.4 | 0.4 | 1.5 | 3.4 |
| Collin Gillespie | 17 | 6.4 | 51.3 | 47.1 | 88.9 | 0.5 | 0.6 | 1.1 | 1.3 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.6 | 3.3 |
| Tyty Washington, Jr. | 11 | 8.7 | 29.7 | 16.7 | 75.0 | 0.4 | 0.7 | 1.1 | 1.1 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 0.3 | 2.5 |
| Jalen Bridges | 5 | 5.0 | 25.0 | 25.0 | 50.0 | 0.0 | 0.6 | 0.6 | 0.0 | 0.8 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.8 |
| Micic vasilije | 1 | 1.6 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
