Earlier, the Suns narrowly beat the Jazz 115-109, and recently ushered in a wave of 7 consecutive wins, this battle Suns main center Ayton continued to be absent due to ankle injury, replacing him as the starting veteran McGee in 16 minutes of playing time, 6 points, 9 rebounds and 2 blocks, while another interior player Biyombo in the 31 minutes of the bench, 10 shots 7 to win 16 points and 13 rebounds of the double double, the Suns also rely on the pair of two tower combinations, Only to be able to lead the opponent by as many as 13 points in rebounds by 51 to 38.
Because of the loss in last season's finals, the Sun did not choose to renew the contract of Yuanlang Ayton in advance, which also made Ayton very hot at the beginning of the game, but he knew that it would only be his own loss to fight hard with the team, Ayton continued to play his normal state at both ends of the attack and defense in the following games, as of now, he averaged 16.8 points and 10.6 rebounds per game, shooting 63.7%, and the overall performance was almost the same as last season. It is true that the 23-year-old Ayton does have great potential, but he has been in the Suns' competitive state in recent years, and it seems that he is really worse than the top salary, if the Suns really want to renew his contract, they will have to give him a 5-year 172 million fat contract, counting Booker, Paul, the Suns' salary space in the next few years is really locked.
It is precisely because of this concern that the Suns still have no renewal matters related to Adenti. But in order to make up for the loopholes in their own interior, the Suns signed veteran McGee in the offseason, followed by a 10-day short contract in the recent free market to win the 29-year-old Biyongbo (in the recent official regularization). The offensive and defensive efficiency of these two this season is not inferior to Ayton, which also makes the Suns more hesitant about Ayton's contract extension.
According to relevant statistics, Ayton's data per 36 minutes came to 20.2 points and 12.7 rebounds, plus-minus to +3.5, while McGee, who only holds a 5 million middle-class contract, can score 22.2 points and 15.7 rebounds per 36 minutes, plus-minus is to +6, as for Biyombo, who only has an annual salary of 1.37 million, he has 18.1 points and 12.7 rebounds per 36 minutes, although there is a certain gap between the score and McGee and Ayton, but + The plus-minus of 15.5 is the highest of them. That is to say, than the combined salary of the two "internal spare tires" of Yongbo McKee is only 6.37 million, and the role of being able to find such a cost-effective price is not inferior to Ayton's inner line big man, and the sun really does not need to spend that unjust money to block their future salary space.
Because of the injury plague, Ayton has only played 28 games for the Suns this season, the lowest attendance of the team's starting five Tigers, the Suns have him without him and he does not seem to have too obvious difference changes, since entering January, Ayton has missed a total of 8 games during the Suns, but the team has only lost 1 of them, first mcGee has Jaylen Smith and then Biyombo, Ayton for the Suns, more like a tasteless and unfortunate chicken rib player.
It is undeniable that Ayton is indeed more dominant in terms of ceiling and age than the other two interiors, but it is really not so important for the Suns, as long as they can win the championship, the Suns do not care who is their starting interior line, as long as there are two core players in the backcourt, Booker and Paul.