preface:
After last year's defeat in the Finals, the new season's Suns embarked on a journey with the flame of revenge, 64 wins and 18 losses are the answers handed by the Suns this season, last season's defending champion Bucks were only 51 wins and 31 losses, and the Suns led the second-place Grizzlies in the league with a record of as many as 8 wins. During this period, the Suns also experienced injuries to Paul and Ayton, who were absent for a while due to injuries in the middle and late seasons, but even then the Suns are the only team in the league, and the Suns are strong because they have two sets of models, the seamless connection between superstar singles and team basketball.
The hole cards are the thickest
This season, the Suns retained the core lineup of last season in the offseason, while also reinforcing different positions, the Suns' lineup can be said to be unprecedentedly strong, they have top stars, there are excellent role players, which can not find another team in the league can match. This is also why they can play easy team basketball, from the performance of the Suns regular season players this season, the entire Suns team can have 6 players scoring in double figures per game, Paul, Ayton, Booker, the three giants have no suspense, the remaining three people are Bridges, Johnson, Payne, in addition to these six people, there are two McGee and Crowder who average 9+ per game, and the lineup is quite thick.
And if these players go to other teams have the ability to stand alone, such as Bridges, in the Suns his positioning is 3D, averaging 14+ points per game, but Bridges can cut 31 points in the fierce playoffs, which means that if he is on other teams, the data on the right to give the foot can also be very good, and Payne, in paul's absence, he once averaged 17 points and 11 assists per game, perhaps around Paul. The CBA will be a qualified starter for an NBA team.
Of course, the person who made the Suns play basketball the most calmly had to be Chris Paul. Paul in the playoffs has proven his ability to get high scores, and the Pelicans' 6-game series Paul is averaging 20+, which is much more than the regular season, but Paul is happy to share his shots, this year he once again got the assist king, averaging 11+ assists per game to make the Suns sick, Paul is synonymous with team basketball, the year before he led the rebuilt Thunder into the playoffs has reflected Paul's ability to keep the lower limit, you are not convinced.
In the first game of the series with the Lone Ranger, the Sun played the perfect team basketball, this game is the embodiment of the way they won the season, the whole team 6 people scored in double figures, but the difference is that Paul only has 3 assists, while Booker has 8 assists, which shows that even if Paul focuses on offense and defense, the burden of organizing the team can still be borne by Booker and Payne, and their passing skills are also excellent. In short, the team that can play team basketball must have a thick bottom card, and if the role player level is not enough, it cannot be played.
The Big Three can stand alone
And the Pelicans series, due to Booker's absence, the sun as a whole was affected, so the team basketball seamlessly switched to the superstar singles mode, Paul also did not act, took out his eighteen martial arts, even if he is now 36 years old, but Paul can still shoot 14 shots in a game, but also by the Pelicans strictly guarded the case, such Paul really deserves the title of point guard god, perhaps because the regular season is too low-key, people have forgotten how Paul led the team at his peak, But Paul can do it now.
At the beginning of the season, Ayton was also very entangled because of the contract problem, and now it seems that there is no need to tangle at all, Ayton is absolutely worthy of the top salary, and now Ayton is a well-deserved inside superstar. Ayton defends well, the offensive efficiency is high, the play is selfless, let him come to the carry team, Ayton can also stand up, he played more than last season, last season's finals were beaten by the alphabet brother, Ayton really shamed and brave, now the title of soft egg has been completely taken away from him, Embiid is the big Mac on the inside!
Not to mention Booker, whose performance in his absence from the Suns has proven that this team must have him. Booker is the suns' strongest scoring ability player, although his absence can make up for his score, but paul is too tired, there is Booker in the Suns to play team basketball perfectly, Booker is not only a scorer, he is also an assister. When He needed Booker to take over the game, he did not hesitate to stand up, and cut 40+ in the first finals of his career, equaling his idol Kobe Bryant, and now Booker is an MVP-level player.
Solar energy to play superstar basketball, relying on these three people, and these three people because too low-key, but also by the outside world to look down, Booker did not become the top five players in the MVP ranking until the end of the season, Ayton has now some people think that Paul activated him, and Paul has always said that he is old, the result of the Pelicans to be blindfolded. In fact, the Sun let go of the Big Three wheel, and can also round the next game to win, but it will waste the ability of other players on the team, so the two offensive modes pursued by the Sun are balanced freely, which is the only one in the entire NBA.
epilogue
The phrase "failure is the mother of success" doesn't seem to be bad at all, the Suns are obviously much better than the Bucks, who have declined a lot, and this year they are the number one seeds, and the champions can't be lost anymore. Of course, the success of the Suns can not forget to create this lineup of the team general manager James Jones, after all, is a player who has been around the Heat Big Three, until how to match teammates for the Big Three, the Heat was also a superstar basketball defeat also superstar basketball, now Jones has found a new path, the Sun's model is the best combination of superstar and role players!