You have to make the playoffs first, to acquire a ring. Along with the Phoenix Suns understand better than anyone how hard that may be.
Forty-eight wins didn’t get the job done this past year, but the Suns, undaunted, will provide the punishing Western Conference yet another crack in 2014-15. This time around, they will have Isaiah Thomas rounding a deadly three-guard rotation that–hopefully–will also include the newly paid Eric Bledsoe to get a complete season.
Goran Dragic was an elite performer this past year, and he’ll seem to replicate the most impressive 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 at fast-break points per year ago can play enough speed to make up for this loss.
The bad news is that the Suns could have yet another superb season and fall short of the playoffs. The fantastic news is they have sufficient cap flexibility to re-sign Dragic next summer and also pursue a major free agent who could place them over the top.
This year will probably be too much fun to term a throwaway, but the fact is the Suns are a year away from actually raising their own profile.
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