You need to make the playoffs first to win a ring. Along with the Phoenix Suns understand better than anybody how difficult that may be.
Forty-eight wins did not get the work done last year, but the Suns, undaunted, will give the punishing Western Seminar yet another crack in 2014-15. This time around, they will have Isaiah Thomas rounding a mortal three-guard rotation that–hopefully–may also include the recently paid Eric Bledsoe for a full season.
Goran Dragic has been an elite performer this past year, and he will seem to duplicate the very impressive 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 offense, but the group that led the NBA at fast-break points per year ago may play with enough speed to make up for this loss.
The bad news is that the Suns could have yet another superb season and still fall short of the playoffs. The good news is they’ve got sufficient limit flexibility to re-sign Dragic next summer and also pursue a significant 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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