You need to make the playoffs first, to acquire a ring. Along with the Phoenix Suns understand better than anyone how difficult that may be.
Forty-eight wins did not get the work done last year, however, the Suns, undaunted, will provide the punishing Western Seminar another crack in 2014-15. This time around, they will have Isaiah Thomas rounding out a deadly three-guard rotation that–hopefully–will also incorporate the recently paid Eric Bledsoe to get a complete season.
Goran Dragic has been an elite actor this past year, and he will 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 crime, but the group that led the NBA at fast-break points a year ago can play with 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 good news is they’ve got enough cap flexibility to re-sign Dragic next summer and pursue a major free agent who may place them over the top.
This season will probably be too much pleasure to term a throwaway, but the truth is the Suns are a year away from actually raising their own profile.
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