To acquire a ring, you have to make the playoffs first. And the Phoenix Suns know better than anyone how difficult that may be.
Forty-eight wins didn’t 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’ll have Isaiah Thomas rounding a mortal three-guard rotation that–hopefully–will also incorporate the recently paid Eric Bledsoe for a full season.
Goran Dragic was an elite performer this past year, and he will seem to duplicate the very 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 group that led the NBA in fast-break points a year ago can play enough speed to compensate for this loss.
The bad news is that the Suns may have yet another excellent season and fall short of the playoffs. The fantastic news is they’ve got enough limit flexibility to re-sign Dragic next summer and pursue a major free agent who could place them over the top.
This year will probably be too much pleasure to word a throwaway, but the truth is that the Suns are a year away from actually raising their profile.
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