Ariza is the 2nd highest paid player on the team behind Anderson. The difference is the Suns decided to pay Ariza that amount, which is more than he's ever made annually in his career. Has he even been the Suns 3rd or 4th best player in any game outside of this one? I'd say he was the 4th in this one, maybe. He's sucked but he hasn't gotten better since he took a few games off for whatever reason.
Igor's rotations have been questionable at best. Starting Anderson for too long, not starting TJ, and playing Chandler instead of Holmes to backup Ayton were all dumb moves and if you throw in how he's misused Bridges in the majority of games and let Canaan play big 4th quarter minutes in games that were winnable and he hasn't looked like a coach that has the team's attention or support, let alone the fans.
This is a nice win but I wouldn't credit Igor for it. If you've seen any of his postgame press conferences then you might understand why some are so down on him. He repeats the same thing about effort not being there and that's part of his job as the coach, to get his guys ready and to play with solid effort. If they don't, pull them, but he hasn't done that with anyone. Other than Anderson falling out of the rotation, he hasn't really made a move to take minutes from guys that aren't playing hard.
I really think you are not realizing these players are actually humans with feelings that have to be managed.
Anderson has a history of success in the nba, and he had to be given a shot over a rookie till he proved a failure and a benching was justified.
Ariza has played much better this road trip. I think the personal problems was affecting his play.
But I think your real problem is you have unrealistic expectations for him. I don’t care how much he is being paid he is just a 3 and d role player, and you should only expect play similar to his history.
As far as Igor’s reluctance to use point book, booker does not want to play point guard. Why do you think he is liking Rozier’s tweets.
He is playing Canaan to give booker a break from constantly having to bring the ball up. I don’t care what anyone says he is our best pg right now, and if you actually want to win he should get time over Okobo.
I am seeing consistent progress. Our turnover problem seems solved, the fast break d is much better, and the offense has been getting much better lately.
If nothing was changing for the better your gripes would be justified, but they are. And Rome wasn’t built in a day.
