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The Suns plan is to beat teams with speed. However, some teams are big and quick.
Staying out of foul trouble will be important for the Suns big men.
BY KELLAN OLSON Suns reporter, ArizonaSports.com editor:
“I think we’ll be fine with that,” Booker said of the defensive responsibilities on the four perimeter players. “Just holding each other accountable. If teams have the size advantage, we’ll beat ’em with speed.”
To that point, it’s about maximizing the strengths of the team.
“We just wanna play to what it is, play to our strengths and just try to be the best version of us and build from there,” Durant said. “This is a copycat league and you see some stuff that you may implement to your gameplan, but for the most part we want to stick to our identity and be who we are as individuals and who we are as a team and stick to that.”
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Staying out of foul trouble will be important for the Suns big men.
BY KELLAN OLSON Suns reporter, ArizonaSports.com editor:
“I think we’ll be fine with that,” Booker said of the defensive responsibilities on the four perimeter players. “Just holding each other accountable. If teams have the size advantage, we’ll beat ’em with speed.”
To that point, it’s about maximizing the strengths of the team.
“We just wanna play to what it is, play to our strengths and just try to be the best version of us and build from there,” Durant said. “This is a copycat league and you see some stuff that you may implement to your gameplan, but for the most part we want to stick to our identity and be who we are as individuals and who we are as a team and stick to that.”
Suns deep in NBA trend of versatile, uniquely sized lineups
There is a very cool shift happening in the NBA right now with positional flexibility, and the Phoenix Suns are square in the orbit of it.
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