It’s been an awfully strange few seasons for fans of the Phoenix Suns.
In 2013-14, their team was the NBA’s League Pass darling — a run-and-gun fun bunch of fast-paced young’uns on the rise. Guided by an innovative double-headed point guard dragon, the Suns won 48 games, just missing the playoffs in a loaded Western Conference, and head coach Jeff Hornacek earned a second-place finish in the Coach of the Year voting that season. It was all very encouraging.
In 2014-15, they added Isaiah Thomas to a backcourt mix that already included Eric Bledsoe and Goran Dragic in the hopes Hornacek could employ that two point guard model for as many minutes as possible.