4 options for fixing the Suns’ struggling starting lineup

The Suns are 3-5, and it is obvious to anyone either watching the games or looking at the statistics that this simply isn’t working. The Suns’ starting lineup is a mess: the talent is there, but the “chemistry” isn’t. Jalen Green, Dillon Brooks, and Devin Booker, the “Big 3” in salary, have the worst net +/- differentials per 48 on the team.

Booker tends to change his play to fit alongside the other players on the court, and he proved last year he can play alongside Brooks, leaving Green as the prime culprit for the starting lineup’s woeful start. We know Booker isn’t the worst player on the team. The Suns’ best game of the season, a three-point win at home over the Rockets, saw Green…