After a fourth straight home loss, the luster of the Suns’ holiday win streak is scratched and scraped to the point it’s unrecognizable. The defense is broken and the offense inconsistent. Everyone’s healthy and yet the switch has been flipped back off. Throughout the season, putrid stretches like these have pushed coach Igor Kokoskov toward a lineup change, and with poor starts the one constant in every one of the Suns’ recent losses, bringing some fresh bodies into the starting unit could be the next thing Phoenix tries.
The problems are deeper than individual mistakes right now.