One of the major drawbacks of the preseason now being only four games long, teams like the Phoenix Suns who had a lot of roster turnover do not have much time to work the new players into a cohesive unit, especially under a first-year head coach’s new system.
To compound such difficulty, Monty Williams even rested some of his stars (Devin Booker, Ricky Rubio, and Deandre Ayton) for the third of the four games, after Kelly Oubre and Mikal Bridges missed the first preseason game due to injury.