We’re all wondering how much better the 2019-20 Suns will be than the 2018-19 Suns. Are all the new additions going to make a significant difference? So far, it all looks good on paper but paper doesn’t play the game and sometimes better individual players don’t add up to a better team.
Good roster construction can sometimes make the team better than the sum of it’s parts though. We saw the opposite of that for most of last season and many seasons before going back to the unexpected but short-lived success of the 2013-14 Suns. That team far exceeded expectations not because it was loaded with talent but because the roster construction (which admittedly was likely more due to luck than planning) had a good balance of players that functioned well together.