Nearly one third of the way into the season, the Phoenix Suns are once again at the top of the West with a 16-8 record. So you’d think a lot has gone right for them this season.
Yet they’ve done it while being down an All-NBA point guard AND three wings — Cameron Johnson, Jae Crowder, Torrey Craig — who make up 75% of the normal forward rotation. Along with Chris Paul, that’s four rotation players who play 40% of the team’s minutes (100 of 240 possible) in a normal rotation.
So when the Suns open a game on a back-to-back like Monday vs.