This Suns season, like much of the past eight years, will be about adjustments. The team is on its third coach and second general manager since the start of the 2017-18 season, flipping almost its entire roster during that time. We knew that this would be a different sort of team with higher ambitions and a changed style, but one thing the Suns cannot afford is to have injuries halt their momentum like Devin Booker’s three-game absence did over the last week.
Booker is the only player who keeps defenses honest as a scorer and playmaker, and the Suns had no chance of scoring with the likes of San Antonio or Oklahoma City while he was out with a left hamstring injury, just a week after returning from the hand injury that sidelined him throughout the preseason.