With the play drawn up and ready to go, right before they broke their huddle, Monty Williams' last message to his team was simple.
"Execute it," he said. "If he throws it, DA, you've got to, like, try to dunk it. OK?"
Williams was talking to Deandre Ayton, telling his third-year big man that this play, one that the Phoenix Suns had never ran before so much as practiced, was for him. It was a play that would decide Game 2 of the Western Conference finals one way or the other, the kind of play that you put in the hands of your franchise player.