Early-season struggles suck. For me, they’re just too reminiscent of watching the “dark decade” Phoenix Suns stumble through game after on their way to being out of playoff contention by game 30 or so. A win on Wednesday puts the team at 4-4, but growing must still occur.
The Suns have struggled a little in the early going, but it’s easy to chalk a lot of that up to missing two starters. Most teams in the NBA are pretty bad minus two starters. Doubly so if both missing starters were guys projected to be top 3 on the team in scoring.