Whether the Phoenix Suns signed Jimmer Fredette for the remainder of this season with a team option for next year as a gimmick or as an actual trial to see if he would be a cheap and suitable replacement to the presumed moving on Troy Daniels, if he wants to stand a chance at being on a roster in 2019-20, he has to get onto the court this year in as many games possible.
And he also has to play well.
In Jimmer’s third game with the franchise, he failed to see the court in either the second or fourth quarters, the two periods that he has seen time for Phoenix thus far, and the reasons are simple:
While one might assume that part of why was because that the Suns weren’t being blown out (which is how he saw his fourth quarter time in game two against Utah), his appearance in game one was at the end of the second quarter when the Suns were still very much in it.