Basketball teams all across the world employ a wide variety of strategies in an effort to win games. Some play big. Some play fast. Some play by shooting as many 3s and possible. The Phoenix Suns attempted to play Tuesday night against the Kansas City Sacramento Kings without having either a big man who plays in the paint or a to notch point guard, which, out of all the unique strategies out there, turns out not to be the best.
After the Boston Celtics blew out the Suns Monday night in a game where Phoenix looked completely out of sorts on the offensive end of the court, it was easy to point to Ricky Rubio’s absence as the likely culprit for being out of sync.