The Suns played well when their regular players were in the game, and played poorly when they were not.
After the Suns took a 74-70 lead on a sweet fast break just five minutes into the second half, the Celtics blew out the Suns bench to the tune of a 24-7 run to close the quarter and cruised to victory from there on.
Suns players of the game:
- Mikal Bridges: 16 points, 5 rebounds and 3 blocks
- Dario Saric: 12 points, 8 rebounds, 2 assists
- Devin Booker: 17 points, 9 assists, 4 rebounds
- Deandre Ayton: 11 points, 7 rebounds, team-high +10 for the game (but got 4 first-half fouls, and only played 5 second-half minutes)
- Ricky Rubio: 8 points, 4 assists
- The starters played only 17-28 minutes each
This was very much a preseason game where the starters were clearly on short minutes, so let’s focus on how good the Suns looked when their regulars played.