“You have to fail.”
Tyler Johnson has only been around the Suns for two days but he might as well be summing up their entire season. In fact he’s not even talking about the broader structure of a season but his own tribulations in his first game as a Sun, learning Igor Kokoskov’s ball-movement heavy offense. Johnson is saying in order to improve and gain consistency one must try, screw up and understand how to move forward.
This week, in three games against the cream of the Western Conference crop, the Suns saw not only many failures but perhaps their way forward.