The Superteam That Can’t Win: Phoenix Suns Exposed 

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Only the media thought the suns were a title favorite.

The phoenix Buns pulled out a play straight from the old Brooklyn nets playbook

I could honestly see the Timberwolves giving the Nuggets quite the run for their money.

The Bradley Beal trade will go down as the worst trade of all time not kd trade.

The ironic thing is the Gobert trade made the Durant trade more expensive and ultimately more costly for Phoenix. People clowned the Wolves for that trade; two bigs won’t work, Gobert can be played off the floor, all those picks. But what Minnesota was able to do the that trade and Phoenix couldn’t was keep core rotation players like 3-and-D Jaden McDaniels and now 6-man-of-the-year Naz Reid.

The only smart move the Suns can make this off season would be to trade Durant and Booker for as many picks and young players that they can get and go into full rebuild mode. Beal has a no trade clause so they are stuck with him. They have to blow it up and trade those guys why they can get value out of them otherwise they will end up like the 2010s Nets, a place no team wants to be.

booker has already so many fathers already hahah

I think the Suns with CP3, Booker, Mikal Bridges, Cam Johnson and Ayton has better shot against Wolves. hahaha. The current Suns basically only has shooting but no any sort of defense and playmaking. Only Durant is a good defender in their starting lineup while even Wolves doesn't have good offense still able to demolish Suns poor defense.

You NEVER trade for a 34 year old hired gun, who's already popped an Achilles, frail and a bit soft...

Just shows your how important a PG is and how good cp3 really was

And well in fact the suns got swept by my Wolves!! GO WOLVES!!!

very good video. yea keep going your content is elite for this niche. you gonna be big.

Yup, we're getting ready to clean our brooms off so we can relax before we play the nuggets

I never looked at the Suns as a “SuperTeam” 😂

KD said offense beats out defense....like, did he miss the whole history of the NBA? All the teams that have won were top 10 in defense

Great work as usual bro

I never thought K.D. would do anything here either. Dude can score, but he is a bus rider, He got no DOG in him. He probably tries to force another trade out this off season.

Great presentation. Thank you.

Yup. The Suns may be done. Have they given enough meaningful minutes to some players on the bench? Is there sunlight there? Can they develop some of these players?

Good on Beal for getting that sweetheart deal. That sure was a cushy clause to include in a contract; all but guarantees job security imo.

I had to take a break cuz the lakers kept losing, but now I’m back. Great work as always Hardwood!

if your starters don’t know how to play defense why not try the bench . You got Bol Bol and t young Fran Vogel is just bad bad coach . 😂

The best thing the Suns can do is see what kind of trade package they can get for Booker. If they can get 3-4 first round picks and maybe a good player or two, I say trade him away. Those picks would become their future. You would have thought that teams would have learned with the infamous KG/Pierce to the Nets trade, but clearly, some teams did not.

The Suns disaster exposes how little the media know about team building.

KD is one of my favorite players but thë Suns really can’t get æ win to save their lives 😂

this has 400 views 💀💀💀💀 But this is fire 🔥🔥🔥

Amazing video as always bro

The suns breaking up their young core that made it to the finals is like GS breaking up the team just before they became a dynasty. Its just obviously moronic to throw away a team like that before you know how good they will be. But the NBA has a win now mentality where you arent allowed to build up for years. If you get 1 star in a draft, you have to morgage everything to bring in other stars to win now. Nobody thinks about the need for good young role players or team chemistry

They blew up their core to have 3 ball dominate players and no role players. It never works.

This proves exactly what I said when it was announced the suns were signing Bradley Beal they needed some defense, not more offense.

Baby Book so shook he wants to run out east

Very very good video. I also said that the Suns have no chance with this roster, because of their lack of defense and bench depth. Only scoring is not enough. I played 3 on 3 since 30 years and when only one of my teammate was weak in defense, we lost every game. Maybe this is not comparable, but without a good defense you have no chance in the playoffs. People like Mat Ishbia think, when they were successful in another business, they will be successful in sports too. But when you have no clue of this sports (or another), you just gambling and mostly loosing at the end.

Bro thought he was in 2K 😂

I love that this is happening to the Suns. My hope is Rockets GM Rafael Stone is paying attention.

When you get to the playoffs most of the teams have 2 star players. But so does the other team. Those players usually cancel each other out. It then comes down to 3-5 and bench players. Prime example is Lakers vs Nuggets. The Nuggets 3-5 players are game for game better than the Lakers 3-5. The Lakers were swept last year and they ran it back this year. Same results. This year look for D. Russell to be gone for sure and they will try to get bigger at center.

You hitched your wagon to someone with absolutely no heart. Congraturations!

Watching most of their games thru the season, I can tell you the main problems I saw (after everybody was healthy - mainly Beal from his early injury) was this team was hot and cold all damn season. The only two that were almost always consistent in scoring was KD and Booker. The rest of the team would be on fire for a game and then disappear for a couple games, sometimes a week. Need more consistency in their shooting accuracy. And then the damn turnovers were a problem as well. The other teams would get an 8 point lead and for the reasons I just listed, could not catch them. They'd sometimes tie or even take the lead only to be back down by 8 within a minute. Hot, cold, hot, cold. I would finally just turn the damn tv off I was so angry watching us miss over and over or turning it over and then the other team would make every thing they threw up. They were so bad sometimes at shooting that it seemed like the only practice they had before the current game was the shoot around before the game started.

A mansion that they could afford because the owner is rich but a mansion that they don’t need.

The suns manager needs IQ test

Well they tried going the draft route...and it flopped. So how can you blame them? If you can pair KD with booker, and then add beal and nurkic, that should make you a borderline contender

All teams moving forward can learn from this. It's not super teams that win chips, its team with 2 superstars who compliment each other supported by a deep young well constructed supporting cast. I am a SUNs fan and I am sick to my stomach. We're cooked, and the only way out of this is if Bradley Beal is willing to be traded or if we trade KD for some first round picks and a some good role players. Cuz if we trade away Booker who IS STILL IN HIS PRIME, then it means the SUNs are blowing the team up!

I really liked the team they had before the Durant trade. If they were patient and build around that team they would have been better off.

Incredible organizational collapse

wolves fan here, great video hope we prevail against the nuggets

Ready to comment after the Wolves just got done sweeping the Suns. Who knew not having a player at the most important position in the sport (Point Guard) wouldn't yield much success for a team?

Not a suns fan obviously but I woulda told you they weren't doing it this year. I heard the hype but there was no way they were making this stick. I mean you nailed how bad the contracts will be in the near future for them, but even as a fairly casual fan I thought the suns were absolute idiots for selling out on depth like a year ago. When you make it to the finals and let one slip like they did, you usually only get ONE more chance to make it stick . . . so when they blew it to the Mavs I was pretty sure it was over for them. Now I'm not a huge KD hater, but that trade just made me throw up all the red flags, because it guarantees your future is gonna be out of money. That year had to be THE year. That trade was their committment, and when it couldn't stick then I went from pretty sure to REALLY sure their window was done. Depth was already gone, future mortgaged, depth already cracking (and likely to get worse), and a rather old core.

What makes the Suns a superteam and not the T Wolves?

I have to liken the Suns to the Bucks the past couple years...both made the 2021 finals and had a competitive series...both teams have tried to fix what wasn't really broken since...big trades, new coaches...just to go backwards. The Bucks were another top 3 seed again last year as it was under coach Bud the past 5 or 6 years. They get beat by a Heat team that has also made a couple finals the past few years and it's time to sell out, rather than admit that it's just really hard to go to the finals every single season

I love how owners and teams the last few years are swinging for the fences, going all in! It’s fun and exciting for the regular season and playoffs.

I do recall push back on these pundits who said this team was a title contender. They said they don’t have a bench. Colin Cowherd said they don’t need a bench because this is a star’s league. Ooops!

Why isn’t Kevin Durant getting the same hate Lebron would get for not winning with a superteam??

Booker is stat padder then chokes when needed. Idk but people keep saying he is the next Kobe.

OKC laughing at your take on Minnesota being the only challenge.

As soon as I seen that the suns lost a PG and traded for Beal I knew they were cooked.

I remember saying this wouldn't work and everyone gave me crap for it

I was rooting for the Suns in their finals run. I knew they'd be back. Then they traded for KD, and i thought it might take a bit more.. Then they went to acquire Beal. I knew they were cooked, man. The Suns are going back to irrelevance sooner in my lifetime than I thought they would. Honestly, it almost seems like the owner came in with sabotage as his goal. He just wanted to see how fast he run a team financially and competitively into the ground.

If you have a 'Big 3' it would help if at least one of them had leadership potential. To me, and so many others, this group of 3 was from the day of the Beal trade just a 'Big Overlap' on top of the leadership problem. The most INEFFICIENT roster imaginable. And at _that_ price? So dumb.

Book and Beal going down ringless

I think its time to get some young stars around d booker rather than kd and beal, as they are getting old. I'd try and get some pg like tre jones or someone from bench that can playmake without turning it over. A proper big rim protector and someone who can shoot from outside with 40%

If lakers and suns create a upset, this would be the craziest playoffs in history 😂

I'm betting in the timberwolves right now 🙌

I didnt mind the kd trade, the beal trade was the one thats gonna really gonna screw them

Idk how their gonna guard us Multiple DPOY 😂🎉😂😂😂😂 wooo

I have a couple of NBA teams I would love to see win it all Timberwolves, thunder, Pacers,Knicks,Clippers and mavericks but one problem there can only be one to win 😂😂😂

KD just can’t get it done without a cast of future Hall of Famers. He’s overrated.

It’s the Kevin Durant Curse.. he should’ve never left OKC for them rings. Now the basketball Gods won’t let him prosper.. love to see it 😂😂

This is the modern-day Brooklyn Nets trade that basically ruin their franchise back in 2013 for a super team, suns just did the damn same imo

The gotta trade KD and salvage what they can. Could get at least two first out of him (maybe more, slightly less). Then hope those picks hit and they’ll have another window with Booker. If not… we’ll I’ve heard KAT and Booker have always wanted to play together

The media seems to be of the belief that trading your future for aging superstars is low risk high reward decision.

And.. a sweep.

Whoever thinks that Bradley Beal is the missing piece should be blame for this mess. Last offseason, they should consider Jrue Holiday. They could trigger a 3-way trade with the Bucks and Blazers where Lillard goes to the Bucks and Ayton goes to Blazers. Maybe they could get Nurkic in that trade too. And then CP3 would have traded for depth.

Excluding “on court Durant” ,I low key blame the players too. I feel like they’re often low effort.

Superteams and big threes just don't work. They just lack depth.

The irony is the wolves and the gobert trade was the one that was supposed to be the worst trade in nba history but yeah you wouldn't talk about this because that's the bigger story bro

As a Suns fan who’s rooted for this team since 2000, we’ve been through worse and yall can enjoy our downfall but stay humble.

When will these owners and Gm learn, you dont blow up your team for one player.

Whichever team wins the Nuggets vs Wolves series will win the Finals.

Suns fans can't blame Ayton anymore 🤣🤣

BLOW IT UP! TRADE ALL OF THEM TBH. Idk fuck it, kd to lakers. Bronnie Bron and KD. First round exit to Denver next year as well! LETS DO IT! 👌👌👌👌👌👌

Would of been great to see reactions of wolves trade for Rudy and the reactions in beginning back to back😂😂😂

No team with Chris Paul can ever be trusted to make it over the final hump. He is and has been a habitual choker since his entire career.

Twolves VS OKC in da Finals

Were they really a “super team”? 😅 Also, I still blame Skip Bayless for saying what he said when KD was traded to Phoenix. He jinxed KD 🤣

To be fair, Rudy was playing horribly when he first got to Minnesota which was making it look worse than what it would eventually turn out to be

I don't get it... Are NBA Analyst and some sect of fans blind or they just don't understand what basketball is... I had important statements at during regular season when Damian came to Milwaukee and when Beal came to Phoenix. That these two teams are not going to win. Heck, they won't even see conference finals. I was laughed at. And here we are Suns out and Bucks on verge to be out.

Great intro😂😂😂😂😂😂

I miss the twins.. and Payne too.

probably the worst trade in nba history

I mean they got kD but we got jayden mcdaniels

They need to just blow it up. Trade Durant and Booker and get lots of picks. I'm sure Beal will agree to a trade at that point.

Pretty much like any sport, defense wins championships. KD and Booker both don’t have it.

SO GLAD WE CHOSE ANT OVER LAMELO 🔥🔥🔥

Owners should let there GMs build teams. Honestly most of these big trades are pushed by the owners, and I cant really remember a big trade that ends up working out. I'm not talking about trades like K Love for Wiggins. I'm talking about the full treasure chest for one man trades.

If I’m the GM I’m trading KD to the highest bidder for draft capital, unfortunately you stuck with Beal unless you can finesse

I love being an Arizona sports fan 😀

Since it's not going good with the Suns, KD will probably want to go back to the thunder and join all those young guys.

Super team? Bit of a stretch? Durant is clearly past his best days and Booker is hot and cold.

The suns destroyed themselves trading for Durant

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