The Phoenix Suns don't believe in conventional wisdom.
Even with small-ball systems sweeping the NBA, most teams haven't been able to find success while running sets that involve two point guards. But the desert-based franchise soldiers on, attempting to prove that it can be the exception.
Sure, Phoenix ultimately fell just shy of a playoff berth in 2013-14, failing to beat the Dallas Mavericks and Memphis Grizzlies down the stretch as a battered and bruised Goran Dragic succumbed to the difficulty of carrying his team. Nonetheless, the team exceeded expectations in a big way during the first year of Jeff Hornacek's tenure, especially considering the major injury to Eric Bledsoe.
Had the man known fondly as "Mini LeBron" played in more than 43 games (rather than being knocked out of the lineup by a midseason meniscus injury), the postseason would've been a legitimate possibility. Though opponents played the Suns better when they weren't caught by surprise in the first matchup of the season, that decline in win-loss percentage also happened to correlate strongly with Bledsoe's absence.
But now, ...
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