The Phoenix Suns desperately need an actual point guard on their roster next season, and the solution is staring them right in the face.
There is no doubt that getting an established point guard is the most important piece of offseason business that the Phoenix Suns have to attend to.
New head coach Mike Budenholzer stopped short of saying it was necessary to get one at his introductory press conference some weeks back, opting instead to say the team needed to learn to play with and without one.
That still means that they actually need to have at least one on the roster though, after the disaster that was the Devin Booker and Bradley Beal experience of splitting the duties between them last season. Not that either player had a bad season – but with Booker a more natural scorer and Beal limited to just 53 games – the two struggled for consistency together.
Already the organization have been linked with both Chris Paul and Kyle Lowry as high level point guards who could be gotten with the minimum this offseason. Which is probably true – either would surely consider playing in The Valley – but both are a lot closer to 40 than they are 30.
Adding either of them then would represent a significant risk – as although they’d likely come off the bench and would only be required to play 20/25 minutes each night – they would also have to be healthy come the playoffs. A scenario that is far from guaranteed, with Paul in particular prone to picking up injuries at the worst possible times.
