James Jones is faced with an uneasy task after a disappointing season.
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The wounds may be too fresh, the scars too new to the skin. But there is no doubt that the 2023-24 Phoenix Suns were a disappointment in every sense of the word and turn of the phrase. To not win a single damn playoff game? None of us would have predicted such a fate just 9 months ago.
That is exactly what happened. Zip. Zero. Nada. None. That is the total number of postseason victories for the 2024 Suns.
It’s too early to predict what will happen this offseason if anything. Why? Because the offseason is still so far away. The NBA Draft is nearly two months away, occurring on June 26 and 27 in Brooklyn, New York. Free agency begins on July 6. It’s April 30!
Between now and then we will navigate all the stages of grief until we reach acceptance. What we all will do along the way is what we always do: try to be constructive in the way that this team can improve for the 2024-25 NBA season. We’ll have our thoughts, suggestions, free agency and trade targets, and justifiable reasoning behind it all.
The challenge the Suns face this season is the daunted second apron, and we are about to learn how constrictive that can be.
I’ll kick off the offseason surveys with a broad question, knowing that there are numerous variables and intricacies behind it that determine the “what”, “why”, and “how”:
How the heck do you fix the Phoenix Suns?
Perhaps they aren’t the best options, but it’s a start.
Let us know in the comments below your thoughts as to what and why you chose what you did, and feel free to sprinkle in how it could occur.