After just one season in the big seat, Phoenix Sons has fired head coach Mike Mike Budenholzer after 36-46 in a regular season, both of them recalling both playoffs and more effectively, play-in.
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Phoenix is now a good portion of the remaining $ 40 million on his five -year deal and a good portion of Frank Vogel, a good portion of $ 31 million on his five -year deal, when he was removed after a season in 2024.
When a team is paying that kind of money not to coach two coaches, you know that things are bad. Let’s break what went wrong for the Sun, which is expected to trade Kevin Duunt in this summer.
Phoenix Sun gave a lot of cash to Mike Budenholzer. (AP Photo/Darill Web)
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Poor rotation
Budenholzer, who won a championship with a millwucky box in 2021, eagerly decided to use two miscreants, both Ryan Duns and Oso Egodaro can change the defensive tone of a game in Egodaro.
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Dunn, who also learned how to hit 3-pointers before the season in Virginia a total of 12 in two years, should be penilized in a night for a solid 25 minutes, which, looking at their position, giving defensive skills and ability to play with better scorer.
Instead, the minutes of Dun were all places, 35 minutes of 20 minutes were played and 39 on that mark, all connected to different points of all season. He played less than 10 minutes in many sports.
While Budenholzers rely on giants, they were not clear due to their limited use in Dun’s case because 6 -Foot -6 Swiss Army is a game of knife forward forward that lends himself well to emphasize Budenholzer on defense.
(And with Phoenix being 28th position in that department, it is difficult to find any reason why more solutions are not sought to make juice on that side of the floor.)
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In the case of Egodaro, 6–10 older men displayed the ability to turn and eliminate plays around the rim, and they also operated well in short-rol action, as their passing capacity is quite advanced.
In his disposal, it is lump sum strange for such a player and not more than that, especially for a coach, which historically experiences many older men who can affect the floor through their intelligence.
no buy
It is worth noting that Budenholzer fought a tough battle, as the roster refused to buy from the gate-go to his plans.
Players often undergoing movements, playing a personal style of basketball, who did not bend in a more team-oriented approach, of which Budeenholzers had success in the past, especially in milvecky, winning a title in 2021.
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While no one can deny the talent of Kevin Durant and Dewin Booker, Budenholzer flat-outs failed to weave their game together and adapt both within the flow of action.
Both Booker and Durant were assisted at about 43% of their 2-pointers this season, a “your turn, my turn” style underlined, which did not give the Sun unexpected crime.
In fact, the average players over 10 points were assisted at more than 70% of their 2-pointers, only one-grace Alan-Ko 2-pointers, and it is almost not worth mentioning when their 71.6% shots were from the 3-point line.
This reflects the almost complete deficiency of high-quality shots created within the flow of the game, for both stars and role players, the content appears to take long jump shots with players, or simply looks as their own.
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The front office did not help
Remember when both fans and Pandit were busy falling over each other to indicate the acquisition of Bradley Beel, which meant a huge position overlap with a booker, at this point where it would work against the flax?
The owner Matt Isshabia disagreed clearly, but after this season the owner of the Sun no longer has a leg to stand in that conversation.
Beel experiment did not work. He was brought in 2023, it was never worked. The idea that one of the beel and booked can somehow turn into a full -time point guard, or one of them can become a wing, always one of the most forced and irrational outlooks for team building that we have ever seen.
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For the two shooting guards, Surya paid more than $ 99.4 million, which could not play together, which means that they essentially ruin Bel’s $ 50.2 million salary slot, which could be used very effectively.
If only thousands of people shouted together with such challenges when the business was rumored …
Oh good.
The Phoenix season is now over, Budenholzer is done, the disturbance will be traded within the next few months, beel still has no business clause, and the sun does not have virtually control of its own long -term draft pics.
It does not look great, friends.