The Phoenix Suns BEAT The Dallas Mavericks And Move Into A BRAND NEW TIER In The NBA Hierarchy!

The Phoenix Suns BEAT The Dallas Mavericks And Move Into A BRAND NEW TIER In The NBA Hierarchy!

On today’s show, the Phoenix Suns defeat the Dallas Mavericks getting their fourth straight W. And I’ll tell you why these last four wins mean so much for the Phoenix Suns, not just for the playoffs or for the playin, but for the culture. We’ll talk about that and much more on this edition of Locked On Phoenix Suns. You are Locked On Suns, your daily Phoenix Suns podcast, part of the Locked On podcast network, your team every day. Up and welcome back into Locked on Phoenix Suns. My name is Benjamin Garcia, host of the Ben Garcia Show Mornings on YouTube and a credentialed Phoenix Suns media member covering your Phoenix Suns 365 days out of the year. That’s why we call it your team every day here at the Locked on Podcast Network. The number one sports podcast network in the world on planet Earth. I don’t know what they got going on on Mars, but we are the number one sports podcast network on planet Earth. That is not hyperbole. That’s just a stat that is just a statistic. However you may be listening, wherever you may be listening, thank you so much. Make myself and this show a part of your day. Don’t forget to like, share, subscribe, follow me on all social media platforms at Bengarcia Show. Today’s episode is brought to you by FanDuel. Right now, new customers can bet just $5. And if your bet wins, you get $300 in bonus bets to use across the app. Head to fanduel.com to get started. So, I teased it in the opening. Why does this win matter so much? Why does this win and ones previous to this over the last couple of games mean so much to the Phoenix Suns? Well, I mentioned this to my guy Hayden Silly on Monday after the Phoenix Suns defeated the New Orleans Pelicans and put belt to ass to the New Orleans Pelicans. It feels like the Suns now are separating from the lower third of the NBA. Now, I could break up the NBA into a bunch of different sections. I could probably break it up into like five different tiers. You got your actual title favorites, your contenders, your playoff teams, your bubble teams, your fringe playoff teams, maybe the play in there, lottery teams, and then just tanking teams. Like you can I made those up off the top of my head, but you can make a bunch of different tiers. But to make it easier for you, let’s just round it out. Let’s put the NBA in three different tiers. You got the great teams, you’ve got the good teams, you’ve got the bad teams. Like, let’s break it up like a second grader. The Suns are moving out of bad, which if we were putting more nuance in that, we would change it from that, but they are moving out from the bottom 10 teams in the NBA into that second tier. Now, nowhere this year will they be moving in from that second tier through to the first tier. They don’t have the personnel to make that happen. They don’t have the players to make that happen. It’s just going to be a little bit longer of a road to get there. But over the past couple of games, the Suns are beating the teams they’re supposed to beat. And bad teams don’t get those games. And I will still hold the Suns to the standard that no game is an easy walking W. They have the Indiana Pacers. By the time a lot of people are going to be listening to this, they will be tuning their attention to the Indiana to the Indiana Pacers. That tomorrow feels like a gimme game. But the Suns haven’t graduated from that. But what they have graduated from over the last week or so is the downright depths of the NBA. In the off season, you would have people discussing this Sun’s team and saying, “Well, who’s got a worse future than Phoenix?” And of course, people like myself on this show always mention there will be teams worse than Phoenix for the his until the history of mankind is over. Like, this is why the Bradley Beal deal doesn’t really matter in terms of the assets they gave up. It matters in terms of all the money they gave him. But the Washington Wizards will never be worse than the Phoenix Suns. They will never be swapping picks unless some really bad luck happens. But the Suns for a little bit here in the early parts of the season and late in the offseason because that’s the way people projected them to look like. They were lumped in with the Pelicans and the Hornets and the Wizards and the Brooklyn Nets and, you know, even a team like tonight, maybe the Dallas Mavericks, the Memphis Grizzlies. They were lumped in with the worst of the worst in the NBA. The Suns after tonight’s win have graduated out of the bottom third tier of the NBA. You have the greats, you have the goods, you have the bad. The Suns are just officially a good team. How good, I don’t know. You check their defensive rating and their offensive rating, they’re like teetering in top 10 in both. Defensive, I’m pretty sure they’re in the top 10. Games like tonight are what separate you from good and bad. The Mavericks are a bad team. The Pacers right now are a bad team. The Hornets, the Wizards, the Pelicans, those are bad teams. The Suns aren’t a bad team. Like, news flash, Ben, they’re not bad. Did you think that was the case coming into the season? I had them as a playin team. Did you have them as a playoff team? I didn’t. When you discuss the Phoenix Suns now, you don’t say, “Well, they could make the playin.” You say, “Well, they might be a firm playoff team.” And if that happens, they are so ahead of schedule. And right now they are so ahead of schedule because they are beating the lights out of teams. And what was so impressive tonight is for the sixth, not sixth straight game, but in six of their last seven games, the Suns have been up at least 18 points in each of those games. They’re not doing it with just defense. They’re also shooting the ball really well. Grayson Allen didn’t wake up till late in this game, but if it’s not Grace Allen, it’s Jordan Goodwin hitting an open three. It’s not the way they’re it’s not the fact that they’re winning, it’s the way that they’re winning. They’re not winning every night because Devin Booker is putting up a 50 point, you know, 50piece triple double. That’s not the case. In fact, nights like tonight, I’m like, “Oh, I kind of want to get a little bit more out of Booker.” They’re winning games because their role players are stepping up. And credit to Devin Booker as well, who I’ll get into in a little bit later that I didn’t love some of the stuff super late in this game and he didn’t shoot super effectively from the field, but he’s become, and maybe he already was before, a very dynamic passer. Whether it’s finding Mark Williams over the top for a, you know, wham bam slam jama as Al McCoy used to say it or finding guys open for three, they are rewarding him for being a absolute playmaker for this team. Early in the season when they started off one and four and you know the sky was falling and I mentioned to everyone that that’s not the case. I literally had a show that said why everything is just fine for the Phoenix Suns. Why they are exactly where you expected them to be. He is getting rewarded from the role players. Grayson Allen, Dylan Brooks, Ryan Dunn at times, Jordan Goodwin, guys are hitting shots because teams are doubling him and he’s finding them open. At the beginning of the season, Devin Booker was seeing the most double teams, the most bodies thrown at him in a game. I would be curious to see if that is still the case right now. I’ll have to look at that after the show because if that’s the case still, and I still know it’s the most double teams he’s seen in his entire career, that’s going to have to start to take a step back a little bit. Teams are going to have to start running over to Grace Now. And you know what that’s going to do for Devin Booker’s game? Open it up even more. Yeah. You know, does he turn over the ball a little bit more for a little bit too much for my liking? Sure, but you know who I’d rather have the ball in their hands? Devin Booker. He turns it over, he turns it over. I’d rather him have it than Colin Gillespie or you know who, you know, Dylan Brooks who brings it up at times or Ryan Dunn who brings it up at times or Grayson Allen. Devin Booker is the most dangerous player on the floor and he’s a part of this separation tonight. And this and just so we’re clear, the Suns could go back into this tier. They could go back into the bottom 10 team tier. This is not a lifetime guarantee stamp of approval. What matters though is right now and they are firmly head and shoulders above some of the worst teams in the NBA. And I’m not so sure everyone thought that was going to be the case. They’re better than the Mavs. They’re better than the Hornets, the Wizards, the Nets, the Pelicans. Those teams aren’t in the same stratosphere as the Suns. And now when you’re talking about, well, who’s got a worse future? Who else would you rather be? You’re the Suns aren’t in that conversation. It’s why I told you Suns fan that was really frustrated with this team in the off season, “Well, I’d rather be the Hornets. Would you be? I’d rather be the Wizards.” Would you be? The Wizards have always been picking high, but they can’t get out of their own way. Who’s the last great player they drafted? I’ll give you some time. Like the Suns were always ahead of those teams and it’s been very mature the way they’ve gotten to this team and the way they won tonight going up big once again almost surrendering the lead. It got down to three points in the fourth quarter. They tightened up the hatches defensively. The Mavericks gave them some breaks because of just really poor defensive and offensive execution stepping out of bounds on the baseline or you know a goalending late in this game. But what do good teams do when bad teams, you know, struggle to win games and they’re falling all over their face and they say, “Here, Suns, I know we came close. Here, come take the win.” What do good teams do? Take it from their hands and say, “Thank you very much.” And again, some of that goes for Devin Booker who had that late steal in this game. And it was just a really cool thing seeing him and the young fan kind of embrace there for half a second. If that doesn’t perfectly encapsulate the vibes of the Phoenix Suns right now, I don’t know what will. We’ll do a little bit of box score watching. We’re gonna talk about Grayson Allen who continues to be awesome. And let’s do it all next. First, today’s show is brought to you by FanDuel Duel, the official sports betting partner of the NBA. The NBA is back and there’s no better place to get in on the action than FanDuel. the official sports bank partner of the NBA. 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The details don’t matter, but last season he didn’t necessarily fall off a cliff, but this was one thing I kind of warned Suns fans about. And I don’t think I was the only one. So I’m not this grandmaster when it comes to predicting these things. But when Grayson Allen got bigger, I thought to myself, not not in terms of like overweight, but he got bulkier, he got stockier. I said to myself, how is that going to affect him shooting the ball? Like if he’s stronger, does he know the type of weight and push he wants to do every time he’s shooting the ball? And his numbers came down a little. Not insane. it really didn’t affect it that much. But also defensively, if you’re a little bit heavier, whether it’s actual like overweightness or you’re a big stocky, you know, bulky player, it’s just going to be harder for you to move laterally. You got to move more weight, shiftier, quicker at the same time that you were doing with smaller with less weight, with less muscle. And I didn’t love that. I love that Grayson kind of found a hap kind of found a happy medium this year. He’s not this big, stocky, you know, built Grayson Allen. He is more of a slender but still harder to move Grayson. I thought that that is a tough needle to thread and I think he’s done it masterfully. And not only that, he’s shooting more shots than he’s ever shot before in his career. Grayson Allen tonight, I don’t think was awesome from the field shooting the basketball. Tonight he was 8 for 17. That’s 47% from the field. That’s not terrible at all. In fact, you know, it’s more than adequate. But he was 4 for9 from three. But it’s not those numbers that I’m curious that I’m that I’m really just pulling out. Again, 17 shot attempts tonight. His shot attempts from last year. Like, forget last year. Actually, let’s go to his career year with the Phoenix Suns just two years ago where he played 75 games where he shot 50% from the field, 46% from three, and 87% from the free throw. His numbers are way up from then this year from 13 1.5 points a game in that 2023 year. He is now up to 18 points a game. He’s also shooting five more shots or he’s also shooting roughly five more shots than he was from that career year. His field goal percentages went down just a tick, but it’s not inefficient. He’s shooting 13 shots a game, making 45% of them. He is shooting three more three-pointers a game this year, and he’s shooting it at a 44% clip. I cannot tell you how elite that is. Whether it’s getting to the basket, whether it’s, you know, hitting the open three, he has become a more efficient player than he already was. He already wasn’t an inefficient player. The words inefficient and Grayson Allen never came out of my mouth unless I was saying in Grayson Allen is not inefficient. He’s a very efficient player. So, I don’t know what happened over the off season. It’s tough for me to believe that in the age 29 season to now age 30, he’s just like a fringe allstar player. Something happened in Jordan’s system where he’s getting him open. He’s telling him to take more shots. He’s showing him in the film room, look, that’s a three-pointer you can make. And it is quickly changing a contract that was then looked to be moderately overpriced in the off season to now is oh my goodness, is Grayson Allen a bit of a bargain. It’s why I mention to people like again I don’t want to bring up the trade thing but I got in a lot of hot water for saying you know the Phoenix Suns might be able to get out of no man’s land in no man’s land in terms of draft assets by moving off Grayson and Royce O’Neal. This is best case scenario. Either the Phoenix Suns keep Grayson Allen and he’s the number three, number four best player on this team alongside Jaylen Green or whatever it looks like, or they deal Grayson Allen, get a boatload for him and restock on draft capital, draft and develop or go get Devin Booker’s next great running mate. Like, what if you use picks to go get Larry Markin, you know, later on and and Royce O’Neal as well. But forget any of that. The point is of what I’m saying is Grayson Allen’s draft trade stock is up because Grayson Allen is now really good. If he’s playing this version of basketball, his contract is becoming a bargain. Even in that last year where he’s making $19 million a year, it has completely changed everything about this team. And now here’s my other thing. I joked about this yesterday with John Voida. I was telling him like, “Hey, listen. I was the one that said maybe Grace Non should just start for this team over Jaylen Green because I thought Grace Non fit better with Devin Booker.” And I’m not advocating for that. Like, when Jaylen Green comes back, you got to play Jaylen Green. But are you sending Grayson Allen to the bench? Are you? Or are you going to start Booker Green, Allen Brooks, Mark Williams? because I don’t think you can send Grayson to the bench with how well he is performing. And at the end of the day, don’t be the Indiana Pacers who don’t reward Miles Turner with a big contract after they make the NBA Finals. And in the same breath, don’t not reward Grace N for playing awesome. He should be in the starting lineup. Now, does that mean Ryan Dunn gets kicked to the curb? Sorry. As the president of the Ryan Dunn fan club, we will happily obliged here. like Dylan Brooks, maybe he continues to start and he probably should and he probably will, but Grayson fits better with Devin Booker than not just Jaylen Green. I think legitimately anyone on this team because as Devin Booker is going to get double and triple teamed on a night innight out basis, who’s going to be right there to bail him out? And right now, the guy is just playing some superb basketball that not a lot of people are playing right now in the NBA. Like right now, Grayson Allen is trending towards being like a near allstar. You don’t rip that guy out of the starting lineup. You don’t pull him out of his groove. If he ever cools down, I think he will a touch. Sure, we’ll talk about it then. But right now, I’m not there. Ride the hot hand. in Grace now and has been a revolution and has gone from man that contract is rough to wait a second. Is he one of the best bargains in the NBA? Grace Allen was great tonight. Let’s talk about Devin Booker who I thought was mostly really good tonight. And again, not going to be a going after Devin Booker take. However, I didn’t love how he performed late in this game. What do I mean by that? Let’s talk about it next. Today’s episode is brought to you by Mint Mobile. If you’re still overpaying for wireless, it’s time to say yes to saying no. 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Let’s bring up the statistics, too, just so I’m being fair to Devin Booker, who has been largely awesome over the last seven games, which is basically the entire year at this point. This is not a, you know, a Devin Booker has to be better take. I don’t think he was great tonight. 38% from the field. That’s not good enough for a supermax player. But remember when I told you guys after the Utah game, like if Devin Booker has a stretch of really good games and he has one bad game, like I’m not going to kill him. Victor Wimyama was held to like two points against the Suns. You’re not going to kill Big Vic because that’s what happens. Devin Booker sometimes is going to have an off night. Tonight was a little bit of an off night from the field. Here’s what I’ll say though. Devin Booker who’s nearly shooting 50 40 90 on the season. Damn, that’s really that’s really good efficiency. 50% from the field, 40% from three, 87% from free throw. He’s Man, he might flirt with 50 4090, which is just a very exclusive club. But Devin Booker tonight, could he have been more efficient from the field? Sure. Could he have done a couple of things better? Maybe defensively a little bit? Sure. But he had nine assists tonight. That’s the good from Booker. That’s the point Booker, if you will, in this game. One of the things he’s got to cut down on is the turnovers. He had five of them tonight. He cannot be over the last five games have 10, 13, 16, 21 turnovers in his last five games. That’s not good enough. That’s not good enough ball. He understands those numbers need to tick down. However, when he plays too timid, when he’s trying to play conservatively and do everything to not lose the basketball, sometimes that takes away from some of his magic. So, take that with what you will. Here’s the one thing I’ll say with Devin Booker. Late in this game, when it got really close, he had a play or two that I enjoyed. He found Mark Williams on an alleyoop late in this game. Um, he also had a bucket with like five minutes to go that I remember I appreciate the unselfish basketball Devin Booker is playing. This is why this is not like a shake my fist at Booker. He’s been largely awesome. However, late in this game, I did not think he was great. like late late late late late late in this game like final three minutes. How many times did we come up the floor and the Suns were up three up five and Devin Booker either took a really poor shot attempt didn’t like their creation at all or Devin Booker you know flat out passed the ball was too timid with the ball. I appreciate him trying to find Grace down in the corner open or trying to find Dylan Brinks on the left wing open or throw another lob to Mark Williams. I appreciate all of that. But with that being said, you are the supermax player. You’re an elite player. This isn’t like a supermax deal that I don’t think was warranted. You’re shooting 50, 40, 87 splits this year. I just wish he would take the initiative a little bit more late in this fourth quarter and say, “No, no, no, no, no. the the Dallas Mavericks are making a run. They are trying to find a way to win this game. Let me get to my spot. And that’s on Jordan not a little bit too. Like again, this is not like get on Jordan not Devin Booker. Jordan Kn was like 95% awesome in this game. But when the games are getting close and you need a bucket and there’s two minutes, three minutes left on the clock, there is only one person I trust. Like I don’t not trust Grayson Allen, but I wouldn’t say I trust him late in games. Late in games. Like that’s why you pay Devin Booker the big bucks. And so I just wish I saw a little bit more of that today. And that was it though. That was the one thing today where I was like, “Come on, Book. Find a better spot. You know, kick don’t you don’t have to worry about kicking it out every play. Sometimes you just got to go to work.” And that was it. That was the only thing. And so just need Book to not be a not be so timid in those situations even when he knows his shot isn’t falling because he’s a top 15 player in the NBA. Like I just expect that sort of bandwidth from him. Um so yeah, here’s the other thing. I was never concerned that the Suns were going to lose that game. I was never concerned. Maybe you were and that’s okay. Like PTSD from last year and you know the fourth quarter as a whole last year. I was never concerned. I was never concerned. I never once tensed up. I never once looked at the clock begging for it to hit triple zeros. I knew they’d figure it out because that’s what teams with an identity of the defensive side of the ball that when the shots aren’t falling, they can lean back on. and they forced the Dallas Mavericks into a bunch of stupid turnovers, whether it was stepping on the baseline out of bounds or, you know, the Dallas Mavericks had a bad goalending or uh uh you know, Book, you know, forcing an offensive foul def against the Dallas Mavericks in this game late in this game where I believe the guy got I forgot his name, number 30, you know, got in trouble for two kind of hooks under the rim, boxing out Booker selling those offensive fouls on the Dallas Mavericks. I was never concerned. And like just so we’re clear, the Suns are going to lose like at minimum 20 more games this year. What are they at right now? They’re got six losses. They could lose 23 more games this year. 25 more games this year. They’re going to lose. But in this stretch where they’re getting big leads and they’re not surrendering them, the fact that they’re beating teams that good teams are supposed to beat, it’s hard not to get excited. It’s hard not to change your expectations a bit. So, I’m not changing them yet, but if the Suns keep getting these W’s, and these are the W’s they need to get, like these are important. the fact that the Suns lost a game, you know, to the Grizzlies and to the uh who was it? The Jazz earlier in the year and they kind of got one back against the Spurs and they’re winning the rest of the games that they have to win. Like those are signs of a mature, good basketball team. And so I’m not changing expectations yet. I’m not I’m not going to do it. My expectation is still to play in. But golly, does this team make it tough to not get excited about the future because you have to know the future is still a ways away, but the core pieces and foundation are making its way. And so really, really, really nice win for the Suns who haven’t had to do it in nail-biting fashion too much, but good teams find a way to win ugly. And tonight got a little ugly, but they found a way to win anyways. All right, guys. That’s all you have for me. Follow me on all social media platforms at Bengarcia Show. Do me a favor. Hit like, share, subscribe to this channel or give it a fivestar review if you’re listening on any podcast platform. Thank you so much for continuously making myself and this show a part of your day. For everyone tuning in to Locked on Phoenix Suns, everyone in the comment section, however you may be listening, wherever you may be listening, thank you. I’m Benjamin Garcia and it’s been locked down Phoenix Suns.

The Phoenix Suns just beat the Dallas Mavericks for their fourth straight win, but this isn’t just about playoff positioning—it’s about the Suns finally separating themselves from the NBA’s bottom-feeders and establishing a legitimate winning culture.

Benjamin Garcia breaks down how the Suns have graduated from being lumped with tanking teams like the Wizards and Hornets to becoming a solidly “good” NBA team. He analyzes Grayson Allen’s stunning transformation into a near-All-Star performer averaging 18 points on 45-44 shooting splits, questioning whether his contract has become one of the league’s best bargains. Garcia also examines Devin Booker’s evolving playmaking role and why his late-game execution needs improvement despite his impressive overall numbers. The discussion covers the team’s newfound defensive identity, their ability to win ugly games, and the looming roster dilemma when Jalen Green returns from injury.

Tune in to understand why these wins matter more than the standings suggest and what they reveal about the Suns’ identity moving forward.

0:00 Intro
1:32 Why This Win Matters for Suns Culture
4:35 Suns Graduate from Bottom Third of NBA
7:38 Devin Booker’s Dynamic Playmaking Evolution
10:42 Good Teams Take What Bad Teams Give
13:17 Grayson Allen’s Career Year Transformation
18:24 Should Grayson Allen Start Over Jalen Green
22:31 Devin Booker’s Late Game Decision Making
27:09 Never Concerned About Losing This Game

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