The Phoenix Suns started the week strong with a win on national television against the Portland Trailblazers shorthanded. However, once the team returned home, Phoenix struggled to close games and hit the three ball when they needed to, going 1-2 for the week, their first time being under .500 for a week in 2026.<\/p>\n
Here are the main questions for Week 16 that we want your thoughts on:<\/p>\n
A Fourth Quarter Collapse Against the Warriors with no Steph Curry<\/p>\n
Phoenix\u2019s loss to the Warriors on Sunday wasn\u2019t just bad because the Warriors were without Stephen Curry and recently acquired Kristaps Porzingis; they blew a double-digit fourth quarter lead. The Suns were up 90-76 with less than 9:30 left in the game and proceeded to score seven points the rest of the way, Golden State went on a 25-7 run to win 101-97.<\/p>\n
The team\u2019s offense went cold and couldn\u2019t get into a rhythm, not scoring a single point the final 3:55 of the contest.<\/p>\n
While the Suns did not have Devin Booker or Jalen Green, the team\u2019s offensive continued to struggle when they returned to the lineup in the next game against the Philadelphia 76ers. How concerning were the team\u2019s two losses this week?<\/p>\n
Devin Booker Returns from a 15-Day Absence<\/p>\n
Devin Booker returned to play on Saturday night after missing more than two weeks with an ankle injury he suffered against the Atlanta Hawks on January 23rd. In his return Booker had 21 points and nine assists on 5\/12 shooting from the field, 1\/7 from three and 10\/11 from the line against the Sixers.<\/p>\n
Additionally, Jalen Green also returned from injury on Saturday after missing more than a week, scoring 8 points in 17 minutes of action on 2\/6 shooting from the field with three rebounds and three assists.<\/p>\n
What did you make of the two guards\u2019 returns, and do you the Suns should rest them on one-end of the team\u2019s back-to-back this week with the All-Star Break coming up?<\/p>\n
What Did You Make of Phoenix\u2019s Trade Deadline?<\/p>\n
The Suns stayed relatively quiet this trade deadline, moving Nick Richards and Nigel Hayes-Davis in exchange for forward Amir Coffey and guard Cole Anthony. The move gets the Suns out of luxury the tax for the first time since the 2021-2022 campaign. Neither Coffey or Anthony are expected to play a major role with the team, and the deal gives the team a chance to sign a 15th player, which their likely to use to convert Jamaree Bouyea\u2019s two-way contract into a standard one.<\/p>\n
What grade would you give the team\u2019s deadline and do you think signing Bouyea to the last roster spot is the best use of it?<\/p>\n
For more questions on the Suns follow @HoldenSherman1 on X for content after every game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Phoenix Suns started the week strong with a win on national television against the Portland Trailblazers shorthanded.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":592995,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3791],"tags":[7,6,2065,472,4045,604,57677],"class_list":{"0":"post-592994","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-phoenix-suns","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-nba","10":"tag-phoenix","11":"tag-phoenix-suns","12":"tag-phoenixsuns","13":"tag-suns","14":"tag-suns-weekly"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116042069377848540","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=592994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592994\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/592995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=592994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=592994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=592994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}