The Phoenix Suns have finished Summer League 3-1 with a +13 plus-minus as a team across the four games.<\/p>\n
Maluach, Fleming, and Peat had their hands all over this one, as you love to see from your top prospects. The Suns had a strong opening and closing quarter to secure the win despite the Pistons looking in control in the 2nd and 3rd quarters.<\/p>\n
Khaman Maluach \u2014 23 points, 15 rebounds, 1 block, 1 steal, 8-13 FG, 2-5 3PFGRasheer Fleming \u2014 22 points, 8 rebounds, 1 steal, 8-12 FGKoa Peat \u2014 19 points, 3 rebounds, 3 assists, 2 steals, 1 block, 6-13 FG<\/p>\n
Khaman Maluach across 4 Summer League games: 19.5 PPG, 12.8 RPG, 3.3 STL + BLK, 53% FG, 40% 3PT<\/p>\n
Phoenix jumped out to an early 17-3 lead, led by Rasheer Fleming and Koa Peat.<\/p>\n
Plus, this early slam from Man Man, which led to a Suns 10-0 advantage and prompted a Pistons timeout.<\/p>\n
The next timeout break came with a 22-11 Phoenix advantage. The Suns\u2019 defense was on point, holding the Pistons to just 13 first-quarter points. The Suns led 27-13 after one.<\/p>\n
Maluach was all over the glass, grabbing five boards in his first 9 minutes of action. He also had a block and that emphatic slam we highlighted above.<\/p>\n
The ball movement was crisp offensively as well, leading to a catch-and-shoot triple from Rasheer Fleming for his second three of the game midway through the 2nd quarter. Moments after writing this, the ball found him again for his third.<\/p>\n
Phoenix was in control for most of the half, but the Pistons went on a furious run to close out the half and cut Phoenix\u2019s lead down considerably. After a strong first quarter, they were outscored by 7 in the second.<\/p>\n
At halftime, Phoenix led 53-46. Fleming led all scorers with 17 points on 6 of 9 shooting from the field.<\/p>\n
The Pistons carried that momentum over early in the third, with them starting off on a 13-to-7 run.<\/p>\n
The Suns would show some fight, answering the Pistons\u2019 run to jump back out in front, led by a pair of triples from second-year man Khaman Maluach.<\/p>\n
Maluach made his presence felt on the glass and dominated the interior yet again, which is an excellent sign of progress for the Suns\u2019 sophomore.<\/p>\n
The Suns led it 78-74 after three. Detroit outscored Phoenix by three in the quarter.<\/p>\n
The teams continued to trade buckets in the second half. Koa Peat continued to show his playmaking chops in transition with the no-look dime after a steal.<\/p>\n
Peat checked out of the game after taking a hard fall on a blocked shot, but later returned to action.<\/p>\n
Phoenix finished strong and was able to pull away for good, just as they did in their last contest vs. the Bucks.<\/p>\n
To be determined. We now await the rest of the games to see if the Suns qualify for the semifinals, but at 3-1, they gave themselves a shot. And more importantly, their prized young prospects looked (mostly) promising throughout.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Phoenix Suns have finished Summer League 3-1 with a +13 plus-minus as a team across the four…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":787935,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3791],"tags":[7,6,2065,472,4045,604,53373,26018],"class_list":["post-787934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-phoenix-suns","tag-basketball","tag-nba","tag-phoenix","tag-phoenix-suns","tag-phoenixsuns","tag-suns","tag-suns-scores","tag-suns-summer-league"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116928738964962985","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787934","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=787934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787934\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/787935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=787934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=787934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=787934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}