What coaches and players say about roles, minutes, gameplans and development.
Phoenix is balancing soft tissue risk against rhythm and has no idea how long the opponent's starters play.
โTonight, I expect it to be up and down. That's obviously on my mind, the soft tissue stuff that goes around. But you also want to get a little bit of rhythm... you're balancing how many collisions you want to have out there, how many minutes you want to play in a game that we don't know if they're going to play their first or second unit in the second half.โ
Ott plans to have Suns starters play into the third quarter tonight.
โYou try to go into it with a plan, try to at least acknowledge to those guys that, hey, we're going to ask you to play into the third quarter, and then we'll see what the rest of the preseason. You have a plan, but this thing could be changed in an instant.โ
Suns backups will get shorter stints.
โWe're asking those guys to do a lot. So shorter stints with some of the backup guys.โ
Phoenix pushed its high minute players into the 20 to 24 minute range to gauge where they are.
โSo we tried to get their minutes up, played a lot of those high minute guys in that 20 to 24 range just to see exactly where we're at.โ
Kennard is aiming for more shots off the dribble including pick and roll with the bigs.
โfinding a spot within this offense playing off the guys playing with the ball more shots off the dribble whether it pick and roll playing pitch action with some of the bigs, with Man Man and O.โ
