The 2021-22 Phoenix Suns were the league’s best team, by far, at the conclusion of the NBA’s 75th regular season. There were many examples and reasons as to why they were both dominant and able to consistently sustain such dominance across the league, regardless of their opponent.
One key point being the versatility they have in methods of dictating games.
Phoenix dictates in a multitude of ways, on both ends of the floor, using the sum of their parts in unison as well as key skillsets from specific entities of the machine that they are, to achieve the desired result any moment in a game may offer.
In a lot of ways, the Suns have evolved into master tacticians with a compilation of players adept at “time on tasking,” being ready to execute when said moments call them to action. This starts at the top with Head Coach and newly announced Coach of the Year, Monty Williams. Then, adjacent to him in this mentality are Chris Paul and Devin Booker.
The latter of the three received plenty of recognition for his assertiveness from tip-off in scoring and applying pressure. Doing so in ways unique to him, Booker often puts the Suns in the driver’s seat of games, subsequently dictating tempo and flow.
Book finished second in points scored per first quarter this season with 9.3 points per period, with efficient .493/.389/.872 shooting splits, as the key cog in Phoenix’s early exploits.
As a team, the Suns averaged a healthy 29.1 points per first (8th). They did so, collectively, shooting 49.1 percent from the field (2nd) and amassing 2.2 steals (5th), effectively rendering quarter ones as one of the most apt barometers in gauging the Suns level of play in any given game.
They did so oftentimes stringing together stops defensively in a sustained manner, causing deflections along with aforementioned steals, which then allowed them to seamlessly flow into play offensively.
That flow came in the form of transition baskets between Mikal Bridges and Booker, semi-transition…
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