I saw a great video where veterans say your first year is all about trying to play perfect and not screw up. Which ironically, makes yo0u screw up. They say that's why some rookies make the jump in year two and just focus on their game and their skills.
This is why this year's Suns is the perfect environment to develop rookies. Expectations of the team are low, there is a great team concept, they don't have cowtow to superstar players, everyone on the team has a green light to shoot, everyone on the team is digging defensively.
However, I think developing in the g-league like we are is great.
The Suns podcast guys are talking about the stars we should trade for. It is so hard to change gears. We are not in the "trading for stars mode" anymore. We have to build talent from within by developing it. The Suns have not developed talent inwardly for decades. The Spurs made a living doing it. If we had a rook or young player, they had to be pretty highly developed already to break into the lineup. We did not commit to g-league, we did not bring players along slowly. We were always in win-now mode, or tank mode.
Now we can do neither. Win-now is a surprise. Tanking is pointless because we don't have our own picks anymore.
So we have to find young raw talent and develop it. That is the only way we can build this roster. Maluach, Fleming, and Brea are all really good starts on this process.
