NBA Rumor: Dario Saric Injury

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2 years ago – via John Hollinger @ The Athletic
Ayton met a similar fate in the conference semifinals, as did his backup JaVale McGee. In the ultimate irony, a Phoenix team that lost in the NBA Finals a year ago because it didn’t have enough quality size, lost this year because it lacked the perimeter groupings to face off against space ball. The Suns’ only good player between 6-foot-7 and 6-foot-11 was Cameron Johnson; when they tried to go small without one of their traditional centers, they ended up too small. (For the second postseason in a row, having Dario Saric might have helped.)

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3 years ago – via Duane Rankin @ Arizona Republic

His return is so far into the future, Saric isn’t even putting a target date on it. “It’s a situation I have to figure out,” he said. “It’s going to be my decision, personally. I would like to play, but the other part is when you have doctors, you have a medical staff who try to put a little brake on that. Let’s see, that’ll be nine months, feel right. Three months to be ready for the next season or is it worth it go one more year again. That’s a bigger question than just what I want.”
3 years ago – via Jovan Buha @ The Athletic

The Dario Saric injury has sneakily thrown off the Suns’ lineups and rotations, eliminating their second-biggest rotation player and forcing an already undersized group (at least in this matchup) to play smaller whenever Deandre Ayton is off the floor. This could’ve been a series the Suns used Saric at the four alongside Ayton, pushing Jae Crowder, Cameron Johnson and/or Torrey Craig to the three in bigger lineups. Phoenix has been forced to play either Johnson or Craig at center, sliding a non-Ayton starter into the vacant slot to form a small lineup. That’s a win for Milwaukee. Saric wouldn’t have solved the rebounding or rim-protection issues, but his gravity as a spot-up shooter and pick-and-pop big could’ve helped offensively.
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Kevin Durant uncomfortable with his role in Phoenix’s offense

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2 hours ago – via The Athletic

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2 hours ago – via The Athletic

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On this night, Suns players weren’t buying it. The outburst seemed forced and out of character in their eyes. It continued at the next day’s shootaround in Los Angeles, Vogel tearing into the Suns before that night’s road win over the Clippers. Vogel’s eruption left players rolling their eyes, sources briefed on the matter told The Athletic. One player even told The Athletic he had to keep from laughing.
2 hours ago – via The Athletic

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Durant, Booker and Beal did not produce at their best in these playoffs as a unit, and sources in the locker room also believe not one of the trio emerged as the necessary leader on the floor. But the buck stops at the head coach, and for the second offseason in a row, sources briefed on the situation told The Athletic that Phoenix will take a hard look at making a full coaching change or, at the very least, discuss adjustments to Vogel’s staff. General manager James Jones, however, is expected to continue overseeing team-building for the Suns, those sources said.
2 hours ago – via The Athletic

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Facing the prospect of potentially being swept out of the postseason’s first round, first-year Phoenix Suns coach Frank Vogel on Sunday said he was “very” confident that he would return next season and that he has “full support” of the team’s owner. “I’ve got full support of [Suns owner Mat] Ishbia,” Vogel said prior to Game 4 vs. the Minnesota Timberwolves.
2 hours ago – via ESPN

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