{"id":331480,"date":"2025-12-06T22:06:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-06T22:06:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/331480\/"},"modified":"2025-12-06T22:06:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-06T22:06:12","slug":"suns-set-unwanted-nba-low-in-blowout-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/331480\/","title":{"rendered":"Suns Set Unwanted NBA-Low in Blowout Loss"},"content":{"rendered":"

PHOENIX — The Phoenix Suns couldn’t find the hoop in last night’s blowout loss<\/a> to the Houston Rockets, setting an NBA low in the process. <\/p>\n

In their 117-98 loss to Houston, the Suns shot a horrid 5-36 from downtown, which translates to just 14%. <\/p>\n

According to the Rockets’ broadcast, that was the worst three-point shooting performance of the season with a minimum of 25 attempts. <\/p>\n

“Ball movement. Did we screen well enough? Did we play fast enough? I think all of that goes into it,” Suns coach Jordan Ott said<\/a> after the game. <\/p>\n

“Live, it felt alright, but when you keep looking down or looking up at the scoreboard, that number is not moving in the right direction, you definitely question it.”<\/p>\n

Typically solid three-point shooters in Grayson Allen, Royce O’Neale and Collin Gillespie combined for just 2-18 from deep. <\/p>\n

The Suns, statistically one of the better three-point shooting teams this season, undoubtedly missed the gravity of Devin Booker — who missed his first game of the year due to a groin injury. <\/p>\n

Booker could potentially re-join Phoenix soon, you can read more about that here<\/a>. <\/p>\n

“Some live ball turnovers. We didn’t shoot it well. I think that kind of bled into our defense,” Suns center Mark Williams said after the game (h\/t Duane Rankin<\/a>). <\/p>\n

“Everybody needs to step up.”<\/p>\n

The Suns have surprised many during their 13-10 start to the season, though they’ve cooled down as of late, losing their last four-of-six. <\/p>\n

Phoenix has road dates against the Minnesota Timberwolves (Monday) and Oklahoma City Thunder (Wednesday) coming on the schedule. <\/p>\n

Phoenix’s current three-point percentage (36.8%) has dropped them to ninth ahead of Saturday NBA action. <\/p>\n

The Suns have seen a massive shift in philosophy under Ott, who has prioritizied the three-ball unlike previous coaches in Mike Budenholzer, Frank Vogel and Monty Williams. <\/p>\n

The first-year head coach has done a strong job of pushing shots from deep while also instilling a new sense of culture and identity in Phoenix, which also was lacking in previous iterations of the team. <\/p>\n

Analytics has been sort of a buzzword around the desert since Ott arrived. <\/p>\n

\u201cI think the analytics boom was shot quality and efficiency of shots, [but] they left out a lot of times (that) you can\u2019t be in the negative in the possession game every night,\u201d Ott said<\/a> back in November. <\/p>\n

\u201c(You\u2019re) basically in the hole to start the game. To the increase of offensive rebounding, to the increase of defensive pressure, some of that goes hand-in-hand with people talking about the possession game more.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHOENIX — The Phoenix Suns couldn’t find the hoop in last night’s blowout loss to the Houston Rockets,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":331481,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,590,85],"class_list":["post-331480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=331480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331480\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/331481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}