Examining a Suns 3-on-3 team vs NBA lottery teams
By Assane Drame
Buddy Hield, Skal Labissiere, Willie Cauley-Stein, & Arron Afflalo
Sacramento has a good combination of perimeter presence and inside presence.
Skal knows all about the Suns. He ate them up for 32 and 11 in their next to last meeting of the regular season and was a delight to watch down the stretch for the Kings. It is therefore a necessity that the Suns keep an eye on him when he’s on the floor.
Hield and Afflalo would heat up from the outside which puts more focus on what Bledsoe and Booker would do on the perimeter.
Like the Lakers matchup, this sounds like a back and forth affair with a whole lot of threes being launched. Hield and Afflalo shot 39% and 41% from three this past year respectively. The bigs in this scenario would clean up the misses and finish.
It would be an interesting one, but the Suns should be able to pull this off. Stopping the Kings two primary scorers would take some work, but would the Kings be able to hold off the Bledsoe/Booker backcourt?
Chances are they would hold their own early on but ultimately, they would be too much for them to handle.