Suns playoff hopes hit crushing new low with Jordan Goodwin update

The Phoenix Suns have wobbled coming out of the All-Star game, dropping two of three games in large part because of injuries.

Devin Booker's hip issue the most concerning, with the latest update on Jordan Goodwin not making life any easier for the franchise.

Goodwin out indefinitely with left calf strain

The backup point guard has been crucial off the bench for the Suns this season, so not having a timetable for his return from a left calf strain is a blow.

In 54 games (four starts) he has managed 8.9 points and 4.7 rebounds in 22.3 minutes of action, which outside of a 17 game stint with the Memphis Grizzlies are all career highs.

Goodwin is also typially out there when the game is close, and defensively he has shown he can consistently hang with bigger scorers and faster guards.

With Booker and Dillon Brooks out, plus Jalen Green and Grayson Allen teetering from available to questionable on a nightly basis, Goodwin had become the quiet dependable veteran off the bench.

He has also formed a wonderful partnership with Jamaree Bouyea (more on him in a second), and that tandem had backed up Collin Gillespie excellently as well.

Goodwin's superpower in The Valley is that he can play alongside elite scorers such as Booker and Green and no when to get off the ball, but he can also run the second unit.

Sharing playmaking responsibilities with Bouyea has also worked to this point, a far cry from when the Suns couldn't make it work with Booker, Tyus Jones and Bradley Beal.

Bouyea is also the player who can profit the most from this unfortunate situation, and his time in Phoenix continues to do wonders for his career.

On his sixth team in four seasons, the Suns effectively made move at the deadline to convert his two-way contract to a standard one.

He's following the Gillespie path from G League player who contributes on the main roster when he can to full on member of the Suns flawlessly.

With Goodwin unavailable he is going to get more minutes and more responsibility, and there is zero reason to believe Bouyea won't excel in this position.

The Suns would be foolish not to bring him back next season, but being such an important part of the second unit he has likely played his way into another contract elsewhere if that does not happen.

That's about the only silver lining to Goodwin going down however, as the Suns limp from one game to the next trying to stay in the playoff fight.