Phoenix Suns · 6 notes
From Phoenix's practice: Devin Booker: Suns have "been healthy through this camp so far," Jalen Green and Dillon Brooks included. On Brooks' DUI charge: no distraction, "he addressed the team also, so we're moving on." Coach Jordan Ott: rotation players get minutes first.
"Oh no, I'm playing." Asked at the Phoenix Suns' Oct. 16 shootaround whether he'd sit, Dillon Brooks said he'd play and named Jaren Jackson as his matchup. The gap before the opener in Portland, he said, is "a good little stretch to... get practice in and get healthy."
Dillon Brooks handled the ball less by design for the Phoenix Suns on Oct. 5, playing as a catch-and-shoot option. "We just want Dillon to be Dillon," coach Jordan Ott said postgame. Injuries in January had required more of Brooks with the ball, Ott said.
Phoenix's Jordan Goodwin says having Miles Bridges and Dillon Brooks means he'll guard more guards, fewer of the taller forwards he took last season. Point guard is his easiest spot, running the bench and getting Collin Gillespie going. On Jalen Green, he gave no update.
Miles Bridges said the plan this year is to touch the paint more to open up shooters: "I get to the paint at will, and I got guys that know how to shoot." Collin Gillespie on a pickup scrap with Dillon Brooks: "I was ready to kill him." He called it just competing.
From Suns practice: Oso Ighodaro said Miles Bridges' size lets them switch "and we don't lose anything on either matchup," and named Ryan Dunn, Rasheer Fleming and Dillon Brooks as wings who can guard centers. His advice to rookie Koa Peat on Brooks: "Just to go at him."