PHOENIX — Dillon Brooks broke his hand, Jordan Goodwin tweaked his calf and the Phoenix Suns just kept sticking to what they do through a wild 113-110 win over the Orlando Magic in double overtime.
“Incredible resiliency,” head coach Jordan Ott said of the win.
Without Devin Booker (right hip strain) the whole afternoon and Brooks for most of the game, Phoenix struggled mightily on offense. It shot 34%, a field goal percentage that teams previously had a record of 4-207 in the last 10 seasons, per Stathead.
But in a game we’ve seen a whole lot this season, Orlando just did not want to put in the amount of consistent work required for one measly victory in mid-February, allowing the Suns to hang around enough to eventually steal this one in chaotic fashion.
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After a whole lot of ugly basketball, Phoenix was up three with 5.7 seconds left in the second overtime. The Suns wanted to foul and to take the opportunity if it presented itself. The key phrase there is “wanted to.”
Former Sun Jevon Carter executed a nifty back-and-forth pass off the inbound, and on his initial pass to the man inside the 3-point line, that is where Ott confirmed he wanted a foul. He did not get one and Carter drilled the corner triple to it at 1.1 to go.
Off a Suns timeout with a play designed for Collin Gillespie, Jalen Green made sure to tell inbounder Royce O’Neale that he was going to run to the ball in case the action didn’t pan out.
It didn’t, and as Green was getting grabbed on the arm by Orlando’s Anthony Black, he broke for the corner and gained a step of space off that leverage for enough room to release a leaner in the corner that was all net.
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“That’s what made it a little cold,” Green said of the alternative plan he and O’Neale set.
O’Neale had the angle on the shot and knew it was in.
“Oh yeah, I knew it was cash,” O’Neale told Arizona Sports.
Green kept pushing through one of the worst shooting nights of his career. He finished 6-of-26 from the field and also 2-of-6 at the foul line on a night Phoenix desperately needed him to carry the offense. Green did a fantastic job of still searching for his shot, including some key drives in overtime, all while playing with energy defensively and grabbing rebounds.
“Just knowing, these are shots that I make, shots that I work on — my team (was) just with me the whole night make or miss,” Green said.
The wave of serotonin for a Suns team in a drought from it, having lost five of their last seven coming into the night, was a major moment in the season.
But it’s hard to go any further without covering the more significant moment for the first quarter.
Brooks played seven minutes, and in the tail end of that run, he began fiddling with that left hand for a few possessions. Brooks started to after missing a midrange jumper over an Orlando defender, and while that defender looked to perhaps make some contact with his left hand on a shot contest, it was not in an overt or obvious way. Brooks went back to the locker room and didn’t return.
ESPN’s Shams Charania did not have any details on the broken left hand, such as a timeline or the type of injury. Regardless, it’s now safe to say his status for the rest of the season is in jeopardy with just over six weeks to go before the postseason.
And in a cruel twist, the guy you’d hand pick off the bench to replace a lot of what Brooks brings from a juice and toughness standpoint also got hurt.
Goodwin, who scored 17 points and was Phoenix’s best player on the night, went to set a screen with under four minutes to go in regulation and immediately hobbled to just his right leg. That left calf flared up so fast that he instantly called for a sub and he had to intentionally foul in order to make his way back to the locker room.
Booker will be re-evaluated in a week, leaving the Suns in a terrible spot for the next few games. On that timeline, he would miss at least three more contests.
There is a sense of confidence in what the Suns can still achieve without Brooks given what was done when Green was out for all but two games over the season’s first three months. Green, in theory, can fill in the scoring output that Brooks provides. From a contribution standpoint, that was easily Brooks’ biggest.
While Brooks is a vital part of this team, there are some other replaceable elements of his game. He has not been the individual defender you’d expect, putting forth mixed results in 1-on-1 environments and too often falling into bad tendencies as an off-ball defender. Brooks himself was critical of that part of his game before the Suns left for the All-Star break. Offensively, Brooks did score a whole lot, but was a ball-stopper in many instances, with those increasing in the last month. And was a poor shooter (34% from 3).
But it’s what Brooks has brought as a culture driver that is really the unknown variable here. You might think first of the edge he plays with, and that’s fair. What’s the most important, though, is his confidence. It never wavers for a split-second, and the team-wide belief each guy plays with is the special sauce to what makes these Suns who they are. You could tell on certain nights that his absolute fearlessness and blind faith in his abilities willed the Suns to victories.
What they now do without that will determine how the rest of the season goes, if this is still about a push for a top-six seed or now more about play-in positioning. How quickly Booker and Goodwin can get back is a large factor too, on top of Phoenix being able to get through this stretch without anyone else getting injured.
Ott said on Saturday that the Suns had it at a +22 margin on possessions over Orlando, a team top-5 in those metrics the Suns value oh so preciously. Offensive rebounds were 22-10 Suns despite a massive size disadvantage.
The Suns improbably led by 11 with 7:37 to go, scrapping together just enough offense and really ratcheting up the defensive intensity in the second half to muster a 91-80 advantage.
From that point on, though, Phoenix would score just five points over the next 10:19 of game-time. The Magic are designed as a roster around length and once it decided to really pick it up defensively, no Suns ball-handler could create space. Green, a dynamic athlete, was even struggling to find room for a jumper or get around someone’s hip to drive with how much bigger Orlando was.
That felt like the moment the Magic would just take care of business.
At the 2:17 mark of the first overtime, however, Grayson Allen scored seven straight points in 1:08 to put the Suns back in the lead.
Allen ended the night with 27 points, 10 of which came in the overtimes. He played 33 minutes in his first game back from an ankle sprain suffered on Thursday. He and Green (37 minutes) are obviously two guys to watch for on the first game of a back-to-back. Royce O’Neale logged a team-high 46 minutes and Collin Gillespie clocked in at 45.
Orlando’s Desmond Bane fouled out in the first overtime after scoring 34 points. Twenty-two of those were posted within the first quarter-and-a-half.
The enigma that is Paolo Banchero was on full display Saturday. The inconsistent driver who has been a horrific jump shooter this year went from clinical buckets on gigantic mismatches to struggles in those same spaces throughout the night. He was 11-of-28 from the field for 28 points with 14 rebounds, eight assists and six turnovers.
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