But aside from how Shaq looks, this is what is striking about the offense now. There is a lack of shooters on the floor. The Suns' offense always has been based on spreading the floor. It used to be with four shooters. This season, it has been three more than ever. Now, it can be two at times.
Grant Hill and Amare Stoudemire are fine mid-range shooters but they can't spread the floor like when the Suns put four shooters on the 3-point line with Tim Thomas at power forward and James Jones at small forward. This isn't to say that was the way to win a championship but it was the way Phoenix won. Now, the Suns are down to three 3-point shooters in Nash, Raja Bell and Leandro Barbosa and they can't even play together for risk of being too small. The offense surely will surge back and defense will prove to be more of question in the final two months but these two games against great defensive teams will be something to keep in mind.
http://www.azcentral.com/members/Blog/PaulCoro/17929
That's a pretty big issue methinks.
