We’re three games into this new season, and the picture looks about like what we expected. A team hovering below .500, fighting uphill with a schedule that offers no favors. You could see it coming back
in August, staring at those first ten games. It was a gauntlet, plain and simple. So at 1-2, the Suns are sitting exactly where logic said they’d be.
Sure, you can start to dig and note the statistical opportunities for the team. They’ve committed the most personal fouls in the NBA, tied with the defending champion Oklahoma City Thunder with 79. They’re shooting just 32.8% from deep, 23rd in the league. Their defensive rating is 124.8, 29th in the league.
Yet scroll through your social feed, and it feels like we’re watching the collapse of a contender. The tone is wild, disconnected from reality. It’s as if the summer conversations about growing pains never happened. Like this roster was built to chase trophies instead of traction.
The delusion’s familiar, though. It’s the echo of a fan base that still wants to believe in miracles, even when the math says otherwise.
Really? We’re already talking about trading Devin Booker and Jalen Green, eh?
It’s still early. Too early to start panicking, too early to start calling for trades, too early to pretend we know what this team even is. The noise online would have you believe otherwise, but that’s what social media does. It breeds overreaction. It’s a place where frustration meets Wi-Fi, and everyone’s an expert until the next game tips off.
We don’t even have the edges of the puzzle figured out yet, but people are already trying to flip the table. I get it. Losing sucks. Watching a young team stumble through its growing pains isn’t exactly a dopamine rush. But perspective matters.
This season isn’t about chasing a top-four seed or storming into May basketball. It’s about culture. Reset. Development. Call it whatever buzzword you want, but the truth is simple: this is a year for learning, not for contending. The team has to grow into itself, and that takes time. The fans need to do the same.
Overreacting to back-to-back road losses against contenders like the Clippers and Nuggets isn’t productive. It’s exhausting. This team is young. There’s potential. There’s energy. But it has to be cultivated, not coerced.
We’ve seen what happens when impatience runs the show. We’ve watched the front office pull the trigger too fast, trade for too much, and sacrifice development for the illusion of contention. That’s how you end up here, stuck between what was and what could be.
So tweet what you want. Yell into the void. But understand that every overreaction feeds the wrong narrative. The bus stops here. The only real path forward is patience. Not blind faith. Not delusion. Patience.
