{"id":537724,"date":"2026-01-23T19:36:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T19:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/537724\/"},"modified":"2026-01-23T19:36:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T19:36:10","slug":"2025-26-phoenix-suns-secret-weapon-to-confuse-defenses-%f0%9f%91%80-stephens-studies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/537724\/","title":{"rendered":"2025-26 Phoenix Suns SECRET WEAPON To CONFUSE Defenses \ud83d\udc40 | Stephen\u2019s Studies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/gophnx.com\/suns\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Phoenix Suns;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Phoenix Suns<\/a> play out of a handful of concepts, rooted in dynamic touches that trigger tempo in the halfcourt.<\/p>\n<p>Oftentimes, they do so to get <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/b\/bookede01.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Devin Booker;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Devin Booker<\/a> a dynamic touch, as a moving target, but also have offensive personnel that allows all of their perimeter players to be interchangeable \u2014 pairing different player personnels with actions layered on top of each other.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Phoenix Suns halfcourt attack<\/p>\n<p>Since the return of Devin Booker on December 14th, the <a href=\"https:\/\/gophnx.com\/suns\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Phoenix Suns;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Phoenix Suns<\/a> have blended plenty more handoff usage into their half-court offensive attack.<\/p>\n<p>In this window, six of their 10 highest volume handoff games of the season have surfaced, and that is with great intent.<\/p>\n<p>Booker has received the 8th most handoffs this season, and is seeing a great volume of those being screen-into-handoff scenarios.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/StephenPG3\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Stephen PridGeon-Garner;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Stephen PridGeon-Garner<\/a> is back with another \u201cStudy,\u201d diving into the Suns usage of what\u2019s called \u201cZoom,\u201d and why it\u2019s so effective for them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Phoenix Suns play out of a handful of concepts, rooted in dynamic touches that trigger tempo in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":537725,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[7196,237639,1260,1721,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-537724","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-devin-booker","9":"tag-dynamic-touch","10":"tag-nba","11":"tag-phoenix-suns","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115946100041736563","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=537724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537724\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/537725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=537724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=537724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=537724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}