2025 Suns Preseason News

[Superbone]

The Suns started off the preseason with a nice easy win over the Lakers showing that what they learned in training camp carried over. The team looks to play hard, guard for 94 feet, and have a good cutting and moving offense. Rookie head coach Jordon Ott appears to have a nice plan in place and the team is taking to it.

They are now off to China for two games against the Nets in Macao. Here is an article from Duane Rankin from the Arizona Republic detailing the trip:

Inside look at Phoenix Suns' 7,500-mile China trip to play Brooklyn Nets

https://www.azcentral.com/story/sports/ ... 477985007/

The Phoenix Suns taking a global trip to China for two preseason games will impact how first-year head coach Jordan Ott prepares for the regular season, but he sees the value in it.

“That travel is real,” Ott said. “We’re going to lose a couple of days going there, coming back, but we’re not going to make an excuse. We’re going to try to maximize the time we have on the flight. We’ll obviously try to maximize some practice time, but I don’t see it as a negative. We’ll turn it into a way we’re together more, whether it’s team bonding or something on the court.”

Oh, that travel is definitely real.

The Suns are taking what they said will be a 17-hour private charter flight Monday, Oct. 6, to China for a weeklong stay that ends with two games in three days, Oct. 10 and 12, against the Brooklyn Nets at the 14,000-seat Venetian Arena in Macao.

The games start at 5 a.m., Oct. 10 and 4 a.m., Oct. 12, Phoenix time. In China, they’ll be prime-time viewing at 8 p.m. and 7 p.m.

[Superbone]

Here are a couple interesting tidbits from the above article:

Suns Ring of Honor inductee Shawn Marion will be the “legend” representative for the franchise in China.

"Ya know what I mean?"

The Suns Gorilla team mascot is making the trip along with Suns Dancers and Phoenix Flyers, as they will provide entertainment at the games and different events the Suns and NBA are hosting.

The Suns are also bringing the Gorilla’s trampoline, t-shirts and other giveaway items, game jerseys featuring NBA Global Games patch and Wilson game balls provided by the NBA with NBA China Games branding.

[ShelC]

Game times are good for me here on the East coast!

Hopefully they can adjust quickly once they're back from the trip. Won't be too concerned if they don't play well or look drunk during one or both of those games.

[Superbone]

Game times are good for me here on the East coast!

Hopefully they can adjust quickly once they're back from the trip. Won't be too concerned if they don't play well or look drunk during one or both of those games.

Good for you! I'll be recording but I definitely won't be watching live! It'll be nice to wake up with my morning coffee and watch Suns basketball though.

I'm thinking they may be affected even worse for the last game in Phoenix two days later. At least they have a little time to acclimate to China this week. That last game is when I really won't expect much.

[ShelC]

Yea I'm not crazy about this overseas deal. Throws the whole preseason work off for the team. I like that our main guys are playing tho (for the most part) and getting used to rotations/sub patterns.

I do want to see if Ott stays with Book for the whole 1st qtr like Book usually wants. Probably won't know until the regular season starts but I feel like that was a sticking point for Book the past 2 seasons.

[Superbone]

Yea I'm not crazy about this overseas deal. Throws the whole preseason work off for the team. I like that our main guys are playing tho (for the most part) and getting used to rotations/sub patterns.

I do want to see if Ott stays with Book for the whole 1st qtr like Book usually wants. Probably won't know until the regular season starts but I feel like that was a sticking point for Book the past 2 seasons.

So you do or don't like Book playing the whole first quarter?

[ShelC]

I'm fine with it because he's proven effective doing it. I think he's a rhythm player and would rather stay out there to really get into the flow of the game. And we've seen it where he tries to get others going early on and then switches over to scorer-mode with the subs to close the quarter. He seemed really unhappy with the sub patterns under Vogel and Bud.

[Superbone]

I'm fine with it because he's proven effective doing it. I think he's a rhythm player and would rather stay out there to really get into the flow of the game. And we've seen it where he tries to get others going early on and then switches over to scorer-mode with the subs to close the quarter. He seemed really unhappy with the sub patterns under Vogel and Bud.

Cool. I agree with you. I don't see any harm in it.

[ShelC]

Good write up here

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[carey]

Those are dope. That's the kind of shit more shoe companies should be doing. But we get the same shoe over and over mostly.

[virtual9mm]

Looks like I'm going to the Suns-Nets game on Sunday after all -- friend was able to get me into the Nets owner's box. Will let you know how the Suns play!

[Superbone]

Another reason I'm proud to root for this man.