Jalen Green could make a leap with the suns he would not have in Houston

The Phoenix Suns will be a drastically different team next season, and it is one that many do not believe it will even make the play-in tournament. They have a lot about/under projections at around 31.5 victories, and only the potential addition of Jonathan Kuminga looks like it can change.

Kuminga will not probably be in the Valley Landen this season – even if Phoenix has insisted to see if this package could get a deal around Nick Richards and Grayson Allen – and he can even prefer a switch to a worse situation than that of the sun in the West. Which means that new additions Dillon Brooks and Jalen Green will be even more pressure on them to succeed immediately.

Phoenix can be a perfect place for green to sharpen game skills.

We already know that Brooks will be the defensive Lynchpin for this schedule – and exceed the expectations in the process – but the path to contribute in a large way is less clear to Green. He is a 23-year-old shooter who does many of the things that Devin Booker already does on paper, and he doesn’t do them either.

But landing with this team can be the perfect opportunity for him to become more a playmaker if he comes to what the Front Office hopes is the next phase of his career. Remember that in the first three seasons of Booker in the competition, most of the assists he had managed per match was 4.7. Only in the fourth did he succeed 6.8 and the following year he was an All-Star for the first time.

Green’s 3.4 assists in the last time -out of year four were both in line with his career average, and just under his career best of season three (3.5). On paper there is not much to suggest that Green can follow in the footsteps of his new teammate and bring his attacking game to the next level by putting the table for others.

But we saw a small sample size when Fred Vanvlet was wounded in the past for the Houston missiles, so that Green could process the ball and try to feed others more. It was far from perfect – Green used his athletics to compensate for some mistakes or inability to place the ball where he wanted every possession – but it was also not a complete disaster.

Becoming a Point Guard was something that would never happen in Houston, both because the Rockets VanVlete signed with a large part, and because they get closer to real position and have no time for such experiments. But the Suns do that, and they have already suggested that they play Green as a starting point guard to start next season.

This would enable Booker to become the murderer that we know he can be by burning opponents with his score, but it might also add a new dimension to the game of Green. The Suns have the time to try such a change, because they don’t go anywhere in 2025-26 anyway.

This is a brilliant chance for a player who enters his fifth season – and with a clear potential for all stars – to take the next step that could not have happened with his previous team. Green is still so young – and although not a lot of defensive help is every night – so more of a playmaker would be a brilliant next step. This can happen for him in the valley.