The Suns’ Shocking Swap: How Trading Durant and Beal Sparked an Unbelievable Transformation

The Suns' Shocking Swap: How Trading Durant and Beal Sparked an Unbelievable Transformation
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Arguably, the biggest change from last year’s team to this year’s team is how often it is getting second and third chances on possessions.

The Suns’ effective field goal percentage rank is the same as it was last year (sixth). Yet, they are four spots higher in offensive rating (going from 10th to sixth in that category) because their offensive rebounding percentage has climbed 19 spots (from 26th to seventh). 

This comes from removing older, more ground-bound players like Beal, Durant, Mason Plumlee and Jusuf Nurkic and opening up more time for Richards, Williams, Goodwin and Dunn. All four of these players are vertical threats with the youthful vigor required to consistently crash the offensive glass (all of them are in the 82nd percentile or higher in offensive rebounding rate).

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