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Phoenix Suns, Devin Booker
The Phoenix Suns finished the 2025-26 preseason with a record of 3-1.
In that, they saw the foundation layer of the ways in which they’ll be desiring to play, be workshopped into a process.
Jordan Ott was pleased with what he saw both in performance and in numbers. Here are two (of many!) things I saw from preseason and felt were noteworthy.
What is “tagging up” with the Suns
“Tagging Up” is something that I will certainly be diving more into over the coming weeks, but we’ve seen its effects and a return on investment in that through these foundational days — already.
From Saturday's practice
I spoke with Jordan Ott about their offensive rebounding process
• "Tagging up" details (*more to come soon)
• How tagging up plays to their transition defense & pick-up points
• Crashing from the corners
Suns were top-10 in OREB% in preseason pic.twitter.com/veUtireJDq
— Stephen PridGeon-Garner 🏁 (@StephenPG3) October 20, 2025
The Devin Booker of it all
Seeing a shift back to actions and a blend of usage akin with the best versions of Devin Booker that we’ve seen to date, have returned as well – in particular as a screener.
"We have an opportunity, at times, to get there. Book's an incredible screener… Would love to get to that next layer where they're [Ott's guard playmakers] more screeners than they are now."
I asked Jordan Ott about his assessments of their potential in inverting actions pic.twitter.com/gZuS3Il3Nb
— Stephen PridGeon-Garner 🏁 (@StephenPG3) September 27, 2025
Jordan Ott mentioned to me that we will likely see Booker doing a lot of different things throughout the season, and that part is intentional in their plans there.
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