I was thinking about things, and one of the things I was thinking about was how there aren’t really any NBA teams that have what could be called a “big three”. “Big threes” were the hottest and coolest trend in team-building a few years ago, but now it seems like a bunch of “big twos”.
Which means that the Suns’ big three of Elie Okobo, Dario Saric, and Cheick Diallo is automatically the best big three in the entire league.
If you’re doubting the fact (which is eminently factual) that those three players together form a big three, consider this: they combined for nearly half of the Suns’ points tonight, 56 out of 104. That’s what big threes do. They score significant portions of their team’s points by virtue of being the best players on the court at any given time.
So not only do the Suns have a big three for perhaps the first time since their “PG big three” of Eric Bledsoe, Goran Dragic, and Isaiah Thomas, but they have an INTERNATIONAL big three. France, Croatia, and Mali. Three basketball-powerhouse countries uniting for the goal of dominating the NBA. It’s a new era of the NBA, the international era, and the Suns are at the vanguard.