The Suns are going through a rough part of the season. The team is 5-12 in its last 17 games and is currently sitting in the 8th place in the Western Conference.
According to Deandre Ayton, the main reason why his team is struggling is the lack of physicality, which opposing teams are taking advantage of.
The 24-year-old center also thinks that the players are too worried about missing shots and the score of the game.
Via Duane Rankin:
“It’s really all in the physicality, man. I think teams are trying advantage of us, so just hit first. But we can embrace the hit and hit back. That’s what I’m used to, that’s the things we do. It’s the course throughout the game, we have to keep going for it. Not just the first quarter, or the first half — it’s throughout the first game.”
