Two immediate takeaways from the Phoenix Suns ‘ 114-102 win over Dallas in their home opener at Footprint Center: Phoenix took care of the ball and Jusuf Nurkic made Mike Budenholzer look like a prophet.
The Suns committed 22 turnovers in their Wednesday opener that led to 16 points for the Los Angeles Clippers, and 17 turnovers Friday at the Los Angeles Lakers turned into 26 points.
Budenholzer likes how the Suns are trying to share the ball, but he wanted better decision making.
“Decision making,” Budenholzer said. “I think we’ve just got to be smart. We’ve got to probably be more cognizant of just making good decisions, good reads. Maybe not trying to put it into small cracks. Sometimes just really unforced turnovers.”
The Suns made better decisions, shared the ball and didn’t give it away so frequently in the second of a back-to-back. They had just 11 turnovers that led to only 11 Dallas points.
As for Nurkic, he had a horrid game in Friday’s 123-116 loss at the Lakers in posting just four points on 1-of-5 shooting, four turnovers and committing four fouls in just 18 minutes.