They way to beat Denver is the way the Warriors did. Running Jokic ragged in a multioptonal pick and roll. OK, lets gets some perspective here and you'll see why the idea that the Suns adding Durant at the deadline last year being a blah move for a team like Sacramento is akin to denial and why them adding ANY star talent could be a quick nip for the pretenders. Last year the Suns went from out of contention, to in, and to the 2nd round with around 8 games of experience with Durant and Booker. In those games they went 8-0 with Durant in the lineup post trade and were the only team to even win 2 games against Denver. I consider that worrisome and I'd imagine every team in the West does as well. Adding a player like Beal to that hopefully would blow up in their face but it if doesn't it's trouble for those teams fighting in the 1-15 range lol. As long as they don't get injured or miss Paul too much. Then if that deal goes down that likely means CP3 ends up in LA with Bron which is more BS to fight through. The short term results are in, the Lakers and Suns deadline deals worked for them and they were still playing while the Kings were at home watching. There's no arguing, it's what happened and depending on what teams like that do likely depends on where you set your own bar. I have a feeling Monte isn't going to undersell it and is apparently trying to improve to meet that challenge like any good GM would in his position.