Clippers dabbled with hard traps on Devin Booker last night, both in p&r and late-clock ISOs. PHX should expect to see more of those in the playoffs. They have decent shooters, but opponents may dare them to show it in a high-pressure situation and/or just run them off the line.
Suns have a couple solutions to that coverage:

1. More CP3, who is harder to trap because he changes speeds and angles so well before the screen is set.

2. More decoy motion into Booker ball screens, using the threat of their backdoor cutting skill to deter ball denials.
Still, this gets at my biggest concern with the Suns in the playoffs: they're light on scoring options. Their offensive numbers are good in the regular season, but I wonder what happens when a team can lock in to their cut timing, play alignment, and secondary transition scoring.
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