Suns Reveal Starters vs Knicks

• Devin Booker
• Collin Gillespie
• Royce O'Neale
• Dillon Brooks
• Mark Williams

The Suns are still down Jalen Green (right hamstring strain) and Jamaree Bouyea (concussion) entering Friday night while Josh Hart (right ankle sprain), Trey Jemison III (G League) and Landry Shamet (right shoulder sprain) and Guerschon Yabusele (quad) are out for the Knicks.

"They play good basketball, they have some veteran guys that have been through the fire. You have Dillon Brooks who is showing you not only can he obviously defend and bring an edge to his basketball team, but also get down offensively," Knicks head coach Mike Brown said of Phoenix during his pre-game press conference.

"Book is an all-star player. Make it out, they run, crash glass and do a pretty good job defensively.  Overall, they are trying to put pressure on you. They'll pick up full court. There are a lot of things that we're going to have to try to make sure we maintain or follow our principles tonight because they can attack in a lot of different ways." 

The Suns typically have the advantage in the "math game" against teams as Ott likes to emphasize the three-ball, though the Knicks hit from deep nearly better than most in the NBA. New York is third in three-point percentage at 38.3% on the season.

“It's all predicted on a defense, what they're trying to do. It's another one tonight where they protect the rim at a high rate. They don't let you get there," Suns coach Jordan Ott said of New York.

"We'd obviously like to get there, gonna take it away, we're gonna have  enough shooting on the floor as we get healthy here to really share it. Starts with our superstar, when he has the ability to track double teams, game, after game, after game, and we're able to space them with some shooting and then have the rim threat of our five. It all just works together to try to find high quality shots.

"If we shoot another fifty tonight and there are fifty good ones, great. If we can get to the rim, we'd obviously love to prefer to get to the room, but teams take it away so when those teams take it away you gotta find another way to create high quality shots." 

New York's also top five in team categories such as points per game (119.7) and rebounds per game (45.8).

For the Suns, their 10.6 steals per night is first in the NBA.

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