WESTERN CONFERENCE PACIFIC DIVISION Phoenix Jeff Hornacek shocked the entire basketball world by coaching the 2013-14 Phoenix Suns to a 48-win season when most prognosticators predicted half that many victories for the Suns. Yet by featuring a floor-spacing, guard-penetrating-for-twos, bigshitting for-threes offensive attack, Horny turned the Suns into an efficient point-making machine. And with long-armed wings and long-length bigs, he got his band of merry men to play tough-enough defense, with just enough rebounding to become the success story of 2014. Can he repeat his 2014 feat in 2015? Can he top it? Time will tell. We do know, however, that Hornacek still believes in his philosophies. He brought in two more attack guard dogs in Isaiah Thomas and Zoran Dragic to join an already elite tandem of Goran Dragic and Eric Bledsoe. Call it doubling down on a team that doubled its expectations last year. DEFENSE Yes, they can play defense. Not as pretty as they play O, but it can look just as frenetic, with defensive superstar Bledsoe disrupting guards with his speed, strength and athleticism better than any NBA player at the 1 or 2 spot. Goran Dragic
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