DATE OPPONENT TIME Oct. 29 Los Angeles 10:00 Oct. 31 San Antonio 10:00 Nov. 1 at Utah 9:00 Nov. 4 at Los Angeles 10:30 Nov. 5 Memphis 9:00 Nov. 7 Sacramento 9:00 Nov. 9 Golden State 8:00 Nov. 12 Brooklyn 9:00 Nov. 14 Charlotte 9:00 Nov. 15 at Los Angeles 10:30 Nov. 17 at Boston 7:30 Nov. 19 at Detroit 7:30 Nov. 21 at Philadelphia 7:00 Nov. 22 at Indiana 7:00 Nov. 24 at Toronto 7:30 Nov. 26 Denver 9:00 Nov. 28 at Denver 9:00 Nov. 30 Orlando 8:00 Dec. 2 Indiana 9:00 Dec. 5 at Dallas 8:30 Dec. 6 at Houston 8:00 Dec. 8 at Los Angeles 10:30 Dec. 9 Miami 9:00 Dec. 12 Detroit 9:00 Dec. 14 at Oklahoma City 7:00 Dec. 15 Milwaukee 9:00 Dec. 17 at Charlotte 7:00 Dec. 20 at New York 1:00 Dec. 21 at Washington 6:00 Dec. 23 Dallas 9:00 Dec. 26 at Sacramento 10:00 Dec. 28 at Los Angeles 9:30 Dec. 30 at New Orleans 8:00 Dec. 31 at Oklahoma City 8:00 Jan. 2 Philadelphia 9:00 Jan. 4 Toronto 8:00 Jan. 6 at Milwaukee 8:00 Jan. 7 at Minnesota 9:30 Jan. 9 at San Antonio 8:30 Jan. 11 at Memphis 6:00 Jan. 13 Cleveland 9:00 DATE OPPONENT TIME Jan. 16 Minnesota 9:00 Jan. 19 Los Angeles 10:00 Jan. 21 Portland 9:00 Jan. 23 Houston 9:00 Jan. 25 Los Angeles 6:00 Jan. 28 Washington 10:30 Jan. 30 Chicago 10:30 Jan. 31 at Golden State 10:30 Feb. 2 Memphis 9:00 Feb. 5 at Portland 10:30 Feb. 6 Utah 9:00 Feb. 8 at Sacramento 9:00 Feb. 10 Houston 8:00 Feb. 20 at Minnesota 8:00 Feb. 21 at Chicago 8:00 Feb. 23 Boston 9:00 Feb. 25 at Denver 9:00 Feb. 26 Oklahoma City 10:30 Feb. 28 San Antonio 9:00 Mar. 2 at Miami 7:30 Mar. 4 at Orlando 7:00 Mar. 6 at Brooklyn 7:30 Mar. 7 at Cleveland 7:30 Mar. 9 Golden State 10:00 Mar. 11 Minnesota 10:00 Mar. 13 Atlanta 10:00 Mar. 15 New York 9:00 Mar. 19 New Orleans 10:00 Mar. 21 at Houston 8:00 Mar. 22 Dallas 9:00 Mar. 25 Sacramento 10:00 Mar. 27 Portland 10:00 Mar. 29 Oklahoma City 9:00 Mar. 30 at Portland 10:00 Apr. 2 at Golden State 10:30 Apr. 4 Utah 10:00 Apr. 7 at Atlanta 7:30 Apr. 8 at Dallas 9:30 Apr. 10 at New Orleans 8:00 Apr. 12 at San Antonio 7:00 Apr. 14 Los Angeles 10:30 * All Times Eastern. The only reason Bledsoe has not made PHOENIX SUNS 2014-15 SCHEDULE an All-Defense team in any of his four NBA seasons is because the strong safetymasquerading as-guard has never played 2,000-plus NBA minutes. Bledsoe, who missed 39 games last season mostly due to knee surgery, will surely be instrumental in taking Phoenix from 13thbest defense (103.8 points allowed per 100 possessions) to top 10 status, if he can stay on the court long enough. Mini-LeBron is not surrounded by a lot of defensive stoppers around him—Miles Plumlee and vet Anthony Tolliver are decent defending bigs—but Hornacek got this team to play together on basic basketball tenets, which was enough for the team to make substantial improvement in a year. For instance, Hornacek’s shot-contesting Suns limited foes to 34.1 percent shooting on 3s, which ranked second in the NBA in 2013- 14. Conversely, the Alvin Gentry- and Lindsey Hunter-coached Suns allowed 38.8 percent on 3s, which ranked worst in the league the year before. Consequently, those 2012-13 Suns ranked 24th in defensive efficiency (105.7). I t ’s part coaching, part mindset and part desire. McDonough did not go out and add any paint protectors to the mix, but who’s to say they cannot become a top 10 D after jumping from 24th to 13th last season. More likely, Phoenix will rely on its explosive guards to simply outscore and out-assist its competition. They believe: If any defenses out there can keep up with Dragic & Dragic, Bledsoe & Thomas, good luck to them. OFFENSE Are you on your heels? If not, expect a blow-by any minute from the direction of the Suns in Phoenix, with an assortment of attack guards the NBA has never seen before. It was bad enough last season, when new GM Ryan McDonough acquired super-athlete Bledsoe, nicknamed mini-LeBron by King James himself, to team up with returning point guard Goran Dragic after a stellar year in Phoenix in 2012-13. Those two, Dragic and Bledsoe, literally set the NBA on fire in 2013-14, ranking amongst the league leaders not only in points per game on drives (any attack from the 20-foot range to the 10-foot range, excluding fast breaks)—Bledsoe 5.7 points, 9th; Dragic 5.3
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