Not sure where you got those numbers, but last season, Beal averaged 5.4 assists, which doesn’t qualify for “almost 7” in my book while Booker averaged 5.5 which I guess qualifies for “almost 6”.
Beal turns 30 before the season starts and has a career average of 4.3 assists per while Booker sports a 4.6 career average. I don’t know if Phoenix plans on starting one of them as their PG, but I’d have to think the answer to that is no. If a true PG is brought in, I honestly have no idea what that will do to their assist numbers as I figure all 3 of Booker, KD, and Beal will see plenty of action initiating the offense.
All that being said, I probably shortchanged their passing abilities a little bit in my original post, but I definitely think it’s fair to say that their passing abilities are good but certainly far from great. Beal and Booker get paid 9 figures because they can put the ball in the hoop better than 90% of the rest of the league while offering decent passing and absolutely next to nothing on the defensive side of the ball.
I’ll stand by my opinion that this is shaping up to be a disaster that Phoenix will not be able to get themselves out from under for a decade. I’m sure there’s a scenario where KD actually manages to stay healthy for an entire season, all 3 of them gel perfectly, and I’m eating crow next June while the Suns play in the NBA finals, but is that something you’d be willing to bet the farm on if you were running the Suns?
