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Monty Williams Lays Into His Phoenix Suns Side After Poor Display During Loss to the Sacramento Kings

Phoenix Suns head coach Monty Williams was not best pleased after his side's poor display against the Sacramento Kings, which resulted in the first loss in five for the Footprint Center franchise.

The Suns are still well placed in fourth position in the Western Conference but will be mindful of the teams stacking up behind them as well as the likely period without injured new addition Kevin Durant.

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Phoenix, still chasing a first-ever NBA title, will not only want to qualify directly for the play-offs they'll want to enter them on a roll, and Williams comments following the loss against the Kings should be heeded by his players;

"They're a really good team (the Kings). Offensively, they score with the best of them, but we had so many, 'my bads' and blown coverages tonight. It just stacked against us tonight, and then you couple that with them having 36 free throws, and then they made some threes. One off the glass, the one at the end, stuff like that, it was just too many holes to dig out of tonight,"

"I didn't think we played with the sharpness and gameplan discipline that it takes to play against a team that's hungry, a team that hasn't been to the playoffs in a long time and they're chasing something. I didn't feel like we chased tonight. I thought we were not as sound as we need to be to play against a really good offensive team."

Obviously, in recent weeks, a lot of the focus has been on the arrival of Kevin Durant, but even before the Brooklyn Nets star arrived, the Suns were in a prime position to ease into the post-season, and therefore his injury lay off shouldn’t be a significant concern.

As well as being less than ecstatic about his team's performance, Williams wasn't overly appreciative of the way the game was officiated;

"We hung in there, we just didn't have the level of gameplan discipline that it takes to win a game like, we just kept fouling. They had 37 free throws. That’s a lot of free throws and it was a physical game, so it’s like, what do you do? Am I suppose to get up here and say something crazy and get a fine and then come back tomorrow and say, 'I’m human.' I don’t need to do all that,"

Last season the Suns performed incredibly well to secure an astonishing 64-18 regular season record, a franchise-high, and it would've been foolish to expect a similarly astounding year in 2022-23, and with 14 games to go, Phoenix look well-placed to get to the promised land of the play offs and then, in many ways, their season really will get underway.