Inside the Suns: Way too early predictions, limiting starter minutes, deep bench players

zenzino: I'm not mad. As we learned from previous seasons: expectations are the killer of joy. I think they can certainly do better, though.

As I said in a previous comment, there is a crazy logjam in the middle of the Western Conference and the Suns should be at least in the middle of it this time. Let's look at who was above the Suns and who was below last season.

The Thunder and Spurs are comfortable at the top and not part of the logjam. The Rockets got better with FVV returning and adding Marcus Smart. I expect them to be following closely behind the top two and out of the reach of the Suns.