Another comical Suns error could be huge for the Rockets

The Houston Rockets are banking on failure from the Suns. If their plan to let Jalen Green play point guard is real, that failure may come sooner than expected.

Tired of reading about the Suns? You come to SpaceCityScoop for Rockets content. Why am I so concerned with what's happening in the Valley?

That's what happens when your team owns someone else's picks. The Rockets own first-rounders from Phoenix in 2027 and 2029, so whatever Phoenix does impacts them.

So, Rockets fans should hope the speculation that they'll have Green run point rings true.

Rockets could benefit from Suns error

Let's talk numbers.

Green generated 0.92 Points Per Possession (PPP) as a pick-and-roll ball-handler last year. That put him in the NBA's 67.4th percentile. That's not bad - but it's not great. It's more indicative of a secondary ball-handler.

Green's stats in isolation were far worse. In those sets, he generated 0.86 PPP (42.2nd percentile).

Booker, despite having a down year, bested him in both areas. He generated 0.94 PPP in the pick-and-roll (70.7th percentile) and 1.07 PPP in isolation (87.1st). Breaking news:

Devin Booker is better than Jalen Green.

Why take the ball out of the best player's hands? If the Suns feel that isolation scoring is an off-guard's job, they're using an antiquated philosophy. Booker's ability to score gives him on-ball gravity, and that's the defining characteristic of a point guard in 2025.

If you prefer a more conventional profile, Booker is still closer to a point guard. He averaged 7.1 assists and 2.9 turnovers per game last year. Green averaged 3.4 assists and 2.5 turnovers.

What on earth are the Suns thinking here?

Rockets benefit from Suns' long-term thinking

Perhaps it's a matter of development.

The Suns could be thinking that Green will benefit from on-ball reps. There's some legitimacy in that thinking. It also happens to benefit the Rockets tremendously.

If you're a Rockets fan, you've been watching Green for years. You've probably deduced that he's not a point guard. This is a soon-to-be fifth-year player. Green could leap a primary ball-handler, but his odds get thinner with every passing season.

If nothing else, there will be growing pains. What if those pains last until 2027? The Suns could send the Rockets a lottery pick. If they last until 2029, the Suns will surely have conceded defeat and will be making efforts to rebuild without their 2029 pick in hand. Put differently: These picks have the potential to be worth their weight in gold.

It should be said that Booker will get plenty of on-ball usage. The Suns will likely run their backcourt as dual engines. Moreover, Green hasn't been great without the ball either. Arguably, the main takeaway here is that the Suns took a massive risk by acquiring a player who's been disappointing in the NBA:

Now if he fails, it won't disappoint Rockets fans anymore.