Bradley Beal felt disrespected after Mike Budenholzer told him to replicate Boston Celtics star’s playing style, ‘he’s made a...’

Bradley Beal couldn’t believe Mike Budenholzer wanted him to take a lesser role like a Boston Celtics champion. The Phoenix Suns have had a catastrophic season. After an almost 50-win season last year, the Suns were expected to compete for a championship this season.

Instead, their season ended underwhelmingly with a 36-46 record. The Suns have begun their clean-up process, firing Mike Budenholzer yesterday in a frankly unsurprising decision . Budenholzer seemingly hinted at his Suns tenure coming to an end recently .



Given the issues he was facing this season, this is an unsurprising decision. One of the players he struggled to keep in check the most was Bradley Beal . And it appears one of his instructions highly offended the former All-Star.

Bud challenged Bradley Beal to emulate Jrue Holiday NBA insider Chris Haynes broke down the Suns’ decision to fire Mike Budenholzer . He noted that there was a lot of internal strife within the locker room. One of the big turning points in the relationship between Budenholzer and Bradley Beal was the former’s request that Beal play a Jrue Holday-type role.

“One thing I can point to is his communication and how he conveyed his message. League sources told me that earlier this season, coach Budenholzer met with Bradley Beal. He wanted him to be the Jrue Holiday of this team.

” “When you’re talking to a guy of Bradley Beal’s caliber, it wasn’t well-received. It’s not the type of player he is; you know he’s made a name for himself by playing his way.” “So, asking him to shift and alter his game and on top of that, say Jrue Holiday, somebody who coach Budenholzer won a championship with in Milwaulkee, it wasn’t well-received.

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com/Ryzz7OlDKT Beal was reason for Suns failure With teams like the Phoenix Suns that fail so catastrophically, it is unfair to blame things on one player. However, a large portion of the Suns’ problems comes from the acquisition of Bradley Beal. While Beal is a brilliant, All-Star level scorer, he is a defensive liability.

And the Suns were already a defensively weak team. Adding Beal just further reinforced their defensive weakness and gave the Suns a lot of problems. In addition to that, there was the hiring of Mike Budenholzer, who has never been a good defensive coach.

The Suns need to start from scratch. Trading Kevin Durant is going to be the start of their massive rebuild and their road to redemption. This article first appeared on NBA Analysis Network and was syndicated with permission.

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