ofc superteams still work (and will always work)
Suns are not a big 3 \ superteam type team
Booker is overrated, KD is very old and Beal hasn't been right for a while and wasn't that good to begin with, they are also all very redundant and it was easy to foresee this team will have alot of diminishing returns
all three guys also don't play all that well of the ball and have little experience in being a #2 or a #3
Beal was always not a good defender (to put it mildly), if u add him to the team and don't feed him on offense then he's hurting you on D and on O when he's off the ball
I thought his contract was one of the worst in the league but at least it makes some sense for a lowly Wizards team that wanted some butts on the seats, it made zero sense for this team especially as it completely destroys their flexibility and adds to an already very high tax implications
it's not that you can't build a superteam in 2024 (you most def can and there are a few of those rn) it's that pairing three different one dimensional scorers with iffy defense is a bad idea
in yesterday's game at home in a must win game the Suns scored just 109 pts, with all three of their "stars" playing 42-43, in large part that's obviously a testament to just how good the Wolves defense is but it's also because of those diminishing returns
KD had 8-18, Booker was 8-15 and Beal was 10-19,neither reached 30 pts
now imagine just KD and Booker, or Beal and Booker, KD and Beal - splitting that same load. that would mean KD and Booker would both have taken 28 FGA, which is right up their alley in 42 or 42 minutes of playing time
the efficiency drop would be minimal (if at all, who knows maybe as a tandem they'd be more in rhytm) so that 3rd guys contributes very little offensively and hurts the team in other areas. just a poorly constructed team.
it didn't help that their 5h starter whose been very important to their "success" (if u can call it that) was injured. they gutted their depth for KD and could have had a mulligan this season, had they used to off-season to improve their depth and cohesion. instead they went and gave up assets for the right to pay Beal a supermax..
horrible gm'ing