Phoenix Suns

Report: Hornacek looks for Suns to 'move on' from bad 2014-15

Published Sep. 14, 2015 3:27 p.m. ET

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A season of high hopes and possible playoff contention for the Phoenix Suns came to a screeching halt much sooner than expected in 2014-15 -- and that was before the team missed the playoffs.

The drama started with the point guard wars that ended with Isaiah Thomas and Goran Dragic playing basketball elsewhere. And this summer has just seen more difficulties pile on, as a run at LaMarcus Aldridge cost Phoenix Marcus Morris and, it seems, any sense of understanding with his twin brother Markieff Morris.

Add it all up, and coach Jeff Hornacek told Dave King of Bright Side of the Sun that he's ready for the team to move on from this bad year and get back to playing basketball:

"It was probably a difficult year," Hornacek admits to Bright Side. "Some things we probably didn't handle correctly. But we're all trying to push to see how to turn a team that won 25 games to a playoff team."

He added, "The good thing is, it's a new year! You can move on. Whatever happened in the past, there's nothing you can do about it. You move on to next year."

And the team seems ready to move on as well. King reports that every player under contract is in Phoenix for voluntary workouts except, of course, for Morris. Kings also reports that Brandon Knight said he's ready to go and feeling healthy headed into 2015-16.

The Suns might not win as many games this season as they did last; there's a lot of change going on in Phoenix, the West is still tough and one never knows what a year will bring. But it'd be hard for this team to have a worse season in aggregate than they did in 2014-15.

(h/t Bright Side of the Sun)