Change the essence? The value of the new Sun handsome guy!

The Suns are about to usher in the 58th season in team history. In 58 years, they have played many highlight moments worthy of fans' memories, but even so, they always pass by the moments of glory. And in 2025, this team once again stood at the crossroads of the team's fate.

After the team's boss Esby took over, the team seemed to have begun to fall into turmoil. After internal conflicts began with the 2021-22 season's best coach Monty, the once highly praised coaching team began to become an unstable position in the team. Monty was fired, Vogel also stayed for a short time before leaving, and Budenholzer could not survive a year.

Now, the Suns are about to appoint the fourth head coach in four seasons. Faced with this problem, Jordan Ultra came to the Suns, and he officially became the 23rd head coach in the history of the Suns.

Like most coaches starting from the position of team analytics staff, Ott started as a video analyst at Michigan State University, and then joined Budenholzer’s coaching team at the Hawks.

Time comes in 2016. Ultra received an invitation from the Nets and became an assistant coach next to Atkinson. He also participated in Nash's Nets era, and coached superstar players such as Durant, Harden, and Irving. In 2022, he chose to switch to the Los Angeles Lakers, joined Darwin Hamm's coaching team, and returned to the Cavaliers and Atkinson to reunite with him last season.

Judging from Jordan Ultra's resume, there is a slightly embarrassing point: the relationship between Jordan Ultra and Michigan State University.

Michigan State Men's Basketball Team won the NCAA championship in 2000, and the current Suns boss Esbya was the team player at that time. Suns general manager Brian was the team assistant coach at that time, and Jordan Ott was the team's video analysis work from 2008 to 13; in addition, the current Suns core Devin Booker is also a Michigan-born player, but his university did not choose Michigan State University, but the University of Kentucky.

What does this information mean?

Is Jordan Otter recognized by the Suns because of his resume with the University of Michigan? And he entered the Suns coaching position because of his relationship with the team's boss Esbya? Some people agree with the statement

, but rationally, this kind of remark is not comprehensive. From the perspective of team boss operations, he naturally hopes that there are people in the team who have similar ideas, consistent ideas and worthy of trust. This is not a strange choice, but a very common phenomenon in the professional basketball world.

Particularly considering that the relationship between this group of people originated from the University of Michigan, a top institution with a high reputation in the basketball world, has cultivated countless outstanding head coaches and players. If the outside world questioned Ultra's origin and believed that he had nepotism during his takeover, it would be a bit one-sided.

Especially after the failure to form the superstar combination, it is really hard to expect them to lead the Suns to success for players who are young enough but relatively unfamiliar with no links to the team. And for a team that has been trapped in the past for many years, perhaps such emotional changes are exactly what the Suns need now.

Judging from his coaching resume, Jordan Ultra is actually a young coach with a very good reputation. Among his support voice, the most highly praised advantage is that he is good at establishing a sincere relationship with players. Although emotional points are hardly a plus point that is favored in the NBA today, the Suns have paid a huge price in recent years. The adventures of the two head coaches in the past have not achieved outstanding results, and it is even particularly difficult to build a sense of trust and belonging in the locker room.

And in this league that is already cold-blooded enough and is gradually occupied by players, such lack of feelings is almost the norm for the team.

The traditional iron-blooded coaching style is gradually withdrawing from the stage of history, but the tough style has never disappeared in the league. Compared with the coldness in the past, what is now more important is how to establish dignity and relationships, accumulate enough trust, so that the coach can give an attitude when pressure is needed, and players are willing to accept it.

Monty Williams once briefly mastered such a balanced situation, but his preference and stubbornness were eventually defeated in the face of human nature. Now, it's Jordan Ultra's turn to take over the hot potato of head coach of the Suns. In the face of Durant's trading storm, this appointment did not attract much external momentum, but the value to the sun behind this may be particularly worthy of attention.

Jordan Ultra's top priority is to form a brand new coaching team, which is a challenge that emphasizes both strategy and political significance. Ironically, for this team, Jordan Ultra is very likely to have no say. The Suns are currently in the dilemma of trading plans, cap space restrictions and market signings. As for Jordan Ultra, he is more like a passive NPC role in the team's reconstruction process.

Of course, we can still see some signals during this coaching change, a time from the change of team culture. However, this time the Suns did not choose those famous coaches with outstanding reputation and outstanding record, but turned to pursue adaptability and interpersonal connection. But from the reality, this task may take quite a while.

Cultural reconstruction is not a simple task. In this process, the team's senior management must learn to suppress the desire to succeed in one blow and give Ultra a real chance. This opportunity may not be a season, but a longer time. He needs to consolidate his interpersonal relationships and establish his team culture as soon as possible in this process, so that his label can be rooted in this young team as soon as possible.

This is exactly the patience that the Suns lack most in recent years, and this time, it only depends on their decision to get back the head coach's appointment and removal.