It didn’t take Kevin Durant long to find something to gripe about on his new super squad.

According to ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski, the Suns can “feel the frustration” that Durant is feeling about their present personnel predicament. Wojnarowski noted Bradley Beal’s struggle to stay on the court and the roster’s “underwhelming supporting cast” as big pressure points, as well as the fact that Phoenix currently lacks draft assets or tradeable contracts to bolster this club.

This seemed unavoidable. The Washington Wizards point guard was acquired in a major wager on the skill of Durant, Beal, and Devin Booker. The three have a combined salary cap of $130.4 million, which is only $5 million and change less than the league’s salary cap. The Suns signed minimum-wage players because they were hard-capped at the first salary apron. Jusuf Nurkic, a center whose abilities are solely on the offensive end of the floor, was the only significant player they could sign.

The transaction took place in the worst-case situation. Beal, who has only started 60 games in a season five times in his 12-year career, has only played six games for the Sun. Beal is averaging his lowest field goal % since 2014-2015 and only 14.7 points per game when he is on the court.

Durant and Booker are doing their part. Durant’s 30.3 points per game are the second-highest in his career. Booker is also on pace to set a new career high in points per game while also posting career highs in assists (5.4) and rebounds (8.3).

That is about all the output this team can produce from their roster. When Beal is unavailable, Eric Gordon, 35, is the third-highest point producer. Grayson Allen should have been a role player, but he is now an important part of the Suns’ rotation. Keita Bates-Diop, Jordan Goodwin, Drew Eubanks, Nasir Little, and Yuta Watanabe are among the minimum-salary fliers and throw-in trade contracts they employed to bolster their bench.

Phoenix is now 14-15, one game out of the West’s play-in tournament. They have the league’s third-hardest remaining strength of schedule. There is no current out for this Suns squad. The Beal trade cost Phoenix four first-round pick swaps (2024, 2026, 2028, and 2030) and six second-round pick swaps (2024, 2025, 2026, 2027, 2028, and 2030). All of this for six games from a 30-year-old ball-dominant point guard whose performance suffers when he is the third mouth in a big-three offense.

That trade, of course, does not include the Suns’ three remaining first-round picks (2025, 2027, and 2029) in exchange for Durant. Their roster is so thin that no present asset could be traded for significant talent on its own. The Suns have already lost talent such as Mikal Bridges and rotation players such as Cam Johnson and Jae Crowder as a result of the deal to acquire Durant. The Beal trade left a team depleted of assets with no way out but down.

When Durant asked to leave the disintegrating Brooklyn Nets, the fit with the Suns felt strange. Yes, Durant and Booker were a promising tandem, but Chris Paul was an old point guard, DeAndre Ayton was a dubious center talent, and the rest of the squad was mediocre. Beal is an even worse aging point guard, Nurkic is an even more doubtful center, and the roster is considerably smaller less than a year later. Meanwhile, the Western Conference has improved much further.

Durant switched from one failed endeavor to another. If the rest of the Suns can’t put it together, he’ll be begging to go once more.