Seeing was believing for Mikal Bridges.



He didn’t feel his shooting mechanics change. But once he sat down with Phoenix assistant coaches Larry Greer and Darko Rajakovic to look at video of his jump shot during his career at Villanova and compare it to his release earlier this season, the Suns forward could sure see a change. The video didn’t lie. He had developed a hitch.



So he went to work with Greer, Rajakovic and player development coach Riccardo Fois to fix it.



“Sometimes you don’t think about it because you’re just shooting, especially if you’re making it,” he said. “You’re not thinking too much. But once you see it on video, then you’re kind of like, ‘Oh dang, now I’ve got to really work on it,’ just to make sure it’s more fluid.”



He figures the film sessions began a month or a month and a half ago. Since then, he’s been putting in extra time...