The Phoenix Suns are starting to turn the corner. For a long time, Devin Booker was their only bright spot but now they've acquired Chris Paul to hopefully lead their young group to the playoffs. The Chris Paul trade was a calculated risk but many of the Suns' other recent moves have been questionable if not just plain bad.

One of those questionable moves was the Suns' selection with the 10th overall pick in the draft, Jalen Smith. Many draft experts had Smith ranked in the low 20s on their boards and some even had him as a second-round talent.

On the daily Locked On Suns Podcast, host Brendon Kleen tries to make sense of the Jalen Smith pick for the Suns but wonders how long they can keep whiffing on transactions and losing value.

Brendon Kleen: To me, the crazy part of the Jalen Smith pick is that the Suns can only whiff on the value picks and trades for so long. I think a lot of people gave [Suns GM] James Jones a pass on certain moves, especially once it started to play out and that worked on the floor that this team was actually pretty good and improved. He could trade De'Anthony Melton in the Josh Jackson deal and swallow salary that he didn't need to, he can give up T.J. Warren for pennies on the dollar, and do that No. 11 and Dario Saric trade that ended up working out fine, but we know it wasn't good value. He can do all that stuff when the goal is to turn things over and make a culture change and make a team that's going to get better. He can't really do that when the goal is building a good playoff team. The whiffs in that regard are going to start to stack up in a big way and I think this was the first one.