Who else cracked a smile when they saw Mike D’Antoni’s New York Knicks put up a 120 spot in their season opening-win, the most in a coaching debut since 1994?
D’Antoni’s “Seven Seconds or Less” style may no longer be played at an arena near you, but that doesn’t mean Suns fans can’t still love it.
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Thanks to a ridiculously long Houston-Dallas game to starts TNT’s doubleheader, the Suns trailed 9-0 before I could even start watching (and in less than two minutes at that), and it never felt like the Suns were in their eventual 108-95 loss to the Hornets.
Somehow they managed to cut the lead to three with about [...]

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Hornets 108, Suns 95 

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I used the word “revenge” in the headline of my Spurs postgame post, and Thursday night’s home opener against the Hornets would certainly fall into that category as well.
New Orleans swept four games from the Suns last year, and if Phoenix had won just one of those contests (like the 132-130 double [...]

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Check out this cool graph from a University of Columbia blog of the Suns wing players’ shot distribution from last season:Anybody who follows the Suns could tell you Grant Hill favors the midrange jumper and corner 3s, Raja Bell takes mainly 3s and long 2s and Leandro Barbosa shoots a number of 3-pointers but also [...]

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Was anybody else thinking déjà vu when Duncan spotted up for that open game-tying 3 with seven seconds left?
But unlike in Game 1 of last year’s playoffs series when Duncan’s miraculous 3-pointer led to a come-from-behind San Antonio victory the Suns never recovered from, this time his shot just rimmed out, just like Tony Parker’s [...]

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Suns 103, Spurs 98 
 

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