PHOENIX — Last season the Phoenix Suns won 54 regular season games and head coach Alvin Gentry estimated superb bench play was directly related to winning 20 of them.
But at the moment Gentry does not appear to have the same kind of confidence in his reserves as he has gone with a quick hook this [...]

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PHOENIX — For a quarter Wednesday night the Suns looked like the Phoenix Suns of old, running off makes, running off misses, knocking down open threes and overall demoralizing a tired opponent that played the night before while running up a 23-point lead.
But Derrick Rose and the Bulls steadily chipped away at the deficit and [...]

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All of the dollar signs, egos and overall skills validate Hedo Turkoglu starting for the Phoenix Suns.
The 6-foot-10 multi-skilled forward will make more this season than every Suns player not named Steve Nash or Jason Richardson — $10,215,850 million.
Turkoglu also started 301 of his last 305 games, and didn’t exactly do an admirable job handling [...]

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PHOENIX — Steve Nash, Amare Stoudemire and Jason Richardson certainly had something to do with it as well, but one of the biggest reasons the Suns rolled to the Western Conference Finals last season was because of their game-changing bench.
Time and time again the bench would overwhelm an opponent to either get the Suns back [...]

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By now you’ve seen Valley of the Suns founder Michael Schwartz’s choices for an all-time Suns starting five, and in particular players from the 1990s-today. Receiving far less publicity, however, are the last men on the bench. These players have been equally important to providing long-tortured Suns fans with emotional highs and lows over [...]

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Editor’s Note: This is ValleyoftheSuns’ contribution to the fifth annual “NBA Blog Previews” put on by CelticsBlog.
Team Name: Phoenix Suns
Last Year’s Record: 54-28
Key Losses: Amare Stoudemire, Leandro Barbosa, Louis Amundson
Key Additions: Hedo Turkoglu, Josh Childress, Hakim Warrick, Gani Lawal
1. What significant moves were made during the offseason?
It may have been the Summer [...]

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