The Phoenix Suns shot better than 50 percent, stayed close on the boards and received a superstar offensive performance from Steve Nash yet the Chicago Bulls still found a way to wallop them even with their All-Star point guard in street clothes.
The Suns managed to score 30 more points than the Bulls were allowing on [...]

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Chicago Bulls 118, Phoenix Suns 97
The Phoenix Suns, losers of their last four contests after pulling to .500 on the season, will have their star point guard tonight against the Chicago Bulls. Whether or not Steve Nash will be matched up against the reigning MVP, Derrick Rose, is still up in the air.
Rose will miss [...]

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Observations

Paxson drilled a jumper to beat the first quarter buzzer as well.
The Suns did not score in the final 2:23 and they had so, so, sooooo many chances to do so. Barkley missed a shot at the rim, a very long Majerle three nearly rolled in (but why was he shooting so far out in the [...]

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“The big thing for us is we just haven’t been able to finish games. All of these games we’ve been able to be right there. The whole inconsistency has been our Achilles’ heel. We’ve competed like crazy, but we have very little to show for it from a tangible standpoint.”
Suns head coach Alvin Gentry made [...]

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Chicago Bulls 97, Phoenix Suns 94
In the aftermath of the Suns’ 123-115 double overtime collapse against the Bulls all the way back on Nov. 24, head coach Alvin Gentry remarked that at the end of the season we will look back and see no shame in losing to Chicago since many other teams will lose [...]

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PHOENIX — In this video blog, Michael Schwartz from ValleyoftheSuns and KTAR’s Adam Green pore over the finer points of the Suns’ 123-115 double overtime loss to the Chicago Bulls before discussing where the team will go from here.

And as a bonus here’s Hakim Warrick on the game:

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