PHOENIX — The adage goes that if it isn’t broke, don’t fix it.
But for Alvin Gentry and the Phoenix Suns, the complete opposite may be true these days.
Stuck in the middle of a seven-game losing streak — the franchise’s longest since February 2004 — Gentry has proven that he is willing to do whatever it [...]

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PHOENIX — Alvin Gentry has reams of lineup data covering his desk, so he’s surely aware that the Suns’ old starting lineup was being outscored by about 40 points per 100 possessions over the course of the last six games.
The Suns’ coaching staff has met for a few hours a day the last several days [...]

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PHOENIX — The Phoenix Suns would be a pretty good team if they could convince themselves they trailed by double digits before the opening tip.
Instead despite a valiant effort in digging themselves out of an 18-point second-half deficit, their eighth double-digit deficit in nine games, the Suns ran out of gas in overtime of their [...]

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The Phoenix Suns’ offense during the Steve Nash era was very simple.
Step #1 – Inbound the ball to Steve.
Step #2 – Have a tall yet nimble man set a screen on Steve’s defender.
Step #3 – Watch Steve work his magic.
Step #4 – Run back on defense after the ball goes in the hoop.
Now that Nash [...]

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PHOENIX – It was widely speculated in the national media that the Phoenix Suns would make the kind of play for James Harden next offseason that they did for Eric Gordon this past summer when they extended a max offer sheet that New Orleans matched.
Now that Oklahoma City has dealt Harden to Houston for Kevin Martin [...]

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Preseason is about the small victories.
Especially for a team like the Suns with so many new faces to integrate, it had to be encouraging that three crucial starters — Goran Dragic, Jared Dudley and Luis Scola — played so well together in the Suns’ 100-94 victory over the Dirk-less Mavs on Wednesday night in Big [...]

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