PHOENIX — The Phoenix Suns are committed to running.
Steve Nash may be in Los Angeles, but the mantra for Alvin Gentry’s crew hasn’t changed a bit. Run, shoot, play a little defense and do it again.
“It’s a pretty simple system really,” Gentry said on Media Day. “There’s not anything complicated about it. The thing about [...]

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PHOENIX — Two years ago the Portland Trail Blazers needed to impose their style of basketball to have any chance in a playoff series against the Phoenix Suns.
On Friday night the Blazers did just that — yet the quicker pace only served to ignite a 102-77 blowout victory for the Suns.
“We had a better rhythm,” [...]

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PHOENIX — All the talk of rock bottom and blowing this thing up is missing one key fact. After Friday’s 115-111 victory over Portland, the Suns trail the Blazers by a mere one game in the loss column and two games overall for the eighth and final playoff spot in the Western Conference.
Despite winning consecutive [...]

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PHOENIX — With one of the NBA’s best pick-and-roll duos now extinct and an abundance of small forwards on the roster, it’s hard to tell what type of team the 2010-11 Phoenix Suns team is.
Steve Nash even said it himself on media day: “We have to go out and find out who we are and [...]

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PHOENIX — Alvin Gentry said before Game 5 that there are no more surprises. The Suns and Blazers essentially are who they are and both teams have a fair understanding of what it will take to shut the other team down.
“We’ve shown them everything, they’ve shown us everything,” he said. “It’s just a matter of [...]

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Suns 107, Trail Blazers 88

PHOENIX — The series between the Phoenix Suns and Portland Trail Blazers is tied 2-2, but the team that exerts control of the tempo is a perfect 4-0.
Not surprisingly, much of the talk at practice on Sunday as the Suns enter an all-important Game 5 was about pace.
Now you can [...]

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