It’s going to be a long 20 games.
The Phoenix Suns lost a shootout to the Sacramento Kings 121-112 at the Sleep Train Arena on Friday. The Suns fell in this game because of a complete lack of defense and some understandable but frustrating offensive confusion. If this is how the final fourth of the season [...]

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PHOENIX – A three-game winning streak went to the Phoenix Suns players’ heads. And as Phoenix fell at home, 98-71, in a blowout loss on Wednesday night to the Toronto Raptors, coach Lindsey Hunter’s biggest worry before the game – a five-day break doing more bad than good – became very real.
“We won three close [...]

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PHOENIX – Often victims of one-dimensional offense and a lack of accountability on defense, the Phoenix Suns suddenly have found both. At a more microscopic level, the emergence of Wesley Johnson and Marcus Morris has led to the Suns’ three-game winning streak.
Phoenix dropped the hot – in more ways than one – Atlanta Hawks 92-87 [...]

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When league experts pinpointed Jermaine O’Neal as on his way out following the Suns’ trade to acquire Marcus Morris, it made sense. O’Neal, after all, didn’t fit into what rebuilding Phoenix was attempting to do.
Unlike most of the team, O’Neal isn’t young or even in his prime. He’s 34. He is banged up.
There’s something else [...]

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PHOENIX – Interim head coach Lindsey Hunter finished his four-minute postgame press conference and walked off the podium with a slight grin on his face.
“I’ll finally be able to sleep a little easier,” Hunter said. “At least tonight I’ll have some good game film to watch.”
While good might be a slight exaggeration to describe the [...]

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PHOENIX – Lindsey Hunter spent the time after his team’s embarrassing loss to the Boston Celtics running his players through intense practice, and he treated Sunday’ night’s game against the San Antonio Spurs as an in-house scrimmage, running through a 12-man rotation.
A few days after he said the Suns didn’t get respect from the [...]

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