PHOENIX — You might not know it by his results, but Channing Frye does not believe in the hot hand theory.
Whether he’s shooting 1-for-7 and 2-for-11 as he has in the past few weeks or 12-for-16 as he did in Tuesday’s 102-101 win over the Utah Jazz, Frye always tries to shoot the same shots [...]

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Phoenix Suns 102, Utah Jazz 101
PHOENIX — A .500 basketball team by definition is inconsistent enough to both win and lose half its games.
That has been the Phoenix Suns’ season in a nutshell, as a squad that has been good enough to beat the Lakers, Hawks, Jazz (twice) and Knicks on the road and Celtics, [...]

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The Phoenix Suns played a terrible first half and shot just 40 percent from the field and half as well on threes on the second game of a back-to-back against an emotional Utah team playing without Jerry Sloan as their head coach for the first time since the late ’80s.
That certainly would have been the [...]

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Phoenix Suns 95, Utah Jazz 83
PHOENIX — The Phoenix Suns will do something Friday night that thay haven’t done in 23 seasons: They’ll take on the Utah Jazz without Jerry Sloan coaching.
Sloan resigned Thursday amid reports that he and Jazz point guard Deron Williams had  clashed at halftime of the team’s Wednesday loss to the [...]

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Phoenix had every opportunity to blow another big lead Thursday.
Anybody who has watched the Suns for the past few years might have gotten that same eerily familiar uneasy feeling in their stomachs.
Up 18 midway through the third quarter and seemingly cruising to an easy victory, Phoenix allowed Utah to run off 11 straight points to close the gap [...]

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Suns 110, Jazz 94
The Phoenix Suns and Utah Jazz enter tonight’s TNT matchup in a very similar situation.
Both are coming off a loss at the hands of a Western Conference foe, as the Suns ran out of gas against Portland Tuesday night and the Jazz were dominated 110-88 in Denver Wednesday night.
But the parallels don’t [...]

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