Phoenix Suns 107, Utah Jazz 105
As much talk as the Phoenix Suns have spouted about making the playoffs, their words have done little to chisel themselves out of the 10th spot in the Western Conference rankings.
That’s not to say they haven’t improved and worked their way into position to do just that. Their intentions have [...]

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PHOENIX — Alvin Gentry warned that his Phoenix Suns better be wary of the Utah Jazz and their insistence of feeding their big men in the post. He also warned of the Jazz bench catching fire.
Neither of those things are easily done, and despite Phoenix’s effort, Utah had success in both of those areas.
Nothing a [...]

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Phoenix Suns 120, Utah Jazz 111
Surprise, surprise.
It’s just another team caught in the muck surrounding the bottom seeds in the Western Conference playoff race.
With the loss on Monday to the Minnesota Timberwolves, the Phoenix Suns find themselves three games back of the eighth playoff seed. In front of them are the Timberwolves, Portland Trail Blazers [...]

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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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