Suns won easily on the road at Cleveland today. The game was close for a while, but it seemed like the outcome was never in doubt. They are so good right now and Nash is just getting them whatever they want on offense, it does feel like they can blow the opponent away any minute now. They are still streaky and go on wild runs, but the cold streaks on becoming rarer and rarer. Nash is just too good. He had 23 and 15 assists and Lebron says they look unbeatable. Lebron had a 30-9-5 game, but thats not enough to beat the Suns offense these days. Lets see how long it goes. Everybody is now looking ahead and are talking about when they would lose another game again. They wrap up the road trip tomorrow at Minnesota, but after that they have 3 big games. Spurs and Jazz at home and then they travel to Denver. I think they win against the T-Wolves, but lose at least one of those next 3.
Spurs and the Lakers played a classic game today. It almost put me in the playoff mode. The Spurs were struggling all game long and were playing catchup, but they closed the gap in the final minutes and pushed the game to overtime. Then they won on Finley's game winning 3 in response to a Kobe jumper which would have been the game-winner if Finn had missed. This was a big win for the Spurs. They have been struggling a bit this season and they had problems in this game too. Lakers were aggressively doubling Timmy and Ginobli and Parker couldn't hit the side of the back-board for 3 quarters. Timmy had a great game, but it got to a point where nobody except Finley would even take the open jump shot out of Duncan's double-teams and Finley wasn't shooting a good percentage either! They were down by 10 with a few mins to go and they came back and tied it up. It reminded me of the playoff games during the Shaq-Kobe era where the Spurs would always lead by 10 only to lose at the end. The roles were reversed now. The Spurs still play great defense and thats what helped them in this one. As good as Kobe was, as difficult as it was for Bowen to defend him, I think the Spurs D still showed up big time at crucial moments. In regulation, Kobe shook off Bowen with a fake and thought he had a wide open jumper, but Ginobli blind-sided him and blocked the shot clean. That was great work by Ginobli, who also got hot on offense in the 4-th quarter during a key stretch. All in all, the Spurs impressed me. They are still a dangerous contender and this was a good win for them. Apparently they always get hot on this "rodeo road trip" when there's a Rodeo on their home court in San Antonio.
Indiana lost to Detroit today. Not a great game for Indiana. Chris Weber had 17-13 and he seems to be helping them a lot. I am mildly surprised.
Phoenix @ Cleveland - 115-110
San Antonio @ LA Lakers - 96-94
Indiana @ Detroit - 87-95
Interesting games on the board for Jan 29-th (Monday)
Phoenix @ Minnesota - Going for 18 straight!
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