Suns played a close-to-perfect game on Sunday against the Lakers. They responded to the Lakers energy and intensity that surprised them in game 3. Nash attacked from the opening tip and you could see he wanted to out-hustle and out-work the Lakers. Once Nash went to the top gear, Amare followed him right there and the Lakers have no answer to either of these guys, let alone both of them playing at such a high level. Marion was no slouch either as he was running all over the place for open layups and dunks. He had a 22-11 game to go with Nash's 17-1-23 and Amare's 27-21. Bobo had 16 and Diaw made a few good plays in this one as well. The Suns controlled this game form beginning to the end and slowly extended the lead every quarter. If Nash has 20+ assists and Amare 20+ boards, this team is unstoppable. In fact, Magic commented during his in-game interview that the Suns can win it all if Amare plays like this. I am glad to agree with the Irv.
For the Lakers, they now have an uphill task trying to win on the road just to stay alive in this series. They played their game in this one and still lost. Kobe was hounded by the Suns D as they brought the defensive energy in game 4. They made sure Kobe didn't kill them and somehow managed to rotate to the open guys as well when Kobe was forced to kick it out. It was all effort for the Suns. Lamar had 19-13, but Kwame didn't go crazy like he did in game 3. That was the difference. That and Nash and Amare.
Teams 1 2 3 4
Phoenix 33 25 27 28 113
Los Angeles 28 23 20 29 100
Phoenix
SHOOTING REB
name fg ft 3pt o-t ast to stl blk pf pts
James Jones 4-5 0-0 3-4 0-3 0 0 0 0 0 11
Shawn Marion 10-15 2-6 0-3 5-11 1 2 2 0 3 22
Amare Stoudemire 10-20 7-10 0-0 4-21 0 5 2 1 4 27
Raja Bell 2-6 2-2 1-3 0-4 5 0 3 0 5 7
Steve Nash 6-15 4-4 1-2 1-1 23 3 2 1 3 17
Boris Diaw 4-10 1-1 0-2 0-1 3 0 1 1 2 9
Leandro Barbosa 3-12 8-8 2-9 1-3 2 2 2 0 2 16
Kurt Thomas 2-3 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 2 0 1 1 4
Jalen Rose - - - -
Pat Burke - - - -
Jumaine Jones - - - -
Marcus Banks - - - -
Eric Piatkowski - - - -
Sean Marks - - - -
TOTALS 41-86 24-31 7-23 11-44 34 14 12 4 20 113
FG %:.477; FT %:.774; 3PT %:.304
Points of TO:23
Team rebounds:8
Technical fouls:
Illegal defence:0
Los Angeles
SHOOTING REB
name fg ft 3pt o-t ast to stl blk pf pts
Luke Walton 4-11 0-0 2-5 1-2 2 7 2 0 2 10
Lamar Odom 8-19 2-6 1-5 2-13 5 2 0 1 3 19
Kwame Brown 4-6 1-1 0-0 3-4 0 2 0 1 5 9
Kobe Bryant 12-25 6-6 1-5 0-7 9 6 2 1 2 31
Jordan Farmar 0-3 0-0 0-1 0-3 1 1 0 0 2 0
Maurice Evans 4-8 0-0 3-4 0-2 2 0 1 0 2 11
Andrew Bynum 0-1 0-0 0-0 0-3 0 0 0 2 2 0
Smush Parker 2-5 4-4 1-3 2-2 0 1 0 0 2 9
Brian Cook 1-3 0-0 0-1 1-1 0 0 0 0 2 2
Shammond Williams 3-6 0-0 1-3 1-1 2 0 0 0 1 7
Ronny Turiaf 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-1 0 1 0 1 2 0
Sasha Vujacic 1-1 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0 1 0 0 2
Aaron McKie - - - -
Chris Mihm - - - -
Vladimir Radmanovic - - - -
TOTALS 39-88 13-17 9-27 10-39 21 20 6 6 25 100
FG %:.443; FT %:.765; 3PT %:.333
Points of TO:16
Team rebounds:14
Technical fouls:
Illegal defence:0
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