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Houston down 71-66 now, and Stoudemire just got his 5th foul.
Marion is red hot...just score again.
Phoenix is up 7 with 10 mins left.
Rockets are shooting 35%.
Houston down 71-66 now, and Stoudemire just got his 5th foul.
Marion is red hot...just score again.
Scott Padgett for threeeee!!!!
71-69
Jim Jackson for 3
down 5 again.
Spurs need a Rockets win for any hope in getting the #1 seed.
Agreed, Phoenix has only 2 more road games after tonight.
I've been watching this prett close c'mon Rockets
WTF are you talking about?
76-71
Mike James missed back to back shots
Damn, Houston had 3 on 1 break and threw it out of bounds
Houston can not hit any shots tonight.
Down 10 now
Like the Spurs @ Nuggets, shooting way under 40% ain't gonna get it done against somebody shooting 45%.
Rockets are shooting 35%.....horrible.
Houston can only outplay the Suns in there style of game, but theres not enough time to close out the lead with that style.
This ones probably over
Game over
Suns get #1 seed.
good for them.
Spurs can beat the Suns IN Phoenix.
TPark, this is Phoenix' 30th, countem 30th win on the road this year.
This team does not have to have HCA to win, unlike SA, who have been pretty average on the raod all year.
Imagine trying to beat Phoenix when they have HCA. They can win so easily on the road that you would have to beat them in Phoenix and then protect your home court against the best road team in the NBA.
This is quite disconcerting.
Yeah, Suns will be a scary team come playoff time and there offense is simply unstopple.
But remember the spurs are pretty good at home (35-3).
I think Dallas has a great chance to beat Phoenix in rd 2 anyway, thus making HCA with Phoenix a moot subject.
Suns offense is definiely more relentless and reliable than the Spurs' defense, home or away.
If Tim's injury means we lose HCA to Suns, it could be fatal. We'd have to split the first two @PHX, and then come back and take both @SBC to get in control of the series. Going back to PHX for the 5th game tied at 2-2 would be very scary.
The road weakness of the Spurs would make it very difficult to close out a Suns series in PHX.
Whose to say Spurs don't go in there and beat Suns first two games? Playoffs are another story and Spurs defense will be on the whole games if it get to that series.
I am betting that Suns go down first or second round anyway.
They won't lose against Dallas...interesting matchup though with Nowitzki vs Nash
This was a slow down physical, playoff type game and the Suns were able to pull it out despite a 10 point 2nd quarter. Marion was huge with 18 boards and some timely 3rd qtr baskets. Jim Jackson had a big 4th qtr and kept the Suns afloat for a while. Amare had an off night offensively but is really improving his defense and passing.
Suns won the rebounding and bench scoring stats along with a 20-6 advantage in fastbreak points.
It sure helped that McGrady looked less than 100% healthy and shot 6-21 and 0-5 for 3.
I believe he's talking about the cheerleader.
"Whose to say Spurs don't go in there and beat Suns first two games?"
Anybody can say anything about the future, but looking at the past, the Spurs' mediocre road record, esp against playoff teams, isn't encouraging (Spurs were weak last season on the road after 1 Jan, then get blown out 0 - 3 on the road in Lakers playoffs).
Predicting the Spurs will all of a sudden become a tougher road team in the playoffs is as valid as saying the Suns become a tougher home team in the playoffs.
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