Game 3 Lakers at Suns

[Proteus]

Suns down 109-98 with 1:35 left in the 4th quarter.

 

[AfroSuns]

I still like the effort from the Suns on second night of a back-2-back

 

[AfroSuns]

Is there a rule book to give champions easy schedule or wtf is with this Lakers preferential treatment, yeah it will get harder but having such an easy schedule to start the season surely helps with integrating new players

 

[Proteus]

Suns lose 114-106. Nice try from the Suns. Frustrating that we had our chances.

Overall, a good/interesting game to watch.

 

[Proteus]

So when was the last time we won our home opener?

 

[TBaslim]

Suns lose 114-106. Nice try from the Suns. Frustrating that we had our chances.

Overall, a good/interesting game to watch.

Agreed. Fun game to watch. Never really thought the Suns would pull it out, but good to see them play hard.

Going to be awhile before they find the groove for all 10 guys.

Be interesting to see a rematch in late Feb between these two teams. Most likely, both are better with the Lakers even moreso. But you never know. The Suns have nice pieces. It's all how it comes together.

 

[Bufalay]

Is there a rule book to give champions easy schedule or wtf is with this Lakers preferential treatment, yeah it will get harder but having such an easy schedule to start the season surely helps with integrating new players

Lakers get an easy schedule to start every season. Maybe it has something to do with sharing an arena.

 

[Chaplin]

Hedo's stat line wasn't bad:

9 pts
4-7 fg
6 rb
3 ast
1 stl
2 blocks

The problem is it took him 31 minutes to put them up. I'm wondering why he is passing up shots so much--we've seen it in all 3 games so far.

 

[Griffin]

The Suns played pretty well considering they played in Utah last night. The game was close throughout, but the Suns started missing some shots late and allowed the Lakers' reserves to hit some long and timely jumpers.

Hard to win those second games of back-to-backs.

Over the last 8 regular season meetings with the Lakers:

Suns record against Lakers when Suns had at least 1 day rest: 2-2
Suns record against Lakers when Suns had no rest: 0-4
Suns record against Lakers when Suns had rest but Lakers didn't: never happened

The only time the lakers played the Suns on a second night of a back-to-back was back in 2008 when the Suns were also in that situation.

Of course now we have a four-day rest which is too long and just shows how unbalanced our schedule is.

 

[Hayduke]

Lakers have the least back to back games in the league this season. For being the "best" team in the league this seems strange.

 

[Bert]

So when was the last time we won our home opener?

http://www.basketball-reference.com/boxscores/200910300PHO.html

Last year against Golden State.

 

[Proteus]

http://www.basketball-reference.com/boxscores/200910300PHO.html

Last year against Golden State.

Oh.

Whoops...I thought it was like years ago.

 

[Bert]

Oh.

Whoops...I thought it was like years ago.

It always seems that way to me too. I'm sure we've lost more than we've won recently but I dont care enough to google that far back. lol

 

[Chaplin]

Lakers have the least back to back games in the league this season. For being the "best" team in the league this seems strange.

Why does that seem strange? The scheduling office of the NBA are no fools--they plan it that way.