Saturday night not only marked the Suns’ seventh victory in seven games, but also flaunted a franchise record twenty of twenty free-throw effort by Amare Stoudemire. 

Though there were periods of laxity, the Suns perfectly executed tonight’s game plan - give the ball to Amare.  The Rockets had no answer for the athleticism and quickness of STAT.  They did their best to collapse - forcing Amare to kick the ball out, however this became problematic when Shaq decided to have on of his more dominant offensive games of the year - scoring twenty-three points while shooting a whopping 78% from the stripe. 

You could definitel see the Rockets were struggling to keep up with the Suns.  T-Mac picked up some of the slack early - but over time the Suns’ defensive tenacity wore him down to just eleven of thirty-one shooting.  If you read my blog early - you can see that keeping T-Mac contained is one of our key’s to success.  The Suns definitely did that, as well as keeping role players like Alston and Head from reaching the basket easily.

Late in the 4th the Rockets went on a minor run cutting the Suns’ once mammoth lead to eight.  Then Steve Nash decided to show everyone why he was voted the MVP, twice.  He lit up the rockets, draining a long three and dissecting the offense with ease.  When all was said and done, the Suns came out victorious.

The main thing the Suns need to work on are turnovers.  Come play off time, when every possession matters, this facet of our game may come back to haunt us. 

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