Up by 15 going into the fourth against a poor team on the first leg of a 4 game roadie and the second team …. holds the opponent to 9 points in the fourth quarter. Who cares if they don’t score 30!

This is the recipe for padding your record on these long trips against sub-standard teams.

I love seeing just nine points in the fourth quarter.

I don’t love not getting to see the game. Or the election coverage.

Ah well.

Why iis this a historic victory? The Suns have beaten the Nets dozens of times.

Basketbawful had a funny run-down on Marv Alpert making fun of Mike Fratello as he got loose on the telestrator while they were looking ahead at the Nets’ schedule during last nights game. Of more interest was later it the telecast as the Czar dropped an “underrated” tag on the Suns—he ran through the roster, and combined with some observations of how well the Suns were playing, suggested that the demise of the Suns as trumpeted by the national media was not necessarily so.

Now, the Nets are probably headed for the worst record in the East, but part of being a good team is crushing the cupcakes when they show up, and I really like what I saw in the boxscore today—starter’s minutes in the mid-20s, and getting a nice rest on the front end of a back to back.