Game Day Open Thread: Phoenix Suns at Dallas Mavericks

I appear to be wrong about Dallas from my earlier Diary. After another 10 games we'll see how wrong, but, I'm very excited that they have been playing well. The Mavs have won 5 of their last 6,

Beating Utah 125 to 117
Beating Orlando 111 to 108
Beating Houston 96 to 83.

This makes our matchup mean all the more, no major player injuries (at least injuries forcing dnp)

Very exciting!!

GO SUNS!!

marion and amare already each have one foul

dirk blows layup

dirk hits 2 in a row

both teams very up for this

hill with awesome dunk, cool seeing his dad smile in stands

and a 2 second basket again, dallas miss, 2 seconds later marion layup, suns can run full speed with mavs, that really plays into our game. Some nerves at start, otherwise we'd be doing better, but still
suns 12-14

Such a fun game at this pace

just saw I am Legend recently, pretty good, but if the script was better, or if they used real people for zombies instead of something that didn't even look real, it would've been better, Will Smith was his normal cool self

mavs another offensive board and score

nash with sweet layup

harris back 3 seconds later with layup

bad call, waiting on replay....suns still have it

25 - 16 dallas wining

quick sweet drive and 2 by barbosa 25-18

2 fouls for amare

are you listening to this amare

37 - 20

strategy, i really thought at 12-14 suns were doing fine and had missed a few shots but were still right there, then the bottom fell out a little.

last by skinner!!

have 3 already, nice too see

47 - 33

the hill misses a three

dampier....you've just swung the karma back to the suns

thank you...

bs

that should be a break away foul, it was!!

poor call again

then marion with dunk 3 seconds later :-)

but we can't convert

then offense foul on dallas

wait over rule, b.s.

dallas announcers noticing he isn't doing what he was doing against them last yr

amare knocks both ff down,

playing their style, beautiful

55 - 47

10 - 2 run for suns

mavs hit a 3
nash answers back with a 3!!!!!!!

real simple, great ball movement by suns

great defense by suns

2 seconds left at half, mavs by 6, suns ball!!!

down by 4

should be a fun second half

64 - 61 mavs

then nash to marion for the dunk!!!

64 to 63 mavs

oh yeah!!!!!!!!

i agree with d'antoni, it was goal tending by dampier, easy blown call

doesn't look so clear, i think bass folded

and amare dunks it and the message is

we're coming

78 - 72

nice to see us being physical

suns score off quick break, and again offensive board and this time mavs do convert mavs up by 5

just horrible.....lazy....

suns are throwing this one away, sad after coming back to within 1

down by 11...

There been a lot of poor calls this game, but suns lack of rebounding (allowing so many offensive boards), plus lazy passes has killed us tonight.

and marion with score

down by 10

mavs out hustling us...real simple.... i love the suns...but the mavs have earned this win...

lead by 12

maybe we sneak in a crazy comeback, but we sure don't deserve it tonight...

frustrating, I wish we played the mavs 7-8 times so maybe we could learn more about our weaknesses.

amare for a big dunk and foul

mavs are crying for travel...I'd have to watch replay..unsure on travel...these players.. hard to tell

wow

amare is awake..a block, then a steal...then nash drives and is at the line...

we're within 6 with 3:52 left

to little too late... maybe....

terry makes first down by 7
terry makes both

chance to get within 4

2:50 left

This isn't over...

amare scores
down by 5
1:44 left

then nash with a big shot

suns need a stop or ..

bell is hurt

Nice game except for that nasty first quarter.  Mavs' 2nd quarter was almost as bad and we'll get them next time.  Dallas doesn't put any fear in the Suns and Phx's 4-3 record in the last 7 games in Dallas is proof.