Suns run in OT, force Game 7Series shifts back to Phoenix for Game 7 Saturday
Paul Coro
The Arizona Republic
LOS ANGELES - The Suns' locker room was euphoric through the exhaustion as they relived Tim Thomas' three-pointer that put Game 6 in overtime and the deluge of seven straight made Suns shots in overtime that gave the Suns a 126-118 victory over the Lakers.
Then, Steve Nash walked it and told everybody, "Guys, calm down. We're only up 4-2 and we've got another game to go," referencing how they felt Game 4 was stolen from them to set up the scenario of needing to win three straight games.
Now, the Lakers will find out what it is like to play a game under the diress of win or go home. With the series tied at 3, the Suns are a Saturday home win away from what seemed darn near impossible quest at the start of week - become the eighth team in NBA history to win a series after being down 3-1.
Phoenix now has a date with destiny: Game 7, 5:30 p.m., US Airways Center. And Raja Bell, suspended for Thursday's game and watching at a L.A. restaurant full of Lakers fans, can come along this time because Shawn Marion got a piece of Kobe Bryant's game-winning try at the end of regulation.
"It was amazing," Bell said. "It was kind of surreal. I don't have kids so this is the proudest I've ever been. I'm struggling for words. That was bigtime. I'm more emotionally drained than if I had played the game."
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Photo: Mark J. Terrill/Associated Press
1 comment:
Hee hee. I didn't know that locker rooms had emotions! This is quite intriguing. Eg., if your locker room is really grumpy, can you soothe it with empathy and reminders of how it has gotten through this emotional disomfort in the past? Do locker rooms have emotional break-downs? Is there a specialty field for coaching your locker room into being a more winning environment? Maybe it could be a new type of feng shui. Perhaps a particularly self-destructive locker room would benefit from learning some distress tolerance?
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