Suns look to avoid repeat performance at Portland



The Phoenix Suns sustained a poor beating the first time they visited Rose city this period.


The short-handed Suns try to find a better lead to Tuesday's return involvement when they face the battling Route Sports jackets.


Portland put together among its best shots of the period with a 134-105 house sway Phoenix metro on Oct. 23. The Route Sports jackets developed a 20-point halftime advantage and ended up 21 of 50 from 3-point range in the excellent effort.

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Phoenix retaliated the whipping with a 119-109 residence gain Portland on Nov. 10. The Suns get here back in the Pacific Northwest each time in which the Trail Blazers are having problem with five straight setbacks as well as eight beats in their past nine games.

Phoenix metro isn't really feeling so terrific either after losing 111-95 to the host Los Angeles clippers on Monday night. The Suns fired 37.5 percent from the field, including a shaky 7 of 29 from 3-point range while again playing without sharpshooter Devin Booker (hindering) as well as big male Deandre Ayton (non-COVID illness).

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Booker will certainly miss his 6th consecutive game on Tuesday, while Ayton is anticipated to remain for the third straight trip.

Cameron Johnson led the Suns with 17 points against the Clippers, as well as Mikal Bridges scored 16. Chris Paul fired just 4 of 14 while publishing nine factors and also 8 aids.

" We competed. Guys played hard. We had 10 people this evening," Paul stated postgame. "Them individuals, we combated. Didn't make shots, but we contended which's all you can request."

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Suns coach Monty Williams suched as the strength of his club on a night in which not a great deal of points went right.

"We still had an opportunity, which's what I was encouraged by, the battle of our men," Williams claimed. "Having a lot of individuals out, it type of overtaken us. We battled, we simply couldn't make a shot for segments of the video game."

Meanwhile, Rose city star Damian Lillard (abdominal areas) returned from a five-game lack on Sunday, but his visibility could not prevent a 116-111 loss to the seeing Minnesota Timberwolves.

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Lillard had 24 points as well as a season-best 11 rebounds but hit simply 5 of 17 from the field as the Route Sports jackets' woes proceeded.

" My point to the individuals was like, 'I've been right here prior to, we have actually been here prior to. It's not excellent,'" Lillard stated. "You don't intend to maintain informing yourselves in the locker area, 'All right, we've got to keep pressing, it's going to obtain better.'

" You recognize, it's a circumstance that we have to make far better. We have to do points much better. Which begins with me."

The loss to Minnesota was the club's fourth straight home loss after a 10-1 beginning at the Moda Facility. 2 of the problems were hideous-- 114-83 to the San Antonio Spurs on Dec. 2 and 145-117 to the Boston Celtics on Dec. 4.


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First-year train Chauncey Billups said he was awkward regarding Sunday's video game from the start.

" I simply seemed like we were type of impatient all night," Billups stated. "I was wishing they would relax as the 
games took place, yet ... we didn't actually cool down."

Portland's Anfernee Simons established period highs of 26 points and also six 3-pointers.

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Trail Sports jackets firing guard CJ McCollum (collapsed lung) will certainly miss his fourth straight game. Large man Cody Zeller (fractured knee) will certainly sit out for the third consecutive contest.

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The Suns have won 6 of their previous eight meetings with the Trail Blazers.



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