PHOENIX -- The Phoenix Suns might be excused for their defensive lapses.
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record-setting offensive display. The Suns achieved season highs in total
points, points in a half and assists, and tied their single-game best for made
3-pointers in a 129-120 win over the Atlanta Hawks on Sunday night. Their
first-half point total of 79 was the most in the NBA before halftime this season
and two shy of a US Airways Center record for points in a half. The only cloudy
spot for the Suns was that they allowed more than 100 points for the fifth
straight game. This after they sank 15 3-pointers and dished out 29 assists in a
blink-and-you-missed it kind of game where neither team paid any mind to the
shot clock. "Both of our teams are hard to guard in terms of how we play.
Kicking it up and quick shots, and the way that both teams have guards that can
really penetrate," Suns coach Jeff Hornacek said. "That breaks down defences
when teams are good at passing the ball and shooting the ball. Sometimes there
might look like there was zero defence out there, but Im sure the guys were
trying." Gerald Green certainly was trying on offence. He hit 5 of 6 3-pointers
in the first half and finished with 33 points. The previous high for Phoenix in
any half this season was 67 points, but 63 per cent shooting, including 12 of 18
on 3-pointers in the first half, shattered the team mark. "We were making 2s and
some 3s. They were making all 3s," Hawks guard Jeff Teague said. Goran Dragic
added 19 points for the Suns, hearing the chants of "MVP" from the home crowd,
and Marcus Morris had 18 points and nine rebounds off the bench. Twin brother
Markieff added 21 points and eight rebounds. "Its two fast-paced teams going
against each other," Green said. "We knew it was going to be like that, but I
didnt know they were going to be running like that." Phoenix led by as many as
15 points late in the second quarter, even though Atlanta scored 65 first-half
points, including 37 in the first quarter, the highest against the Suns in any
first quarter this season. Teague had 29 points and eight assists for the Hawks,
and Mike Scott added 20 points. "Its nothing we need to be super overly cautious
about," Green said of the Suns defence, "but we do need to take a step back and
kind of look and see what were doing wrong, especially in the first quarter."
The second half saw slightly less scoring from both teams, but the Suns led
90-77 after Greens high-flying dunk over the Hawks Shelvin Mack with 7:21 left
in the third quarter. The Suns lead was at 95-89 after Kyle Korver hit his fifth
3-pointer at the 3:54 mark, and down to 95-91 on a basket by Mack with 3:22 to
play. Mack made it a one-point game with a layup to cap an 8-0 run, but the Suns
scored seven of the last eight points of the third quarter to take a 102-95 lead
into the fourth. Leandro Barbosa, playing his first game since missing the past
five with a sprained toe, scored five key points in the fourth quarter to keep
the Hawks at bay. The Suns never held less than a five-point lead in the
quarter. A transition pass from Dragic to P.J. Tucker for a long jumper made the
score 121-110 with 3:20 left in the game and essentially ended any chance for a
Hawks comeback. "They shot the ball extremely well. They play with great pace,
they put lot of pressure in your defence, make or miss," Hawks coach Mike
Budenholzer said. "Our transition defence wasnt good enough." The Hawks have
lost 11 of their last 12 games. The Suns havent lost two straight games to the
Hawks since the 1991-92 season. It took Korver less than two minutes to continue
his NBA-record streak of at least one made 3-pointer in a game. His long-range
shot at 10:29 of the first quarter gave him 127 straight games with a made
three-ball. Korver made six of seven 3-pointers to finish with 18 points. NOTES:
Newly acquired power forward Shavlik Randolph made his Suns debut Sunday. He
played 10 minutes and scored two points off the bench. ... Hornacek said guard
Eric Bledsoe, who is coming back from knee surgery earlier this season, looked
good in 5-on-5 action in practice recently. Bledsoe hasnt played since Dec. 30.
The Suns want Bledsoes conditioning to return to game level before allowing him
to play, which could keep him out for another two weeks. ... Budenholzer is a
native of Holbrook, Ariz., in northeastern Arizona, and had family and friends
at Sundays game. ... Hawks F Paul Millsap missed his fourth straight game with a
right knee contusion. ... C Mike Muscala, signed late last week, made his Hawks
debut and played 19 minutes. He had four points, five rebounds and two blocked
shots.
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NBA history to tally at least 20 points and seven assists in each of his first
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him with the franchise.NICE, France -- Two-time defending European champion
Spain faces a seemingly comfortable road to defend its title at Euro 2016 after
being drawn Sunday with Luxembourg, Macedonia, Belarus, Slovakia and Ukraine for
the qualifiers. "Its not as easy a group as it might appear to some. We are
facing emerging teams who are young and strong," Spain coach Vicente del Bosque
said of the Group C draw. "The cold conditions could play a role in the group
because many of the trips will be to teams from the east." The Netherlands was
drawn in a tougher-looking Group A and faces the Czech Republic, Turkey,
Kazakhstan, Iceland and Latvia. "The Dutch are the favourites. Together with
them, it will be us, Turkey and Iceland fighting to advance," Czech Republic
goalkeeper Petr Cech said. "We have to cope with it if we want to go to France."
There will be eight groups of six teams and one of five, each playing home and
away. The top two teams from the nine groups qualify, along with the best
third-placed side. The eight remaining third-placed sides will contest play-offs
with four spots at stake. Host France is the 24th team and automatically
qualified. It will play matches in Group I, but no points will be awarded for
their matches. UEFA made the change because host nations can struggle to arrange
suitable friendlies while others focus on qualification. Germany, the runner-up
to Spain at Euro 2008, is in Group D and has potentially awkward matches against
the Republic of Ireland and Poland -- led by Borussia Dortmund striker Robert
Lewandowski -- with Gibraltar, Georgia and Scotland also in the group. "The
matches against Scotland will be great occasions," Republic of Ireland manager
Martin ONeill said. "It looks like a group, Germany apart, where teams might
take points off each other." England will be pleased with what looks like a
winnable Group E featuring Switzerland, San Marino, Lithuania, Estonia and
Slovenia. "Im very satisfied, in particular for the fans. Weve had some quite
tough trips to get to in recent years, but theres some good places to visit,"
England coach Roy Hodgson said. "The name Switzerland always brinngs a smile to
my face because they were four fantastic years (as national team coach).
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playoffs as Group B contains Eden Hazards Belgium and the attacking strength of
Bosnia and Herzegovina. It is completed by Andorra, Cyprus and Israel. "Im
happy, positive," Wales coach Chris Coleman said. "We managed to get a point in
Belgium (in World Cup qualifying) and were unlucky at home." Belgium coach Marc
Wilmots was happy overall. "I am not going to say it is a beautiful draw,
because every match is difficult," Wilmots said. "But I will return home feeling
satisfied." Zlatan Ibrahimovic missed out on this years World Cup after Sweden
was beaten by Portugal in a thrilling playoff, but the prolific Paris
Saint-Germain forward should grace the fields of France in two years time.
Sweden and Russia are likely to lead Group G, where Liechtenstein, Moldova,
Montenegro and Austria look to be up against it. Italy, runners-up to France in
2000 and Spain in 2012, will be confident of winning Group H, despite facing
Croatia, Norway and Bulgaria. The other teams are Malta and Azerbaijan. "Its a
very demanding group, we will have to prepare ourselves well," Italy coach
Cesare Prandelli said. "Were not facing Belgium or Switzerland but I dont think
Croatia is inferior to them. Croatia and Bulgaria are potential group winners."
Group F, however, seems to be the most open one and it is hard to call the top
two from 2004 champion Greece, Finland, Romania, improving Northern Ireland and
Hungary. All of them should take maximum points against perpetual minnow, the
Faeroe Islands. Having guided Portugal to the World Cup with a brilliant playoff
performance against Sweden -- outshining even Ibrahimovic -- Cristiano Ronaldo
will need to find his scoring touch to keep Portugal ahead of Serbia and Denmark
in Group I, and trips to Albania and Armenia are sometimes tricky. France
completes Group I, although Didier Deschamps team has no bearing on the outcome.
"Its pretty good to play a team like Portugal, they will be prestigious
matches," Deschamps said.
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