Game 1:Suns lose! 82-0 will be even tougher now!!!

Oct 31, 2006 - Los Angeles - Lose Angeles Fakers 114, Phoenix Suns 106 -Box Score

The Lakers won 114-106, coming back from a huge 41 point Suns First Quarter. Some quick notes:

Coach D'Antoni's not worried, I'm not worried; he claims he "hit the panic button" early and ran the lineup from last year out there too early after 2 back-to-back Amare Stoudemire turnovers in the Third Quarter that really swept the momentum to L.A., their young biggun' Andrew Bynum and their fans.

Lamar Odom killed the Suns from inside and when they switched Kurt Thomas to him to stop him inside, he nailed several 3 pointers. He played huge. We'll see how that pans out when Kobe gets back from his extended-for-some-unkown-reason (is he scurrrred by Raja Bell still??) knee rehab.

Leandro Barbosa played great last night, pumping in 30 points. His shot looked good, played excellent defense... that's your 2006-07 Sixth Man of the Year award winner right there, folks.

Amare Stoudemire had flashes of brilliance and moments of thud. One thunderous dunk for his first two points of the season, but his ballhandling skills looked BAD, still... he needs to get his head right, play the season and get into basketball shape in order to dominate. If he just plays with the system, he'll be fine until it's time to take over again (playoffs).

All in All, they're the Suns. This is what they do. When the shots don't fall, they're going to blow some big leads. They didn't play bad inasmuch as the Lakers played out of their minds, but this game should have never been close. Chalk it up to coming into th game with crazy expectations in their heads instead of the task at hand.

Game tonight AT HOME versus those Tim Thomas-signing Lose Angeles Clippers... Look for the Suns to pull to 1-1 on the season.