one and one

The Suns (1-1) couldn't keep momentum going from the previous night's victory over the Sonics when they came home for their season home opener against the LA Lakers (1-1).  Well, I'll just come right out and say it, the Suns got their rears kicked, and hard.  They looked like a pathetic second rate team who had no control of the ball or their shots.  The Lakers capitalized on this and dominated the game.  The Suns trailed by more than 30 points at times.  The Suns had two very un-Suns-like quarters, the first and the third, where they scored only 20 and 17 points, respectively.  They made a push to get it back to a deficit of only 21 points when the game ended.  Nash had 19 points, but only 3 assists!  Stat only score 7 points and got into foul trouble again.  Marion got the team's only double double with 14 points and 10 rebounds.  This is not the kind of game a championship team has.  It is a bit troubling, but we have three more meetings with the Lakers before the season's over, and there are 80 more games overall.  The next game is against the Cleveland Cavaliers (1-1) here in Phoenix Sunday night at 6pm local time (and I believe Sunday is "Fall Back" day, daylight savings time, so we'll be MST again).  GO SUNS!