After watching tonight’s game, it’s fairly easy to see how the Phoenix Suns have improved so much over last season (and the several seasons before that). They came away from the offseason with veteran leadership to add to the young talent they had on the roster, and that veteran leadership has turned the Suns into a tough team that, at the very least, is not fun to play against.
Despite coming away with the 120-113 win, the Dallas Mavericks certainly did not have fun playing basketball tonight. Actually, with the amount of fouls, technical fouls, skirmishes, and bruises that occurred in this one, I am not entirely sure that what happened at Talking Stick Resort Arena this evening could be defined as “basketball” at all.