If breaks were made of duct tape with the sticky side out and tossed from three feet away, the Phoenix Suns still couldn’t catch one.
The Denver Nuggets became the latest opponent to feast on Suns fans’ hearts Monday night when Jamal Murray nailed a fadeaway dagger with two seconds left on the clock to seal a 9-point fourth quarter comeback and deliver the Suns their seventh straight loss.
They had this one. They had it. And as Dennis Green would say, “They let them off the hook.”
In the first half, the Suns looked like a demoralized conglomeration of humans who reluctantly work together.