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PHOENIX -- Three ugly quarters didnt get Eric Bledsoe down. And his fourth quarter was a beauty. Bledsoe, who missed 10 of his first 11 shots, scored the final 14 points for Phoenix, topping it off with a 3-pointer with 0.7 seconds to play to give the Suns an 87-84 victory over the Utah Jazz on Friday night. Phoenix improved to 2-0 under new coach and ex-Jazz player and assistant coach Jeff Hornacek. Gordon Haywards 3-pointer tied it for Utah at 84 with 22.9 seconds to play. Bledsoe, 4 of 15 from the field, finished with 18 points for the Suns, 17 in the fourth quarter. Miles Plumlee added 13 points and 13 rebounds. Enes Kanter scored 20 points and Hayward had 18 points for Utah. The Suns Goran Dragic played 3 minutes in the third quarter then left because of a right face contusion he sustained in a nasty collision with teammate Markieff Morris late in the first half. Dragic wanted to play but Hornacek pulled him. "He just didnt look right," Hornacek said. Bledsoe made one of two free throws with 30.4 seconds to play, making it 84-81 and giving Utah a chance to tie. The Jazz did just that when Hayward broke free for the 3-pointer. Bledsoe calmly dribbled down the clock then pulled up for his game-winning 3 from the top of the key. "I knew that he was playing me to drive so I was going to wait until the clock got really low to shoot it," Bledsoe said. "... He was daring me to shoot it so you know I was going to shoot it." Hayward confirmed he was worried about Bledsoe driving to the basket. "I tried to sag off him just a tad but he is a little quicker than I am," Hayward said. "He kind of shown he would drive to the basket the whole game but he made a nice pull-up there. It was a tough shot." The Jazz were called for an out-of-bounds violation on their desperation attempt at the finish. Utah coach Tyrone Corbin pointed to his teams 20 turnovers and Phoenixs 24 fast-break points. "And we missed our free throws," he said. "We missed 10 again tonight so weve got to get better at those things. Young guys or whatever, we have to make free throws and we cant turn the ball over." Bledsoe began his run with a three-point play, then hit a 3-pointer and made four free throws, accounting for all the offence in a 10-1 run that put Phoenix ahead 83-80 with 1:34 to play. Hayward made one of two free throws with 35.5 seconds to go to cut the lead to 83-81. Just before Bledsoes run, Utah used a 10-1 fourth-quarter spurt to go up 76-73 on a 19-footer by John Lucas III with 5:25 to play. Hornacek said his team didnt play well. "We didnt have it tonight. We didnt have the energy. They were outhustling us to balls," he said, "but somehow the guys sucked it up in that fourth quarter and ended up pulling it out." Neither team led by more than eight points as both struggled from the field. Utah shot 36.5 per cent, the Suns 37.3 per cent. Utah took its biggest lead at 53-45 on Kanters rebound basket with 8:58 left in the third quarter. Then Dionte Christmas, in his first NBA appearance, scored seven consecutive points on a long 2-pointer, a free throw and a 3-pointer, igniting a 17-3 run that gave Phoenix a 62-56 lead on Morris 19-footer with 2:49 left in the third. Utah outscored the Suns 6-1 the rest of the quarter and trailed 63-62 entering the fourth. Phoenix scored the first five points of the fourth quarter on Christmas layup and Bledsoes three-point play to lead 68-62 with 10:28 to play. Utah came back to tie it at 72 on Alec Burks fast-break layup with 6:20 left. The Suns two point-guard lineup of Bledsoe and Dragic, which accounted for 48 points in Phoenixs season-opening win over Portland on Wednesday, was a combined 6 for 26 from the field. NOTES: As players, Corbin and Hornacek were teammates for two seasons in Phoenix. ... 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Either we were going to win it with him, or that was going to be it," Thibodeau said. "At that point, I didnt think we could afford two or three minutes (with Noah on the bench), so we rolled the dice and were fortunate. Were a little short-handed right now -- and the way they spread you out on the perimeter, you need guys that can cover ground." Kirk Hinrich had 19 points and Taj Gibson added 18 for the Bulls, who never trailed against an injury-ravaged Lakers squad missing Kobe Bryant, Pau Gasol, Jordan Farmar, Nick Young, Jodie Meeks and Xavier Henry. Gasol, who had a season-high 19 rebounds the previous time the teams met, missed his fourth straight game because of a groin strain. Kaman scored a season-high 27 points off the bench for the Lakers, who won their previous two games following a 3-19 slide that buried them in the race for a Western Conference playoff spot. The 11-year veterans point total was two off his career high, which came on Feb. 13, 2012, when he was playing for New Orleans against Dallas. "Hes been in the league for a long time, and hes one of the most skilled big men Ive ever seen ever since I was in high school," Gibson said. "He has both left and right-hand hooks, a mid-range game -- and once hes in a rhythm like he was today, its really hard to stop him." Point guard Steve Nash, playing his third game after missing 39 because of a nerve problem in his back, had eight points in 21-plus minutes before departing with 5 minutes left in the third quarter because of irritation in his left leg. The 18-year veteran and two-time MVP, who celebrated his 40th birthday Friday with a team-high 19 points in a victory at Philadelphia, was hit on the same leg he fractured last season. "It was just getting worse lately," Nash said. "But I wanted to play, especially when we are losing. You want to try to fight through it. Ive been through that before and I know where it goes, so I didnt want to risk it. I think it was the smartest decision to come out." Gibson,, whose buzzer-beating layup in overtime gave the Bulls a 102-100 victory over the Lakers on Jan.dddddddddddd. 20 at Chicago, led the Bulls to a 52-46 halftime lead with 16 points. He made his seventh start of the season as Carlos Boozer missed his second straight game with a left calf strain. The Bulls, who finished their trip 3-3, opened with a 10-0 run while the Lakers missed their first six shots -- including an airball by Wesley Johnson on a 3-point try from 27 feet. Chicagos starters outscored Los Angeles starters 73-24. "We wanted to throw the first punch," Noah said. "We started off the game just going to Taj and he set the tone for us in the post." Gibsons reverse layup increased the Bulls margin to 15 before Los Angeles scored the next 12 points to slice the deficit to 42-39 with 5:55 left in the second quarter. But Chicago built its lead back up to 72-53, its biggest of the game, with a 15-5 run capped by Hinrichs 3-pointer with 3 1/2 minutes left in the third. Down by 13 with 6:37 to play, the Lakers narrowed the gap to 88-84 after Steve Blake stole the ball from Hinrich and Kaman fed Johnson for a slam dunk that capped a 13-4 run with 48.3 seconds left. But D.J. Augustin, who had 15 points off the bench, sank four free throws in the final 21 seconds to help seal the victory. The Bulls are 15-5 in games theyve led by at least 15 points. Thursday night, they blew a 16-point lead at Golden State and lost 102-87. "It was very important to close this one out, being the last game of the trip," Hinrich said. "Thats something we have to work on -- keeping our foot on the gas pedal and not relaxing. We didnt do that today, but well definitely take the win." Chicago is 19-20 since star-crossed All-Star Derrick Rose went down with his second major knee injury in three seasons. "The whole time Ive been here weve had some real tough injuries and weve always been at the egde, but we always crawl and fight our way back. Thats our mindset," Gibson said. "Weve got young guys, new guys, and they believe in the same thing. We believe weve got a shot at the playoffs. We believe in each other. And that shows by the way we play." NOTES: The Bulls starters outscored the Lakers starters 73-24. ... The Lakers have used 25 different starting lineups and the Bulls have used 18. ... The Lakers ended the first half with a stellar passing play started by Blake, in which four different players touched the ball on the fast break and Jordan Hill was left standing all alone under the basket for a layup with 0.06 seconds on the clock. Cheap China Jerseys Cheap NFL Jerseys Cheap NFL Jerseys China Cheap Jerseys From China China NFL Jerseys Cheap Jerseys Cheap Jerseys China ' ' '
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