PHOENIX (AP) -Even without Brandon Roy, the Portland Trail Blazers could be no pushover for Phoenix. No team in the NBA has been better at disrupting the free-flowing offense of the Suns.
In three games against the Blazers, two of them won by Portland, the Suns averaged 98 points, a dozen below Phoenix’s league-best season average of just over 110 a game.
Suns coach Alvin Gentry calls the Trail Blazers the best defensive team in the league. He says Portland almost puts an opponent in a situation “where you’ve got to grind out the game.”
The teams meet Sunday night in Phoenix in Game 1 of their first-round playoff series.
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