The Phoenix Suns fell to the Los Angeles Lakers on Friday evening, 123-116. Phoenix led by 22 factors at one level within the sport. Nonetheless, a second-half surge by the Lakers noticed them run out winners, leaving the Suns with a 1-1 document to start the season.
When chatting with the media after the sport, Kevin Durant pinpointed two explanation why his workforce let go of the rope. He cited fouling and a failure to maintain the ball as the explanations the Lakers discovered a means again into the sport.
“Within the second and third (quarters), we simply gave them momentum again greater than something,” Durant stated. “…They did job of attending to the paint, inflicting the clock to cease with free throws … I feel we did foul them a number of occasions … We gotta do a greater job of not fouling. Then we turned the ball over rather a lot in that second quarter. We gave them momentum.”
