A disappointing loss at home against the Atlanta Hawks ends the Phoenix Suns' win streak.
The Phoenix Suns started the game off very shaky, unable to find much consistency and just could not find a rhythm at all. How could this happen at home and what happened to ruin the win streak?
After the inconsistent start, later in the third quarter the Suns ended up with a 22-point lead over the Hawks. Looking as if the home win streak and the overall win streak were both confidently intact. They were not.
Dillon Brooks stepped up for Phoenix yet again. Proving to be a great pick up for the Suns, he contributed 34-points and star Devin Booker added 27-points of his own to that.
The Suns stayed consistent with still controlling the boards and having a total of 54 rebounds to Atlanta's 44 in this game. What fueled the lead was the 16 offensive rebounds to get all the second chance points for the Suns.
Nickeil Alexander-Walker put up 26-points for the Hawks, most all came in the final quarter. Alexander-Walker and Onyeka Okongwu lead the final quarter comeback, as Okongwu shot 27-points as well in the game.
With under ten minutes remaining in the game the Phoenix Suns led 103-81.
It was then the Suns became very sloppy with ball handling/movement. Costing them multiple turnovers that turned into fast break scoring for the Hawks.
Without Jalen Green as well as Grayson Allen, both out with injuries, Phoenix's depth was not there, and it showed come towards the end of the game when they just could not close out.
If the Suns want to be taken serious as a true threat in the west come playoffs than they, need to learn how to manage a lead and build off it instead of blowing it, especially at home.
Phoenix now goes back on the road to play Portland on Tuesday.