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Hee Young Park and Ha Na Jang battled through testing early conditions to set the pace at the halfway stage of the LPGA Taiwan C
Hee Young Park and Ha Na Jang battled through testing early conditions to set the pace at the halfway stage of the LPGA Taiwan C
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PHOENIX -- The Phoenix Suns might be excused for their defensive lapses. Blake Martinez Jersey . They were putting most of their energy into a record-setting offensive display. The Suns achieved season highs in total points, points in a half and assists, and tied their single-game best for made 3-pointers in a 129-120 win over the Atlanta Hawks on Sunday night. Their first-half point total of 79 was the most in the NBA before halftime this season and two shy of a US Airways Center record for points in a half. The only cloudy spot for the Suns was that they allowed more than 100 points for the fifth straight game. This after they sank 15 3-pointers and dished out 29 assists in a blink-and-you-missed it kind of game where neither team paid any mind to the shot clock. "Both of our teams are hard to guard in terms of how we play. Kicking it up and quick shots, and the way that both teams have guards that can really penetrate," Suns coach Jeff Hornacek said. "That breaks down defences when teams are good at passing the ball and shooting the ball. Sometimes there might look like there was zero defence out there, but Im sure the guys were trying." Gerald Green certainly was trying on offence. He hit 5 of 6 3-pointers in the first half and finished with 33 points. The previous high for Phoenix in any half this season was 67 points, but 63 per cent shooting, including 12 of 18 on 3-pointers in the first half, shattered the team mark. "We were making 2s and some 3s. They were making all 3s," Hawks guard Jeff Teague said. Goran Dragic added 19 points for the Suns, hearing the chants of "MVP" from the home crowd, and Marcus Morris had 18 points and nine rebounds off the bench. Twin brother Markieff added 21 points and eight rebounds. "Its two fast-paced teams going against each other," Green said. "We knew it was going to be like that, but I didnt know they were going to be running like that." Phoenix led by as many as 15 points late in the second quarter, even though Atlanta scored 65 first-half points, including 37 in the first quarter, the highest against the Suns in any first quarter this season. Teague had 29 points and eight assists for the Hawks, and Mike Scott added 20 points. "Its nothing we need to be super overly cautious about," Green said of the Suns defence, "but we do need to take a step back and kind of look and see what were doing wrong, especially in the first quarter." The second half saw slightly less scoring from both teams, but the Suns led 90-77 after Greens high-flying dunk over the Hawks Shelvin Mack with 7:21 left in the third quarter. The Suns lead was at 95-89 after Kyle Korver hit his fifth 3-pointer at the 3:54 mark, and down to 95-91 on a basket by Mack with 3:22 to play. Mack made it a one-point game with a layup to cap an 8-0 run, but the Suns scored seven of the last eight points of the third quarter to take a 102-95 lead into the fourth. Leandro Barbosa, playing his first game since missing the past five with a sprained toe, scored five key points in the fourth quarter to keep the Hawks at bay. The Suns never held less than a five-point lead in the quarter. A transition pass from Dragic to P.J. Tucker for a long jumper made the score 121-110 with 3:20 left in the game and essentially ended any chance for a Hawks comeback. "They shot the ball extremely well. They play with great pace, they put lot of pressure in your defence, make or miss," Hawks coach Mike Budenholzer said. "Our transition defence wasnt good enough." The Hawks have lost 11 of their last 12 games. The Suns havent lost two straight games to the Hawks since the 1991-92 season. It took Korver less than two minutes to continue his NBA-record streak of at least one made 3-pointer in a game. His long-range shot at 10:29 of the first quarter gave him 127 straight games with a made three-ball. Korver made six of seven 3-pointers to finish with 18 points. NOTES: Newly acquired power forward Shavlik Randolph made his Suns debut Sunday. He played 10 minutes and scored two points off the bench. ... Hornacek said guard Eric Bledsoe, who is coming back from knee surgery earlier this season, looked good in 5-on-5 action in practice recently. Bledsoe hasnt played since Dec. 30. The Suns want Bledsoes conditioning to return to game level before allowing him to play, which could keep him out for another two weeks. ... Budenholzer is a native of Holbrook, Ariz., in northeastern Arizona, and had family and friends at Sundays game. ... Hawks F Paul Millsap missed his fourth straight game with a right knee contusion. ... C Mike Muscala, signed late last week, made his Hawks debut and played 19 minutes. He had four points, five rebounds and two blocked shots. Justin Vogel Jersey . Kadri was dressed in a green jersey at Thursdays practice and skated as an extra forward on the teams fourth line as the Leafs. Brett Favre Jersey . Darren Collison and Blake Griffin scored 23 points apiece and the Clippers beat the Suns 112-108 Wednesday night, their fourth win in a row and 17th in the last 19 games. http://www.packersshopfootball.com/packers-kevin-king-navy-blue-jersey/ . Cesar said the difficulties he went through after the 2010 World Cup helped him become "a better professional" and made him "more focused" on his career. He admitted that he took things for granted before the World Cup in South Africa, when he arrived considered the worlds top goalkeeper.TORONTO - DeMar DeRozan sat alone on the Raptors bench during pre-game lineup introductions. As the all-star guard stepped onto the court for the first time since being helped off of it nearly seven weeks earlier, he was greeted with a standing ovation from the sellout crowd. Honestly, just [tried to] stay level-headed, treat it like a normal game, DeRozan said after returning to action in Torontos 100-84, wire-to-wire win over Philadelphia. I didnt want to get too high on it. I understood I still had to come out here and play. I didnt want to go out there and try to do too much. Just played within the rhythm of the game. Again, the packed Air Canada Centre roared when DeRozan caught a pass from Kyle Lowry on the teams first possession, seconds into the game. Dumping it off and receiving the ball again off a curl, he would miss his first shot since tearing a tendon in his groin during a loss to Dallas on Nov. 28. It was the only jumper hed miss during a promising six-minute, first-quarter stretch. If the 25-year-old was working off any rust following a 21-game absence, he certainly didnt show it in his long-awaited return to Torontos lineup. Logging nearly 29 minutes, a few more than his predetermined cap for the night, DeRozan scored 20 points on 9-of-14 shooting. He brings a calm about it and not only that, he makes great decisions, Dwane Casey said after the win. When things get helter-skelter, when we call a play, one of the plays weve been running for a while or whatever it is, theres a calmness about him. DeRozan looked like his old self - confident, decisive and active. On his second shot of the night, he came off a screen and drained a step-back 14-footer. Later in the frame he split the defence and got to the rim for an uncontested layup. Even when he wasnt scoring, his presence was felt. Doubled in the corner, DeRozan made a difficult diagonal pass to Patrick Patterson who found Greivis Vasquez for a floater in the lane. [It was] very comfortable, said Kyle Lowry, happy to have his backcourt partner back on a night in which the point guard recorded 18 points and 12 assists. [He got] some guys some open shots, [took] some attention off me, and its always good when you get your all-star back, a guy who can get 20 points on 14 shots in such an efficient way. Despite some standout performances from his teammates while he was out - Lowry and Patterson early on, Jonas Valanciunas and James Johnson recenttly - the Raptors have missed DeRozans knack of sucking in the defence, on top of his improving ability to make plays out of those situations. Nick Perry Jersey. I think the one thing that has helped us is giving guys confidence they can play without him, Casey said ahead of Wednesdays game. It should have given [Terrence Ross] more confidence, [Johnson] more confidence to play and everybody else a comfort level of moving the ball and defending without him out there. Toronto went 12-9 in his absence, 11 of those wins coming against sub-.500 competition while six of the losses came in seven games versus winning teams. No one knew exactly what to expect from DeRozan after such a long layoff. Activated just ahead of tip-off after being labeled a game-time decision for most of the day, DeRozan seemed to take Caseys advice and ease his way into action, never forcing his game. The key thing with him, Casey had said, is to come out, be himself, do what he can, blow it out, get the rust off the pipes and let the chips fall where they may. I play slow anyway, DeRozan joked, shortly after Casey referred to his outing as an old-man game. [My conditioning was] better than what I thought it was, honestly. I thought I was going to be out there huffing and puffing but I felt good. The Raptors outscored Philadelphia by 18 points with DeRozan on the floor Wednesday, bested by two in the 19 minutes he spent on the bench. Casey felt comfortable allowing the sixth-year guard to exceed his pitch count by a few minutes because of how he was playing. And besides, DeRozan didnt make it easy on him, as expected. Once Im out there, I want to play, he admitted. I dont want to do anything thats going to jeopardize his health or re-injure it, lord forbid, again, Casey said. So if it looks like hes labouring or winded or whatever, were going to be smart about that. And if they give us a minute limitation than well go with that and make sure we try to stick with it. That way we can look out for his overall career and his health long term. Bringing him back against the seven-win 76ers gave them a chance to do that, reintegrating him into the lineup before a pair of challenging opponents - the first-place Hawks and improved Pelicans - come to town over the weekend. Casey and the Raptors will undoubtedly lean on him more in those upcoming contests and well get a better sense of where this team is at now that they have their star back. Stitched Jerseys Jerseys NFL Cheap Wholesale Jerseys 2018 Jerseys NFL Cheap Cheap Jerseys Free Shipping Cheap Jerseys China Cheap NFL Jerseys Authentic ' ' '
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