MINNEAPOLIS - Hours before Phoenix completed its biggest comeback of the season, coach Jeff Hornacek said the Suns needed to approach each remaining game as
their last if they wanted to make the playoffs.
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and inched closer to the Western Conferences final playoff spot. They also
delivered a serious blow to the Timberwolves fading post-season hopes.
Markieff Morris scored 25 points as the Suns overcame a 22-point deficit and a
near triple-double by Kevin Love to beat the Wolves 127-120 and move within a
half game of eighth-place Memphis. "Weve had a few of those, havent we?"
Hornacek said. "Im always proud of the way they come back at the end of games,
they never give up. We were playing horribly for a half, maybe partway into the
third quarter and somehow they ended up pulling that game out." While Hornacek
lamented his teams tendencies to start slow, the Suns were fortunate the Wolves
— who fell six games behind Phoenix — have a habit of starting strong before
fading. Now the Suns are hoping the Wolves psyche can recover in time to put up
big points again when they play at Memphis on Monday. Phoenix, meanwhile,
continues its road trip in Atlanta. "If we want to be contenders and be in the
playoffs, we got to start showing it by winning these kind of games,"
P.J. Tucker said. "We came out and played in the second half." Phoenixs bench
outscored Minnesotas 61-20, and the Suns shot a season-high 57 per cent from the
floor to overcome Loves 36 points and 14 rebounds. The Wolves All-Star forward
fell an assist short of a triple double and committed a crucial turnover in the
final minute. With the game tied at 118, Love lost the ball in the paint and
Eric Bledsoe made a fast-break layup. Gerald Green, Bledsoe and Tucker each hit
a pair of free throws in the closing seconds. "If we start out the game like
that wed probably be up 20," Bledsoe said. The Suns tied a season high by
allowing 41 points in the first quarter and trailed 103-93 heading in the final
period, but they outscored the Wolves 34-17 in the fourth. Minnesota, meanwhile,
blew its largest lead of the season. "That was our playoffs right there, and we
lost. So this one hurts a lot more than the others," a visibly frustrated Love
said. The Wolves scored a season-high 73 first-half points — they needed every
one of them because the Suns shot 61 per cent and still found themselves
trailing by 11 at halftime. Minnesota built its early lead thanks to a 14-0
first-quarter run fueled by a balanced offence. Every Wolves player who checked
in scored. But Morris shot Phoenix back into the game with 15 points in the
second quarter on 6 for 8 shooting. "We shouldve won that game, plain and
simple," Love said. Phoenix has won five of its last six. Bledsoe had 21 points
for the Suns, Tucker had 19 and Goran Dragic 18. The Suns won for only the fifth
time when trailing after three quarters. "Im so tired of doing that," Tucker
said. "We get 20-25 down and its like, lets play. Its unreal." Notes:
Kevin Martin had 25 points for the Wolves. . The officials hit Phoenix with four
technical fouls, including one on assistant coach Mike Longabardi. . Crews
scrambled to prepare the court after Target Center hosted the National
Collegiate Hockey Conference championship game Saturday night. They didnt have
enough time to remove the ice, so they constructed the court above it for
Sundays game. . Wolves G J.J. Barea scored two points in his first game since
spraining his left foot in Thursdays loss to Houston. Barea was questionable
heading into the game but told coach Rick Adelman he felt better after warming
up Sunday. . The Wolves have scored 30 points in the first quarter five straight
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-- Using the suns rays, the Olympic flame lighting for the Winter Games in Sochi
went off without a hitch in southern Greece Sunday, ahead of its journey across
Russias nine time zones and even a trip to space before the Feb. 7-23 games. The
ceremony was held with actresses dressed as ancient priestesses at the
birthplace of the Greek games held in antiquity, with the flame lighting using a
parabolic mirror. Actress Ino Menegaki, in the role of high priestess, called
out to the ancient god of the sun, Apollo, before the flame was lit and passed
to 18-year-old Greek alpine skier Ioannis Antoniou. NHL star Alex Ovechkin was
the first Russian involved in the torch relay. Moments before the being handed
the torch, the Washington Capitals winger said: "To be honest with you, its
going to be (an) experience for all my life, and you know, I am proud to be
Russian and proud to be here." Newly elected International Olympic Committee
President Thomas Bach was present at the ceremony. He said he had discussed an
ongoing controversy with games organizers about Russias record on the treatment
of gays and had received assurances of non-discrimination at the games. "We have
the assurances of the highest authorities in Russia, and yesterday I spoke with
the Russian delegation here in Olympia again and they reassured us that the
Olympic Charter will fully apply for all the participants of the games," Bach
said. Sundays 20-minute ancient re-enactment, involving 21 priestesses dressed
in cream-colored pleaated dresses, marked the start of the build-up to the games
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Nov. 7. "The Olympic Games ... should inspire the people of the world and
especially the political authorities by showing them that quarrels and conflicts
can be addressed with peaceful means," Bach said before the ceremony. "I think
it will have a very positive effect on Russia. It will show a new Russia to the
world and also open up civil society." Sochi organizers promised the torch route
would be within an hours travel of an estimated 90 per cent of Russias
population "There is no greater privilege than to stand here in the spiritual
home of the Olympic Movement," Dmitry Chernyshenko, chief organizer of Sochi
2014, said at Ancient Olympia. "This is the beginning of an epic journey for the
Olympic Torch, a journey that will change Russia forever." The weekend ceremony
was overshadowed by the arrest in Athens of the leadership of the countrys
far-right Golden Dawn party on charges of forming a criminal organization. The
Greek leg of the relay will cover around 1,250 miles until an Oct. 7 handover
ceremony in the Panathenian Stadium in Athens, venue of the first modern
Olympics in 1896. Some 2,800 athletes from more than 80 countries are due to
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