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The Phoenix Suns come in with a 46-18 record, only 0.5 games out of the #1 seed in the West. They have won four in a row, including wins over Utah (47-18), LA Clippers (43-22), and the Knickerbockers (37-28). So the Suns aren't all that bad a team and they've been beating some of the better teams in the NBA recently.
The Cavs are still missing Nance, Delly, and Prince, who are all done for the year, and Garland, Hartenstein and Stevens, who aren't back yet. IOW, they have zero chance of hanging with the Suns, who have no major players out.
The Suns won the first game between these teams at the start of the infamous Bataan Death March where the Cavs were totally outclassed in six losses on the west coast (or thereabouts). The Cavs actually kept it close in losing 119-113 with Garland and Drummond starting and Prince coming off the bench. Three months later it's a different team. Devin Booker scored 36 in that game.
The only thing the Cavs have going for them is they are at home, have had two days off, and the Suns will probably be overconfident. So I wouldn't be shocked if the rested up Cavs hung with them in the first half. But the Suns want that #1 seed and they can't afford to throw away an easy win over a crippled 21-win team just playing out the schedule, so even if the Cavs manage to keep it interesting for a while you can be assued the Suns will stomp on them at some point.
The Cavs are still missing Nance, Delly, and Prince, who are all done for the year, and Garland, Hartenstein and Stevens, who aren't back yet. IOW, they have zero chance of hanging with the Suns, who have no major players out.
The Suns won the first game between these teams at the start of the infamous Bataan Death March where the Cavs were totally outclassed in six losses on the west coast (or thereabouts). The Cavs actually kept it close in losing 119-113 with Garland and Drummond starting and Prince coming off the bench. Three months later it's a different team. Devin Booker scored 36 in that game.
The only thing the Cavs have going for them is they are at home, have had two days off, and the Suns will probably be overconfident. So I wouldn't be shocked if the rested up Cavs hung with them in the first half. But the Suns want that #1 seed and they can't afford to throw away an easy win over a crippled 21-win team just playing out the schedule, so even if the Cavs manage to keep it interesting for a while you can be assued the Suns will stomp on them at some point.
