Rick Bonnell of the Charlotte Observer reports:
The defense came back and so, too, did the Charlotte Bobcats.
After watching three quarters of the Phoenix Suns dropping 3s from everywhere, they tightened up in the fourth quarter – way up. They held the Suns to 29 percent shooting in the final quarter, pushed this game into overtime, and held on 114-109.
This broke a three-game losing streak and lifted the Bobcats to 22-22. The Bobcats swept the Suns, winning in Phoenix for the first time in six tries.
The did all that on Stephen Jackson’s 30 points (including the 3-pointer that forced overtime) and some remarkable poise and defense from ex-Sun Boris Diaw. He had a key block of Steve Nash’s jump shot on a late defensive switch and held Suns star Amare Stoudemire to 12 points and five rebounds.
Diaw (24 points and 11 rebounds) can be too nonchalant for his own good, but that seems to change whenever he faces former teams. He used to wipe up on the Atlanta Hawks as a Sun and now he’s 3-0 as a Bobcat playing the Suns.
