Garnett Stops Streaking Suns
Posted on January 30th, 2007 by
Man that’s just really too bad, I was hoping my favorite team could reach the 20 win mark, but oh well, this is just the regular season. Its the playoffs that’ll count, and if the standings stand, I believed that the Suns will make practice out of the wolves before the semifinals.
The hard-driving Phoenix Suns had been blowing through the NBA in January, piling up points, highlights and victories at breakneck speed.
They finished the month just one win away from perfection after crashing into a 6-foot-11 road block named Kevin Garnett.
Garnett almost single-handedly snapped the Suns’ 17-game winning streak, scoring 44 points and grabbing 11 rebounds in Minnesota’s 121-112 victory on Monday night.
“People who say he can’t carry the load, take a look at this game film,” new Timberwolves coach Randy Wittman said.
The All-Star forward, sometimes criticized for not coming up big in the clutch, was everywhere in the final period against the Suns, dropping turnaround jumper after turnaround jumper to give Phoenix its first loss of 2007.
He scored 15 points in the fourth, including a looping fallaway from the baseline that gave Minnesota a 118-109 lead with 1:55 to play, and put Wittman on the way to a win in his home debut. #
