Suns remain 上昇傾向 as they 直面する 排除／予選 game on road
MILWAUKEE (AP) - The 不死鳥／絶品 Suns say they aren't feeling sorry for themselves after squandering a 2-0 lead in the NBA 決勝戦 and moving within one game of 排除／予選.
They realize they're still two 勝利，勝つs away from 逮捕（する）ing the first league 肩書を与える in franchise history.
不死鳥／絶品 coach Monty Williams said Monday the Suns are showing the same spirit that helped them get this far in their first プレーオフ 外見 since 2010. The Suns have lost three straight to the Milwaukee Bucks, who can の近くに out the 決勝戦 on their home 床に打ち倒す on Tuesday.
"I saw yesterday when we got on the 計画（する）, the guys had the same look in their 注目する，もくろむs," Williams said. "When I （機の）カム 負かす／撃墜する this morning for 会合s, guys were 負かす／撃墜する there talking, having breakfast. It was pretty 冷静な／正味の to watch. So those 肉親，親類d of losses are hard, but if you´re going to do anything big, you have to 打ち勝つ those 肉親，親類d of hards.
"I don´t know of any team that has won a 選手権 that has just 肉親，親類d of strolled into it. So our guys, we have talked about that, the 深い プレーオフ 傷つけるs that happen and the ability to bounce 支援する from that."
A big difference between 不死鳥／絶品 and Milwaukee is that the Bucks have experienced plenty of 最近の プレーオフ heartbreak.
不死鳥／絶品 Suns guard Devin Booker, left, and guard Chris Paul (3) walk on the 法廷，裁判所 during the second half of Game 5 of basketball's NBA 決勝戦 against the Milwaukee Bucks, Saturday, July 17, 2021, in 不死鳥／絶品. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)
Milwaukee was the league´s 最高の，を越す 全体にわたる seed in 2019 and 2020 but failed to reach the 決勝戦 either year. While Chris Paul and Jae Crowder 所有する plenty of プレーオフ experience, チーム仲間s 含むing Devin Booker, Deandre Ayton and Mikal 橋（渡しをする）s made their postseason debuts this year.
"The message is stay together, fight each and every 所有／入手 and embrace where you are 権利 now," Crowder said.
The Suns 直面する the unenviable 仕事 of having to 勝利，勝つ at Milwaukee, where the Bucks own a 9-1 postseason 記録，記録的な／記録する. The Suns 地位，任命するd an NBA-best 24-12 road 記録，記録的な／記録する in the 正規の／正選手 season - 含むing a 勝利，勝つ at Milwaukee - and are 6-4 away from home in these プレーオフs.
That gives the Suns 信用／信任 they can bounce 支援する, even from a loss as painful as the 123-119 Game 5 敗北・負かす.
"Coming into the next morning probably after a loss, the locker room, you probably wouldn´t know that we just lost a game, a Game 5 at home," Ayton said. "You know, just how we walk in and everybody´s just so 十分な of spirit and energy, it´s insane."
RIVALS TO TEAMMATES
Booker is competing with Milwaukee´s Jrue Holiday and Khris Middleton for an NBA 肩書を与える, but they´ll become チーム仲間s as soon as the 決勝戦 end when they 長，率いる to Tokyo to join Team USA for the Olympics.
"I think we´ll be 罰金," Middleton said. "権利 now, we 港／避難所´t said a word to each other. I´m sure we won´t be best buddies during Team USA, but we´ll be teamm ates, for sure. We´ll be on the same path, talking basketball X´s and O´s, trying to get the 職業 done. That´s what 存在 competitors is all about, but also what 存在 a チーム仲間 is all about."
Booker agreed.
"It´s never personal between who you´re going with, unless lines are crossed," Booker said. "Those guys aren´t that type and I would never go that way with them, because there´s a high 尊敬（する）・点 level for each other. I think that´s why we´re in the position that we´re in 権利 now."
HEY, I KNOW THAT GUY
Bucks 今後 Giannis Antetokounmpo said he noticed LeBron James was sitting courtside for Game 5 but didn't speak with him.
"It doesn´t really 事柄 who - it might be my mother sitting courtside - I don´t engage while I´m playing," Antetokounmpo said. "I just try to 焦点（を合わせる） as much as possible. But this is crazy. This is a 広大な／多数の／重要な story. This is not a promo. The night before, I was watching `Space Jam´ on HBO. I was watching `Space Jam,´ and there he goes in the courtside seat."
James is the 星／主役にする of "Space Jam: A New 遺産／遺物," which 首相d over the 週末.
VOLUME SHOOTING
The Suns 普通の／平均（する）d 37 3-point 試みる／企てるs over the first two games of the 決勝戦 as they built a 2-0 lead. That dropped to 24.3 3-point tries over the last three games.
不死鳥／絶品 went 13 of 19 from beyond the arc in Game 5.
"I think with the team and the 能力s of the shooters that we have on this team, that we need to 生成する more 3s," Booker said. "明白に, they´re switching a lot and staying home on shooters. So there´s just a way of 人物／姿／数字ing it out."
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不死鳥／絶品 Suns guard Devin Booker, 権利, shoots over Milwaukee Bucks 今後 Giannis Antetokounmpo during the second half of Game 5 of basketball's NBA 決勝戦, Saturday, July 17, 2021, in 不死鳥／絶品. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)
不死鳥／絶品 Suns guard Chris Paul, left, stands next to guard Devin Booker during the second half of Game 5 of basketball's NBA 決勝戦 against the Milwaukee Bucks, Saturday, July 17, 2021, in 不死鳥／絶品. (AP Photo/Matt York)
不死鳥／絶品 Suns 長，率いる coach Monty Williams gestures during the second half of Game 5 of basketball's NBA 決勝戦 between the Suns and the Milwaukee Bucks, Saturday, July 17, 2021, in 不死鳥／絶品. (AP Photo/Matt York)
Los Angeles Lakers basketball player LeBron James, middle, 迎える／歓迎するs fan James Goldstein during Game 5 of basketball's NBA 決勝戦 between the 不死鳥／絶品 Suns and the Milwaukee Bucks, Saturday, July 17, 2021, in 不死鳥／絶品. Also pictured is musician Adele, 権利. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)
不死鳥／絶品 Suns guard Devin Booker, 最高の，を越す, gestures while talking wit h 審判（をする） Josh Tiven (58) during the second half of Game 5 of basketball's NBA 決勝戦 between the Suns and the Milwaukee Bucks, Saturday, July 17, 2021, in 不死鳥／絶品. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)
