"It was a late January night two years ago when the Suns turned around their season against the visiting Dallas Mavericks.

Read It took Dallas' Jason Terry calling out the Suns defense on a TNT halftime interview and Suns coach Alvin Gentry going without Amar'e Stoudemire and Jason Richardson in the fourth quarter for the Suns to win and start a 28-7 close to a season that ended with a conference-finals run.

That was the last time Phoenix has beaten Dallas, in eight tries. Now national television doesn't want the Suns. Gentry had to be the one to call out the defense at halftime on this late January night. And if going without the since-departed Stoudemire and Richardson had not been enough for the Suns to overcome, they tried to beat the reigning NBA champions without Steve Nash on Monday night, with predictable failure in a 122-99 loss at US Airways Center."