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    PHOENIX – Steve Nash(notes) and Amar’e Stoudemire(notes) rose from their seats on the Phoenix Suns’ bench and walked to the scorer’s table. This was their time: fourth quarter, Game 4 of the Western Conference finals, the Los Angeles Lakers’ desperately making one last push. This is when teams rely on their stars, and Nash and Stoudemire had been summoned to close out the game.

    For a few moments, at least. As the two All-Stars stood at midcourt waiting for a stoppage in play, Goran Dragic(notes) split through the middle of the Lakers’ defense for a layup. Nash cheered his backup then looked down the sideline. Suns coach Alvin Gentry was calling him and Stoudemire back to the bench.

    Not much need for them on this night.

    “They should have sat back down the way we were playing,” Jared Dudley(notes) said. “Steve’s the two-time MVP, but he can rest up and stretch on the sideline.”

    The Suns beat the Lakers 115-106 to even the West finals at two games each, and Dudley and the rest of Phoenix’s plucky reserve unit deserves much of the credit. The Suns were led not by Nash and Stoudemire, but by a group of misfits that included an undrafted forward (Lou Amundson), an oft-injured Brazilian guard (Leandro Barbosa(notes)), a backup point guard from Slovenia (Dragic), a trade throw-in from the Charlotte Bobcats (Dudley) and another journeyman forward who just learned how to shoot a 3-pointer this season (Channing Frye(notes)).

    The Suns naturally didn’t see this as a surprise. Their bench has played well most of the season, and was essential in the team’s second-round sweep of the San Antonio Spurs. Dudley and Frye have stretched defenses with their 3-point shooting while Dragic erupted for 26 points in the final 13 minutes of the Suns’ Game 3 victory over the Spurs, after which Phoenix general manager Steve Kerr likened him to Michael Jordan.

    “We’ve got depth,” Nash said, “and we need to make that a staple of our success.”

    That wasn’t the case through the first few games of this series. Frye and Dudley were a combined 2-for-12 from 3-point range in a Game 1 loss. Outside of Dudley’s 15 points, the rest of the Suns’ bench missed 14 of 17 shots in a Game 2 loss. Even in Phoenix’s Game 3 victory, none of the reserves made more than one shot.

    No one took more heat than Frye. He made a team-best 172 3-pointers during the regular season while shooting a career-high 43.9 percent behind the arc, but had gone cold against the Lakers, missing 20 of 21 shots – including 18 in a row – before he connected on a 3-pointer in the second quarter.

    Frye said his confidence didn’t waver during the slump, but it was hard to tell. He admitted he’d never weathered more criticism from the media and clearly heard the groans from the home fans in Game 3 when he kept missing shots. He received countless calls from friends offering advice and secluded himself in his house, leaving only to get snacks from a nearby convenience store.

    After Tuesday’s performance, he likely didn’t have any trouble venturing out to get a postgame meal. He made half of his eight 3-point attempts while scoring 14 points.

    “There was a lot of negativity on my shooting,” said Frye, who is playing for his third team in five seasons. “I was like, ‘You know what? It’s what [the media] has to do. It’s not like [the media] was personally attacking me.’ It’s my job to make shots. I was like, ‘Hey, go out there and have some fun and shoot the ball.”

    The Suns’ bench totaled 34 points, eight assists and six 3-pointers in the first half, which eclipsed the starters’ production. The reserves added 20 points, 16 rebounds and three 3-pointers in the second half while outplaying most of the Lakers’ starters, including Kobe Bryant(notes) and Pau Gasol(notes).

    Dudley says the Suns’ reserves beat the starters “40 percent of the time in practice,” so they weren’t surprised about what they did to the Lakers.

    “If you read the paper clippings all day it’s supposed to be an easy series,” Dudley said. “Obviously, that’s why you play the game. I expected our bench to be better than their bench every time, even if Kobe’s out there or Gasol. That’s our job.”

    Don’t expect it to change. The Suns’ reserves won’t be petitioning for starting jobs anytime soon. Not that Gentry would consider it, if they did.

    “Hell no,” Gentry said. “I was born in the morning, but not yesterday morning.”

    Frye dribbled out the final seconds of the Suns’ Game 4 victory then took his place alongside the rest of the reserves for a group interview with Turner Sports. Phoenix’s five misfits calmly answered the questions as if they had expected this improbably night all along.

    “Sometimes,” Dudley said, “you need a little recognition for what you do.”


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    BOSTON – The Orlando Magic praised themselves for resolve and resilience, an million payroll declaring itself too prideful to let the Boston Celtics sweep. Somehow, this passes for perseverance in sports, the loser’s lament of “Hey, we could’ve quit, but we didn’t.” The Magic had been a fraudulent franchise for most of these Eastern Conference finals, and Monday’s Game 4 victory stands as much more an indictment of their character than a validation of it.
    “Why go lay down now?” Vince Carter(notes), of all people, said. “Fight the fight and see what happens.”

    Why go lay down now? Well, Carter ought to tell everyone, because it’s easy, because that’s all he knows how to do. Here’s the absurdity of the Magic’s 96-92 overtime victory: Someone asked Vince Carter, “Where did the resolve come from?”

    How in the world would he know? The resolve? Well, it belonged to someone else on the Magic, to teammates that he’s already let down in this series. Carter tried everything to spare himself pressure of winning Game 4, delivering as many turnovers (three) as he did points (three). He missed eight of his nine shots, defended terribly and looked like he had already booked a vacation to the Caribbean.

     

    “At some point, somebody is going to come from 3-0 down and win a series,” Magic coach Stan Van Gundy said.

    Well, it won’t be with Vince Carter and Rashard Lewis(notes) on the floor. It won’t be these Orlando Magic. They’re the reason why the Magic can never come back and win this series, why Dwight Howard(notes) and Jameer Nelson(notes) aren’t enough to make a historic comeback. From those knee-shaking free throws in Game 2, to a complete no-show in Game 3, Carter has played scared, scattered and soulless. Lewis hasn’t been much better.

    Nelson is a winner and Howard is trying hard to figure out the way. Still, Nelson was never handed anything in his career, never anointed, and those are the players whom you can always count on when times are toughest. He’s had adversity in his life. Carter has had nothing but big talent, big contracts and big disappointments. Lewis has a 8 million contract, and his best game of the series finally comes with 4-for-10 shooting and 13 points.

    In this series now, the Magic could hang around just long enough to get the pressure back on them, just so they can let go all over again. These Magic aren’t constructed for comebacks, just collapses. For one night, they matched the Celtics’ physicality and toughness. For one night, they showed they had the talent to be in this series. They don’t have the mental toughness to hang with Boston. They stole Game 4, and maybe they’ll get Game 5 at home, but this is fool’s gold, a mirage and it ought to make the Magic feel even sicker over the summer.

     

    The Magic could’ve been a championship contender, but they’ll be remembered as flops and failures. They’ll be remembered for getting punked. Truth be told, the Celtics could’ve barely played worse. Rajon Rondo(notes) wasn’t himself. The Celtics’ offense was sluggish and sloppy. Too many errant passes, too many forced shots. Nevertheless, the Magic still had to go to overtime. They still needed Nelson to make two immense 3-pointers in the final minutes, needed Howard to go for a monstrous 32 points, 16 rebounds and four blocks

    No, the Magic don’t get credit for Game 4. They get this question: Why now? Why the tease? Nor do they get to win Game 5, and declare that they salvaged the series by pushing it to six games. No one should let the Magic off that easy, because it is inexcusable the way they failed to honor their regular season, their talent.

    “This is not a team that wants to just win one game and say, ‘All right, we didn’t get swept,’ ” the Magic’s J.J. Redick(notes) said. “We want to win the series.”

    Until they prove differently, these Magic are exactly a team that wanted to win one game and say it didn’t get swept. There’s still no explanation for that gutless Game 3 performance, for giving away Games 1 and 2 in Orlando.

     

    “Yeah, you’ve got to play one game at a time, but you have to have a belief somewhere that you can win the series,” Van Gundy insisted. “Otherwise, there’s just not enough to sustain you and keep you in the game.”

    That isn’t true, because the Celtics obliterated the Magic’s spirit with those victories in Orlando and everyone could see that on Saturday night in Boston. When it mattered most, the Magic backed down and quit. This wasn’t character on Monday night, just the Magic hanging around and stealing a game when the Celtics looked like they had the Los Angeles Lakers on their minds.

    This wasn’t resolve out of the Magic, this was merely a stay of execution. Yes, someone asked Vince Carter where did that resolve come from, and the first word out of his mouth? “Within.”

    Within what? Within the make-believe land where a million-a-year player pretends he has the professional pride of his tiny point guard and monstrous center? There are no historic comebacks coming out of the Orlando Magic, no proving to the world why they never should have been counted out. The Magic had that chance in this series and it’s long gone now.

    No validation in victory on Monday night, just indictment – just a shame that it took this long out of the Magic, that it never, ever should’ve come to this in the Eastern Conference finals.


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