Rudy Fernandez knocking at the door of title

Rudy Fernandez came off the bench in Portland yesterday 22 minutes and scored no less than 20 points, but ultimately the Trail Blazers lost to Phoenix Suns for 107-96, thanks to the potential owner of Arizona.

So Rudy Fernandez scored the same points as Brandon Roy, at least 15 minutes of play and with much better rates (7-18 Bradon, 8-13 Rudy). Actually the starting lineup for the Blazers never could resist the disease of the Suns, who had in his starting lineup the architect of his triumph. The rest of the team did very little, except Boris Diaw, he knows how to play this in Phoenix.

But Steve Nash, Raja Bell, O'Neal, Barnes (earlier in the Warriors) and, of course, Amare Stoudamire (who scored 23 points and 13 rebounds), left the owners of the Trail Blazers in a (-20) of delque annotation could not recover.

With Rudy on track, the Blazers got a (+8) as partial, but it was impossible to do anything for the game. The good news, besides the great game of Rudy Fernandez were the minutes that Sergio Rodriguez was on track, since it seems that it starts counting over to Nate McMillan. He spent over 13 minutes on the floor of Arizona and scored 5 points (without failure) and handed out 4 assists, playing more than the rookie Bayless.

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