Last season’s number one overall seed Phoenix Suns are riding the wave of a tight win against the Dallas Mavericks as they come to town to face the Portland Trail Blazers on Friday night.
Both teams are 1-0 and feeling good about their starts to the 2022-23 NBA campaign. While Portland scraped together a victory against an otherwise below average Sacramento Kings team, they will need to game plan much harder for this formidable foe.
Here’s what to look out for as the two teams face off.
Never Say Die
Firstly, the Suns recovered from a 22-point deficit with 10:09 to go in the third quarter, and a 13-point hole in the fourth, to win the game by two against a Dallas Mavericks team that absolutely decimated them in the Western Conference Semifinals last year, Phoenix proved that they have resilience, resolve under pressure, and that no lead is safe with them.