Suns Vs. Warriors reaction: Bright Side of the Sun blames the pick and roll, poor shooting for Suns loss

Following the Suns disappointing 87-85 loss to the Warriors in the team's season opener, Bright Side of the Suns' Seth Pollack weighed in on what went wrong.

Goran Dragic And The Growing Pains Of Becoming A Star

Nothing happens overnight, just ask Alvin Gentry, especially in particular to his potential star point guard Goran Dragic. You learn a lot about a team in a loss, how they react, how they regroup, and with this game it was not necessarily the worst loss in the world.

NBA scores: Suns fall to Warriors, 87-85

The Suns couldn't capitalize on a struggling Warriors starting five and fell to Golden State in their regular season opener on Wednesday night at US Airways Center. Check out all of our blogs' recaps at sbnation.com/nba-scores.

NBA scores, Suns Vs. Warriors: P.J. Tucker sparks Suns, but team can't hit enough shots in loss

Alvin Gentry very confident team will be good.

Phoenix Suns fall to Golden State Warriors 87-85 on opening night despite Stephen Curry's bad shooting

Curry shoots only 2-14 after signing his big contract and the Suns come back from big deficit only to fall in the final two minutes.

Gentry Wants Suns To Have A "Hard Working, Competitive" Identity

The games are real now as the pre-season comes to and end and the games now mean something more than buffers for a team with nine new faces. After a 4-3 record in the preparation season the Phoenix Suns open up against a familiar foe with lots of new faces.

One of, if not the most important factors of this season will be creating a new identity. The team is going to continue to run and score points in the system used over the past nine years, but establishing their defense, and half-court offense is going to be paramount.

"When you guys talk about us I want our identity to be that, man they play really hard, they compete like crazy," said Head Coach Alvin Gentry before the game on the teams potential identity.

That is the easy part. Playing with effort is Basketball 101 so hopefully that is not something he has to coach out of the team. With great energy players like Goran Dragic, Jared Dudley, Sebastian Telfair, and P.J. Tucker the volume of energy should be ratchet up to the max in all games.

The Golden State Warriors are a familiar team within the division, but pose new challenges with some good young players and the addition of a few veterans. They added veterans Richard Jefferson, Carl Landry, and Andrew Bogut to balance out the roster. Roy Williams came out tonight to watch his two former players Kendall Marshall (Suns) and Harrison Barnes (Warriors) in their NBA debut.

The starting line-ups were announced as:

PG - Goran Dragic v. Stephen Curry

SG - Jared Dudley v. Klay Thompson

SF - Michael Beasley v. Harrison Barnes

PF - Luis Scola v, David Lee

C - Marcin Gortat v. Andrew Bogut

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Our staff gives their predictions for the Suns and some of their players

Suns Vs. Warriors: Game preview, TV time, starting lineups and more

The Phoenix Suns begin the post Steve Nash era by hosting the Golden State Warriors.