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What We Learned From #SunsVsRockets

Despite a remarkable comeback in the fourth quarter, the Suns fell to the Houston Rockets 113-111 Friday night thanks to a buzzer-beating jumper from James Harden.

Eric Bledsoe paced the Suns with 25 points, nine assists and eight rebounds. Bledsoe, who scored a career-high 33 points in his last game, has now scored at least 25 points in back-to-back games for the first time this season and just the third time in his career. Isaiah Thomas and Markieff Morris added 22 and 21 points respectively.

Here's what we learned:

3. The Suns are never out of a game

After falling behind by as much as 16 points with just 6:11 left in the fourth quarter, it would have been easy for the Suns to lose focus and rest for their upcoming game against the Clippers on Sunday.

Instead, the Suns went on a 9-0 run to cut the Rockets' lead to just seven. They kept fighting and clawing back, and thanks to a Markieff Morris three-point play with 16.6 seconds left, the Suns actually tied the game. All in all, it was a 25-9 run.

James Harden then hit a jumper with no time left on the clock to give Houston the win.

2. Markieff Morris is clutch

Heading into Friday's game, Markieff Morris was shooting 13-of-21 (61.9 percent) in the final two minutes of one-possession games this season, the highest field goal percentage of any NBA player with at least 10 field goal attempts in such situations.

Mr. Clutch scored 11 points in the fourth quarter and hit two more shots with 1:22 remaining against the Rockets. Unreal.

Morris finished with 21 points on 9-of-14 shooting. This marks Keef’s 12th 20-point game of the season and 36th career.

1. Glass half full

For Suns fans, a loss is never fun. However, there are many things that are trending favorably for the team.

The Suns are still 14-5 in their last 19 games, 8-3 in the month of January, and 4-1 on their franchise-record eight-game homestand.

Phoenix next faces a division foe in the Los Angeles Clippers at 4 p.m. on Sunday, January 25 in the sixth game of their homestand.

"We just got to learn something from it just moving forward," Alex Len said. "We just got to play the whole game like we did the last five minutes and then we’ll be in good shape."