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10:30 pm EDT Mon Apr 26, 2010

Maybe it was all the emotion pumped into the Portland Trail Blazers by the surprise return of Brandon Roy. Perhaps it was the inexplicable failure of the Suns to stick with their highly successful aggressive style. Regardless, the Suns face a pressure-packed Game 5 at home Monday night with their best-of-seven, first-round playoff series knotted at two games apiece after the Blazers’ 96-87 victory in Portland on Saturday. Phoenix had taken a 2-1 lead with a pair of blowout, high-scoring victories. But Roy came back a week after arthroscopic knee surgery and Portland played at its preferred pace, just as it had in winning Game 1 in Phoenix.Roy wants his team to realize that the next game is just as important, perhaps even more, as the last one.

Roy said Sunday he felt no swelling or pain in the knee, but probably would come off the bench again on Monday, with Jerryd Bayless getting the start. A solemn Amare Stoudemire said after practice in Phoenix he’s been in enough playoff games to know how precarious the Suns’ position is. A Phoenix loss would give the Blazers a chance to wrap up the series at home in Game 6. With due respect to Roy, who did make a huge 3-pointer late in the game, the Suns were pointing elsewhere for reasons they lost Game 4: a slow pace, missed open shots, and Portland’s offensive rebounds. The Suns’ failure to push the tempo left coach Alvin Gentry shaking his head. The coach wouldn’t single out point guard Steve Nash to blame for the tempo breakdown.