Barbosa Responds to Coach's Challenge

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    <div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">Suns coach Mike D?Antoni said the club made a fatal error in Game 4 in not trusting reserve guard Leandro Barbosa to play one-on-one defense.

    "We kind of messed up in panicking a little bit when LB got posted up," said D?Antoni, who gave Barbosa frequent double-team help at the expense of the team?s defense.

    That changed in Game 5 when Barbosa was left to guard Michael Finley and Jerry Stackhouse on his own after the Suns staff issued a challenge.

    "We told him it was an insult that they went at him every time he got on the floor and to take it as a challenge," D?Antoni said. "We can double every once in a while but for the most part he did a super job just battling out by himself." </div>

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