Pacers  105    Suns  113

Indiana Pacers (20-42) at Phoenix Suns (39-25), 9 p.m.

Sports Network | March 6, 2010

(Sports Network) - The Phoenix Suns hope to get back on the winning track Saturday when they resume a season-long seven-game homestand against the lowly Indiana Pacers at US Airways Center.

The Suns dropped the opener of the residency versus Utah on Thursday when Deron Williams scored 13 of his 27 points in the fourth quarter, helping the Jazz erase a double-digit deficit in the final frame en route to an emphatic 116-108 decision over Phoenix.

Amare Stoudemire ended with a game-high 30 points to go with seven rebounds, but Phoenix blew an 11-point lead in the final stanza to fall for just the second time in its last nine games.

Steve Nash handed out 15 assists in addition to scoring 14 points, while Jason Richardson added 22 points and seven boards for the Suns, who are fifth in the Western Conference playoff race.

"They did a great job of executing down stretch, and we struggled a little bit of getting the ball in the basket and making plays," Suns head coach Alvin Gentry said. "You have to give them all the credit, it's not so much what we didn't do, it's more so what they did do."

The Pacers hope to finish a four-game road trip Saturday in the desert on a positive note and have lost five in a row away from Conseco Fieldhouse.

Indiana dropped a 122-114 decision in Denver on Friday, as Danny Granger ended with 32 points and Troy Murphy had 14 to go with nine rebounds in defeat. Roy Hibbert and Brandon Rush scored 12 points apiece for the Pacers, who have dropped 10 of 12 games overall.

"We know we're not having the season we would have liked," Granger said. "We're just trying to be professional about everything and win games."

The Pacers are 7-26 outside of Indy this season.

Surprisingly, Indiana has won two straight over the Suns after dropping the previous seven in the series.