PHOENIX -- The last 24 hours werent easy on the Phoenix Suns, but they pulled together and got a win.The team landed at 3 a.m. from a close loss at Portland on Tuesday night, having already learned before that game that center Tyson Chandlers mother had died. Chandler was away from the team Wednesday as well.They trailed by as many as 11 points, but Eric Bledsoe scored 14 of his 21 in the fourth quarter to help the Suns to a 107-100 victory over the Detroit Pistons on Wednesday night.Bledsoe added 11 rebounds and eight assists for the Suns (3-6), who got a season-high 19 points off the bench from Jared Dudley. Alex Len added 16 points and 14 rebounds.The guys came out and they played for a bigger purpose beyond basketball, coach Earl Watson said.My team needed me, Bledsoe said. All of us are a family. You dont ever want to see one of your brothers go down like that.Kentavious Caldwell-Pope led the Pistons (4-4) with a season-high 27 points, making 5 of 10 3-point attempts, but he missed a potential tying 3 with 1:35 to play and the Suns up 99-96. Andre Drummond added 18 points and 14 rebounds.The Pistons went on a 14-0 run between the end of the third quarter and early in the fourth to take an 87-81 lead. Former Sun Jon Leuer scored six of the points and finished with 11 points and nine rebounds.Phoenix went back ahead 92-90 when Dudley fed Len for a dunk with 5:02 to play. Dudleys fourth 3 of the game made it 99-93.Thats been my role the last couple of years, the trailing jump shot, Dudley said. Once you hit one, your teammates start looking for you.The Pistons led by as many as 11 points in the first quarter and 28-19 going into the second. Caldwell-Pope scored nine points in the first.The Suns made only 6 of 22 shots in the first quarter.Phoenix rallied in the second quarter, going on a 16-4 run. Dudley then knocked down three 3s as part of his 15 points in the quarter and gave the Suns a 49-47 lead with 3:17 left.Suns leading scorer Devin Booker didnt make his first field goal until early in the third quarter, but his three-point play with 6:15 to go gave the Suns a 66-60 lead.Booker had scored 100 points in his previous three games. He had 11 on Wednesday.Len had seven points in the third quarter, two on a power move inside to give the Suns a 78-69 lead at the 1:02 mark. But Caldwell-Pope hit a 26-footer at the third-quarter buzzer to cut the Suns lead to 81-76.We couldnt get stops the last of the fourth quarter, Caldwell-Pope said. We just kept trading baskets and that wasnt what we wanted to do.TIP-INSPistons: G Reggie Jackson remained out with a left knee injury ... F Marcus Morris, a former Sun, was roundly booed when introduced as a starter and when he touched the ball. He did have the dunk of the night in the second quarter when he flew in for a one-handed slam.Suns: Len recorded his first double-double of the season. ... The Suns bench totaled 41 points, compared to 21 for Detroit.VAN GUNDY RIPS TRUMPPistons coach Stan Van Gundy went on a near 6-minute rant about the election of Donald Trump before Wednesdays game. I dont think anybody can deny this guy is openly and brazenly racist and misogynist and ethnocentric, and say thats OK, were going to vote for him anyway, Van Gundy told reporters. We have just thrown a good part of our population under the bus.Van Gundy said what the country has done to women and minorities in electing Trump is despicable, and that hed never been ashamed of the United States until Wednesday.LOVE FOR BOOKERVan Gundy said a case can be made that Booker is the best player in his draft class at present. 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Cheap Air Max Free Shipping . Numbers Game examines the deal that sees Michael Del Zotto and Kevin Klein switch places. The Predators Get: D Michael Del Zotto. Cheap Real Air Max . -- Jimmy Walkers first PGA Tour trophy came with a special gift tucked inside. The Smash community rarely discusses the hierarchy of players in doubles as much as they do singles, but for good reason. Its difficult to evaluate an individual players skill in doubles. Players switch partners frequently and it becomes difficult to fully determine how much a player affects the overall outcome of a game. Sometimes, one player could be doing most of the work, while the other player reaps the benefits. Certain players only thrive with particular teammates and falter when they dont have a strong partner that plays a particular style. Other players only play with weaker partners, so their results may not be as strong as another player who partners with elite talent.Given these constraints, I evaluated individual players based on the following criterionRecent ResultsHow well has a player performed overall in 2016 doubles events?ImpactThis is the eye-test. Is the player outputting damage and kills? How are they defensively?Are they losing or winning skirmishes? Sometimes, they will need to play particular roles based on partners. Do they play the support and aggressor roles appropriately or do they sit back and let their teammates do the majority of the work?Replacement TheoryCould another player see similar success if given the same opportunities? Teaming with a god-level player makes openings much easier. Does a player see a similar level of success even when teaming with less-skilled partners or do they only see results because they team with the best?10. Mustafa Ice AkcakayaIces confidence plays a large role in his success as a doubles player. In the grand finals of Super Smash Con, he went toe-to-toe with Joseph Mango Marquez in many of their skirmishes and even found some crucial shine spikes to win games. Per the style of European Foxes, Ice has an incredible playstyle that translates well in doubles. His neutral and punish game are both incredibly solid and he has a good sense of how to create opportunities that lead into punishing combos with his partner. Another highlight of Ice is that he is disciplined. Many Foxes have the temptation to stray away from their partner as they fish for openings, but this is not the case with Ice. Rarely does he overextend and get himself caught into an early unnecessary death.9. William Leffen HjelteVisa issues prevented Leffen from moving much higher on this list, but he still won doubles at B.E.A.S.T. 6. Leffens strong overall fundamentals make it difficult to leave any player to fight him for extended periods of times. As a result, this demands the attention of both of his opponents, which lightens the load for his partner. Leffen has a keen awareness of the neutral game and maximizing damage on openings while not leaving himself vulnerable. While hes not as aggressive as Zachary SFAT Cordoni or Mango, he holds stocks for long stretches and doesnt demand much help either. He functions very well as a supportive Fox that can extend combos and can quickly unscramble a tough situation if his partner gets hit.8. Dajuan Shroomed McDanielIn many ways, Shroomed is a very unorthodox team player. Traditionally, Sheik plays very defensively in doubles because of her inability to approach, but Shroomed makes it work. He is able to play supportive to his partners and initiate and fight for stage position against tougher teams. He is also the type of player that doesnt need much stage to thrive. He can fight through skirmishes and you can trust him to come out even or ahead against more aggressive players. His overall sense of teams is immaculate and he could easily win more events if he had a more consistent partner to build synergy with.7. Joseph Mango MarquezMango originated the role of the hyper-carry, demanding that his opponent saves stocks while fighting frequently in one vs. two situations against the other team. Other top players have evolved to no longer make this a viable strategy, but Mango still plays the role of carry magnificently as long as he has a partner that he trusts. Evaluating Mango in 2016 is difficult because he forfeits doubles to focus on singles very often. When he decided to play doubles, he churned good results with Johnny s2j Kim, winning sets over top teams such as PewFat.Mangos ability to win skirmishes is one of his core strengths as he can control the tempo of a game and choke away space from the other team. He can play a little too greedy at times and force situations that lead into very unfavorable outcomes. However, the risks come with massive rewards as he can also single-handedly win games despite being many stocks behind. Its not uncommon to see the final box score with 700 damage dealt and eight kills under his name.6. Kevin PewPewU ToyPewPewUs Marth fills highlight reels of team montages with his crafty movement and punishes. The most important skill of PewPewU is his strong talent to support. His partners can approach confidently against tough opponents, knowing that PewPewU can quickly disengage a bad situation. At the same time, his partners know that he can create a damaging combo off of a small opening. These combos quickly turn the tides of a match as they decimate stocks in seconds. PewPewU has an uncanny ability to choose combo strings that quickly add damage and kills, whereas other players often find only one or two additional hits for significantly less damage.Marth is a difficult character to play in teaams because of his laggy movement, but PewPewU makes it work.dddddddddddd He has a keen sense of knowing how to maximize Marths potential by utilizing quick hits and efficient combos to cover space and add damage as fast as possible. At the same time, his strong fundamentals allow for him to know when he can afford longer kill combos.5. Justin Plup McGrathDespite years of results, Plup goes under the radar in doubles discussions. He is one of the best players at controlling space and winning skirmishes as opponents have a hard time gaining stage positioning when he controls the stage. In many ways, hes so natural at teams that people tend to forget he is always in the right position to play off his partner and punish the other team.His character variety is also worth mentioning. When he plays his Samus or Sheik, he plays the supportive position very well, holding stocks while maintaining presence in the game. His newly formulated Fox is a menace to deal with because of his sheer speed and overall technical ability (he already plays Fox at a near top-10 level). The character variety gives his teams a big counterpick advantage as they can flex pick different compositions based on the stage and their opponents.4. Juan Hungrybox DebiedmaHungryboxs menacing punish game plays an even larger role in doubles. His ability to threaten the other team with rests and gimps makes it easy for him to establish stage control even with a defensive character in Jigglypuff.Similar to singles, players find it difficult to find meaningful openings against Hungrybox because of his outstanding neutral game. His phenomenal punish game means mistakes will result in quick deaths. He can also annoy teams with his incredible spacing as he takes away space, one back-air at a time.Playing against Hungrybox demands such great attention and mental focus, which allows his partners to find favorable opportunities. At the same time, Hungrybox can play the supportive role, finding quick kills in skirmishes that his partner sets up. No lead is ever safe when Hungrybox is still on the screen.3. Zachary SFAT CordoniSFAT is primarily known to team with PewPewU as the carry of the team. He has an uncanny ability to fight for space in close corridors. Unlike other Foxes, he can fight in one vs. two scenarios without taking heavy damage and sometimes even win the exchanges. This ability allows his partner breathing room to operate. In some sets, SFATs presence can be felt everywhere. In one moment, he can add fifty damage to one of his opponents and then immediately run across the stage to save his partner from dying.While he sees the bulk of his major success with PewPewU, he surprised everyone when he teamed with Kyle dizzkidboogie Athayde and nearly took a set off of Adam Armada Lindgren and Jason Mew2King Zimmerman at WTFox 2. SFAT is one of the few Foxes that can fight evenly with the gods in skirmishes and create opportunities to start team combos. Aspiring Fox players should look to SFAT to see how he takes over games.2. Adam Armada LindgrenArmada carries such a scary presence in doubles. His keen defensive intuition makes it difficult for his opponents to find openings and kills. He fights for stage positioning incredibly well while also setting up his partner for damaging team combos. Its incredibly difficult to fight Armada when he has stage control as he will choke away your teams options. Even if you find an opening, he will often trade damage to get a larger combo. Furthermore, he has a strong soccer-like sense of knowing where to position himself after the initial combo hit, seeing two to four steps ahead even before the combo begins.Armada matches very well with his regular partner Mew2King as their playstyles mesh cleanly with their fortress-like Peach-Sheik combo. When hes not with Mew2King, he also sees success in European events with his brother, Andrea Android Lindgren. His ability to threaten a death combo off of tiny openings makes him a very threatening player to deal with.1. Jason Mew2King ZimmermanMew2King continues to surpass expectations in doubles. He has dominated the major teams events with Armada and has seen success in teaming with other partners. Most recently, he won Shine 2016 with Justin Plup McGrath, despite never teaming at a prior major.Most impressively, Mew2King won Super Smash Con 2016 with first-time teammate Mustafa Ice Akcakaya. They started slowly and dropped some games early in the bracket, but built synergy over time as they defeated heavy-hitters Team Pewfat (Kevin PewPewU Toy and Zachary SFAT Cordoni) and Team SoCal (Joseph Mango Marquez and Johnny s2j Kim). Although Mew2King prefers teammates that play aggressively, he can also play with more passive teammates. Teams positioning is counterintuitive with Mew2King in the game. His positioning at the ledge creates so much fear that teams are willing to forgo chasing Mew2King into a corner because of his proficiency at the corner. In general, he is one of the most difficult players to hit because of his overall positioning and zone control, and his overall ability to stock-tank, extend team combos and find low percentage gimp opportunities makes him one of the most frustrating and intimidating opponents to play against. ' ' '