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PHOENIX -- Rondae Hollis-Jefferson had a little extra energy on the court Saturday.The second-year pro learned just before the game that his mother had been flown in to Arizona to watch her son play. She watched from her second-row seat as Hollis-Jefferson scored a career-high 20 points with 13 rebounds in the Brooklyn Nets 122-104 victory over the Phoenix Suns.Just to have her here, that was more special to me than the 20 points, Hollis-Jefferson said. I winked at her about three times.Brooklyn got its first road win of the season, scoring 17 straight points late in the fourth quarter to extinguish the Suns comeback attempt.The Nets held a 102-100 lead with 4:16 to play when their decisive run began. It included Brook Lopezs 3-pointer with 1:47 to go to make it 113-100, and some tight defense on the Suns top scorers.Defense, it gives you that energy, that joy that you want. When you stop someone and you go down and score, its like `Woo! That was fun! Hollis-Jefferson said. We enjoy that whole process, the stop and the score.Trevor Booker added 19 points and eight rebounds, and Sean Kilpatrick had 19 points and nine boards for the Nets. Joe Harris also scored 19 points.T.J. Warren scored 18 points for the Suns. Jared Dudley added 17 off the bench.The Suns fell apart after Devin Bookers short jumper pulled them within two points with a little more than 4 minutes left and lost for the third time in four games.Phoenix shot a season-low 37.4 percent. The Suns 107 shot attempts were the highest in an NBA game this season, regulation or overtime.This is the first team that played the defense the way they played it, Suns coach Earl Watson said. They ... made us play out of the weak side, so they did a great job of taking away the paint, taking away the lane.The Suns took a lot of shots early in possessions.We just locked down defensively, Trevor Booker said. We shut down their transition and made them play half court.Harris two free throws gave Brooklyn its biggest lead of the first half at 57-41 with 1:08 to go. The Nets finished the half up 58-45 after leading by double digits for the last 5:19.TIP-INSNets: G Jeremy Lin remains out with a strained left hamstring. He watched Saturdays game from the bench and is expected to be re-evaluated this coming week. ... F Isaiah Whitehead missed his second straight game with a concussion and was not with the team Saturday.Suns: C Tyson Chandler remains away from the team due to a family matter and missed his third straight game. ... Rookie Tyler Ulis played 11 minutes, the most action hes seen since getting 18 on Halloween against the Los Angeles Clippers and the third game in which hes played this season.ANOTHER COACH, ANOTHER COMPLIMENTAdd the Nets Kenny Atkinson to the list of NBA coaches who have praised Bookers game. Im impressed with the confidence, the swagger he plays with and the attack mentality, Atkinson said.Booker, the teams leading scorer at 21.5 points per game coming in, made only 5 of 18 shots and finished with 11 points.CHRISS SHOTSSuns rookie Marquese Chriss got his third start and finished with a career-high 16 points. Chriss eclipsed his high of seven shot attempts before halftime, and took 15 in the game.LOUD FAN HEARS ITA vociferous fan sitting a few rows up from the court yelled at Watson to take Booker out of the game after a missed shot in the fourth quarter. 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Gowan was a member of both the Order of Canada and Canadas Sports Hall of Fame, and to track and field fans was an articulate broadcaster who "could turn a phrase as easily as any Olympian clears a hurdle," said longtime CBC producer Terry Ludwick. "He taught Canadians how to watch track and field," said Ludwick, now a broadcasting executive with the CBC. "He could sum up victory and defeat in such human terms, but with technical expertise that could be understood by a schoolboy or schoolgirl. And he had such a great sense of humour and great appreciation for the athletes that he covered. His articulation was such that its almost difficult to watch track and field now without hearing a British voice." The native of Ravenglass, England, travelled the globe covering track and field, covering countless Olympics and world championships. Ludwick remembers being in the broadcast boost with Gowan for the high jump at one particular meet. "We showed three or four replays for each competitor. One particular athlete went over and they werent successful and the bar went down. And we showed three or four replays, and towards the last one Geoff said And no matter how many times we show this replay, the bar will not stay up," Ludwick recalled, with a laugh. Gowan also dedicated much of his life to coaching development, and was technical director and president of the Coaching Association of Canada from 1972 to 96. In his 25 years with the national organization, he was instrumental in developing the National Coaching Certification Program, considered to be among the best coaching education programs in the world, and the program that has helped developed more than a million Canadian coaches. "Geoff was an outstanding leader in Canadian sport, and influenced thousands of athletes, coaches, and colleagues in sport management and the media. He has been a friend, role model, and mentor to myself and many others in Canadian sport, and will be deeply missed," CAC chief executive officer John Bales said in a statement. A lasting tribute to Gowans leadership is the annual Geoff Gowan Award, which recognizes lifetime contribution to coaching development. Many of Canadas top coaches have won the award, including Jack Donahue, Doug Clement, Al Morrow, Donald Dion, Charles Cardinal, Andy Higgins, Tim Frick, Allison McNeill, Lyle Sanderson, Dru Marshall and Keith Russell. "He was a really gracious human being," Ludwick said. "As a coach, he understood that in everyone there was a champion that could be coaxed out in whatever walk of life they were." Longtime CBC broadcaster Steve Armitage remembered Gowan as a tireless worker who could put in gruelling 13 and 14-hour days without showing the slightest bit of fatigue. Gowan worked alongside the late Don Wittman covering track and field for 26 years, making for what Armitage called "one of the great combinations in Canadian broadcasting history.&quuot; "He and Don (who died of cancer in 2008) really prided themselves in never having an argument," Armitage said.dddddddddddd "Geoff was so good. He was, in his delivery and in his vocabulary, almost Churchillian," Armitage added. "He would say things and he would say it in such a manner that after you heard it you would just go Wow. How did he come up with that? And his wasnt the shotgun, machine-gun approach to play-by-play. He would use his words sparingly and let the action tell the story." Longtime CBC sportscaster Mark Lee was similarly impressed with Gowans spine-tingling delivery. "His voice crackled with authority when he called track and field," Lee said. "His choice of words was so poetic, and his English accent gave him that distinguished quality that really separated him from the rest of the broadcasters. He was such a scholarly man when it came to track and field. . . but his ability to use his knowledge and distill it into 10 seconds of sterling broadcast quality with a delivery that came right out of Madison Avenue -- he was a really remarkable person that way." Lee remembers being Gowans partner in the booth for one of Donovan Baileys world championship 100-metre victories -- Donovan won the 100 metres at both the 1995 world championships and 96 Olympics. "During the replay, right from the blocks when the gun went off, Geoff counted off One. . . two. . . three. . . four. . . five. . . six. . .seven. . . eight. . . nine. . . 10, and I started leaning into the monitor to watch this," Lee recalled. "He got up to 44 and Donovan crossed the finish line and Geoff said, 44 steps: the first 10 with the explosion of a race engine and the next 15 accelerating leanly and smoothly, with the gait of a gazelle, and then relaxing through the last 10, or whatever. "But he counted every stride to the finish line. And at the end he said 44 strides to victory. It was so simple." Gowan could switch storytelling gears with ease, calling a field event or long-distance race with similar expertise. "It was remarkable to watch an endurance event like a mens 5,000 metres," Lee said. "He would get right inside an athletes head. The cameras would show you these grimacing close-ups and Geoff would tell you that the mind was willing but the body was failing in this case. Or he could tell you in a 400 metres that with 100 metres to go the lactic acid was coursing through a runners quads and his legs were beginning to feel heavy and rubber, and now it was just survival to get to the finish line without tying up and his body crippling him. "It was just a remarkable description of the human body at its best." "This was live too. He would choose these very descriptive passages right off the top of his head in a live broadcast," Lee added. "There are very very few people in this world who can do that." Gowan was inducted into the Canadian Sports Hall of Fame as a builder in 2002. He also received an honorary doctorate in civil law from Acadia University for his service to sport in Canada. Details on funeral arrangements have not been released. ' ' '