Steve Nash scored 30 points and had 10 assists and the Suns -- playing without Amare Stoudemire -- rallied from a 12-point second-quarter deficit and beat the Cleveland Cavaliers 103-92 on Sunday night.

Stoudemire, the Suns' All-Star center, was sidelined because of soreness in his right knee. He had arthroscopic surgery on the knee Oct. 2. Coach Mike D'Antoni said Stoudemire was day to day.

Despite Stoudemire's absence, the resilient Suns were able to overcome the Cavs and LeBron James.

"I feel like the first three games, we haven't had good rhythm, we haven't had cohesion," Nash said. "Tonight we scrapped a little tougher in the second half. We have to work together and find the rhythm that we've been successful with."

Shawn Marion had 23 points and 12 rebounds for the Suns. Leandro Barbosa scored 14 points, and Boris Diaw, who started in place of Stoudemire scored 16. Nash had 22 points in the second half.

"We got more lively in the second half," Marion said. "We got out of the sand dune.

"We're playing good defense, but we can play better defense. The perception is we don't play defense, but we do."

LeBron James led Cleveland with 27 points, 21 the second half, while Zydrunas Ilgauskas and Drew Gooden each scored 22. Gooden had 14 rebounds and Ilgauskas 13.

Mike D'Antoni, who became the fastest Phoenix coach to 200 victories, wasn't ecstatic with the win, but he was satisfied.

"It wasn't pretty, but it was effective," he said. "We're not there yet, but we'll get there. In the second half, we scored 65 points and still didn't shoot very well, so that's encouraging."

The 7-foot-3 Ilgauskas, who was being guarded by the 6-8 Diaw or 6-9 Brian Skinner, dominated the first half, scoring 14 points and grabbing eight rebounds en route to the 150th double-double of his career.

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