Shawn Marion had 22 points for the Suns, despite playing with a sprained right wrist. Stephen Dunn/Getty Images
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PHOENIX (AP) -- The Memphis Grizzlies got the rough game they wanted, and the slower pace they prefer.

Still, it wasn't quite enough against the Phoenix Suns.

The Suns erased a five-point deficit with a 14-4 run over the final 4:04 to beat the Grizzlies 108-103 on Wednesday night and take a 2-0 lead in their best-of-seven first-round series. Game 3 is Friday night in Memphis.

Amare Stoudemire, who scored just nine points in the series opener, had 34 points and 10 rebounds, including 18-of-22 shooting at the foul line.

"The guy's a gamer," Suns coach Mike D'Antoni said. "At 22 years of age, he just shows remarkable poise, and a heck of a game."

The physical Grizzlies sent Phoenix to the line 40 times, and the Suns made 32 of them.

Shawn Marion, playing with a sprained right wrist, added 22 points for Phoenix, including a pair of 15-footers that tied the game, then put Phoenix ahead for good. He also grabbed 13 rebounds and had four of the Suns' 10 blocked shots.

"We just toughed it out," D'Antoni said. "They played great. Obviously, they're a physical team. We knew that's what they would come out and do. They have a lot of pride and they're not going anywhere. It will be the same thing in Memphis, and we're ready to roll."

Quentin Richardson had 15 points, and had a crucial 3-pointer and a big blocked shot in the final minute.

Joe Johnson scored 20, while Steve Nash had 12 points and 15 assists. Nash's two free throws with 9.1 seconds to play put Phoenix ahead 106-103, then after a timeout, Mike Miller missed what would have been the game-tying 3 from the corner, and Richardson finished it off with two free throws.

"I should have made it," Miller said. "But when I let it go, I knew it was short."

Stoudemire when the Memphis big guys started pounding inside, he knew he was the one who had to respond.

"With me being the big guy, I thought I had to step up as being one of the aggressive guys on the court," he said. "I think I stepped up and did a great job of doing that, but not getting out of control."

Pau Gasol overpowered the smaller Suns most of the night for 28 points and 16 rebounds, both career playoff bests. Jason Williams scored 21, also a career playoff high, but was scoreless in the fourth quarter. Brian Cardinal added 13 points and Lorenzen Wright 12.

"There's a lot of good things that happened in the game for us that I think we can build on," Grizzlies coach Mike Fratello said. "Our playoff experience is growing, and we're getting a better understanding of what it takes to play in these games and how hard it is to get a win in the playoffs."

Down 99-94 with 4:04 to play, the Suns scored nine in a row to go up 103-99 on Stoudemire's final two free throws with 2:04 to play. Richardson started the run with a 3-pointer, one of only five by the Suns in 17 attempts. After Gasol was called for offensive basket interference, Marion made a 15-footer from the baseline to tie it 99-99 with 3:24 to play.

After Earl Watson of Memphis missed a layup in traffic, Nash missed a 3-pointer, but Stoudemire chased down the rebound and was fouled.

James Posey made one of two free throws to cut it to 103-100 1:46 from the end. Richardson blocked Gasol's 10-footer with 37 seconds remaining, then was fouled and made one of two free throws with 15.8 seconds to go.

Miller, scoreless up to that point, sank a 3-pointer to cut the lead to 104-103 with 10 seconds left. Nash, an 89 percent free throw shooter, made both foul shots with 9.1 seconds to go to put the Suns ahead 106-103.

The Suns are the highest-scoring team in a decade, and banging them around has been a tactic that worked on occasion in their 62-win regular season.

Memphis committed 28 fouls to 17 for Phoenix and had the Suns howling at the officials all night.

A flagrant foul against Stoudemire resulted in four Memphis points and gave the Grizzlies a 90-88 lead with 6:36 to play. Watson stole the ball from Nash, then threw it to Cardinal, who was fouled by Stoudemire going up for the layup. Cardinal made both free throws, then Gasol stuffed his own miss to put Memphis ahead.

The Suns tied it on Johnson's 3-pointer, but Posey made a 3 on the next possession, then Stoudemire was called for goaltending a shot by Gasol and Memphis had a 99-94 edge with 4:02 remaining in front of a nervous capacity crowd.

Notes: Williams was 6-for-6, all long-range jumpers, for 13 first-quarter points, but failed to score in the second period. ... Only seven teams have come back from 0-2 deficits to win a best-of-seven series, but Houston did it twice against the Suns -- in the 1994 and 1995 Western Conference semifinals. ... Bonzi Wells and Stromile Swift, normally part of the Memphis rotation, did not play. Swift had a sore ankle, Fratello said. Dahntay Jones, who didn't play in Game 1, had eight points in 29 minutes.