The Western Conference Finals, now tied, 2-2, returns to Los Angeles for Game 5 on Thursday night. Game 6 will be Saturday night in Phoenix.
Frye and the Suns' reserves were the center of a remarkable sight.
In front of a standing, roaring crowd, they hit 3-pointer after 3-pointer against the Lakers' starters to put the game away.
In all, the Suns' reserves outscored the Lakers' bench by a whopping 54-20.
The leaders were Frye and Leandro Barbosa with 14 points each and Jared Dudley with 11. The trio hit 9-for-18 on 3-pointers.
With the Suns leading 89-87 early in the final quarter, each of these players nailed a 3-pointer to give the Suns a decisive 98-89 lead with 6:47 left.
"I thought they were great offensively...and I thought they were better defensively," Suns coach Alvin Gentry said.
With these players leading the way, the Suns starters, including stars Amar'e
Stoudemire and Steve Nash, were bench-side cheerleaders for the first nine minutes of the final quarter.
"They're so unselfish," Gentry said of his players.
At one point, Gentry was about to replace Barbosa with starter Jason Richardson, but Richardson told Gentry, "He's going great, let's leave him in."
Gentry said, "It's really different than most NBA teams. We're more like a college team."
Frye had hit only 1-for-20 shots in the first three games.
"I told you I was going to continue to shoot, and my teammates believed in me," he said.
The Lakers concentrated on Stoudemire, who scored 42 Sunday but was held to 21 in this game, still enough to lead the Suns.
"Their game plan tonight was to take me out," Stoudemire said.
Nash, playing with a broken nose, shot 3-for-11 for 15 points with eight assists and two turnovers.
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