Today's NBA regular season continues, the last away victory over the Warriors' Spurs, today to challenge the league's second-place Sun, it can be said that two consecutive games encountered strong opponents. In the third quarter, the sun powered and directly pulled the point difference to double digits, but in the fourth quarter, the Spurs fought back and once tied the score, but at the critical moment, Sao Paulo, Ayton and Johnson all stood up. In the end, the Suns narrowly defeated the Spurs 108-104 at home, avoiding a two-game losing streak.
Let's take a look at the details of the game!
Today, although the Spurs failed to defeat the strong opponent again on the road, Thaddeus Young, who came off the bench, got 2 points, 1 rebound, 2 assists and 1 steal, and with a steal, Thaddeus Young became the third player in the active player to achieve 13,000 points, 6,000 rebounds and 1,500 steals, the other two being James and Westbrook.
Today, the Suns opened up the point difference to double digits in the third quarter, but the Spurs did not give up, and the fourth quarter of the game rose to chase, at one point chasing the score to 95 draws. A total of 6 players in this battle scored in double figures, but unfortunately the final reversal was lost!
The starters and substitutes are all soldiers
Kelden Johnson scored 13 points; McDermott shot three-pointers to cut 14 points; center Porter scored a double-double for 14 points and 11 rebounds on 7-of-11 shooting; White had 12 points, three rebounds and four assists, and Forbes had 15 points and three rebounds.
Murray 17+6+14+2, becoming the new core of spurs
Without DeRozan this season, the spurs have become the new core of the team, and the youngster Murray has become. In this game, Murray also played very beautiful statistics in the matchup with Paul, 7 of 12, 2 of 2 three-pointers, cut a team-high 17 points plus 6 rebounds and 2 steals, and also delivered a game-high 14 assists.
Although he is 36 years old, for Paul, the older he is, the more demon he is, the more he can stand up at the key moments of the game!
In the last quarter, one attack and one defense subdued the Spurs
In the last moments of the fourth quarter, Paul's attack and defense directly killed the game and subdued the Spurs, first look at the defense:
The Spurs had already chased the score to 97-100, and then the Suns attacked the pass error, Murray snatched and counterattacked, but the ball was cut by Paul from the bottom up when he went to the basket, and the ball finally met Murray's own hand mistake out of bounds, and the Spurs lost the opportunity to further close the score. Paul's precision in all these balls, the league can't find a second one!
Then the Suns made the last attack, Paul took advantage of Ayton's cover, came to the outside of the free throw line, shot 2+1 in the middle, pulled the point difference to 4 points, and directly killed the game!
10 points in the last quarter, 21+3+10
In the whole game, the old cannon played 35 minutes, 9 of 18 shots, including 2 of 5 three-pointers, 1 of 3 free throws, 21 points, 3 rebounds, 10 assists, 1 steal and 1 block, 10 points in the last quarter, leading the team to win, when Booker was not there, Paul was the sun's fixed sea god needle!
Among today's starters, paul on the offensive end is undoubtedly Crowder and Ayton. The two men combined to score 33 points, 15 rebounds and 4 assists today, which is the two major contributors to the team's victory.
Plus-minus +13, Crowder won the game
Today, Crowder shot 7-of-14 from the field, 4-of-10 from three-point range, and cut down 19 points, 6 rebounds, 4 assists, 1 steal, 1 block, plus-minus +13.
Ayton's key dunk contributed 14+9
Dumbo also hardened on the inside today, playing 35 minutes, 7 of 13 shots, and in the last minute of the last quarter, receiving a teammate's pass and dunking, stabilizing the situation for the Suns.
In addition to playing well in the starting lineup today, there is also a veteran on the Sun bench who has played an efficient performance, that is, Barley Key!
McGee came off the bench and played only 12 minutes and 33 seconds, shooting 5-of-7 and 3-of-5 from the free throw line, contributing 13 points and 7 rebounds, four of which were frontcourt rebounds. In Ayton's absence, he did his job brilliantly.
Such an excellent performance, it can be said that the sun really picked up the treasure!