As last season's Western Conference champion, in this season, the Suns still maintain a super high level of competition, played a wave of team-record winning streaks at the beginning of the season, and is still firmly in the league's first position. I have to say that since Paul came to the Sun, the Sun, which was originally known as the Western Fish Belly Team, has been transformed in an instant, the overall play is more fluent, and a number of young people have grown. In the game earlier today, they welcomed the second opponent of the five-in-a-row road trip - the Pacers, facing the team that broke out some time ago to rebuild, the Suns effortlessly won the fourth quarter, and the team's double star was also called the contemporary "OK combination" by fans after the game.
In this game, the Suns played very steadily, still holding the lead after three quarters, until the final quarter was ready to clock out of work, breaking the Pacers' defense in one fell swoop, and ending the game with a wave of flow. In this game, As the core, Booker still played the main firepower of the Suns' attack, scoring 35 points, 4 boards and 3 assists on 11 of 25 shots, which is still the most stable scoring point for the Suns. In addition, supernova Ayton played no worse, in addition to the efficiency of 12 of 18, he also contributed 27 points and 12 boards in 29 minutes, becoming the second sharp knife to support the Suns in this game.
I have to say that the performance of these two people is really strong, Booker's performance in the first two quarters of this game is decent, there is not much bright place, but in the third quarter, the Pacers want to sneak up on the Suns, so as to reverse the disadvantage, it is Booker who stands out, cut 22 points in a single quarter to bite the point difference, and the Suns can not dig a hole in the third quarter. In addition, in addition to Booker, Ayton has also subdued all the sunspots in this game, and in a strong team like the Suns that aspires to win the championship, Ayton obviously cannot be like other rookies, with a large number of ball rights piled up data, but he can know how to win better than others. In this game, Ayton faced the impact of the former Quanming new interior lineman Sabonis + Turner, but this time he was not as "soft" as the fans have been criticizing, but directly hung the Pacers' inside line, becoming the most stable point of the Suns.
If Ayton could play like this every game, the sun would just take off. However, the Suns' style of play is not only around the inside line, Ayton wants to reach the point where he does not occupy the ball, and can reach the point of averaging 20+10 per game, there is still a distance. However, I believe that with Paul's assistance, he can also play his own fame soon, after all, there is such a legendary point guard who specializes in helping the center to raise his value, Ayton is also very lucky. As the sun's first scorer, and because Booker is from the 13th overall shooting guard, and he is also Kobe's fan, Booker is often compared with Kobe. However, he himself did not resent this in the slightest.
After today's game, the reporter talked about the previous game against the Raptors, Booker reported the Raptors mascot to the referee for interfering with the free throw, and then was criticized by netizens, as an active 70-point Mr. Booker responded: "I have always enjoyed social media and will check it every day. But the only thing that's wrong with his feelings is that people still compare me to Kobe Bryant, and last year's playoffs have already said, don't mention the Mamba spirit, I'm not Kobe! Obviously, It's normal that Booker is bent on being himself, and no one wants to live in someone else's shadow, and so does Booker.
According to the current situation, the possibility of the Suns competing for the championship is still very large, although their lineup does not have the most prominent place, but there is no loophole, the defense of the flanks is the top of the league, the inside line also has the growing Ayton and McGee to protect, the outside line has Paul's organization and Booker's output, according to the current lineup, this season is also the Suns' most promising year to impact the championship! Do you think the Suns can reach the Finals this season? Feel free to leave a comment in the comments section below and discuss it together!