On January 21, the Suns beat the Lone Rangers 109-101 away to win five consecutive games, and the team's record of 35 wins and 9 losses continued to rank first in the league. The Suns trailed by eight points 74-82 in the first three quarters, but completed a comeback at 35-19 in the final quarter. Paul showed leadership style again, scoring 10 points in the final quarter and killing the game with a three-pointer. Paul contributed 20 points, 5 rebounds, 11 assists, 2 steals and 1 block in this game, without a single turnover. He gave the Lone Ranger core Doncic a lesson.
Doncic had 28 points, eight rebounds and eight assists, but made eight turnovers. In terms of control errors, Doncic is much worse than Paul. Paul, the assist king, suffered a cold reception in the All-Star vote and only finished seventh in the Western Guard. However, Paul's Suns are at the top of the league.
In this game, the old and spicy Paul is teaching the young people again. The Lone Ranger had the upper hand in the first three quarters of the battle. Paul led the team to a counter-offensive wave in the final quarter, and he quickly scored a three-pointer. Lone Rangers Brunson and Porzingis scored consecutive points. With nine minutes left in the game, the Suns trailed by nine points 80-89.
Paul scored on a layup, Payne scored a three-pointer, Paul made another retreat shot and the Suns closed the score gap. Claude and Bridges were also threatened. With 4:53 left in the game, Booker scored on a layup and the Suns finished 96-95.
The Suns' leak-picking in January also threatened at a critical time, when he scored a key 2+1 with paul's assist. Biyongbo originally signed a 10-day short-term contract with the Suns, and has now regularized a contract with the Suns until the end of the season. Biyombo played 28 minutes, had 9 points, 4 rebounds and 2 steals, plus or minus +13, and he played 10 minutes more than the starting McGee.
On top of that, the Suns' key moment was to use him to play center, with McGee sitting on the bench. Bi yongbo also made consecutive achievements at key moments, he had 2 minutes and 25 seconds left in the game, 1 of 2 fouls, 1 minute and 49 seconds left in the game, and Bi Yongbo scored with a dunk. Paul hit 26.1 seconds left on a three-point shot to give the Suns an eight-point lead 107-99, killing the game completely.
Paul once again proved his ability, given that the fan vote is too low, even if Paul is high in the media and player voting, it is difficult to get the All-Star starting position, but there is no doubt that he will be selected by the coach as an All-Star bench.