Beijing time on January 25, today, phoenix suns at home to meet the Utah Jazz, this is a strong dialogue between the first place in the west and the fourth place in the west, from the strength point of view, the sun to have a slight advantage, but the jazz of this game is not to let go. At the end of the first three quarters, the difference between the two sides was less than five points, and the Jazz led the Suns by two points at 87-85. At the beginning of the fourth quarter, Pascal's basket caused a foul on Biyombo, and the Jazz stretched the gap to 5 points, but back, Cameron Johnson played 2+1, and soon after, the Jazz side Gay stepped up to the free throw line to take two more points, and the point difference was again stretched to 5 points.
Paul turned on the offensive mode, he first won the mid-range, and then hit a three-point shot against the opponent's defense, the Suns completed the rebound, and then, Paul broke through into the inside line to attract the defense, Bi Yongbo understood, inserted the basket from the left side, hit the ball in the trend, the Jazz were stopped, and the Suns led by 3 points. Timeout back, Paul three-pointers fell, Biyombo went off the field, McGee came on, then Paul made a mistake but the Jazz did not grasp it, the Sun counterattacked, Paul caused the opponent to foul, walked to the free throw line, the Jazz side, the white side dunk to stop the bleeding, but Cameron Johnson's three-pointer widened the point difference again, after the Jazz side forester scored 2 points, Paul also scored 2 points, and then Paul stole and made a foul to go to the free throw line.
In the decisive moment, Paul scored two points from mid-range, Clarkson hit two consecutive three-pointers to stop the bleeding, but Cameron Johnson was like a god, hit another three-pointer, but Clarkson did not hesitate to let go, the three points were still colored, and the final time was exhausted, and the Suns narrowly beat the Jazz 115-109. After this game, the Suns won seven consecutive games, with a record of 37 wins and 9 losses, ranking first in the league, and the Jazz suffered two consecutive losses with a record of 30 wins and 18 losses, continuing to rank fourth in the West. In this game, Paul played 40 minutes, 10 of 17, cut 27 points, 9 rebounds, 14 assists and 1 steal, put great pressure on the opponent at both ends of the attack and defense, his plus-minus value +7, the fly in the ointment is that he had a rare 7 mistakes, but Paul is undoubtedly the biggest contributor to the team's victory.
Booker played 38 minutes in this game, the state picked up, 14 of 35 shooting, cut 33 points, 7 rebounds, 3 assists, 2 steals and 2 blocks, and made 3 turnovers, almost burying a good game of 6 of 0 in the last quarter. Biyongbo once again created a big surprise in this game, he came off the bench for 31 minutes, 7 of 10, contributed 16 points, 13 rebounds, 1 assist and 1 block, plus or minus +1, Biyongbo cut 21+13+5 data in the last game, this game cut 16+13 data, under Paul's feeding, he has played the data of top centers, in the offensive end of the white side, it can be said that Paul helped Biyongbo to regain his job, Biyongbo should thank Paul well.
In addition, Bridges had 4 points, 4 rebounds, 5 assists and 2 blocks, Cameron Johnson 20 points, 6 rebounds and 3 steals, McGee 6 points, 9 rebounds and 2 blocks, Shamet 3 points and 3 assists, Payton 6 points, 2 rebounds and 2 assists, the Jazz side, Clarkson 22 points, 4 rebounds, 5 assists and 2 blocks, House 14 points, 7 rebounds, 4 assists, 2 blocks, Gay 13 points, 5 rebounds, Whiteside 10 points, 9 rebounds and 2 assists, Forrester 17 points, 6 rebounds and 2 assists, Pascal 14 points and 4 rebounds, Jared Butler 13 points, 2 assists and 4 blocks, Hughes had 6 points and 2 rebounds.
São Paulo stepped up in the last quarter when the team needed it, scoring 15 points alone and becoming a hero of the team's reversal. In this game, Paul once again interpreted the true colors of the top defenders, he can not only score his own points, but also help his teammates get better, it turns out that Paul is worthy of the 40 million contract, the sun is getting better this season, they have become the favorite contenders for the championship, and Paul will also have a place in the MVP competition.