Live bar February 13, NBA regular season, the Suns today to meet the Magic, the former after four consecutive wins continue to top the league, the latter lost to the Jazz in the second-to-last place in the East. In the game, the Magic was still able to maintain a tug-of-war with their opponents, but then they fell into a scoring drought, the Sun took advantage of the situation to play a small climax to open the point difference to double digits, and the Second Quarter Magic still could not limit the opponent's attack, and had fallen behind by 14 points by the end of halftime. Yi Bian fought again, the Sun continued to occupy the initiative on the field, the point difference was expanded to more than twenty points, the game lost suspense early, and finally the Suns won the Magic and ushered in a five-game winning streak.
In the first quarter, Anthony took the lead in scoring three points on the outside, Ayton scored the first goal for the Suns with a jump shot, Paul broke through to the free throw line to shoot into the middle distance, after Sagas broke through the layup, the Magic began to fall into the scoring drought, Bridges cut the ball in the air, Ayton also played the advantage of the inside line, consecutive strong attacks, the Suns a wave of 8-0 small climax to take the lead, Rose broke through the hit to stop the jump shot, the magic in the final stage of the quarter was not allowed to score, Booker personally scored five points, Payton also hit a long shot in the bottom corner. The first quarter ended with the Suns leading the Magic 36-26.
At the beginning of the second quarter, Payton broke through to the box to score a throw, Crowder shot into the bottom corner to chase three points, the Suns scored consecutive points to expand their lead, Rose arc top finally hit the stop bleeding long shot, Harris wiped the defense to easily score a layup, the two teams began to fight around the difference of about ten points, after the suspension adjustment Paul borrowed cover to the free throw line to shoot into the middle distance, Saggers also did not stop the ball immediately chased after the two points, Wagner Jr. quickly received the ball to complete the dunk, and after Ayton's throw down, the point difference broke through twenty points again. Fortunately, the Magic shot a little closer to the score in the late quarter. At halftime, the Suns led the Magic 67-53.
Easy side to fight again, Little Carter down to complete the dunk, Bamba followed up to shoot three points, magic up to score consecutive points to narrow the point difference back to single digits, Booker bottom line near the plunge stop mid-range finally stopped bleeding, followed by a sudden shot to help the Sun quickly stabilize the situation, Paul outside the line and then long-range shot to stop the game, adjust back to Wagner Jr. to finally score, but this did not change the state of the Magic downturn, Bridges snatched and counterattacked after completing the dunk, the point difference was continued to expand to more than twenty points, and Little Carter ate cake to send a wonderful air connection, Craig's layup helped the Suns break through the 100 in three quarters. At the end of the third quarter, the Suns led the Magic 100-78.
In the last quarter, Johnson figured out the basket is that Wagner Jr. and Okiki have successively shot three points on the outside line, the Suns side Craig is not willing to show weakness, personally outside the shot continuous scoring to give a response, McGee basket to use the height advantage to easily score the ball, due to the point difference is too large, the two teams in this quarter are also more relaxed, Wagner Jr. along the bottom line to break through the tomahawk split dunk was ruthlessly blocked by McGee, the Sun always maintained a twenty-point lead on the court, the game also lost suspense early, and finally the Suns won the Magic, Five consecutive wins.
Both sides started
Suns: Paul, Booker, Bridges, Claude, Ayton
Magic: Cole Anthony, Sagas, Wagner, Carter Jr., Bamba
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