Jaylen Brown made a force in the last quarter, Green Kai won nearly 15-13; "Alphabet" slashed 29+14, the Nets avoided being swept by the defending champions; the Bulls lost again, and the internal worries were completely exposed.
Cunningham is back in shape! Green Kai ended the quarter in a wave of flowing matches
Green Kai continued to soar, 113-103, and their away win over the Detroit Pistons, two consecutive wins after the All-Star Game, but also their 13 wins in their last 15 games.
In the first three quarters of the game, the two sides showed a kind of back and forth, and the point difference did not exceed 5 points at the most. Last year's NBA champion Lang - Cade Cunningham is in very good shape, the first three quarters played a total of 19 minutes, cut 17 points and 5 rebounds, and 3 mid-range shots all hit the center of the net, is the Biggest contributor to the Pistons' ability to maintain the score gap in the first three quarters.
Green Kai's side of White and Tatum are very calm, the former only 3 points in the game to score. Although the latter scored 26 points, but the shooting rate is just over 30%, if it were not for Jaylen Brown, Green Kai might really be in the Little Caesars Arena.
The Celtics spent about five minutes in the fourth quarter, playing a 22-8 offensive wave, directly pulling the point difference to around double digits. Jaylen Brown was the initiator of this offensive wave, and in the fourth quarter he played the whole quarter, scoring 9 points and 2 rebounds on 4-of-7 shooting, and scoring 27 points in total, becoming the Celtics' best offensive performance player.
Bucks, Nets three battles, Kyrie Irving led the team to win!
The Milwaukee Bucks are at home for their third game of the season against the Brooklyn Nets. In the first two meetings, the Brooklyn Nets had two superstars in attendance, but in the end they both lost to their opponents by double digits. This time, brooklyn only has one giant, Carey Owen, in the fight, and it seems that the result of this confrontation will not be much different from the previous two....
In the first quarter, the Bucks did have an advantage in the scene. Their double-center lineup has a big advantage in rebounding, and the two space-based centers Ibaka and Portis have shot very good three-pointers in this game, especially the latter. Throughout the game, he single-handedly shot 14 three-pointers (when I saw this statistic at the time, I thought I was wrong), and 8 of them were in the net, giving the Bucks very good offensive space for the rest of the players, and the Bucks quickly took advantage of the game.
However, Brooklyn got it right in the most critical part of the game, which was their defense against the "alphabet brother". From the book, "Alphabet Brother" is to cut a 29 +14 large double-double, but his shooting rate and the number of shots, are the new lows in the past three games, the Bucks in the offensive output of the player has become the 30 + 12 Bobby Portis, I think this is a thing that the Bucks coaching staff especially do not want to see.
Can defend so well, mainly due to James Johnson and "Zhuang Shen", the two people are good in height, weight, strength, can withstand the impact of "Alphabet Brother" in some rounds of positional warfare, so that "Alphabet Brother" is forced to pass the ball. Even in some rounds, they can predict the offensive route of the "letter" and strangle the "letter" in advance. It is worth mentioning that "Zhuang Shen" himself is also very good in the offensive end, 30 minutes of playing time to score 17 + 12 + 5, 17 points of scoring is not only eat cake, many times he uses some ball to attack, or throw to respond to the opponent's air defense against him, the effect is quite good.
"Ou Shenxian" also contributed one of the most gorgeous offensive performances this season so far, in the whole game, he shot 14 of 26 and cut 38+5+5, making up for the gap in the team's offensive talent. In the fourth quarter, he scored 12 points throughout the quarter, leading the team to complete the comeback in the final quarter, winning 126-123 and leading the Nets to their first victory against the Bucks of the season.
Morant blasted the highest score of the season, and the Bulls lost again!
At Chicago's Union Center, Ja Morant scored his first single-game 45+ of the season, hitting 15 of them on 28 of 28 shots and conceding just one of his four three-pointers (his highest three-point shooting rate since Jan. 2, 2022), leading the team to beat the Bulls on the road and ending his opponent's six-game winning streak.
The Grizzlies have a very clear advantage under the basket, starting center Adams grabbed a total of 21 rebounds in the whole game, and when the first quarter was 4 minutes left, his personal rebounding number was doubled.... Throughout the game, Memphis scored 12 more points in the penalty area than his opponents, grabbed 13 more frontcourt rebounds (19:6 on both sides), and seven rebounds in the backcourt. In addition, the Bulls did not even have a backcourt that could be matched against Morant, and the Bulls guard who guarded him, Dosem, was broken through miserably, and Vucevic under the town guard was not superior in weight and strength, and he could always be pushed out of Morant's offensive route by Adams, and the Grizzlies played very easily on the offensive end.
The Bulls have not had a good record against strong teams this season, mainly because against such high-level opponents, Chicago often gets stuck in a large number of singles rounds. This game was no exception, with DeRozan shooting 31 points on 10-of-29 shooting (shooting his lowest since Jan. 9, 2022), and LaVine slashed 28+4+6, with none of his three three-pointers missed. However, this style of over-frequency singles has left the Bulls' offense fragmented, with the Bulls having only 17 assists in total, their lowest number of assists per game of the season, and their 41 percent shooting percentage is also 7 percentage points below the season average.