On March 12, Beijing time, the Suns played at home against the Raptors, and the sun lost to the Raptors 112-117 at the end of the game. Although the Suns are missing Paul, but at this stage the Suns still played a good state, as for the Raptors in the recent state is not good, now against the First in the West Sun Raptors want to win is a difficult thing, but without Paul's Sun strength is still weaker, so the Raptors are not a chance to win. In this game, the Raptors took the lead early, but the Suns also played a role in the game to chase the score, but unfortunately, at the critical moment, the Suns made mistakes to give the Raptors the opportunity to stay ahead, and finally the Suns lost the game.
Barnes helped the Raptors score in the first quarter, and then Crowder also played 2+1, and the next game the Suns once took the initiative, but the Suns offense came to a standstill, the Raptors seized the opportunity to play a wave of 12-2, and then Booker scored to stop the bleeding, Siakam responded, and the Raptors led by 6 points at the end of the first quarter. In the second quarter, the Suns chased the score, but the Raptors gave a response to bite the score, and in the following game, Siakam and Trent helped the Raptors take the lead, Crowder hit a three-pointer to stop the bleeding, Trent immediately responded, and the Raptors led by 4 points at the end of the half. In the third quarter of the game Ayton, Crowder helped the team to complete the rebound, but soon Trent responded, the next game the two teams are still playing glue, but then the Suns again appeared offensive power outage, the Raptors once again played a wave of 12-0 to establish a lead, and then Booker and others scored to stop the bleeding, the third quarter ended the Raptors led by 6 points. In the fourth quarter, the Suns once chased the score, but the Suns attacked badly at key moments, and in the end, Booker missed the Raptors by three points to win the game.
It can be said that it is still a pity that the Suns lost the game, but the Suns did not perform well at key moments, and mistakes in key moments are the key to keeping the Raptors in the lead, and when the team needs to score, Booker did not stand up to help the team here, so the Suns in the West lost the game and fell down. It can be said that the Suns still have a big difference between Paul and paul, after all, if the Suns have a player like Paul in the fourth quarter game, they can play more calmly, and finally Booker Ayton and the two of them cut 38 points, 10 rebounds and 9 assists.
The reason why the Raptors won the game, the Lakers had the intention of Trent in this game is to play an explosive performance, after all, in this game Trent is a very good performance, if it is not his play in the game then the Raptors are still difficult to win, the end of the game Lakers' favorite Trent got 42 points, 8 rebounds and 1 assist data. Of course, Siakam also played well in this game, and at the end of the game, Siakam had 25 points, 7 rebounds and 10 assists, and VanVleet had 10 points, 8 rebounds and 4 assists.
For the Raptors to win this game is still very critical, after all, now the Eastern Conference ranking competition is very fierce, the Nets here is also a tiger's eye, coupled with the Raptors' last period of consecutive defeats or gave the Nets the opportunity to bite the ranking, but this game the Raptors can win the game or shake off the Nets, and the Nets' next schedule is not easy, so the Raptors still have a lot of opportunities to keep their rankings, and now the Raptors rank seventh in the East is 2.5 wins ahead of the Nets.