After winning a big game at home, the Hawks, ranked tenth in the East, took a break and ushered in the challenge of the pelicans, who ranked tenth in the West.
In terms of the Eagles, Trae Young ushered in a comeback, and the Eagles sat on the home advantage, whether they can continue the winning streak has undoubtedly become a major attraction of this game.
On the other hand, on the Pelicans side, Varan + CJ McCollum is in the sky, and the Pelicans will also be ready to win the key card battle on the road and take 2 consecutive wins!
Finally, after 4 quarters of competition, with a wave of 19-3 scoring climax, the Pelicans, who were mainly anti-guests, comprehensively suppressed the Hawks in the first three quarters, and once achieved a huge advantage of as many as 19 points.
Despite the final minute, Trae Young + Bogdanovic felt hot and led the Eagles to several waves of counterattacks, successfully narrowing the point difference to single digits and preserving the suspense of the game.
But helpless Varan + Alvarado successively, the Pelicans regained a 5-point lead, and the Hawks repeatedly failed to attack at key moments, only to surrender.
The Pelicans, who finally withstood the pressure, also narrowly won the Hawks 117-112 on the road, and at the same time, they also won a wave of 2 consecutive wins!
Playing away from home in this game, the Pelicans continued the fiery state of the previous game, playing a team performance of 6 people scoring in double figures and all the staff.
In the case of Herbert Jones + Hayes + Hernangomez + Alvarado and other main players, each performing their duties, the play of the two aces CJ McCollum + Varan is particularly critical!
In this game, although CJ McCollum shot 9 of 26, he felt average, but he dared to fight and handed over an all-round performance of 25 points, 4 rebounds, 8 assists and 1 steal.
Among them, in the second quarter, he scored 10 points in a single quarter, which not only helped the Pelicans withstand the opponent's pressure to chase points, but also successfully revitalized the team's attack at the organizational end!
Of course, the Pelicans were able to beat the Hawks in this game, and the performance of varan, the team's inner pillar, also played a crucial role.
Varan was very efficient, starting 31 minutes, shooting more than 60% of the 10-of-16 shooting, and bombarding the team's high of 26 points, plus 12 rebounds, 4 assists and 1 steal.
And his key performance of scoring 10 points in 9 minutes in the last quarter not only successfully affected the trend of the game, but also almost single-handedly ended the Eagles' idea of trying to fight back!
Rationally speaking, although the hawks center Capela's performance is not bad, but this battle, whether in personal data or on-court performance, Varan is still slightly better than Capela at both ends of the offensive and defensive ends!
More importantly, after defeating the Hawks in this game and winning two consecutive key card battles, the Pelicans' regular season record has also come to 30 wins and 41 losses, and has officially surpassed the Lakers in rankings and risen to ninth in the West.
I have to say that with the current momentum of the Pelicans, the Lakers, who have fallen to the tenth place in the West, want to re-launch an impact on the ninth place in the West, and there is indeed no small difficulty!
On the other hand, on the Eagles side, the team was completely suppressed at both ends of the attack and defense in this game, and finally lost the game performance by 5 points, which obviously disappointed the home fans.
After all, in the case of Gallinari + Bogdanovic playing well and cutting 20+ at the same time, the performance of Trae Young + Hurth in this campaign is indeed somewhat unsatisfactory!
Although Trae Young delivered a double-double performance of 21+5+10 in this game, rationally speaking, he shot 5 of 14 in the whole game, and there were as many as 7 mistakes, which was still slightly crotch-pulling.
And this campaign against the Pelicans, tigers will be Hurth is also very sluggish, the debut of 16 minutes, 5 shots 0 feel cold not to mention, the whole game is not scored into the account, offensive and defensive ends can be described as no state!
Obviously, for the Eagles, who urgently need to improve the team's ranking, in the next few schedules, this young team will undoubtedly face great challenges and tests!