The NBA regular season continues, with the West ushering in a playoff fringe inter-team card battle, with the Pelicans sitting at home to face the Spurs.
With the reinforcement before the trade deadline, the Pelicans, who won CJ, finally reached the top ten in the West in the closing stage, and suppressed the Lakers with a win-loss relationship before the game, ranking ninth in the West, with home advantage in the playoffs, and the team has been in good shape recently, achieving a good result of 4-3 wins.
On the other hand, the Spurs, the team should have been in a mess this season, but the strength of the Western Playoff team was too poor and kept losing, resulting in the Spurs winning and losing can also continue to approach the ranks of the playoffs.
As soon as the game began, the Spurs dominated the game, taking the lead with free throws, but after a brief tug,around, the Pelicans, who played at home, quickly completed the rebound.
The Pelicans showed their recent hot form in the middle of the quarter, pulling the point difference to double digits in one breath, and the Spurs once narrowed the point difference to single digits, but with Marshall's two points, the Pelicans still had a 10-point lead at the end of the first quarter.
In the second quarter, the two teams pulled around the 10-point difference, and with 5 minutes left in the second quarter, the Spurs blossomed inside and outside, successfully completing the rebound, after which the two teams fell into a fight again, and the Spurs entered the halftime with a one-point lead with two points in front of halftime.
Yi Bian fought again, the two teams were full of firepower, both played the team's characteristics on the offensive end, and the score has been very tight, always maintaining within one round.
This situation lasted the entire quarter, with the first three quarters of the battle ending, and the two teams fought at 84 draws, entering the final quarter of the competition at the same starting line.
In the final quarter of the game, the Pelicans briefly fell into a mute in the middle of the quarter, the Spurs took advantage of the situation to pull the point difference to double digits, although the Pelicans frantically chased points after that, forcing the difference to two points, but the key moment did not call the suspension of the big act, and finally made the team pay the price of losing, the team lost to the Spurs 103-107, losing the key card battle.
There are not many topics that can be discussed in the game itself, and the Spurs, as a rebuilding team, showed the advantage of scoring more points, with 7 players scoring in double figures.
They are Kelden Johnson 21 points, 8 boards and 2 blocks, Murray 15 points, 11 boards, 13 assists and 3 blocks, Peltel 12 points, 11 boards, 3 assists and 3 blocks, Richardson 18 points and 2 boards, Primo 12 points, Collins 10 points, 5 boards and 3 assists, and Randell 10 points and 7 boards.
Although the Pelicans lost the game, the core CJ performed well, with 12 of 25 of 25, 4 of 10 three-pointers, 4 of 4 from the free throw line, and 32 points, 6 rebounds, 4 assists, 1 steal and 1 block.
Although there are not many points that can be discussed in the game itself, the chaos in the Western Conference playoffs caused by this win or loss is very interesting.
After losing the game, the Pelicans gave up ninth in the West, the Lakers moved back up to ninth in the West with a 0.5-game difference, and the Pelicans dropped to tenth.
The Spurs used this wave of three consecutive wins to narrow the gap between the team and the tenth Pelicans to one win, which made the Western Conference playoff competition very interesting, because the Pelicans and Lakers had to play more games next.
The Lakers' next schedule will be against the Pelicans, Lone Rangers, Jazz, Pelicans, Nuggets, Suns, Warriors, Thunder and Nuggets, two of which are crucial, and only the games against the Pelicans and Thunder are less difficult, and the rest of the games are very difficult.
The Pelicans' schedule is for the Lakers, Blazers, Lakers, Clippers, Kings, Blazers, Grizzlies and Warriors, except for the last two games, the Pelicans' schedule is very low.
The Spurs' schedule is rocket, grizzlies, trail blazers, blazers, nuggets, timberwolves, warriors and lone rangers, and the difficulty of the game against the Blazers and rockets is very low, so the spurs' schedule is between the Pelicans and the Lakers.
In this way, the situation becomes very clear, after the Spurs defeated the Pelicans, it seems that it is a good thing for the Lakers to win and rise to ninth, in fact, the Spurs return to the ranks of the playoff competition, and the Lakers are under the most pressure.
Because the Lakers' subsequent schedule is extremely difficult, the pelicans' difficulty is very low, and if the Spurs continue to be in this state, the probability of the Lakers being squeezed out of the top ten is significantly greater than that of the Pelicans.
In this way, let the Lakers two pelicans become the key, as long as the two pelicans are all won, then at least the initiative can be in their own hands, to ensure that their own record is better than the Pelicans, so as to at least lock in the tenth position.