The NBA regular season continues, the West ushers in a strong dialogue, and the Suns sit at home to meet the Warriors.
As the two most popular teams in the West this season, before the start of the game, the situation of the two teams is very different, the Suns are in the middle of an 8-game winning streak, the team is in full swing, and it is impacting the team's historical regular season record.
On the other hand, the Warriors, after Curry's absence due to injury, the team's competitiveness has declined seriously, and it has suffered three consecutive losses recently, and the team has fallen to the third place in the West, leading the fourth lone ranger by only 0.5 wins, and even has the possibility of falling out of the first half.
As soon as the game began, the Suns showed a fiery state, Ayton came out on top for the team, Bridges and Paul played back-to-back to help the team establish a lead, with Booker's three-pointer, the Suns established a double-digit lead early.
Fortunately, in the second half of the warriors began to exert strength, under the leadership of Poole, the Warriors not only filled the double digits of the point difference, but also ended the first quarter with a 3-point lead.
In the second quarter, the Suns quickly completed the rebound, but the Warriors also handed over a good performance, tightly grasping the score, and only trailing by 2 points in the half, such a performance is rare for the Warriors who have been in a slump recently.
Easy side to fight again, the two teams continued the fierce confrontation in the second quarter, at the beginning of the quarter to play back and forth, the Warriors took the lead, not only to complete the counterattack, but also once established a 7-point lead.
Helplessly, the team made a series of mistakes in the second half of the quarter, the Suns also seized the opportunity to regain the lead, and the third quarter was over, and the Suns occupied a slight advantage of 2 points with Shamet's three points.
Entering the final quarter of the competition, the two teams were still in a tug-of-war for most of the time, the Warriors once overtook in the middle of the quarter, but the team made a series of mistakes in the last moment, and finally lost to the Suns 103-107.
After losing this game, the Warriors suffered four consecutive losses, and the team's record slipped to 48 wins and 29 losses, the same record as the Lone Rangers, and due to the win-loss relationship, the team slipped to fourth in the West.
Although the team lost the game, Poole's performance was still remarkable, playing 37 minutes, shooting 11 of 22 and 7 of 15 three-pointers, handing over a career-high 38 points, plus 9 rebounds and 7 assists.
This makes Poole the second player in Warriors history to deliver at least 30 points, 7 rebounds and 7 assists while hitting at least 7 three-pointers, the first is Curry.
Even so, in the crucial decisive moment, after Kerr called out a timeout, he still did not choose to trust him, but specially developed a tactic to shoot three-pointers for Clay, and as a result, Clay and Dream also made a mistake in coordination, and Dream made a very funny passing mistake, resulting in the Warriors eventually losing the game.
In the whole game, Clay played 33 minutes, 5 of 21 shots, 1 of 10 three-pointers, 13 points, 1 board and 4 assists, chased the dream for 31 minutes, shot 2 of 4, and had 8 points, 10 rebounds, 7 assists, 2 steals and 3 blocks.
In addition, The Warriors' other All-Star, Wiggins, played 33 minutes, shot 6 of 16, scored 19 points, 8 rebounds, 1 assist and 1 block, and it is not difficult to see the team's problems from the data.
In contrast, the Suns have five people in double-doubles and won nine consecutive games, including Bridges with 22 points and 7 rebounds, Booker 22 points and 5 rebounds, Crowder 10 points and 7 rebounds, Ayton 16 points and 16 rebounds, and Paul 15 points and 8 assists.
Although Ayton and Booker also made mistakes in a row, Paul pressed the line at the crucial moment, once facing a dream-chasing layup, plus a murderous shot, directly leading the team to victory.
This allowed the Suns to continue the record, with the team leading in the third quarter this season, the team achieved a record of 46 wins and 0 losses, and the team record came to 62 wins and 14 losses, equaling the team history record, and in the remaining 6 games, as long as one more game is won, it will set a team record.