On April 4, Beijing time, the NBA broke out of the big cold, the Thunder team in the bottom of the West with a very young lineup, they successfully overturned the league's first Sun team at home 117-96, ending a two-game losing streak, while the Suns suffered two consecutive losses, which is a very rare losing streak for the Suns this season. The team is still 62 wins, and the team is still one win away from setting a new all-time high.
The game was somewhat dramatic, with the Suns playing solidly in the first quarter, and they maintained a lead in the lead of Paul and Bridges, who scored 27 points in a single quarter, seven points ahead of the Thunder. According to this performance, the Suns should have widened the point difference further in the next three quarters and then easily won the game. But in the next three quarters, the Suns' performance was not ideal, including the second quarter, they net loss to the Thunder by 6 points, and in the third quarter, the Suns were played by the Thunder for a wave of 32-22 offense, a net loss of 10 points in a single quarter, and at the end of the third quarter, the Suns had fallen behind the Thunder by 9 points.
In the final quarter, the Suns still haven't been able to find the game status, they are not playing well overall, and the Thunder are getting better and better, their young players have shown their determination to win, and the team has done better than the Suns in many ways. In this quarter, the Thunder beat the Suns by 12 points in a single quarter. In the end, the Thunder successfully won the Suns by 21 points at home, breaking out of the big cold.
From the overall strength of the two teams, the Suns to occupy an absolute advantage, although the team has two main players absent, Booker and Ayton can not play, but they also have Paul, Bridges and Johnson and other players, the lineup is still very complete, but in this game, they did not play their most authentic level, the team after playing the first quarter, they were suppressed by the Thunder in the last three quarters, at most the Suns were more than 20 points behind the Thunder. Against the league's bottom-to-last team, the Suns didn't play well in this game, and some of them were light in the game, which also led to a 21-point defeat on the road, which had no chance of creating the best record in team history.
Paul played 30 minutes in this game, 11 points and 9 assists on 5-of-11 shooting, while Johnson only scored 14 points on 2-of-11 three-pointers, Bridges scored 18 points on 7 three-pointers, the main players of the whole team were not very good, in the face of the more dynamic Thunder, the team was not able to play the dominance it should have, and finally the team also suffered a fiasco, and this season the team rarely lost consecutively.
On the Thunder side, there are not many players who can play in this game, but each of their players has a very good performance on the court, of which God Tapokushevsky has a triple-double of 17 points, 10 rebounds and 12 assists on 7-of-14 shooting. As a 2.13-meter interior lineman, being able to get a triple-double in the game is shining enough that he became a hero to the team's victory, it is worth mentioning that this is the first triple-double of his career, and it is also the first center player of the Thunder to get a triple-double since 2008. In addition to him, Wiggins scored 17 points in this game, Sal contributed 24 points, players such as Robbie, Kreyich and Waters, they also scored double digits, the whole team had a total of 7 people in this campaign to score in double figures, the team lineup is very young, not very competitive, but when there is a chance, they can also beat the league's No. 1 player, this Thunder team is extremely talented, their performance deserves to be recognized by more people.