On April 14, Beijing time, the Hawks played at home against the Hornets, and the Hawks successfully defeated the Hornets 132-103 at the end of the game. The NBA playoffs continue, but today's playoffs are different from yesterday, after all, the losing side will be eliminated, so both teams have to work hard to win this game, but in fact, the advantages of the Hawks side are more obvious, first of all, the Hawks are good in hard power, and secondly, the Hawks have reached the Eastern Conference Finals last season, so the Hawks have more experience to win the game. In this game, although the Hornets once occupied the lead, the Eagles quickly completed the counterattack to occupy the lead, and the third quarter of the game directly broke the Hornets to completely open the score, and finally the Eagles won a big victory.
The Hornets started 6-2 in the first quarter, then relied on Hult and other Hawks to bite the score, followed by Hunter hitting a three-pointer, Capela dunking and scoring, and the Hawks surpassing the Hornets by 2 points. After the timeout, the Hornets tied the score, then the Hawks played a wave of 11-0, harrell dunked at the key moment to stop the bleeding, and the next game Bogdanovic and others still helped the Hawks maintain a double-digit lead, and McDaniels hit a three-pointer at the end of the final stage, and the Hawks led by nine points at the end of the first quarter. In the second quarter, the two teams attacked each other, but the Hawks were in a sluggish offensive state behind, Thomas hit a three-pointer, the Hornets trailed by 8 points, but the Hornets were not in good offensive form, and the Hawks led by 11 points after Gallinari scored. After the timeout, the two teams came and went, but in the final stage the Hornets began to chase points, Trae Young scored in response, and the Hawks led by eight points at the end of the half.
In the third quarter, Trae Young helped the Hawks extend the lead, but rozier found offensive form and the Hornets also took the opportunity to chase eight points. After the timeout, the Hornets offense went wrong again, Hunter and others helped the Hawks lead to 16 points, and the Hornets struggled to stop the decline, Hunter and Trae Young helped the Hawks lead to more than 20 points, and Bogdanovic hit a three-pointer after the Hawks led to 24 points. Three goals in the final stage, Harrell and others scored to stop the bleeding, but the Hawks responded, and the Hornets trailed by 26 points at the end of the third quarter. In the fourth quarter of the game, the Eagles still maintained their form and continued to occupy the big score, and there was not much suspense in the following games, the Hornets still could not catch up with the score, and finally the Hornets suffered a fiasco.
The Hawks played a good form in this game, especially in the third quarter Hunt's outbreak became a turning point in the game, after all, although the Hawks once occupied the lead, but the Hawks had not much of a lead at this time, the Hornets have not let the Hawks completely open the score, but Hunter's three-point burst in the third quarter also helped the Hawks completely open the score. At the same time, Harden's old teammate Capela has an explosive performance in this game, and he has done a good job of rebound protection, which is also the key to the Hawks to be able to take the lead. As for Trae Young's performance in this game, he was depressed for a while, but in the second half of the game, Trae Young gradually found some touch.
At the end of the game, Trae Young had 24 points, 3 rebounds and 11 assists, Capela had 15 points, 17 rebounds and 3 assists on 6-of-9 shooting, and Hunter had 22 points, 7 rebounds and 2 assists. As for the Hornets losing the game is also expected, after all, the Hornets team is still young, although the three-goal team has talent, but in fact the three-goal performance in this game is not too good, and in the three-goal downturn, Rozier did not stand up in the game to help the team, when both are depressed, the Eagles really have difficulty winning, the end of the game 7 of 25 three goals got 26 points, 5 rebounds and 8 assists, Rozier got 21 points, 4 rebounds and 3 assists.
And after the Hornets missed the playoffs, is it really imperative for Westbrook to trade? After the Lakers missed the playoffs this season, lowe suggested that the Lakers go out of the west, the first round of 2027 and 2029 to replace Hayward and Oubre, in fact, such a deal is really possible for the Hornets, after all, the presence of Bridges makes Hayward's presence less, and Hayward's injury problems do bother the Hornets, more importantly, the Hornets want to enter the playoffs Hayward may be difficult to help the Hornets, while Westbrook has a lot of problems this season, But in fact, as long as he gives Westbrook the ball, he can still lead the team to win, and Westbrook's contract expires soon, at this time the Hornets may take the opportunity to dump Hayward's big contract in exchange for salary space, plus the Lakers draft pick This deal is still possible, but it depends on how big the Hornets want to play in the playoffs, so this deal is possible, but I am afraid it is not imperative.