Beijing time on April 18, the NBA playoffs continue, today the first Sun in the West sat at home to usher in the challenge of the eighth Pelicans in the West, in the previous expert predictions, many are optimistic that the Suns can win the championship this season, and in the face of the Pelicans who won two consecutive games in the playoffs to advance, it is reasonable to say that they can easily defeat the opponent, but who ever expected the Suns to suddenly lose power in the third quarter, if it is not the excellent play of the old cannon, this game may be reversed.
Game review, the first quarter of the game began Booker and Ayton inside and outside the continuous killing of the Pelicans made the Pelicans miserable, the Pelicans only relied on Ingram to bite the score, two fists are difficult to defeat four hands, the first quarter ended the Sun led by 12 points, Easy side to fight the Sun under the leadership of Paul and Ayton in a hot state, and the Pelicans are delayed in finding the state, at the end of the half they have fallen behind the opponent by 19 points, seeing that the game is about to disappear, the result of the third quarter Nance Jr. stood out at both ends of the offensive and defensive ends, he also activated his teammates, Helping the team chase just eight points in the third quarter and seeing that the opponent was about to take off, Paul opened a personal mode in the fourth quarter, and 19 points in the single quarter helped the team beat the Pelicans 110-99.
In terms of data, Paul shot 12 of 16 shots, 4 of 6 three-pointers, 30 points, 7 rebounds, 10 assists, 3 steals, 1 block data, the old cannon is still stable, before the start of the playoffs, many fans are worried about Paul's state and whether his physical fitness can help the sun, the result is that today the old cannon played 35 minutes, the last quarter 19 points and 2 assists, he is not like the regular season like pretending to die, the team needs to stand up when it is needed, all kinds of mid-range killing, quite unsolvable.
Booker and Ayton also have good performances, Booker shot 8 of 19, 4 of 8 three-pointers to take 25 points, 4 rebounds, 8 assists and 1 steal, the first three quarters Booker played a great performance, which also allowed Paul to have enough physical ability to contribute to the fourth quarter, and Paul played in the fourth quarter, Booker took the initiative to give up the ball as a green leaf, such a spirit is commendable, Ayton scored 21 points, 9 rebounds, 2 assists and 4 blocks on 10-of-15 shooting.
Ayton's confrontation ability is still a little worse, facing Varan, he was blown up by the opponent in terms of rebounding, but Ayton also relied on his own speed and flexibility, several times to block the down cake to punish Varan's slow speed problem, the triple combination of 76 points, from here it can be seen that the Suns are in good shape, in addition to the three, Bridges scored 11 points, 5 rebounds, 3 assists and 2 blocks, Cameron Johnson got 13 points and 1 rebound.
The Pelicans still lost in terms of inexperience and the quality of the stars is not as good as the opponent, when the team started, Ingram and CJ did not make too decent performance, they did not play an exemplary role, but Nance Jr. activated his teammates, as a leader, today Ingram and CJ's performance is not satisfactory, in this campaign Ingram shot 6 of 17, 1 of 2 three points to get 18 points, 5 rebounds and 4 assists, CJ shot 9 of 25, 3 of 3 of 3 points, 25 points, 8 rebounds and 6 assists, The two should have gone more to kill the ability to shoot free throws in the case of bad hands, rather than inefficient shots on the outside all the time.
This campaign Varan tried his best, although the offensive end is not efficient, 7 of 21 shots, 1 of 1 three-pointers 0 to get 18 points, but he took 25 rebounds, the opponent started 5 people a total of only 26 rebounds, the whole game won 13 frontcourt boards, the opponent team can not afford to add more than 5 frontcourt boards, but his efforts did not exchange for the team to win, in addition to the three people, the whole team only left Nance Jr. scored double-digit points, got 14 points, 6 rebounds, 3 assists and 1 steal.
The next game between the two sides will take place on Wednesday, and judging by the current strength and ability of the Pelicans' roster, there is almost no hope for them to win at home with the Suns. Finally, to mention the record set by the Suns in this game, paul became the oldest 30+10 assists player in history after scoring 30 points and 10 assists, and the previous holder was the Suns' famous Nash. And this season when the Suns led in the first three quarters they achieved a combined record of 48 wins and 0 losses, not a single defeat!
This is much more violent than the Pope's Law of the year, 48 games unbeaten, from here we can also see how good the stability of the sun is, black eight is simply not realistic for them. Speaking of which, what do you want to say about the pelicans and the sun now? Welcome to leave a message to discuss.