On April 20, Beijing time, the NBA playoff focus battle sun vs Pelicans. Booker suffered a hamstring injury in the third quarter after 31 points at halftime, and the Suns lost 114-125 at home to make it 1-1. Booker's injury has become a huge hidden danger for the Suns to advance to this series.
He scored 31 points on 7-of-10 shooting from three-point range in the first half, which was good enough, but Booker's personal heroic performance failed to help the Suns widen too many points, and the Suns led by five points at halftime. In the third quarter of the game, the Pelicans' counterattack momentum emerged again, led by Ingram Hayes and Bridges once attacked, this quarter is more outrageous is that the god of god in the first half of the god to block the god Booker suddenly did not shoot, in the first half of 18 shots 12, the third quarter only 1 shot has not hit the rate, this quarter Booker did not have any points.
In the third quarter, Monty took all the starters in the third quarter, and the Suns won all the starters in the third quarter, playing for a period of time by five substitutes such as Payne, McGee, Shamet, Cameron Johnson, Craig and other 5 bench players, and the Suns trailed by 7 points at the end of the third quarter, the Suns lost 22-34 in the quarter and lost 12 points in the single quarter.
You may wonder why Monty didn't let Booker play with the team after Paul's break. According to Monty's live interview, Booker's hamstring tension has been injured and will not return to the game, so Booker's full-time stats have also stayed on 31 points.
Paul's form was a bit down compared to the excellent performance in the first game, but in the fourth quarter, No Booker still needed Paul to lead the team.
But the Pelicans' momentum has stopped, mcCollum can continue to score three points, Ingram can also score three points, Murphy can score three points, And alvarado can also score three points. In the end, the Suns lost 114-125 at home. Paul had 17 points and 14 assists, but was unable to withstand the bombardment of Ingram (37 points, 11 rebounds and 9 assists) and McCollum (23 points, 8 rebounds and 9 assists) in the fourth quarter.
Booker's injury has not yet been specific feedback, but the hamstring injury has always been elusive, may be very serious or may not have much impact, Duan Ran teacher said that a certain degree of Booker's injury on the sun and pelicans of this round of the series results will also have a big impact, Yang Yi teacher lamented that sometimes the ups and downs of fate is so magical.