This season's NBA, a chaotic battle, killed a number of championship favorites! The Heat, Bucks, Green Army, 76ers, Nets in the East, the Warriors, Jazz, Grizzlies and others in the West have a chance to win the championship, which also makes the playoffs more fierce!
However, among the many championship candidates, the Suns are definitely the most dazzling one, and the team is fully impacted, just to compete for the championship.
The Suns showed their indomitable offensive prowess in the regular season! With 64 wins and 18 losses, he ranked no. 1 in the league, and Paul recovered from his injuries before the regular season, and the whole team entered healthy mode, fully armed and ready for the playoffs.
And the strength of the Suns is really not covered, the first game of the playoffs gave the Pelicans a way out!
As the No. 1 in the league and facing the No. 8 Pelicans, the Suns are completely crushed in terms of strength! Relying on the full blossom of Ayton, Booker, Bridges, and Paul, the team completely opened up on the offensive end, and locked the Pelicans' two major arrows CJ and Warbler Song, opening up a 23-point lead early, making the game completely one-sided.
The Suns were a bit lax in leading the big score, and the Pelicans took advantage of the situation to chase the point difference to about 10 points, and the result was a more terrifying existence! Paul, a 36-year-old veteran who took passing as his responsibility, stepped forward, cutting 17 points in a row in the last quarter, cutting 19 points alone, extinguishing the Pelicans' counter-flames in one operation, locking the victory for the Suns, and also witnessing the power of the old cannon.
The First Suns showed dominance, but in Game 2, they saw a sudden change.
Booker became the protagonist of the first half, playing 17 minutes and 22 seconds, 12 of 18 shooting, 7 of 3 minutes and 10, and 31 points at halftime, although the Pelicans chased fiercely, the Warblers and CJ also had a good hand, but the Suns still took a 5-point lead.
Can enter the second half, the field suddenly changed, the Suns' attack began to lack, Yingge led the team to launch a counterattack, and surpassed the score in one fell swoop. But this is not the most deadly, the Sun core Booker has hamstring tension, directly unable to play again, which makes the Suns forced to the edge of the cliff.
Without Booker, the Suns lost the most powerful claws on the offensive end, and the team was unable to reverse when they were 4 or 5 points behind, and finally the Suns lost 114:125 to the Pelicans, and the big score was dressed as a 1:1 draw.
The No. 1 Suns in the league were at home, losing to the Pelicans at no. 8 in the West, and this game broke out a big upset, the Orioles exploded with 37 points, 11 rebounds and 9 assists, CJ got 23 points, 8 rebounds and 9 assists, 2 people also have a great threat, the Suns want to win the series is not so easy.
Of course, the most fatal thing is that Booker was injured! Booker performed well in this game, scoring 31 points in the first half, and this game was also regarded as his record-breaking battle, but who thought, Booker had a hamstring injury in the second half, which not only made the team lose the game, but even the prospects of the Suns began to become confused.
Booker's injury is hamstring tension, the specific situation needs to be checked after the game to learn more, and the hamstring injury is not a problem to solve.
Fans know that hamstring injuries are one of the most troubled injuries for players recently, and the one that everyone knows the most is Harden.
Harden suffered a hamstring injury at the Nets, which caused him to rest a lot of games, although he insisted on playing in the playoffs with an injury, but the hamstring injury caused him great trouble.
The legs did not dare to exert force, did not dare to break through, and even on the court could only close the game, which made the Nets lose a big player, and finally had no choice but to get out.
Now, Booker's hamstring injury, the specific injury is not clear, but the hamstring is injured, it can be beaten, it can affect the state, and the recovery cycle required is also very long, which has laid a haze for the Sun Team, and losing to the Pelicans is also a clear evidence.
Booker is injured, Paul is really unlucky, every year in the playoffs, but there will always be injury trouble.
While on the Clippers, Paul and Griffin were injured in the playoffs, leaving them with a huge name but never made it to the Western Conference Finals. In 2018, it was a close time for Paul to the championship, but he was injured in the case of a 3-2 lead over the Warriors, and the final was terminated.
Last season, the Suns also suffered from injuries in the playoffs, and now Booker is injured again, and the impact on the team is huge, and if Booker can't return 100% quickly, their championship is hanging again this season.