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Last year was one step away from the O'Brien Gold Cup, can the Sun break through the last step this year?
If you want to choose the worst team in today's three games, it must be the sun.
After the first game of the playoffs, everyone is still shouting "Sun Championship", and now you may have to ask, "The Pelicans won't be black eight, right?" ”
The reason wasn't that the Pelicans won a game, but that Booker left the court with a sudden injury after playing at MVP-level performance in the first half.
This game first boasted about the winner Pelicans, the last Ingram playoff experience was not too good, plus or minus only -6, this adjusted Ingram, can be regarded as a full display of his talent.
In this game, Yingge had a quasi-triple-double of 37 points, 11 rebounds and 9 assists.
And that's the data he got without wasting development. Yingge shot 13 of 21 in the game, 3 of 3 from three points, 8 of 8 from the free throw line, and had 37 points, 11 rebounds, 9 assists, 1 steal and 1 block, highlighting an efficiency.
Since then, Ingram has become the fifth player to achieve this statistic in the playoffs with a 75% + true shooting percentage in the playoffs, after Barkley, James, Durant and Butler.
After the game, CJ McCollum retweeted the data graph and added: "This guy is a monster!" ”
Not only is the score high, the key is that Ingram also withstood the Suns to counterattack.
With 6 minutes left in the fourth quarter, Paul led the Suns to a counterattack, and the point difference narrowed to 3 points at one point. At this moment, Ingram stepped forward and hit a 3-point shot against the defense to help the Pelicans stabilize the victory again.
Today's victory, CJ also contributed his own strength, he scored 23 points on the whole game.
According to statistics, in the final 5 minutes of the game, Ingram and McCollum combined to shoot 5 of 7 and scored 15 points.
It was these 15 points at the crucial moment that helped the Pelicans win their first playoff win.
CJ's family letter to Lillard after the game is as follows:
Dear watch, in the waterbirds' playoffs finally found the feeling that you seem to have put a watch on me, a three-pointer like a sword piercing through the Sun's defense.
The Song of Warblers seems to be a big you, a steady shot, a fatal three-pointer, and a big opening and closing to chisel in a goal.
I won't forget you, Crossbowman, seeing Varan desperately scrambling for rebounds, when a team has enough front and backcourt boards I don't know how to lose this game,
After round of offensive and defensive conversions, we finally won the first place sun, I am very good at water birds, and I hope to see you on the field soon.
In fact, similar praise should have belonged to Booker. Booker scored 31 points on 12-of-18 shooting in the first half, and still got it without a single free throw.
Until then, no player in NBA history had been able to complete the playoffs with 30 points and 0 free throws in the half. The closest to that record is Clay, who played a 29-point 0-free throw count in the half in 2013.
At the end of the first quarter, when Booker hit the ball in the back jumper, he also touched the fist with the small fans on the sidelines to celebrate.
At the end of the half, social networks were talking about "Booker is the player who deserves the regular season MVP." Crawford even tweeted: "Devon Booker is simply outrageous! ”
Everything seemed so wonderful, but who would have thought that Booker, who was in great shape, would suddenly suffer a hamstring strain in the third quarter and simply quit the game.
In the third quarter of the game, Booker did not score any points, and at the end of the quarter, Booker even walked straight back to the locker room.
This picture is very similar to the back of Harden's return to the locker room in the first round of the second round last year.
After the game, TNT reported on Booker's situation: "Tonight Booker will have an MRI check, the team will fly to the away game tomorrow, will not train, but we will know the results as soon as possible. ”
"We positioned the round where Booker was injured, he tried to cover when he was back to defend against the opponent's quick attack, and his expression was a little displeased when he landed."
The word hamstring strain could not have been more familiar to Paul.
In the 15-year playoffs, Paul, wearing a Clippers jersey, strained his hamstrings, broke into the next round with injuries to kill the Spurs, and was finally overturned by the Rockets 3-1; in the 18-year playoffs, Paul, wearing a Rocket jersey, was strained with hamstrings, and finally failed to resist, leaving the back of the bench and turning away.
Now, the "hamstring strain" injury is wrapped around his teammate Booker. At present, it is not known how seriously Booker was injured, but for the Sun, it is now dangerous.
Today, the Eagles are fighting a second battle, and Trey New York Mayor - Acting Village Chief of KeCun - Yang once again stood on the platform.
This time, Yang's performance was not as crotch-pulling as the first single-game 8-pointer, which played 40 minutes, 10-of-20 shooting, had 25 points, 6 rebounds and 7 assists, but the three-pointers were only 2-of-10.
But the bad thing is that the problem of Trae Young's mistakes in this game is still not solved. He made 10 turnovers in a single game, setting a new Hawks all-time playoff record and only two times away from Harden's 12-time NBA playoff record.
After the game, Yang Yang even blamed the referee: "It's really difficult to hit the box or hit the basket." If the referee lets them continue to maintain this physical strength and not blow fouls, it will be difficult for us to win. ”
Compared to the first game, today's Eagles had the opportunity to turn the tables over, because Bogdan turned on the super god mode, played 28 minutes off the bench, 12 of 18, 5 of 10 from 3-point range, and scored 29 points, 4 boards and 3 assists without free throws, setting a new career playoff single-game scoring record.
In the fourth quarter, one person scored 19 points alone, almost helping the Eagles complete the reversal.
Unfortunately, they met the super hard Butler today.
Butler was in good shape in the first half, shooting 6-of-12, 3-of-3 from three-point range, scoring 21 points and 1 board, especially in the last 2 minutes and 10 seconds of the first half, Butler scored 7 consecutive points to help the Heat rebound and carry the team's offense.
The Hawks held on after halftime, trailing by 19 points at halftime compared to the previous game, and this game the Hawks trailed the Heat by only 2 points at halftime.
But back in the third quarter, Butler was still on the run. Shooting 5-of-6 in a single quarter, 1-of-2 from three-point range, he had 15 points, 3 rebounds, 3 assists and 1 steal. The Heat scored 31 points in this quarter, and most of the team's points were related to Butler.
When the Hawks frantically chased points in bogdan super god mode in the last quarter, it was Butler who stood up. He scored + assists to create 12 consecutive points, including a difficult back-to-back three-pointer.
Butler's three-point shooting percentage in the regular season is 23.3%, and he basically doesn't shoot without shooting three-pointers, and as a result, Butler threw 7 three-pointers today and hit 4 of them.
Butler said after the game: "I just took advantage of the opportunities that the Hawks gave me and then played my own aggressiveness on the court, and I was very happy to be able to win the game in the end. ”
Throughout the game, Butler played 39 minutes, shooting 15-of-24, 4-of-7 from three-point range, 11-of-12 from the free throw line, 45 points, 5 rebounds, 5 assists and 2 steals, plus-minus as high as +17, and 0 turnovers and 0 fouls.
With 30 seconds left in the game, the heat that sealed the victory replaced Butler, and he clocked in to get off work amid the shouts of the MVP.
The 45 points naturally set a new career playoff high for Butler, which was also the second time in the Butler Heat's career playoffs that he had at least 40 points, 5 boards and 5 assists in a single game, equalizing James and Wade and ranking first in team history.
It is worth noting that in addition to the 45+5+5 data, Butler's fouls and mistakes are 0.
It also makes him the second player in NBA history to have a single playoff game of 45+ and 0 turnovers and 0 fouls, the last being Wilkins.
Schrödinger's Butler, but today he was really hard.
The Grizzlies, who were knocked out by Edwards in the first game, woke up today and beat the Timberwolves 124-96 at home.
The 28-point difference also set a record for the largest point difference in the Grizzlies' history to win in the playoffs.
Previously, the Grizzlies' highest playoff net win was 1.0 for the "grinding and strangulation" Grizzlies, and in the first round of the 2013 playoffs, the Grizzlies won 104-83 to win 21 points. That year, the Grizzlies hit the Western Conference Finals, only to lose to the Spurs.
Now this game fully shows the style of grinding and strangulation 2.0, and the game is fist to flesh.
Just look at the data to see the style of the whole game. In the first quarter, the two teams committed a total of 20 fouls, including 9 by the Timberwolves and 11 by the Grizzlies; a total of 33 free throws, 15 of 18 free throws by the Timberwolves and 12 of 15 from the Grizzlies.
At the time, Drew Hill, a reporter for the Grizzlies, even complained: "Judging from the game data board, the game was only played for 3 minutes, but I looked at my watch and it was actually 22 minutes." ”
The Timberwolves, who are the first in rhythm in the regular season, and the Grizzlies, who are fourth in rhythm, play a very old-school game, and the players on both sides are also young, and the confrontation is directly full.
Three minutes before the game, the Grizzlies had five fouls, including two and one first-degree malicious foul on the Timberwolves side, two fouls for Downs on the Timberwolves side, and one technical foul for Beverley.
But in addition to the intensity of the game, the biggest difference in this game is that the Grizzlies have changed.
At the beginning of the game, the Grizzlies also sent Adams and Timberwolves to fight, but less than 3 minutes into the opening game, Jenkins directly replaced Adams who had committed two fouls, and has not been on the court since.
Adams' time was divided between Clark, Tillman, and Anderson. The effect of the array change is immediate.
After the game, according to Grizzlies reporter Peter Edmiston, in the 69 minutes of Adams' absence in the first two games of the playoffs, the Grizzlies beat the Timberwolves by 29 points.
When Adams, who couldn't defend himself, went off the court, the team with the misplaced advantage also changed from timberwolves to grizzlies.
Jaren Jackson Jr. scored the most four three-pointers in the game and scored 16 points. And when Downs committed a lot of fouls and the defensive intensity could not be improved, Morant played very actively.
Throughout the game, Morant played 30 minutes, had 23 points, 9 rebounds and 10 assists, plus or minus +24, and only 2 turnovers at the same time as the quasi-triple-double, while the Grizzlies only had 9 turnovers, a full 10 fewer than the Timberwolves.
I have to say that Jenkins' change of formation today is very effective, and a few substitutes have come up to make a contribution. Clarke shot 5-of-8, Tillman 6-of-7 and Ziel Williams 3-of-5, all three of whom scored 13 points.
A big part of the reason for that was that Towns was once again plagued by foul play. Today, Towns had 4-of-7 shooting, with just 15 points and 11 rebounds, as well as 5 fouls and 5 turnovers.
Not to mention downs today's offensive Gobertization, just his few dispensable fouls directly weakened the Timberwolves' internal strength by a large margin, and he made five mistakes in the third quarter of the game.
Originally, Towns was supposed to be the offensive strong point, but today the Timberwolves scored 34-60 behind the Grizzlies in the penalty area.
Could it be that as soon as you see a bear, you become fudge?
However, the two sides are only 1-1 draws, and for the Timberwolves, winning the next game on the road is an acceptable result. But how Finch should deal with the Grizzlies' change of formation, it is estimated that he will have to think about it.
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