The series between the Suns and pelicans should not have had much suspense, after all, the gap between the strength of the two sides is too big, and many media have predicted that the Suns will sweep the Pelicans 4-0 into the next round, but it is not as good as the sky, Booker's hamstring strain is at least two weeks absent, the Pelicans will pull the score to 1-1 draw, and the suspense of this series will rise again.
Now back at the Pelicans' home court, without Booker's powerful attack point, the overall tactics of the Suns will have a very big impact, and what is worse is that the Pelicans have an absolute rebounding advantage over the Suns, the team's three major centers Valanciunas Hayes and Nance are rebounding masters, as well as Jones and Ingram, two tall arm-length forwards, and Alvarado, who is known as 6 mamba by fans, is also unique in grabbing rebounds, and the sun's rebounds have collapsed in both games.
Not long after the start of the third game between the two sides, the Pelicans still firmly maintained their rebounding advantage on the court, the two teams had played three games, and the smell of gunpowder between each other also began to come out, Hayes and Crowder had some conflicts when they competed for rebounds, slow motion showed Hayes deliberately rushing to Claude and knocking him to the ground, the referee did not immediately impose a penalty, Claude was angry to find Hayes theory, the two sides almost broke out of physical conflict, the three referees looked around the monitor one by one.
The final result of the penalty was unexpected by everyone, and actually gave Hayes a second-degree malicious foul, directly expelled him from the field, and sentenced Claude a technical foul. Hayes did not do it right, but it was just a charge, or a head-on collision, and did not make a move to hurt Crowder, giving a first-level malicious foul was already interesting enough, did not expect to directly expel Hayes, before hayes has efficiently got 4 points and 6 rebounds, after this, whenever the Pelicans want to attack or pull away the score, the referee's whistle will blow in time.
Obviously suspected of deliberately controlling this game, sending the Pelicans' dominant center off the field, it is clear that they do not want to make the league's number one Sun a joke, or perhaps want to make some profit for this game, after all, the bald president has long legalized betting in the NBA.