On April 25, Beijing time, the Pelicans played at home against the Suns, and the Pelicans successfully defeated the Suns 118-103 at the end of the game. This game is very important for the Pelicans, after all, the Suns have regained home advantage after winning the G3 game, and the Pelicans will be completely desperate if they continue to lose, so this game is not possible for the Pelicans to lose. The two teams also played fiercely after the game began, although the Suns occupied the lead on the court, but in the second half of the game, the Pelicans successfully completed the rebound, and in the fourth quarter, the Pelicans also opened the score, and finally the Pelicans won a big victory.
In the first quarter, the two teams played fiercely, and the Suns also bit the score by relying on Paul's play, but Ingram also responded to lead the Pelicans to a slight lead, fortunately, Ayton also played here, plus McGee scored, the Suns were only 2 points behind the Pelicans. In the following game, Valanciunas scored four straight points, McGee scored to stop the bleeding, and the Pelicans led by three points at the end of the first quarter. Ingram continued to lead the Pelicans in the second quarter, and the Suns relied on McGee and others to play to bite the score, but then Valanciunas and McCollum threatened to help the Pelicans lead to eight points. After the timeout, Bridges scored 4 consecutive points, and then Nance scored to stabilize the situation, Ayton and Johnson responded, and the next two teams you came and went to the Suns to chase the score, Payne scored after the Suns evened the score, the end of the stage Crowder hit a three-pointer, Ingram free throws 2 of 1, the sun led by 2 points at the end of the half.
In the third quarter of the game Ingram to help the Pelicans complete the rebound, Valanciunas, Hayes scored after the Pelicans led to 4 points, after Ayton, Crowd scored to stop the bleeding, the next game Ingram, McCollum scored, but Crowder, McGee also responded, the two teams scored still very glue, after ingram scored after the Pelicans occupied a 5-point lead. Graham led the team to extend their lead in the final stages, with the Suns trailing by 10 points at the end of the third quarter. In the fourth quarter, Shamet and Ayton helped the team close to the score, Valanciunas Fawei scored consecutive points, and the Pelicans also led by nine points. After the timeout, the Suns could not stop the decline, Valanciunas, Jones and others continued to help the Pelicans extend the lead, McCollum hit a three-pointer after the Suns led to 18 points, the latter two teams replaced the main players into the garbage time, and finally the Suns lost the game.
Although the Pelicans encountered some difficulties in this game, the Pelicans performed well in the second half of the game, especially the Pelicans in the fourth quarter, valanciunas made a great contribution in the game, after all, in the fourth quarter, Valanciunas both inside and outside the line, in valanciunas performance is directly opened up the score, the end of the game Valanciunas got 26 points, 15 rebounds and 4 assists data. And Ingram performed well in this game, it can be said that Ingram's performance in the game is not at all like the first season to play the playoffs, and finally Ingram also led the team to win, and At the end of the game, Ingram got 30 points, 4 rebounds and 5 assists.
On the other hand, the Suns are more uncomfortable, after all, they have encountered great difficulties in this game, Ayton is really trying his best in the game, after all, he tried to help the team chase the score in the game, but unfortunately Ayton lacked help in this game, originally when Payne, Bridges and Crowder should stand up to help the team, but they did not perform too well in the game, so Ayton had no way to help the team win. At the end of the game, Ayton had 23 points, 8 rebounds and 1 assist. At the same time, the Lakers abandoned McGee still has some good performances in this game, and McGee has 14 points, 4 rebounds and 1 assist in the 7 of 7 at the end of the game.
And Paul did not play the explosive performance in the last game in this game, it can be said that when Paul has such a performance, the sun is really difficult to win, after all, the two games won by the sun are because Paul played an explosive performance in the fourth quarter of the game, and the sun was still behind when the game entered the fourth quarter, so at this time the sun needed Paul to stand up and help the team, but unfortunately Paul did not play such a performance in the game, and the final result was that the sun lost the game. Paul had 4 points, 2 rebounds and 11 assists at the end of the game, and Paul left the game straight after the game.