Beijing time on April 25, the Pelicans ushered in the 4th game with the Suns, the third match between the two sides, the Suns in the last moment by Paul to open the "São Paulo" mode again, and finally won the victory 114-111, and today's fourth game, the Sun naturally hopes to get the match point on the road, so as to return to the home to end this round of the series, but the tenacious Pelicans soldiers did not agree, but won the Suns by 15 points at 118-103, and the score was equalized.
The Pelicans equalised, and a move by rookie Jones embarrassed Paul
After the Suns lost Booker's big player in the second game, the Pelicans also seemed to see the hope of the "Black Eight", successfully seized the opportunity of the second Game Booker's injury, and won the first win of this series, and the third game was not if Paul Pelicans really had a chance to go to the next city, so today's game continued to sit at home to the Smoothie King Center, the Pelicans did not let the game slip away from the side again, relying on the whole people to successfully defend the home. The Pelicans played a total of 12 players in the team, except for Temple, who only had one minute to play, who did not score, the remaining 11 players scored.
There was also a small episode in this game, with 3 minutes and 29 seconds left in the final quarter, the Pelicans' second-round pick last year, Herbert Jones, in the process of a breakthrough layup, was ruthlessly blocked by Suns main center Ayton, and then fell to the floor, while Paul, who was scrambling for rebounds at the back, also wanted to pull him up from the floor, resulting in Jones disdainfully ignoring Paul's "kindness", and was pulled up by teammate CJ McCollum. And this game pelicans this player also did play a good performance, in the opening 35 minutes of playing time, 7 shots 3 of 3 to get 13 points, 2 rebounds, 3 assists, 2 steals and 3 blocks, filling their own data column, do not underestimate these 3 blocks, Jones these 3 blocks are all blocked opponent three-point shots, he has become the only player in the league in the past 2 seasons who can block the opponent's three-point shots 3 times in a single game.
Jones refused to be pulled up by Paul for a reason, having just been fouled maliciously by him
To know that Paul is the former chairman of the NBA players' union, and as a star who has been in the NBA for so many years, this fledgling Jones did not give him any face, but let the current chairman of the players' union CJ make a splash in front of him, and he did not know what paul felt in his heart at that time, in fact, the reason why Jones did not show Paul's mercy and embarrassed him was not because of the "arrogance" of no one in his eyes, because before this, Paul hit Jones's face with his hand in a defensive process. Thus being blown by the referee a first-degree malicious foul, it is also this malicious foul, resulting in Jones also decided to fight paul hard, no longer care about his status, so even if he was fanned to the ground by Ayton, even if he could stand up, he was unwilling to accept Paul's "kindness", but let the current union president CJ out of the limelight, which really made Paul a little embarrassed.
Playing mature with a rookie identity that does not match, Jones's performance is expected
As a fledgling first-year freshman, Jones can average 11 points, 2.3 rebounds, 1.8 assists and 1.3 steals in this round of the series, shooting 50% of the shooting rate, accompanied by a 42.9% three-point shooting rate, playing a maturity that does not match his rookie identity at all, in the case of the two sides about to usher in the Battle of Tianwangshan, what kind of performance Jones will play in the next game, let us wait and see.