Winning again, the Pelicans, who made it to the playoffs from no. 9 in the West, met the number one Sun in the first round, and won the game 118-103 in Game 4, the big score came to 2-2, and it was one step closer to the first black nine in NBA history.
The Pelicans played steadily in the first quarter, entering the second quarter with a 25-22, three-point advantage. The Suns' offense picked up in the second quarter, surpassing the Pelicans by two points after halftime. At the beginning of the third quarter, Ingram's heroic play helped the team play a 10-2 start. Graham scored five more points in the final quarter to help the Pelicans advance to the final quarter with a 10-point advantage. After the point difference grew wider and wider, the Suns gave up with 2 minutes left in the game, replaced them with substitutes, and finally lost by 15 points.
Paul's play today is indeed bad enough, but also blame the Pelicans coach is too shrewd, made a precise target to the Suns, Paul was brutally packed defense, and eventually led to Paul playing 35 minutes in the game, but only got a pitiful 4 points. Paul was depressed enough today, not only being ignored by his opponents when he reached out to pull Jones, but also twice being fed up at the hands of "Thief Six".
Who is "Thief Six"? He is Alvarado, and fans like to call him Six, but after he successfully took the ball away from Paul's hands today, Xiaobian named Alvarado "Thief Little Six".
With just over 8 minutes left in the fourth quarter, the Suns had the ball. After Ayton served the ball and handed the ball to Paul, he ran to the front, waiting for Paul to dribble the ball to the front court to organize the attack. From the time Paul received the ball, Alcalado had been defending him tightly. The two fought from inside the 2-point line to beyond the 3-point line, and everyone knew that Paul was a master of foul-making, and a very brash-looking Alcalado could defend Paul?
Sure enough, as he was about to cross the midfield line, the whistle in the referee's mouth sounded. Alcalado turned around and threw his hands at the referee to explain: I didn't foul me! After 1 second, Alcarado's face changed from yin to eye, because it was not Alcarado who fouled Paul, but Paul was defended by Alcarado for an 8-second violation. It is estimated that Paul did not expect that he was actually defended by a latecomer to 8 seconds before halftime, which was really embarrassing enough.
After learning that he had defended Paul for an 8-second violation, Alcalado was immediately overjoyed, opening his mouth wide and shouting applause from the fans with his hands. In an instant, the entire New Orleans Arena was set on fire by Alcalado, and the Pelicans all went into a state of excitement and set the victory in one fell swoop. Alcalado is the kind of player that the opponent hates to see, but his own people look at it but like it very much.
After defending Paul for an 8-second violation, Alcalado then successfully broke the ball from behind Paul, hitting the sun by surprise, so the editor called him "Thief Little Six", are you satisfied with your name?