Can the Suns still take a win at the Pelicans' home court with 100% execution like G3?
The Sun tried to do that and did a good job. Ayton still maintains an efficient mid-range feel, and the sun can also see those "bits and pieces" opportunities, amplifying the advantage of a loss and punishing the opponent for a little negligence. When the Suns can't shoot three-pointers, they can also find ways to score that don't rely much on feel. For example, in this round, McGee Paul's position of blocking is too high, completely out of the attack radius of the two, but Varan is delayed, once he is called out, then Johnson has an advantage in Murphy.
Pelicans, of course, make mistakes. Crowder's series has reached grandma's house, and the Pelicans will still have two-man rotation errors to prevent Crowder. Crowder calmly scored the ball, then hit the bridge after a nice bluff.
Crowder could help the team in other ways when he wasn't in the right, and the Pelicans even lost two three-point fouls on him. Pelicans are too young to leave a gap in the sun and let the sun pull the door open. In the second quarter of 7 minutes and 50 seconds, the offensive and defensive conversions, the Pelicans' attention was a little relaxed, and Paul saw a broad road and led the bridge to a positive result.
These "random" scores are like pocket money, and the Suns can really save pocket money. They don't make mistakes, as if savvy online shoppers can always find coupons. Diligent and thrifty family, get rich by the province, hoard a room of steel hammers can also buy Daben.
In the first half, the gunner scored 4 points on 2-of-3, and the Suns still led 51-49. How similar is this plot to G3 - let this old decay hold back, then the fourth verse?
However, there is no St. Paul in verse 4. The sun didn't even last until the time when the Lord would open and hang, and it was basically beaten down by the pelicans. The Suns didn't replicate the perfect game of G3, and it wasn't that they weren't good, it was that the Pelicans didn't let them do it.
The duel between the sun and the pelicans, on the surface, is a collision of discipline and talent. The Sun is, of course, far more mature than the Pelicans, with a higher-ranking controller, more mature offensive and defensive coordination, and theoretically better spatial continuity. The reason why this series is played like this is that Booker is injured, the second is that the Suns' spatial advantage is being lost, the 3D shooters just can't shoot, and then follow a 25.9% after a 15.4% three-point shooting rate, which forces the Suns to rely on "shrewdness" to play, their advantage over the Pelicans is reduced a little, and "shrewd" is not a 100% advantage.
The Pelicans' talent advantage spanned 4 games. The Pelicans won the rebound again, but that wasn't the main reason the Pelicans won the Suns, and they weren't as sure as the Suns as they were, so much so that after winning seven fronts, the second offense score was tied.
Talent can be manifested in a variety of ways. Ingram is a mobile talent displayboard that can bounce wildly at mid-range against the Suns defense or dribble into a violent split. While you know the Suns have hits, and there's no shortage of smashing dunks in this series, it's another thing to combine those abilities perfectly with one person.
That's not all. Jones did a horrific job, sending three-point blocks to protect against three-pointers, which is extremely rare even in the NBA. Jones can even interfere with Paul's blocking and dismantling ball-holding pitch to some extent, and interfering with his exit route in Paul's blocking, and few people can do this.
Height, tonnage, interior liners led by Valanciunas, suppressing the Sun in the low post and rebounds, is the Pelicans' basic advantage. Ingram and Jones, one attack and one defense, each made some contributions other than "reasonable", which is another part of the advantage of relying on talent. With all this, the Pelicans can win the sun, right?
In fact, it is still not enough, because the Suns can't shoot three-pointers at the same time, the Pelicans can't shoot this time, in the showdown between discipline and talent, the two sides play their strengths in their respective fields, it is just a five-and-five situation.
The Pelicans did something else. The most used trick of the G3 Sun is to look for those low dislocations, punishing the Pelicans by local height advantage, and guess what the Pelicans of G4 did?
They let a big man go to the high position to play high and low - do you have a big tall one? More than this, we have a greater advantage! The pelican caught the sun's sore spot and punched it hard again.
The Pelicans are smart, and they're not just dry with their talents to crush the sun, they're also looking for ways to amplify their advantages. Then they also waited for the sun to make a mistake. For example, when the Suns intended to repeat the trick, Nance Jr. completed the interception, and the Suns' low-dislocated ball was destroyed.
The "shrewdness" of the sun was recognized, and little by little, the sun could not fail to make mistakes, and Alvarado waited for this opportunity.
Sixth Master's round, it is worth it.
The Suns couldn't hold steady, and Crowder made a low-level mistake with a sideline ball, which shouldn't be the Suns' mistake. The pelicans disturbed them. G3, Sun 6 mistakes, G4, this number doubled. If it is compared to a team next door, it is not a big deal, but this is the sun's signature, no booker, no one can score three points, the sun can not make mistakes, they have no fault tolerance rate, at least until the shooters are normal, this is the situation.
In this series, the Pelicans saw hope.