The pelicans, who had performed well last time, unfortunately lost the Battle of King's Mountain at home to the Suns, and the passive situation came to the Pelicans side again, the Suns revived their three-point feeling in this game, the Pelicans have been suppressed, and the difference of about ten points has lasted for three quarters, Ingram has suffered a tight defense, and the last quarter is almost injured, failing to perform heroically in the first three games.
The Pelicans played this game very awkwardly, especially on the offensive end, almost all of them were hasty shots and various forced shots, basically did not play too much coordination, and the Suns' entire team assisted by more than doubled the Pelicans. Even in the last quarter, alvarado had to rely on Alvarado to make achievements in scoring, and worse, there were many mistakes in the whole game, although there were many more free throws than the opponent, but the shooting rate and the number of shots were as good as the Sun, as the second core of the team, McCollum performed very badly in this game.
The shooting was even more tragic. McClum did enjoy a very high shot after coming to the Pelicans, shooting more than Ingram in almost every game, and his arrival freed Ingram from pressure on the offensive end and helped the team reach the playoffs. At the same time, his low stature and excessive age also make him a colander on the defensive end of the team, each time he leads the team alone must be accompanied by a top defender on the outside and the center of the interior, during the regular season, McClum's scoring is still very guaranteed and efficient, in the playoffs with improved defensive intensity, McClum's shooting is really not flattering.
In this game, McClum had the team's most shots of 22 shots, but only hit 7 shots in the whole game, and the three-point shot was even worse 8 shots, 1 of 8 shots, with 22 shots in exchange for 21 points, and the free throw shooting rate was only about 60%. McClum's overall efficiency in the playoffs showed a cliff-like decline, McCollum himself is very confident in himself, the more he can't shoot, the more he likes difficult shots, the result is to pit the team's chase stage, but also let the team lose this key King Mountain battle, many fans are calling on McColem not to wave shooting, to rotate players and Ingram.
In fact, when McCollum first came to the Pelicans, the team changed from five consecutive wins to one win and four losses, blind singles instantly disrupted the entire system of the Pelicans, and then returned the ball to Ingram to dominate before returning to the playoffs, including the first few games that Ingram led the team to finally reverse defeat, but today's game, McClem's shooting pit was too big and too deep, and he was still blindly shooting three points in the final stage.