On April 27, Beijing time, the Phoenix Suns defeated the New Orleans Pelicans and won the Battle of Tianwangshan. Bridges not only shined on the offensive end of this game, scoring 31 points in 47 minutes, but also made his opponent suffer on the defensive end.
Statistics after the game show that during the G5 Bridges defense, the Suns players scored 7 points on a total of 3-of-17 shooting.
Of course, Bridges' top defensive counterpart is not an unknown person, he single-handedly defended CJ McCollum, the opponent scored 3 points on 1 of 9 shots; during the single defense of Ingram, the opponent scored 2 points on 1 of 5 shots.
And after five games in this series, when Bridges was on the floor, the Pelicans players shot only 36% of the shots, and the total number of mistakes reached 12 during this period.
After the game, Bridges was asked how he managed to consistently output on both ends of the game, and Bridges replied that he had been telling himself that there would be five quarters in the whole game to ensure that he would not slacken off in the third and fourth quarters.
In addition, in response to his 47 minutes today, Bridges also mentioned that he had eye contact with Monty during the game, when he used his eyes to tell the other party to "leave me on the field, don't let me go down".
Suns coach Monty Williams also praised Bridges' performance, "We put him in a position to be in the same position as anyone, although it is unrealistic to clone him, but really want to do it!" 」 ”