On April 29, Beijing time, the first round of the NBA playoffs was in full swing, and the several games that ended today were thrilling, first of all, the Pelicans sat at home and were attacked by São Paulo's 14 shots, leading the Suns to end the Pelicans' journey this season. I have to say that today's game has all contributed the most wonderful performances.
In this game, the sun can withdraw from the Pelicans home, Paul is undoubtedly the most important hero, but from the process of 6 games in this round, Paul's overall performance is indeed very good, and the only possibility that there is a slot point is to lose some face in the face of the "old six". 2 8-second violations is a bit of a face-saving for an old defender like Paul, as a young defender in this group of direct face-to-face confrontations, Arawadora actually learned a lot from Paul, and the exposure is also surging, and now many fans are full of interest in the youngster.
Although the final sixth game allowed Paul to play super god, but the old sixth himself also performed well, facing the old and spicy Paul, he was also a battle of wits, and one of the details can be counted as the epitome of the entire round of two people. In a breakthrough process, Paul gave Arawado a lesson, Paul's elbow stroke successfully deceived the referee, so that what should have been an offensive foul ended up as a foul of the old six, and the referee did not need to play back directly, it can be seen that the referee felt unnecessary at that time, because if you do not watch repeatedly, it is indeed impossible to see, thinking that it is Arawadora's blocking first.
At that time, the fans who watched the game could see that the old sixth was very aggrieved, because everyone felt that it was an offensive foul, and there was no way that his fame was definitely a huge gap compared to Paul, and sometimes the superstar did have some privileges. After the game, coach Willie Green still left tears of regret, after all, they were one step away from playing seven.
After the game, there were also media interviews with the referee, who also admitted that there was indeed a bit of unjust, false and wrong case, and the reason given by the referee was to see Alvarado have had illegal physical contact with Paul, which affected his shooting, which is the reason for blowing his defensive foul.
As for the reasons for not playing back, the referees also have their own ideas, they believe that during the game, Alvarado's lean-in contact foul is related to Paul's shoulder lifting. The referee thought it was a coherent move. Of course, from the post-match replay, we also saw that Paul's movements were a bit incoherent, and he elbowed Alvarado after losing his balance. But this is no longer meaningful for judging the outcome of the game.
This is also a very interesting teaching course for the old sixth, although the game is lost, but the future is his, losing now wins the future, we can actually see that almost every game he is improving, I have to say that there is such an opponent as Paul who can really improve a lot.
The Pelicans' journey this season has ended, but next season they let more people worth looking forward to, this young team, whether it is the core player Ingram or the bench on the bench Nance, Murphy, etc. are the new generation of players who have just entered the league, the future may really belong to this batch, as long as the fat tiger returns after the return of no son, his competitive state is no problem, then this team is definitely the strong team in the future West!