The Suns have eliminated the Pelicans by a 4-2 margin to advance to the Western Conference semifinals.
In the final game of the series, Paul performed very well, shooting all 14 of 14 and scoring 33 points, 5 rebounds and 8 assists. The 14-shot record broke the all-time record of 12-game playoffs held by Nene and McNair. Paul, as a defender who is only 183 centimeters tall, can do this especially rarely.
It is worth mentioning that in the past three series promotion battles, Paul's personal performance has been quite good, averaging 37 points per game and shooting 77% of the way. Against game six against the Pelicans in the first round of the season, Paul scored 33 points on 14-of-14 shooting. In his sixth game of the Western Conference Finals against the Clippers last season, Paul scored 41 points on 16-of-24 shooting to reach the Finals for the first time in his career. In game 4 of last season's Western Conference semifinals against the Nuggets, Paul scored 37 points on 14-of-19 shooting to reach the Western Conference Finals for the second time in his career.
In addition, in the sixth game of the 2018 Western Conference Semifinals against the Jazz, Paul scored a luxurious stat of 41 points, 7 rebounds and 10 assists on 13-of-22 shooting, reaching the Western Conference Finals for the first time in his career. In these key games, Paul has performed very well, showing his dominance, worthy of the title of point guard god and St. Paul.
In this series, Paul also played a very good performance in the face of Booker's injury, averaging 22.3 points and 11.3 assists per game, becoming the oldest player in history to average 20 points and 10 assists per game in a single-round series. In addition, this is also the third time in his career that Paul has averaged 20 points and 10 assists per game with at least 60% effective shooting rate in a series, the most in history.
In the first round of the series, Paul had 5 assists in double figures, a total of 68 assists, but only 9 turnovers, the assist-to-loss ratio was 7.6 to 1, which was also very efficient.
It is worth mentioning that in this game, Ayton was also very efficient, scoring 22 points on 10-of-12. Paul and Ayton also became the second pair in playoff history to shoot 10 goals on the same field with at least 80 percent shooting, with the last pair being O'Neal (12 of 14) and Jason Williams (10 of 12 of 12) in the June 2, 2006 Finals.
In this series, Ayton is also very powerful, averaging 20.5 points per game and shooting 70% from the field, becoming the first player in playoff history to average 20+ and at least 70% of the shots in a series (at least 6 games).