As my title says, today the Lone Ranger hit the sun without any ability to fight back.
Every quarter is just a little behind, but once the Lone Ranger plays two rounds in a row, the Suns will definitely hit back with a three-pointer.
In the fourth quarter, the Sun's feel dropped significantly, and 3 consecutive attacks were not played, which should be the best opportunity for the Lone Ranger to chase points, and the Lone Ranger only scored 1 of them. The last 2 minutes of the game seemed to be the epitome of the whole game.
Doncic never gave up the game, and finally forced the score to within 10 points 1 minute before the end of the game, and the sun still played his rhythm unhurriedly, consuming time and conducting the ball to shoot. The lone ranger is like a boiled frog in warm water, slowly being eaten away, and a little bit is consumed by the game time. There was no big opening and closing confrontation, and it was simple to lose the game.
Where does the Lone Ranger lose?
The Suns' inner line is overwhelmingly superior
Strategic victory against Doncic
The Lone Ranger's offense is slow to change, and defense is a big problem
The Suns' inner line is overwhelmingly superior
From the first quarter of the game began, the first quarter of Ayton received the inside line pass to complete the air dunk, blocked the demolition of the next layup to win, grabbed the rebound to score the basket, this is Ayton completed the performance in the lone ranger inside line, no one can stop.
Until the fourth quarter, the Suns all relaxed the shooting rate declined, Ayton shot 12 of 15, played 3 quarters and only lost three.
McGee, who came off the bench in the third quarter, faced Doncic and completed a direct steal with a dragon dunk, and the domineering spirit of the Suns' inner line was unmistakable.
In the whole game, the rebounds were 51 to 36, the Suns won a full 15, the frontcourt rebounds were 13 to 7, and the Suns won 6.
The Lone Ranger's interior line is already unavailable, the starting Powell, played 15 minutes to grab only 1 rebound, no sense of existence, this is no wonder he; the Suns' interior line Ayton, although said to be soft by many people, but compared to the Lone Ranger's interior lineup, Ayton is faster, more powerful, more accurate.
In the first round of the playoffs, Ayton averaged 20+9 per game with a 70% shooting rate, and Ayton played the Lone Ranger inside line with ease.
Strategic victory against Doncic
Doncic today had 45 points, 12 rebounds and eight assists, a luxury quasi-triple-double. But that's what the sun wants to see. Doncic is a player, you don't expect to completely strangle his scoring momentum, you put on the bag to give the strength of the people to pass the ball, can shoot can pass the player is the most difficult to defend.
You can't take care of both ends, you can only defend one side. The Suns made Doncic score points less easily and then strangled his teammates. This is the strategy of the Suns, you can score, not so easily, your teammates don't want to score.
Doncic played 44 minutes, did not rest in the second half, and was the first in the whole game. It was doncic's first game of comeback, and Doncic was keen to win the game, scoring 13 points in the fourth quarter without losing a hand.
The teammates' performance was really crotch, Dinwiddie had 8 points, and Brunson would have been said to be invisible if he hadn't scored 4 goals in the last quarter, after all, he had to be said to be 2-of-9 in the first three quarters. Kleber was one of the rare two points, shooting five three-pointers to score 19 points, but 16 of the 19 points came from the first half and only three in the second half.
The instability of teammates, there is always a group of teammates confused in the first and second half, which is the most uncomfortable for Doncic.
The Lone Ranger defense changes slowly
The Lone Ranger trail started in the first quarter, with the Lone Ranger scoring only 2 points after 5 minutes of playing. The situation on the court is also very obvious, the Suns started by the inside line, and the Suns' three-point shots were not good in the whole game, not as many goals as the Lone Ranger.
In this case, the lone ranger's small lineup has to play fast, and it has been left to let Doncic play one by one, and the ball by ball is contrary to the original intention of the five small. The Lone Ranger did not fight with a small lineup of fast attacks, but instead let the Suns play fast attacks.
This lineup is incompatible with the tactics performed and is meaningless. Since there is no interior advantage, the Lone Ranger should play its own mobility advantage. Dinwiddie was a big problem, and Dinwiddie and Doncic were not well involved in the tactics when they were on the floor. A situation of lone rangers playing 4 people to watch has been formed.
In the third quarter, there was a change in Dallas that made the score close, when Doncic held the ball, the bottom line was Tibetan; Dinwiddie fell to the bottom line, and Dallas opened a few three-pointers.
Daras scored a three-pointer, the opponent came over and attacked, and Dallas's defense couldn't withstand the Sun's offense, which was terrible.
Kidd's reaction is still slow, too much trust in the self-regulation of the players on the field, not everyone is as ghostly as Kidd as a player.
If you continue to fight like this, the Lone Ranger series will have to stop cooking. It wasn't the sun's best time, with Booker scoring just two goals in the second half. Relying on his offensive pulling power, role players exert their strength. Role players can beat the lone ranger so badly, that's really powerful.