On May 5, 2022, Beijing time, the NBA playoffs continued, and in the Western Conference semifinals, the Suns continued to play against the Lone Rangers at home. The Suns still showed a strong competitive form at the beginning of the game, and they led by 10 points at the beginning of the first quarter. Although the Lone Rangers slowly narrowed the score in the following game, the second quarter took advantage of excellent offensive form to complete the score, and the Suns were already 2 points behind by half-time!
But in the third quarter of the game, the Suns once again played excellent form, they scored 31 points in a single quarter, won the opponent by 8 points, and completed the third quarter of the game to complete the rebound! In the fourth quarter of the game, the Lone Rangers suddenly collapsed, the Suns also played a very good state, they played a wave of net wins of more than 10 points under paul's leadership, the point difference was widened to 17 points, Booker came up and hit three consecutive three-pointers, the point difference also reached 24 points, and finally the Suns defeated the opponent 129:109, leading 2:0!
Paul played the classic game again, Paul appeared in 36 minutes, shooting 11 of 16 from the field and 1 of 2 from three-point range, with 28 points, 6 rebounds and 8 assists! Paul scored just eight points in the first half and only six in the third quarter! But the game entered the fourth quarter, Sao Paulo mode was staged again, he hit the middle distance in a single quarter, and cut down 14 points, 2 rebounds, 2 assists and 1 steal in the single quarter, helping the team to widen the point difference to more than 20 points, and the game also completely lost suspense!
Paul was really murderous in the fourth quarter of this game, shooting 6 of 7 in a single quarter, hitting consecutive mid-range and scoring under the basket. The most murderous point is that in the fourth quarter of the game, Paul has continuously singled Doncic, and every time he attacks Paul uses the block to replace Doncic in front of him, and the continuous singles are successful, which also causes Doncic's foul to complete 2+1, not only can he score, so that Doncic constantly loses his physical strength on the defensive end, and doncic has no way to play a good state on the offensive end, which is the suns' most successful strategy!
It can be said that Paul in this game is indeed too perfect, facing Doncic's singles shooting rate is extremely high, it is really murderous, and Paul in the last quarter is still that "St" Paul!