The NBA semifinals battle continued, with G1 losing a big score of 0-1 behind the Lone Ranger G2 continuing to challenge the Suns on the road.
Because in the G1 showdown, Doncic bombed 45 points, 12 rebounds and 8 assists, the team still lost to the Suns, leaving the Lone Ranger with very little room to adjust.
If the team wants to win away from home, it can only expect Doncic to continue to explode, while the role players can play well in the limited opportunities, and expect the Suns to make mistakes.
As soon as the game began, the Suns continued their fiery performances, playing a perfect 9-0 start under the leadership of Ayton and Bridges.
Since then, the first point of the Lone Ranger's win, Doncic, has begun to threaten, constantly hitting the offensive end, coupled with the Suns into foul trouble, the point difference has been continuously narrowed, and the difference between the two teams at the end of the first quarter is only 4 points.
In the second quarter, the Suns were still plagued by foul problems, and at the same time, the Lone Ranger stepped on the second point of winning, and role players such as Dinwiddie and Bertans began to threaten, which allowed the Lone Ranger to successfully complete the counterattack and enter the half-time break with a 2-point advantage.
Yi Bian fought again, the Suns did not let the third point come true, the team under the leadership of Booker, successively played on the offensive end, quickly completed the score reversal.
As Doncic's physical fitness declined and there were constant strong attack failures, the Suns began to pull the score again, and the Suns held a 6-point lead in the third quarter.
Entering the final quarter, Paul began to control the game, scoring six consecutive goals on the offensive end, coupled with Doncic's decline in form, the suspense of the game ended, and the Suns, who played at home, beat the Lone Rangers by 20 points 129-109, rewriting the big score to 2-0.
Throughout the game, the content is actually not much different from G1, the two teams played back and forth in the first two and a half quarters, and the Lone Ranger gave the Suns a certain pressure.
But this pressure is far from reaching the level of winning, everything is under the control of the Suns, and in the face of the internal Ayton and McGee who have suffered foul trouble, the team has more than Yongbo to use, and achieved very good results.
In the whole game, Biyombo played 18 minutes, shot all 4 of 4, and got 9 points, 3 rebounds and 1 block, with a plus-minus of +12.
While the role players went forward and followed, the core of the Suns' victory was derived from the stable play of the three cores.
Ayton, who has been having a smooth ride in the playoffs so far, suffered foul trouble in this game, playing only 18 minutes and having 9 points and 3 rebounds, but the Suns still have Booker and Paul to trust.
The former played 36 minutes and easily scored 30 points, 4 rebounds and 4 assists, and Paul dominated the second half, shooting 11 of 16 and efficiently bombing 28 points, 6 rebounds and 8 assists.
On the other hand, the Lone Rangers, the team once took advantage of the Suns' foul trouble and stepped on the 3 main points of winning.
Doncic exploded with 24 points, 4 rebounds and 6 assists in the first half, and the odd players dingwidi, Bullock and Bertans all played well, which was the key to the team's ability to take the lead at halftime.
However, as the Suns regained their rhythm in the second half, the Lone Rangers lost all 3 major points of the win, and Doncic lost the rhythm in the second half due to the change of the opponent's defensive strategy and the decline in his physical fitness, and the Strange soldiers also lost the rhythm.
After the game, Doncic still bombed a good number of 35 points, 5 rebounds and 7 assists, but the impact on the game was minimal.
In addition, the Lone Ranger only scored in double figures, namely Bullock's 16 points and 4 rebounds, and Dinwiddie's 11 points, which shows the poor depth of the Lone Ranger's lineup.
In the last quarter of garbage time, the live director also stayed on Doncic for a long time, only to see Doncic, who had 80 points in the first two games of the series, look lonely, staring straight ahead as if thinking about something, which was really painful.