The Suns, as the top team in the Western Conference regular season rankings, clearly demonstrated an established strong team, or more precisely, the advantage of a veteran point guard team in the playoffs in the first two rounds of the regular season lone ranger against Doncic. Even though Doncic scored 45 and 35 points in two games, becoming the player with the most points on the court and receiving the reward of the star of the game, none of this could bring the Lone Ranger a victory. On the contrary, the Suns have played steadily in both games, emphasizing the integrity and continuity of the attack and defense of the whole field, as well as the rationality of the shot, so it seems that it did not exert too much effort and achieved two consecutive wins in the Western Conference semifinals. The Suns have also taken a solid step towards the Western Conference Finals. In the G2 game, Paul began to fully occupy the initiative on the field in the last quarter, and let the Suns spend three and a half quarters, completely losing suspense in advance. This is the advantage and strength of the Suns, so that after the game, Yang Yi excitedly posted: Paul is the strongest point guard in the league, there is no one.
As the old rival of the Suns and the veteran king of the West, it is clear that the warriors, who are ranked third in the regular season, play like a drunkard on the top in the competition against the second-ranked Grizzlies. The Suns play loners, most of the offense is very reasonable, and the players also converted this reasonable shot into a score, so the whole team shot 51 out of 35, shooting more than 70%, three-point shot 25 shots 13, shooting rate of more than 50%, it can be seen that the Suns won the game is completely won in rationality and stability. As a Warrior, the game with the Grizzlies is lost in rationality and stability. After all, the Grizzlies are a young and driven team, and the team's number one main score point Morant is in the year of playing, so the team is more suitable for star tactics than the Warriors, and in the end, the team also relied on Morant to get a high score of 40+ and won the game. On the other hand, the Warriors, from Curry to Thompson, although still stars, but after all, they have entered the stage of career decline, this time like Morant, but also to fight for a quick shot in the rapid offensive and defensive conversion, it is naturally easy to be taken by the Grizzlies with the rhythm, Curry's three-point shot 11 shots 3, as well as Thompson's 12 shots 2, plus the team's three-point shots 38 shots 7, but also let the Warriors themselves lose the chance to win in the game.
Another point is that in the NBA, the team's overall tactics, including defensive rationality, are also very important, in other words, in the playoff games, only offensive points are not so important. While the team itself scores, it is also necessary to prevent the other side from taking points, which is the team's strong performance. Obviously at this point, we fully feel this from the Suns players playing on the court, and the G2 game with the Lone Ranger, they have 8 people on the team scoring more than 6 points, 5 people achieving scoring doubles, and everyone plays at the offensive end at the same time, the string of how the defensive end plays is always tight. The Warriors, on the other hand, emphasize offense, including players playing their offensive strengths on the court, often loosening when the defensive end is tight. Maybe when the opponent is not playing very well, such a tight and loose defense can still make the team win. But once the opponent's offensive efficiency is sustained, and you can catch your defensive mistakes to climax and lose your self-confidence, it will be difficult for the Warriors to win.
So, we saw that the Suns had taken a 2-0 lead after two rounds of games, while the Warriors, who also had the strength to take a 2-0 lead, were tied 1-1 with the Grizzlies. If the two Western Conference championship teams in everyone's mind want to meet in the Western Conference Finals, for the Suns, what needs to be done later is that Paul and Booker must maintain such a play, and the whole team must continue to be a good green leaf, perform their duties, and continue to play steadily through the overall basketball of the whole team, and finally a place to advance to the Western Conference Finals will definitely belong to them. For the Warriors, it is obvious that most of the main players have begun to enter the end of their careers, and they are still fighting with each other and fighting for personal ability. In fact, as long as they shoot more reasonably and defensively, it won less difficult for them to beat the Grizzlies. We look forward to the Warriors and Suns, the chance to meet the Western Conference Finals. I'm also looking forward to seeing the pinnacle showdown between Thompson and Curry against Paul and Booker.