2-2！ The referee locked up Paul, the bottom line helped the Lone Ranger, and the League wanted to watch Doncic vs. Morant

After the start of this season's NBA playoffs, the Lone Ranger's promotion prospects were once not optimistic from the outside world, and they lost their absolute core in the regular season finale, but they unexpectedly gained Brunson in the first round of playoffs, under his outstanding performance, the Lone Ranger did not lose the wind against the Jazz at all, and after the return of the King of Doncic, he easily eliminated his opponent to advance to the Western Conference Semifinals! They will compete with the Suns, who have the best record in the league, for a ticket to the Western Conference Finals, and due to the Lone Ranger's natural huge advantage on the inside, the vast majority of fans are optimistic about the Suns' promotion prospects, and the first two home games, the Suns also took a 2-0 lead under the leadership of São Paulo.

But after the game came to Dallas, the Lone Ranger began to break out, the third battle between the two sides of the birthday of Paul state is nothing, let Doncic lead the team to pull back a city, the fourth game the referee once again became the protagonist, targeted blow penalties, so that Paul fell into foul trouble early, the fourth quarter also just played 3 minutes, will be Paul off the field, which is also the reason why the fans angrily rebuked the league for winning the new star without a bottom line, and finally the Lone Ranger relied on the fiery three-point feel, Doused the Suns 111-101 at home and tied the series to 2-2!

Booker struggled to stand alone, and the First Western Conference suffered two consecutive defeats

The Suns can play a very dominant overall performance this season, Trident Paul, Booker and Ayton can be said to be indispensable, compared to the pie-eating Yuanlang, Ayton's performance in the backcourt double-gun Paul and Booker directly determines the overall offensive quality of the Suns, in this game and the Lone Ranger's fourth series, because Paul fell into foul trouble, So Booker had to carry the team's offensive banner alone.

In order to limit Booker's play, the defensive end is also doing his best, as long as Booker wants to use the block to break the inside line, the Lone Ranger will give a decisive pinch, hoping that Booker can choose more from medium and long distance to face the high difficulty of the defense, so as to reduce his shooting percentage.

But it turns out that Booker is worthy of the Mamba passer and Kobe Bryant's disciple, under the targeted defense, Booker gave the opponent a counterattack with a stable shooting performance, playing 43.2 minutes in the whole game, hitting 10 goals in 22 shots, although the shooting rate is not how amazing, but also to a certain extent, it also announced the failure of the lone ranger's established strategy, and in addition to the stable shooting performance, Booker also let the fans see the momentum of knowing that he has a tiger bias towards the tiger mountain line.

In the face of the lone ranger after the pursuit of the soldiers in front of the ambush of the bag defense, Booker still firmly chose to attack the inside line to kill, in the game to get 13 free throw opportunities, and finally a person cut 35 points, 4 rebounds and 7 assists of the personal data, but Paul can not play for a long time, Ayton did not play the interior dominance, only 14 + 11 personal data, making Booker become the air slasher of this battle.

Doncic's three-point misalignment, but his teammates felt hot

Today's lone ranger has only one core, that is, the European genius Doncic, whether he can play a good performance directly determines the team's winning prospects, as the first Suns in the West, naturally also know this, in the away game they also put great pressure on Doncic on the defensive end, and achieved good results.

The whole game suns do not give Doncic the opportunity to directly shoot three-point shots after using the high block, always keep at least one defensive player in front of him, do not give Doncic the opportunity to explode personal performance, this strategy has also achieved good results, in the game, although Doncic cut down 26 + 7 + 11 + 4 personal data, but the offensive efficiency is not high, 25 shots only 9, outside the three-point line is only 10 of 1 performance, there are 4 mistakes.

But the Suns defensive end against Doncic, will inevitably face the risk of other Lone Ranger players to get an open three-point shot opportunity, betting that the Lone Ranger's other role players can not shoot, has become the Suns' biggest wish in this battle, obviously their good wishes have failed, the Lone Ranger's outside pitchers in the game joined forces to rain three points.

In addition to Doncic, the Lone Ranger made a total of 34 three-pointers on the perimeter, shooting 19 three-pointers with a 55.9% shooting rate, including the starting Smith was even more fiery, one hit 8 three-pointers, helping the team to pour out the Suns with three-point rain.

Paul was strangled by the referee and the league had no bottom line

Being able to defend their home court for the second consecutive game, the lone ranger's excellent performance can certainly not be ignored, but the referee's poor performance is also the reason why they can block the first place in the West, and in this game Paul encountered the referee's unfair blowing penalty and fell into foul trouble early:

Shortly after the start of the second half, Paul was rear-ended by Brunson behind him while advancing with the ball, although Paul had the intention of deliberately slowing down to try to create a foul on the other side, but according to the scale of the referee's repeated disregard of the lone ranger cover foul in this game, such an action should not be blown foul, especially if Paul has already carried 4 fouls.

If there is a certain basis for blowing Paul foul for the fifth time, when there are 8 minutes and 58 seconds left in the fourth quarter, Paul's defense of Brunson is obviously very attentive to his movements, keeping his arms high, but the referee still firmly gave him the 6th offense and sent him off, and Paul only played 23 minutes in the whole game, and his personal data was only dismal 5 points, 5 rebounds and 7 assists.

This game the referee has no bottom line to help the Lone Ranger, but also let many fans think of another showdown in the West, the Warriors in the first game with the Grizzlies, is also caught in the situation of 5 to 8, the league wants to win the future supergiants such as Doncic and Morant, in the Western Conference finals to stage a talent showdown, has become the consensus of many fans.

Although the away team suffered two consecutive defeats, the Suns still hold the initiative to advance, I believe that after they return to their home stadium, there will be a bottoming rebound performance, whether the First In the West can reach the divisional finals in the case of the league's partiality, let us wait and see!