Falling into the Three Desperate Situations The sun is about to set in the west?

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2024-04-25 12:51Posted on the official account of Fujian Live Bar

Falling into the Three Desperate Situations The sun is about to set in the west?

The sun is setting in the west. In the first round of the playoffs against the Timberwolves, the Suns are currently down 0-2 and can be described as a collapse on the court. Seeing that the Suns are coming to an end this season, the Big Three of Durant, Booker and Beal are also embarrassing. The Suns only have to go all out to fight for G3 at home, are the Suns really at nothing to do?

In yesterday's series G2, under the Suns' siege and interception, Edwards, the star who made a wild break in the first game, only scored 15 points on 3-of-12 shooting. The Suns' strategy worked. But except for Edwards, the other four Timberwolves starters performed normally, and even McDaniels scored 25 points on 10-of-17 shooting, becoming one of the Timberwolves' wonders. The Suns defended Edwards well, but they didn't have offense comparable to it, and the Big Three shot 18 of 45, and the 40% shooting rate couldn't be taken, falling into the defensive trap of the Timberwolves.

The Suns trailed the Timberwolves 40-48 in penalty area scoring. But the most important link is the mistake. The Suns led the Timberwolves 21-14 by turnover, but scored 31-2 on turnovers, with the Suns scoring just two points from turnovers and 31 points from Suns turnovers. This was the one statistic with the biggest difference in yesterday's game.

Now the Suns can only hope for a game or two at home. It's not the same as the Lakers. The Lakers had a huge advantage in G2, leading by as many as 20 points at one point, but were eventually overturned by the Nuggets. The Suns played both games, with Booker and Beal exchanging courtesies on the court, and Durant watching the show from the sidelines.

The Suns can't figure out why the Timberwolves, who swept 3-0 in the regular season, seem to have changed teams in the playoffs? A typical example is the Jazz in the 1997-98 season, winning both games against the Bulls in the regular season, and also gaining home-court advantage in the finals, and successfully leading 1-0, but in the end they were still overturned by the Bulls 4-2.

Everyone is puzzled by the fact that the Suns have fallen into such a situation, and there is another point, that is, the Suns finally finished 6th in the West and qualified for the playoffs, but they didn't cherish it so much. The Suns had been hovering around 7th in the West, but the Lakers finally took out the Pelicans in the closing stage, and the Suns were able to escape. At that time, the Suns were overjoyed after confirming the first-round matchup, but they were beaten back to their original form before May.

This year, among the three traffic teams, Curry's Warriors have an early holiday, James's Lakers and Durant's Suns, the league's "big and small kings", but now they are all in a desperate situation of falling behind 0-2 in the first round, it seems that the NBA is really going to change the dynasty.

What makes the Suns most depressed is that in the previous trade between Durant and Beal, the Suns gave away almost all of the first-round picks from this year to 2030 (4 first-round picks, 5 first-round pick swaps), and became as unreinforcing as the Nets that year. In the past few years, if you want to reclaim the first-round pick, you can only trade stars, but the problem is that Booker is the cornerstone of the team, Durant is the initiative to vote, and in terms of career resume, there is no tradeability, there is only one Bill left, and it is difficult to make a move due to the downturn in the market, and he still has the right to veto the trade.

In other words, the sun is formed around these three superstars, and none of them can move. If there is no completely rebuilt team that can help absorb Beal in the next N years, they have to keep the current roster unchanged, and the final result can only be Booker and Durant requesting a trade. What's more, the Suns just renewed their contract for 4 years and 70 million not long ago, and now the Suns' total salary has risen to $206 million, and they will be the first in the NBA for the next three years.

In short, there were no first-round picks, the total salary was first, and they were still 0-2 behind, and the sun fell into three desperate situations. The Suns have no other way to go but to fight at home. Is there still a play on the Suns in G3?

(Mao Mao Dad/Push-ups)

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