Beijing time on October 31, the regular season continued, in the sun and cavaliers game, the sun 101-92 defeated the cavaliers, currently, with a record of two wins and three losses ranked tenth in the west, as last season ranked second in the west and rushed to the finals stage of the sun, the current record is obviously not satisfactory, of which, Booker's downturn this season is naturally a major factor, but in addition to the team there are still very big problems, if the sun wants to continue to achieve the same record as last season this season, I'm afraid it's going to be even harder. 17+12 Death Knight Twin Towers! Super center refuses to rely on Paul, don't the Suns give the max salary heartache?
In this game against the Cavaliers, Booker had 27 points and 9 assists, but shot 4-of-0 from outside the three-point line, Paul had 16 points and 10 assists, but only 1 of 3 from the free throw line, and received the player who played the best in the game, that is, Ayton, although only played 24 minutes, but got 17 points and 12 rebounds in the whole game, shot 8 of 10, and also delivered three steals, it is worth mentioning that the whole game plus or minus value is as high as 30 game high. And on the defensive end, the Cavaliers' inside double tower Allen and Mobley combined to score six points, which can be said to be completely exploded by Ayton on the inside.
So far this season, Ayton has averaged 13 points, 11.3 rebounds and 1.5 assists per game, shooting 57.9% from the field, and his personal efficiency is very efficient. Most notably, although Ayton is a champion, under the background of Paul and Booker, he mostly plays more like a blue-collar center, but this season, Ayton has obviously changed his playing style on the offensive end, adding more low-post singles, and even developing new three-point skills on the outside, which has undergone earth-shaking changes from the previous impression of Ayton, but this is not a good thing for the Suns.
The biggest reason why Ayton changed his playing style is that at the beginning of this season, the Suns and Ayton's contract renewal negotiations broke down, in the case of the 18th rookie have received the maximum salary contract, Ayton as a champion and helped the team to reach the finals last season, but the Suns have always been reluctant to give him a maximum salary contract, it seems that the Suns' cognition of Ayton is a blue-collar player, but as the 2018th class of pressure on Donchit Lei Yang and other superstars elected as the champion, is Ayton really only the strength of the blue collar?
This obviously doesn't make sense, although Ayton plays as a blue-collar center at the Suns, but in the first two seasons, Capable of averaging 16.3 points, 10.3 rebounds and 18.2 points and 11.5 rebounds per game, respectively, he has a very good independent offensive ability, but when Paul arrived, Ayton made sacrifices on the offensive end and was willing to go to the Finals as a blue-collar center, but after entering the playoffs, Ayton's personal performance was higher than in the regular season, and in the absence of ball possession, he was still able to average 65.8% per game. With a shooting percentage of 15.8 points, and even when facing Jokic, he is not inferior, for such a willing to make sacrifices for the team, the Suns this way of crossing the river and demolishing bridges is not heartache?