On February 16, Beijing time, the Suns played at home against the Clippers, and the Clippers lost to the Suns 96-103 at the end of the game. This game the Clippers are back-to-back combat, although the performance of the Clippers this season has been unexpected by the fans, but this game it is really not easy for the Clippers to beat the Suns, after all, the integrity of the Suns is too strong, and it is really difficult to say whether the Clippers can reverse the game as before at this time. In the first half of this game, the Clippers brought a lot of pressure to the Suns, and in the third quarter, the Suns had a hard time pulling the score, but in the fourth quarter of the game, the Clippers completed the rebound again, but the Suns still occupied the lead at the critical moment, and finally the Suns rejected the occurrence of the upset game.
In the first half of the game, the Clippers had a good offensive feel, so the Clippers occupied the lead on the court in the first quarter. But in the second quarter of the game, the Suns began to strengthen their defensive intensity, and more importantly, the Suns began to find their own offensive state, and the Clippers' offensive status declined, so at the end of the half, the Suns completed the counterattack. And in the third quarter of the game when the two teams played very hard, Reggie, Batum in the game to play is to help the team tightly bite the score, but in the second half of the third quarter of the game the Suns began to exert force, strengthened the defensive intensity after the Clippers' offensive state declined, in front of Batum, Reggie, Morris high difficult shots failed to hit, in this case the Suns played a defensive counterattack, especially Booker here inside and outside the two blossoms, which also helped the Suns to open the score, the third quarter ended the Suns led by 9 points.
In the fourth quarter of the game, the Suns performed poorly, relying on Kennard and others to play to chase the score to only 3 points, after the suspension Haltenstein continued to help the team chase points, paul shot in the key moment to stabilize the situation, the next game Johnson although hit three points, but because of the Suns' mistakes, relying on Covington, Reggie Clippers is successfully over 2 points, Johnson scored a layup after the two teams played a draw again, the key moment Paul hit three points, the Suns occupy a 3-point lead. In the next game, although Morris was still able to shoot difficult three-pointers, Reggie and others were not in good shape, and the sun opened up the score under paul, Ayton, and Bridges, and finally the Clippers chased the score and lost the game.
It's a shame that the Clippers lost the game in this game, after all, the Clippers once completed the counter-overtaking in the fourth quarter of the game, but in the second half of the strategy of Lu's guidance, when Lu's guidance replaced Haltenstein with Tylenlu, but compared to Haltenstein Zubac, it was obvious that he could not change defenses as Haltenstein, in this case Paul began to organize the team, especially when the Clippers attacked the Suns to play a defensive counterattack, which also made the Clippers completely lose the game. So Lu guided such a strategy really failed. At the end of the game, Reggie had 14 points, 2 rebounds and 8 assists, Batum had 18 points, 7 rebounds and 1 assist, and Morris had 23 points, 4 rebounds and 1 assist.
As for Paul in this game again played the role of the sea god needle, although the fourth quarter of the game clippers are to make Paul play badly, did not let him play the desired organizational offense, in the game Paul also made some mistakes, but in the key moments Paul can still contribute on the offensive end, and then when there is a chance, Paul can still send assists, the end of the game Paul got 17 points, 5 rebounds and 14 assists, Booker got 26 points, 3 rebounds and 4 assists. Ayton got 12 points, 12 rebounds and 1 assist in this game, although Ayton's performance in the game is very comprehensive, but Ayton's performance in some details in the game is still not good enough, in the face of Morris, Kofi and other players with obvious physical advantages, some of Ayton's operations are incredible, shooting loss does not dare to play hard, these are Ayton's flaws, so in this case, Ayton is really far from the maximum salary.