Beijing time on April 2, the NBA playoffs continued, today the Pelicans sat at home to usher in the Challenge of the Suns, after the first three games between the two sides, the Pelicans fell behind the opponent 1-2, but after Booker was injured, the Pelicans have obviously been able to break the wrist with the opponent, and they only lost to the opponent by 7 points in the last game. Both sides felt good in the first quarter, with Ingram scoring 11 points in the quarter to give the Pelicans a three-point lead.
In the second quarter, the sun blossomed more, under Paul's tandem, the sun's inside and outside firepower was fully opened to play a 20-10 climax, helping the team to reverse 2 points to end the first half, after the start of the second half, Ingram first scored 6 consecutive points to lead the team to overtake, and then Yingge was out of control, taking 16 points in a single quarter to help the Pelicans lead by 10 points, and in the fourth quarter, although the Suns struggled to catch up, but Valan even scored 10 points to directly eliminate the suspense of the game, and finally the Pelicans defeated the Suns 118-103, and the two sides will usher in the battle of Tianwangshan.
In terms of data, Ayton shot 11 of 14 from the field, took 23 points, 8 rebounds, 1 assist and 1 block, Ayton feels that there is no need to say, but it is not so much ball, if you let him play openly, in the face of Varan's bulky center to cut a 30+ no pressure, but the Sun is still too focused on the "team", the result of their proud team play today only 4 people scored in double figures, playing the team needs stars to attract defense, Paul, Ayton only need a person to stare at the line, no Booker can say that the Suns are very tired.
Bridges, who had been efficient in the first few games, didn't do well either, scoring just eight points on 4-of-11 shooting, cameron Johnson scoring 13 points, but only 4-of-12 shooting, McGee played well and had 14 points and 4 rebounds on 7-of-7 shooting, and none of the other players scored in double figures. Seeing this, everyone thinks of São Paulo, how is he doing today? On 2-of-8 shooting, 0-of-3 from three-point range, he had 4 points, 3 rebounds, 11 assists and 2 steals.
In the face of the Pelicans guard's bite Paul did not play the performance he deserved, maybe Willy Green saw last year's Finals Bucks defense Paul's way, they even used the whole field to burn Paul's physical strength, which is also the reason why Paul played badly in this game, 36 years old can no longer have the physical strength of young people, and today Alvarado is defending Paul a backcourt for 8 seconds, this guy is too much like Beverly.
17 minutes on the court, the last quarter of the battle 8 minutes to beat Paul, let Paul score 0 points in the last quarter 2 of 0, to know the past two Pelicans lost games, Paul scored 19 points in the last quarter, the performance is very eye-catching, but today was locked by this unknown young man, the fourth quarter Alvardo single quarter 2 out of 1 to get 4 points, 1 assist 2 steals data, the old six is really good, this season he is only a two-way contract player, if the playoffs can play well, it is estimated that the Pelicans will keep him.
McCollum shot 8-of-21 from the field, 2 of 9 three-pointers, 18 points, 9 rebounds and 2 assists, although the play was abnormal, but Varan replaced CJ's role well, 9 of 15 from the field, 1 of 1 three-pointers, and 1 of 26 points, 15 rebounds and 4 assists. Herbert Jones has the potential of top 3D, today 3 of 7 shots to score 13 points, 3 rebounds, 3 assists, 2 steals and 3 blocks, it is worth mentioning that Herbert Jones has become the only player in the past two years to block three three-pointers in a single game.
Another face paralysis defensive gate, this guy is really hard. And the most surprising is Ingram, the first time in his career to play the playoffs of Ingram, did not expect so hard, today the whole game of 23 shots 11, three points 5 of 1 got 30 points, 4 rebounds and 5 assists data, the last three games he averaged 33.7 points, 7.3 rebounds and 5.3 assists per game, shooting 56% from the field, the peak Durant is not so, Ingram has won 30+ in three consecutive games, so far he has also created a Pelicans team record.
There are too many sun fouls in this game, a lot of irrational fouls should be controlled, otherwise the Pelicans can't lead them by so many points, now there is no big gap between the two sides without Booker, the Suns want to win must do better in the details, beat the Pelicans with experience, the next Game of Kings Mountain will return to Phoenix, the time is held on Wednesday, interested friends can take a look. Speaking of which, what do you want to say about these two teams? Welcome to leave a message to discuss.