It was the shock of the night in the NBA, between the leader of the Eastern Conference and the second in the West, between the team of a Joel Embiid on an MVP mission and another whose collective and consistency of victories begins to do damn chat. Finally ? A real basketball game, as expected, and if the pivot of the Sixers filed a new record of glutton, Jojo was too lonely a chouïa against an armada once again led by a wonderful Chris Paul.
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Having a player as dominant as Joel Embiid in your midst clearly ensures you have a minimum level, enough to look any basketball team in the eye. Once again deprived of Tobias Harris (knee) and Ben Simmons (gone to look for the reasons for his future second place in the DPOY standings), the Sixers have nevertheless played the game, facing a formation yet very difficult to move and sharply ramping up at the best of times. Two less holders but no question of feeling sorry for himself, there is a first place to keep warm, and this evening the reasons for satisfaction will have been numerous for Doc Rivers despite the defeat. A Joel Embiid always so unplayable to start (38 points at 14/23 and 17 rebounds), author of a new demo and on the verge of hitting the most WTF shot of the millennium on the buzzer, we let you check the video below. below but only after having read the delicious lines which will follow. The Process therefore, always focus in his quest for MVP, but also George Hill, who will never be Jason Kidd but who is very useful, and especially the young Matisse Thybulle and Tyrese Maxey, the first having again released a defensive mixtape worthy of the larger, while the second was once again successfully empowered. Add to that a deft Danny Green / Furkan Korkmaz duo from afar and you’ve got a set that few teams can boast this season of being able to dominate. Spoiler: the Suns are one of them and can congratulate themselves this morning on having handled this new shock in a very serious way.
Because if for the Sixers Joel Embiid clearly set the tone, the men of Monty Williams have applied their plan to the letter. A Devin Booker transcendent by sequences but generally well maintained by Thybulle? Pani problem, the so-called Chris Paul takes matters into his own hands. 28 points and 8 assists for Point God, zero lost ball once again in the heart of a season whose cleanliness is becoming disturbing, and overall an impressive grip on this match, one hand in the falzard and the other to guide his small army with confidence. As often the friends will take the aspiration and take advantage of the light offered by CP3, and tonight it is a very useful Jevon Carter in the highlights and an increasingly versatile Cameron Johnson who will have been the catalysts of the Suns’ success. , while Mikal Bridges’ six-meter-long arms came in handy for scraping big bounces in the money time.
A money time which therefore almost became legendary but an in and out decided otherwise, just enough to offer the Suns their 42nd victory of the season, not the easiest but one of the most striking, a victory which confirms the strength of Phoenix night after night, three weeks before the Playoffs which will be synonymous with great ambition in Arizona. And as long as Chris Paul is in the house, the Suns can see it coming.
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