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Although both Kawhi Leonard and Paul George were absent due to injuries, the narrow encounter between the Suns and the Clippers in the first round became somewhat thunderous and rainy, but the Clippers resisted tenaciously in the first round of five games and brought the Suns The threat to the team is far greater than the 4:1 that appears on the books, but in any case, the Suns have successfully advanced to the second round.
In the next second round, the Suns’ opponent will be the No. 1 seed in the Western District, the Nuggets with 53 wins and 29 losses this season. In the match between the two sides two years ago, the Suns swept the Nuggets 4:0, which was also the postseason in the previous two years. It was the only team in the game that didn’t allow the Suns to go beyond the sixth game. However, two years later, the Nuggets are obviously much stronger than they were then, so don’t expect the Suns to pass the test so easily this time.
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The focus of the attack was in the match two years ago, holding the gold nugget at that time, the defense was unclear, especially the main players Nikola Jokic and Michael Porter Jr. were not very good at defending to the perimeter, and the speed of movement was difficult to compare with ordinary guards. The point is you With no way to replace them for a long time, Chris Paul and Devin Booker desperately grabbed the two of them and hit the gold nuggets one by one from the middle distance. The whole series could hardly come up with any countermeasures. At the last moment Jokic rarely gets angry, which makes this battle combination lose suspense very early.
Now, two years later, it is conceivable that the Suns will still use the mid-range as their starting style this time. Even if Chris Paul, who threw the gold nuggets to break the defense, has degraded more and more this season, it may be difficult to expect him to replicate the two years ago. The performance of the Nuggets series was divine, but after trading for Kevin Durant in the middle of the season, the Suns’ offensive ability in this area has not decreased but increased. The test is whether Mike Malone, the head coach of the Nuggets, has thought of how to control the way the Suns continue to output in the middle distance after two years.
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Defensive focus For most teams, the defensive focus of the golden nuggets will obviously be Jokic, but for the Suns, it is clear that Ayton will be in charge, and the past record of the game seems to be able to control the damage brought by Jokic In a range of circumstances, the Suns are the most important in this series. I would choose to miss the entire series two years ago, but Jamal Murray has always played very well against the Suns in the past.
I’m not sure how Monty Williams plans to match up. It will return to the scheduling mode in the late part of the regular season and replace Josh Okogie with the starting lineup to match up with Murray. But the price is that Devin Booker, who is already heavily burdened, is bound to defend Aaron. Gordon or Michael Porter Jr., two tall forwards, will continue to let Torrey Craig start to face the violent forward team of the Nuggets since the playoffs, but then Murray can only be handed over to Booker, it seems that it is not better, right? .
In short, in this series, it is expected that it will be difficult for both sides to completely block the opponent’s offensive. It can be expected that it will be more likely to lead to an offensive battle. Although I think it is useless to talk about it, but if you really want to fight offensively, you can ask Monty Will Williams see who else is available behind your bench?
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Variables and hidden worries The variable of the Suns series, or the hidden worry that can span the entire playoffs at all, is the slow on-the-spot response of head coach Monty Williams, and the fact that others say that he will not die until the Yellow River, and Monty will not die. It’s the rigid scheduling that people may have been rushed into the Yellow Sea and still don’t give up. Among them, the most worrying thing for me, or it’s obviously useless to worry about it, is the playing time of his super favorite Landry Shamet.
To put it simply, the current Shamet is one. In terms of ability, he can be ranked as the 14th person in the Suns at most. This is assuming that he has won against Daiurs Bazley, who has never played much. Otherwise, it can only be lower. It’s completely impossible for one frame, but he leads the fifth highest salary in the team and enjoys the playing order of the sixth man. This can’t be bad news, okay? After talking for so long, I don’t know Shamet’s recent Which game did he perform well enough for him to be the first to be called by his name at such a moment, even if he was trying his luck, why should he be the first to try every game? Can we take turns?
Not to mention, as a player who is theoretically a shooter, Shamet basically received the supreme defensive treatment in the first round of the series against the Clippers. When the ball was ambushed in the bottom corner, the defender almost every attack They are all two steps away from him, and they basically act as if there is no one standing there, allowing teammates to enjoy the treatment of four-on-five offense. Under such tight defensive pressure, Shamet, as a shooter, played a total of nearly 55 minutes in the first round During the time, there were only 7 shots from outside the three-point line (after all, the teammates suspected that they didn’t want to pass him too much), and 1 goal was hit. Is this what Monty calls helping teammates to open up space? Maybe I really don’t understand the ball Bar.
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Or I often hear people say that after all, the backup point guard Payne was injured at the time, and Shamet was the only one who could dribble a little bit to eat up the backup point guard’s time. Although I don’t agree with this sentence, it sounds like it makes sense Right, the problem is that it should be easy to find out from the actual game. Shamet dribbled the ball halfway too rarely. Booker almost always dribbled the ball halftime when Paul was resting. Even Shamet would sometimes catch the ball immediately. After uploading to Booker, he ran to the frontcourt by himself, so you said Shamet controlled the ball, what kind of ball did he control?
I haven’t even mentioned above, Shamet is almost always used as a cash machine on the defensive end. Even when he makes a goal, it is at most just offsetting the damage on the defensive end, let alone don’t know if it has been recently. Faced with overwhelming doubts from Sun fans at home and abroad, the mentality has exploded. Recently, even throwing the ball has become an extravagant hope, successfully realizing the wish of attacking four-on-five and defending four-on-five. The main lineup is already very good. To increase the weight in this way, I have been talking about the same thing for almost two years.
To be honest, apart from the fact that I really don’t want him to continue to play, in fact, I have never hated Shamet, and I don’t think it’s okay to blame him for any problems on the court, but our biggest worry is that Monty Williams doesn’t know Why is it still like a mountain? It’s cool to have Shamet go up and show his face for a few minutes every game. The problem is that in the first round, he was almost beaten once by the Clippers, plus local players from home and abroad, especially in Phoenix. Sun fans have scolded me to the point where I’m almost worried about Shamet’s personal safety, Monty really needs to decide if you’re loving him or hurting him like this.
The key to the battle is that when it comes to Landry Shamet, I have to mention one. I believe this is really a coincidence, but it is just a career record. That is, Shamet joined the Seven Sixers through the draft at the beginning of the 2018-19 season (mid-season Traded to the Clippers), the Sixers were eliminated by the Raptors in the second round of the playoffs in the seventh game of the season; in the 2019-20 season, the Clippers were eliminated by the Gold Nuggets in the seventh round of the playoffs In the 2020-21 season in the Nets, the Nets were eliminated by the Bucks in the seventh round of the playoffs; in the 2021-22 season in the Suns, the Suns were eliminated by the Lone Ranger in the seventh round of the playoffs. …
In other words, in the first four seasons of Shamet’s career, as long as he started the season with any team, that team would guarantee the second round of the playoffs and then be eliminated in the tiebreaker. The sex is quite high. Should I just be lazy here and just announce that the series of the Nuggets will definitely beat the Suns 4:3 and it will be over….(Dragged away)
Okay, let’s get back to the topic. For the Suns in this series, the most critical part is whether they can play the dominance they had two years ago on the offensive end. To be honest, the Nuggets coach Mike Malone’s reaction is not fast. Let’s see if there is a chance to take away the gold nugget directly, especially when it is likely to become an offensive game. The combined time of the first round is not as much as TJ Warren, Terrence Ross, and Cameron Payne in Shamet’s first game. The attack combination with Jock Landale should be brought out in due course.
As for the defensive end, in addition to the aforementioned Murray, Michael Porter Jr. and Aaron Gordon this season are no longer what they were two years ago. With the lack of size and rebound protection, the Suns are weak. I hope the players on the court don’t forget that positioning is always a matter for the whole team. It’s not that there is a center in the team so it’s his fault that they can’t get rebounds, let alone the Suns who are probably the busiest player on the defensive end in this series, Ayton said. No one dares to recognize the number one, okay?
In the end, of course, after all, the opponent is Jokic. Don’t expect too much from Landale and Biyombo in this series. If they come up to defend, the possibility of being beaten by Jokic is extremely high. It can help Ayton buy some rest time and carry Some fouls, and occasionally bullying the Nugget’s backup center, even if their mission is completed, as for Ayton now, I honestly don’t expect him to be able to defend Jokic as perfectly as he did two years ago, but if he wants to control The damage that Jokic brings to the defensive end, Ayton must be the most important player for the Suns in this series.
As for the series outlook? As I just said, gold nugget 4:3 sun, there can be no other result, right? (Beaten)
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