Original title: Sun Lone Ranger G7 Preview: Doncic’s career test Paul reappears magically?
On May 15th, Beijing time, the 2021-22 NBA playoffs will continue. The Phoenix Suns will welcome the Dallas Mavericks at home tomorrow in the semifinal tiebreaker.
The home field advantage has played an extremely crucial role in this round of the series.
At the Sun’s home court, the game is often more severe, and the trend of the game is naturally more favorable for the Sun, who is good at quick attacks, good at coordination, and focuses on technical flow.
However, in the home court of the Lone Ranger, the penalty is often relaxed, and this kind of wind direction also allows the Lone Ranger, who is good at hand-to-hand combat and mainly grassroots, to have the upper hand.
As a result, 6 games were played, and in the end, the home team won the victory.
In terms of personal output, Doncic is undoubtedly the most eye-catching star in these 6 games. So far in the series, he has averaged 32.2 points, 9.8 rebounds, 7.5 assists, and 2.2 steals per game. For Doncic, the Suns have used almost all of their marking tactics, and have also tried various personnel matchups, but they have not been able to limit his output.
The most effective strategy for the Suns to defend Doncic is to consume him with the limit of the wheel and then cut off the connection between him and his teammates to the greatest extent possible. However, this strategy could not be consistent in the series. Other players of the Mavericks, such as Kleber, such as Finney-Smith, Bronson and others, broke out from time to time, disrupting the deployment of the Suns time and time again. Of course, once the strategy works, the Mavericks also tend to get into huge trouble.
Compared with Doncic, the performance of the Suns’ two core Paul and Booker is not stable. In this round of the series, Booker gradually got out of the shadow of injuries, averaging 25.5 points, 5.7 rebounds and 5 assists per game, and basically returned to the normal level of the season. However, in several away games, Booker’s performance was a little stretched. He scored below 20 points twice, not showing the value of the team’s core attacker.
Paul’s combat effectiveness in this round of the series is also declining. In 6 games, he averaged 14 points and 4.5 rebounds per game, and his assists also dropped to 6 times. As a battle-hardened legendary point guard, Paul had the embarrassment of 7 turnovers in the half, and the dilemma of being ejected for 6 fouls in the whole game. Such scenes are rarely seen in Paul’s playoff career. .
But the good thing is that Paul’s state generally improves after returning to the home court, and according to convention, he often has a wave of magical explosions on the night when he is either promoted or out.
When it comes to the next tiebreaker, Dinwiddie, the sixth man of the Mavericks, believes, “In a sense, the tiebreaker is like any other knockout game… Home-court advantage is one thing, but it doesn’t mean everything… …If we can keep them in the 40 percent range and let them make more turnovers, we’ll have a chance to win.”
Obviously, in this passage, Dinwiddie pointed out the two “keys to victory” for the Lone Ranger to counterattack and win. But G7 still has a focus issue, which is Doncic’s physical distribution. Under the siege of the sun, can he maintain his elite combat power until the last moment. And whether the Lone Ranger will stand up and continue to decompress for him, this may be the most critical factor in determining the outcome of the game. (Poirot)Return to Sohu, see more
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