This is not the regular season. This is not a minor tie. Here Luka Doncic is going to have to get everything he has and something else, since the Suns have shown him the path that he is going to have to follow in his games against them and he is rough as hell. In the first contact he did not touch the dubious ares of Jae Crowder, he only had to dance with the second best defender of the course: Mikal Bridges. He pulled ingenuity in some actions, of his less and less surprising inertia in the penetrations and he was collecting points and more points.
45 in all. His record in playoffs He did it last year, in the 7th against the Clippers in which he went home, and there were 46, and the feeling of helplessness was similar. 15/30 on field goals and 11/14 on free throws. He added 12 rebounds and 8 assists because he had to control several facets. Precisely all this that has been reviewed is a bad thing, this is not the winning formula against a team like Arizona. He lacked help. The defense faltered in the first half and in the second the Slovenian’s fatigue was noticeable, who only increased the figure at the end, due to the urgent need for him to do more magic than the wand allows him.
It will be a very hard task to match the level of the Suns and be able to scratch a victory, it should not seem like something unknown either since we are talking about the best team of the campaign. But there have been some flaws in the structure of Monty Williams: a very bad streak with Payne on the track as a point guard, in the rest of an imperial who came back doing a lot of damage, and no communication to sustain Kleber’s exits to the triple or the quintets without center of Kidd. The Texan team can work on that to try to storm the FootPrint Center on Wednesday.