"Amazing how he does it": Chris Paul's solo show
Taking over the fourth quarter and a crazy figure in assists-losses ratio: Phoenix is thrilled by its supreme center.
And also: Trey Young's blind faith
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23/04/2022
Saturday, April 23, 2022, 10:30 p.m.
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The Return of the Point Gad: In the absence of the injured Devin Boker, Chris Paul knew he had to shoulder the team and did so as few in the NBA know: The Phoenix Suns coordinator scored 19 points early in the morning (Saturday) in the fourth quarter, for the fourth time in his career His that he records such an amount at least in the last 12 minutes, leading the runner-up to a 111: 114 away win over the New Orleans Pelicans, which restored the home advantage and raised CP3 and his teammates to 1: 2 in the series.
In the final 10 minutes of the game, Paul was responsible for nine of Phoenix's ten field goals in passing or shooting, with his 28 points in the game adding 14 assists and thus recording a seventh game of his career in which he does not lose balls and delivers at least 10 assists.
Magic Johnson, John Stockton, Jason Kidd, Steph Kerry and Isaiah Thomas have six such games - in total.
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He too was a motivator.
Eyton (Photo: GettyImages, Jonathan Bachman)
Paul, who stands on an insane 38-assist ratio versus two losses in the playoffs so far, has scored 15 points or more in the final quarter in two games in the current playoffs, just like all the other league players put together.
At the end he explained simply: "I was just trying to get to my positions. I finally managed to score a few shots, I just tried to be aggressive and listened to the DA, he told me he would release me."
This of course refers to Diandra Eyton, who said he spotted a change in the Pelicans defense in the fourth quarter, and told his coordinator it was time to stop delivering and start throwing.
"I'm amazed every time I see it," Jabeil Maggie described his teammate's takeover of Money Time minutes.
"The whole game he produces for others and then in the fourth quarter, if we need him, he goes up and starts scoring those shots from half distance. It's just amazing how he does it."
Eyton, too, by the way, had someone pushing him to throw over and over again.
The Suns Center said Devin Booker shouted at him to look for the basket throughout the game, and Eyton implemented: 28 points and 17 rebounds were the No. 1 pick in the 2018 draft, the first Phoenix player since Amara Studmeier in 2007 to record at least 25 points and 15 rebounds in a playoff game.
He had no doubt.
Trey Young (Photo: GettyImages, Kevin C. Cox)
And there was another player, perhaps one who would still go the way of Chris Paul later in his career, who proved that he too is not afraid of the moment when the clock ticks towards the last buzzer.
Trey Young gave the Atlanta Hawks their first win of the series against the Miami Heat tonight, with a basket of 4.4 seconds to go on the way to 110: 111.
"I had no doubt that if I threw, it would come in," said Young, who for the fifth time in his career scored a basket that put his team ahead within the final five seconds of the game - two of those baskets were in the playoffs.
Young, who honestly earned the nickname "Ice Tree" for his clutch abilities, tweeted after the game: "What do you think of that, Atlanta?"
Next to an emoji of a snowflake.
In the deciding minutes the center had 10 points, compared to nine for the whole of Miami.
At the press conference, the guard admitted: "It's just one game, I have to do it again."
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