Two more wins, and Devin Booker’s Suns will tie a franchise record with 17 straight wins. But to achieve this, the NBA 2020 finalists will have to achieve a double feat: beat the leaders of each of the conferences! Brooklyn, this Saturday night, at the Barclays Center, then the Warriors at home Tuesday night.
We will then know more about these Suns who still have not lost in November despite a few glitches and absences.
“It’s not a playoff match” chuckles Chris Paul about the stake of the meeting. “It’s good for us to play this kind of game, and we’re probably going to see different defenses and all that, but we’re just trying to build, and still build. It’s not about winning a game in November. “
Easy winners of the Knicks, the Suns show great accuracy in the game, as confirmed by their 55% on shots and 46% at 3-points. But the opponents are more and more tenacious. Everyone wants to end this series, and several times, the Suns have made it in the “money time”, as against San Antonio or Cleveland.
“We just want to move forward” Booker reacts after victory at Madison Square Garden. “Our series is no secret, and each team will give their best against us. The whole NBA is in the know, so we’re trying to set the tone for the start. We disembark, we play collectively, and we did the job tonight. “
The number 1 weapon of the Suns? Defense. Phoenix has the 3rd defense in the entire NBA, and it’s an essential sector to do better than last season. “We talk about it all the time” assure Chris Paul. “What accompanies us on the move is defense. I think that’s where we try to be consistent. “
A defense that will therefore be tested against the Nets and the Warriors where we find the two best current attackers, Kevin Durant and Stephen Curry.
“We will take each game, one by one. We know that we will play on Saturday a difficult opponent who awaits us, and who is well rested ” underlines Booker. “We just have to play with the same mentality, the same collective basketball, defend at a high level, and put ourselves in a good position to do so. “
| Tirs | Rebounds | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Players | MJ | Min | Tirs | 3pts | LF | Off | Def | Until | Pd | Bp | Int | Ct | Fte | Pts |
| Devin Booker | 19 | 33.1 | 45.6 | 39.7 | 84.0 | 0.9 | 4.4 | 5.3 | 4.7 | 2.8 | 0.9 | 0.3 | 2.3 | 23.6 |
| Deandre Ayton | 13 | 30.1 | 64.2 | 20.0 | 60.0 | 3.2 | 8.7 | 11.8 | 1.3 | 1.7 | 0.9 | 0.6 | 2.8 | 15.8 |
| Chris Paul | 19 | 31.7 | 47.2 | 34.5 | 85.5 | 0.3 | 3.6 | 3.9 | 10.4 | 2.3 | 2.1 | 0.3 | 1.9 | 14.1 |
| Mikal Bridges | 19 | 33.8 | 54.6 | 40.3 | 81.8 | 0.6 | 3.2 | 3.8 | 1.9 | 0.7 | 1.1 | 0.6 | 2.3 | 12.9 |
| Frank Kaminsky | 9 | 20.1 | 54.5 | 33.3 | 90.0 | 1.2 | 3.3 | 4.6 | 1.4 | 0.6 | 0.9 | 0.8 | 1.6 | 10.6 |
| Javale Mcgee | 19 | 16.4 | 67.4 | 0.0 | 62.5 | 2.2 | 4.9 | 7.1 | 0.7 | 1.6 | 0.4 | 0.9 | 2.6 | 10.2 |
| Cameron Payne | 14 | 17.5 | 38.8 | 30.0 | 80.6 | 0.4 | 2.2 | 2.6 | 2.9 | 1.6 | 0.6 | 0.3 | 1.7 | 9.9 |
| Jae Crowder | 19 | 27.7 | 38.5 | 34.0 | 83.3 | 0.4 | 4.2 | 4.6 | 1.4 | 0.8 | 1.3 | 0.5 | 2.3 | 8.8 |
| Cameron Johnson | 19 | 22.2 | 40.1 | 38.6 | 73.7 | 0.3 | 2.9 | 3.3 | 1.2 | 0.6 | 0.7 | 0.2 | 1.3 | 8.5 |
| Landry Shamet | 18 | 18.5 | 38.1 | 38.5 | 81.8 | 0.2 | 2.2 | 2.4 | 1.6 | 0.4 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 0.9 | 7.1 |
| Elfrid Payton | 6 | 13.8 | 53.3 | 0.0 | 50.0 | 0.8 | 2.3 | 3.2 | 2.8 | 1.2 | 0.5 | 0.0 | 1.3 | 6.0 |
| Abdel Nader | 14 | 10.4 | 34.3 | 28.6 | 60.0 | 0.3 | 1.6 | 1.9 | 0.5 | 0.8 | 0.6 | 0.3 | 1.4 | 2.4 |
| Jalen Smith | 6 | 5.4 | 36.4 | 0.0 | 100.0 | 0.7 | 1.7 | 2.3 | 0.0 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.5 | 2.2 |
| Chandler Hutchison | 3 | 3.2 | 100.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1.3 | 1.3 | 0.3 | 1.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.3 | 0.7 |
| Ishmail Wainright | 3 | 2.5 | 33.3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.7 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.3 | 0.7 |
