86, 78, 56, 91 And 91. Or the number of points scored in five games per Kevin Durant, Devin Booker And Bradley Bealwhich resulted in five victories for the Suns.
With good momentum, the Arizona franchise clearly seems to be gaining momentum now that its “Big Three” is freed from its physical glitches and can therefore work on its automatisms directly on the floor.
“ This is the very definition of: 'You have to choose your poison' » noticed Devin Booker, coming out of victory against the Pacers. “ We all play with an aggressive mentality and it will be difficult to stop us. Especially at the end of the match, with spaces on the pitch. »
Constantly attack the defense
Against Indiana precisely, the “ very unusual problem » Kevin Durant, said Rick Carlisle, was the most prominent in the ranks of Phoenixwho thus showed aggressiveness to punish the opposing defense.
“ I have the feeling that they defended us by following us through the screens and, when teams play like that, we are always going to be aggressive » noted a “KD” author of 40 points, 18/25 shooting (including 4/7 at 3-points).
Two days earlier against the Pelicans, it was Devin Booker (52 points) who carried the Suns offensively and, ten days ago against the Lakers, it was Bradley Beal (37 points) who stood out to lead the team to victory.
A headache for opponents
Proof that the three stars of Phoenix can take turns without problem from one evening to the next and that you must therefore always be careful not to let one get caught, otherwise you will automatically regret it…
“ They are unstoppable when it comes to finding their shooting positions and, if we can give them space to attack the basket, it makes our team even more dynamic. » appreciate Kevin Durant, regarding the offensive facilities of Devin Booker and Bradley Beal.
Especially since players like Grayson Allen can also take advantage of all the attention generated by the Suns' “Big Three” to punish offensively. What to say to Frank Vogel that his group is moving in the right direction (7th in the West, but less than a game behind 5th place).
“ That's great » rejoices the Phoenix coach. “ I think there are always things we can do better, like cuts to the basket to open up the game more for us, but Grayson [Allen] was able to make good use of some of those penetration situations coming out of the pick-and-pop, and get us some nice shooting positions. »
| Shots | Rebounds | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Players | MJ | Min | Shots | 3pts | L.F. | Off | Def | Early | Pd | Bp | Int | Ct | Party | Pts |
| Kevin Durant | 34 | 36.9 | 52.5 | 46.6 | 88.3 | 0.5 | 5.8 | 6.2 | 5.7 | 3.3 | 0.9 | 1.1 | 1.8 | 28.9 |
| Devin Booker | 32 | 36.0 | 48.9 | 38.0 | 89.2 | 0.7 | 4.1 | 4.8 | 7.7 | 2.8 | 0.8 | 0.3 | 3.2 | 27.0 |
| Bradley Beal | 17 | 31.7 | 50.6 | 38.8 | 75.0 | 0.8 | 3.4 | 4.1 | 4.0 | 2.2 | 0.8 | 0.4 | 2.6 | 17.6 |
| Grayson Allen | 36 | 33.4 | 50.3 | 48.1 | 90.0 | 0.8 | 3.4 | 4.2 | 3.0 | 1.5 | 0.9 | 0.7 | 2.2 | 13.8 |
| Eric Gordon | 35 | 30.4 | 44.7 | 38.4 | 76.5 | 0.3 | 1.8 | 2.1 | 2.3 | 1.2 | 1.0 | 0.5 | 1.3 | 12.7 |
| Jusuf Nurkic | 39 | 28.0 | 49.0 | 27.3 | 71.3 | 2.8 | 7.8 | 10.6 | 3.5 | 1.9 | 0.9 | 1.1 | 3.3 | 12.2 |
| Chimezie Metu | 31 | 13.2 | 50.8 | 29.4 | 87.8 | 0.7 | 2.4 | 3.1 | 0.5 | 0.8 | 0.5 | 0.3 | 1.1 | 5.7 |
| Drew Eubanks | 35 | 15.7 | 58.3 | 100.0 | 76.5 | 1.4 | 2.7 | 4.2 | 0.9 | 1.0 | 0.3 | 0.9 | 1.7 | 5.6 |
| Josh Okogie | 35 | 18.6 | 40.0 | 24.6 | 74.4 | 1.3 | 1.5 | 2.8 | 1.3 | 0.6 | 0.9 | 0.5 | 1.6 | 5.3 |
| Jordan Goodwin | 35 | 15.5 | 37.2 | 29.1 | 85.2 | 1.1 | 2.2 | 3.3 | 2.2 | 0.8 | 0.6 | 0.2 | 1.2 | 5.2 |
| Nassir Little | 25 | 14.7 | 48.4 | 31.4 | 85.0 | 0.6 | 1.8 | 2.4 | 0.6 | 0.5 | 0.4 | 0.3 | 1.2 | 4.9 |
| Keita Bates Diop | 30 | 16.1 | 38.7 | 26.4 | 73.5 | 0.8 | 2.0 | 2.7 | 0.9 | 0.2 | 0.6 | 0.5 | 1.0 | 4.5 |
| Yuta Watanabe | 25 | 14.6 | 33.7 | 31.5 | 66.7 | 0.4 | 1.3 | 1.7 | 0.4 | 0.6 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 1.3 | 3.8 |
| Bowl Bowl | 12 | 7.2 | 73.9 | 60.0 | 80.0 | 0.8 | 1.5 | 2.3 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.3 | 0.5 | 0.8 | 3.4 |
| Udoka Azubuike | 11 | 8.3 | 78.9 | 0.0 | 33.3 | 0.8 | 1.5 | 2.3 | 0.3 | 0.4 | 0.0 | 0.5 | 1.5 | 3.0 |
| Saben Lee | 10 | 6.9 | 42.1 | 0.0 | 76.5 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 1.0 | 1.1 | 0.4 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.6 | 2.9 |
