The ABCD combination of the sun only left B and D. In the Western semi-final match against the Nuggets, Booker and Durant scored 86 points. But their center was too poor. In the last half of the ball, coach Monty pressed Elton on the bench until the end of the game, and the Suns pulled back a game with 121-114.

For Durant and Booker, this ball is the “Battle of Declaration”. As the winning craze, they were defeated to the Nuggets in the first two games of the semi-final. The future was dangerous. If they couldn’t win at home, 0-3 would be out. Even if they won, they didn’t win enough, it will also cast a huge shadow on the following matches.

Without C ,ABD still has a failure. If B and D still fail, then the sun is really over.

So Booker stood out first, which was originally his team. Even if Durant comes, if he can’t help the Sun through the difficulties, then Booker has an obligatory responsibility. So in the first quarter, he scored 18 points for 8 out of 10, and 29 points for the latter three. This is the fourth game of 45 + in Booker’s career in the playoffs and the third game of 45 + in this year’s playoffs. However, there are only 4 other people who have performed 45 + in the history of the Suns playoffs.

So far, Bu has scored 293 points in the playoffs. In the history of NBA playoffs, no one has got such a high total score in the first eight games-except Michael Jordan in 1990.

The reason why Booker broke out so early, except that the big score was already 0-2 behind the Nuggets, and the first Durant was in a depressed state, which continued the bad feel of the last game. In the second away game, Durant scored only 24 points in 10 out of 27 and 2 out of 12 out of 3-point goals, and the Sun scored only 87 points. Back to the home court, Durant’s feel did not improve. In the first 7, there was no three-point shot at one time, and he only got 3 points at the beginning.

Due to the lack of Paul’s needle-threading lead, Alton’s sense of participation in the attack was extremely low, and the game of the Suns became very simple, that is, Booker and Durant would take the ball and attack whoever had a good chance, the other was holding him down on the weak side. So Booker took out the brave state of “Mr. 70” at the beginning, and both Codeville-Pope and Murray were helpless to him. Booker scored 18 points in the first quarter, and there was no free throw. 6 points came from 2 three-point goals, and the remaining 12 points all came from the emergency stop shot or layup.

Booker’s crazy performance did not let the sun take advantage of the home court, but fell behind in the first quarter until Durant broke out in the second quarter. He played the whole festival, waving the Sickle of death and cutting 18 points, of which 10 points came from 11 free throws. It was also at this stage when Durant broke out that the Suns beat their opponents 17 points in a single session, laying the foundation for playing downwind ball later.

The two top classical scorers showed extremely high offensive efficiency, especially the crazy Booker, 23 in the 25th game, 5 in the 8th three-point game, and only 2 points in the 47th game came from 2 free throws, he has nine assists.

The two of them broke out at the same time instead of taking turns to attack in the last section. Durant scored 11 points for 4 out of 5 and 12 points for 5 out of Booker 5, which reversed the score of the Nuggets in reverse. Durant’s last death shot came from the long distance jump shot of 39 seconds in the fourth quarter, almost killing the competition.

Booker and Durant contributed such a crazy performance, but the Suns only won the Nuggets 7 points. They didn’t have the advantage of 16 points in the second quarter. In the third quarter, they were still surpassed by the Nuggets, this shows that the crisis of the Suns is far from being lifted.

There are two main problems: first, the ability of the bench to contribute scores is very weak; Second, the starting lineup is incomplete, and Alton continues to lose power.

The bench is not good, and the role players have poor abilities. This is a common problem for superstars to get together. In the past, the Suns team who had reached the finals had a stable lineup. Monti was very handy in rotation. Now he got Durant halfway and hurt Paul again, so far, there is no stable rotation.

G1 was a big defeat. Monti mainly used Craig, shammett, biyongbo and his brother-in-law on the bench. G2 Craig’s play decreased significantly. His brother-in-law’s playing time reached 26 minutes and continued to use biyongbo. After returning to the home court, Alton’s depressed state made Monty feel guilty again, as if he had returned to the playoffs last year. In the end, Monty decided decisively to replace Elton with Landale, supplemented by striker Warren for nearly 26 minutes. The new scorer Terence rose appeared and abandoned biyongbo, brother-in-law and Craig.

Such a violent and turbulent board seat cannot bring continuous advantages to the Suns. If Alton does not play the momentum of the champion and 30 million stars, then this round of Sun may “take pills”.

Before the start of this season, many fans came to ask me how the prospects of the Suns were. After Durant changed to the Suns, many fans came to ask if it was going to be a big ending this time? My answer is the same: if the Suns can’t give a reasonable explanation for the 60-point loss of G6 and G7 against the Mavericks 3-2 last season, I can’t believe they will really win the championship.

If you have any impression, at this time last year, Elton played less than 18 minutes in G7. he was replaced by Monti halfway and only got 5 points for the whole game. He was present at 17 minutes 27 seconds, the Suns lost 23 points.

Today, although the Suns did not fall into the desperate situation of falling behind the big score and led the Nuggets at the last moment, the way Monty coach abandoned Elton was the same, and the reason might be the same.

When the game was about to enter the last half of the game, the Suns also led by 9 points. Durant was arch top in bag clip and passed the ball to Eton on the free throw line. He faced Murray, who was much shorter, the layup was unexpectedly hatched by Murray; The Suns’ Counterattack didn’t hit the three points. Elton grabbed the rebound, but Bruce Brown behind him broke the ball and passed it to yokeki, hitting it directly.

Coach Monti really couldn’t watch it any more. After 1 minute, he informed Landale on the pause. Elton only got a poor 4 points. I heard that it was going to be frozen. I was depressed and looked unhappy. Paul looked up and said something to him, and held out his hand to shake it. Elton turned a blind eye.

Due to being pressed on the bench at the last moment, Alton played less than 26 minutes in total, 5 minutes less than the original time, while the first two away games against the Nuggets, elton’s playing time has dropped from 35-36 minutes to 30 minutes.

No one knows whether Paul, who is injured in the root of his thigh, can return in time. If Elton continues to be so depressed, the Suns’ lineup cannot form a three-dimensional structure combining inside and outside. It can only rely on Booker and Durant, you and me, relying on personal skills, once the hit rate is not high, it may fall into a situation of wind the ball. Now Durant can’t guarantee his hit rate, and Booker can’t often be 45 +. It is not enough to compete with the Nuggets with jokedge and Murray as the core structure. Just relying on BD is not enough.

The Suns can’t find a way to limit yokiki now. G1 asked him to take 19 rebounds, G2 gave him 39 points, G3 gave him 17 assists.

There were three centers in the Suns, Elton, biyongbo and Landale, but none of them could stand up. G4 was very dangerous.