2022 NBA Playoffs Analysis Suns-Pelicans

In recent years, the handling of the Pelicans, especially after hiring David Griffin, who had been in the Suns uniform for 17 years, as general manager, his handling always gives us old Suns fans a sense of familiarity. Chief Protector, Aaron Nelson, who may be half of the credit for the Suns medical team, was poached. The head coach was Alvin Gentry, who coached the Suns first, and Willie Green, the new head coach this season, was also the chief assistant coach of the Suns last year. They use the Suns for everything, why? Don’t take the sun boss with you?

Last season, the Phoenix Suns, who made it to the championship game last season and ended the season with two wins and four straight losses, made a comeback this season, winning 64 wins and 18 losses, breaking the team record. The Suns’ goal for the rest of the season is to complete the two wins they missed last year and the first championship in team history.

But the opponent in the first round, let’s not talk about the Lakers who always wanted to pick us. Oh, the team here is called the Organs, right? Originally I always thought that it was either the Grey Wolves or the Clippers. Even if we were going to counterattack in the play-offs, I hoped that the Spurs would come up to give us an electric shock. After the results of the play-offs came out earlier, I showed the strength of Hainan coach. expression……..

How does the Suns defense match up?

First of all, the Pelicans are a very prominent team. There are four players over 6 feet 8 inches in Brandon Ingram, Jonas Valanciunas, Jaxson Hayes and Herbert Jones on the starting list. The only one with a relatively amiable height is the largest brand CJ McCollum, even on the bench, the more commonly seen Larry Nance Jr., Trey Murphy III and Naji Marshall are all over 6 feet 7 inches in standard size, only the burger thief Jose Alvarado is shorter.

And with almost the entire team a notch above you, the matchup situation for the Suns in this series is going to be an issue, and ideally we’d of course hope it would be best if Mikal Bridges guards CJ McCollum and then Brandon Ingram goes to Jae Crowder is in charge, directly strangling the Pelicans’ two strongest points of attack, but then you’re putting Chris Paul and Devin Booker up against opponents more than five inches taller than them, which doesn’t seem very feasible.

Then you said that the matchup is based on height. Only McCollum is a little closer to Paul in height. Is this a bit hard for the old man, and a large striker like Brandon Ingram happens to be Mikal Bridges has always been a tougher type. Spend your best defensive player on something he’s not good at, like when you had Shawn Marion on Lamar Odom?

In the case where the matchup seems to be a bit wrong, the Suns may need to use a large number of three-flank formations in the transition phase of this series to make up for the physical disadvantage of the defensive matchup. This is also the news that Landry Shamet was injured earlier. At that time, the main reason for my heart almost did not fluctuate, the opponents in this series are higher than each other, you better not come out and join in the fun. . . .

Legion of Sun Replicants

In recent years, the handling of the Pelicans, especially after hiring David Griffin, who had been in the Suns uniform for 17 years, as general manager, his handling always gives us old Suns fans a sense of familiarity. Chief Protector, Aaron Nelson, who may be half of the credit for the Suns medical team, was poached. The head coach was Alvin Gentry, who coached the Suns first, and Willie Green, the new head coach this season, was also the chief assistant coach of the Suns last year. They use the Suns for everything, why? Don’t take the sun boss with you?

It’s okay to dig the logistics team. What’s more excessive is that during the summer vacation, it was rumored that the Pelicans once offered a higher price than the Suns to Chris Paul. From the content of Paul’s interview after the incident, it sounds like he may also be true. Some have considered the contract with the Pelicans, but the Pelicans lost to the chosen person in the end. To be honest, this is not a crime of war.

And this series of operations also led to the deduction of their unsuccessful Chris Paul, the Pelicans’ current lineup is actually a little bit similar to the Suns without Paul. It also has McCollum, an excellent backcourt scorer, A whole row of full-sized 3D wings, even better than the sun, is equipped with a single player like Ingram, which I really envy, but the main difference between the two teams at this stage is still very realistic. , we have Chris Paul, you don’t.

It can be seen from these two play-off games that the Pelicans are also a very resilient team. Especially for the Clippers game, I once thought that they should be almost gone. I didn’t expect them to stick to the Clippers’ main lineup. At the end of the day, but due to the lack of high-level backcourt commanders, they are also very easy to mess up many times. When playing a normal team, this may not cause irreparable damage, but in this season. Focusing on the Suns in the fourth quarter, that might be a problem.

Coaching and apprenticeship

I still remember in the final stage of the season, I once said that I most hoped that the ranking after the Western Conference playoffs would be the Suns, Grizzlies, Warriors, Mavericks, Jazz, Gold Nuggets, Clippers and Spurs. The result seems to be a bit high in the end. , of course, because I never thought that the most difficult Clippers in the playoffs would actually lose two games in a row, otherwise I would be very happy to replace the Clippers with the Timberwolves, so the only difference is that the Pelicans have replaced that. OK, I’m pretty okay with that too.

At least, compared to the other three teams in the playoffs, the Organs… oh I mean the Pelicans, at least the Orans are not in LA and don’t have that many spotlights, they’re not a league darling like us, so they should You can expect a fairer whistle treatment, you should play relatively cleanly, and you don’t have to worry about whether there are out-of-the-box moves. Most importantly, their head coach is Willie Green, our old friend from last year, although the Suns’ The routine may have been seen by him, but at least I should be able to expect a relatively peaceful series, right?

After winning 1 win and 12 losses in the first 13 games of the season, and the state of the scheduled team leader Zion Williamson is indescribable, Willie Green has been able to take this Pelicans all the way to this point, which is really good for him. Delighted, as Monty Williams’ chief disciple after his great success, it is said that before the fourth quarter of the Clippers playoffs, Willie Green’s speech to the Pelicans made me very familiar with the content:

That’s what we’re after, why do we train so hard, okay? We’re far from giving up, we’re not giving up yet! So you have to fight the damn, you have to fight! 』

By the way, since we’re talking about Monty Williams, by the way, he’s changed quite a bit this season, and if this time last year, he often gave me the feeling that the head coach was actually Chris Paul, I have to say This season is almost gone. If this year’s coach of the year is awarded to him, I have no opinion at all this time, and it deserves it.

X Factor：Jonas Valanciunas

The most important thing for the Suns to pay attention to in this series is that the Pelicans have almost all-round physical advantages from starters to substitutes, as well as their explosiveness in rushing offensive rebounds. Among them, the most important thing is that although there is nothing in the play-off against the Clippers Performance, even being squeezed by the Clippers five minutes into the fourth quarter, most of them sat on the bench, but the X Factor of this series, I will vote for Jonas Valanciunas.

The reason is also very simple. Including the Grizzlies and the Tyrannosaurus, Valanciunas and DeAndre Ayton have played eight times in their careers. Valanciunas averaged 20.4 points, 12.4 rebounds, 1.9 assists, 1.3 interceptions and 1.3 blocks per game. In the two games, Ayton defended Valanciunas for a total of 13 minutes and 22 seconds. Valanciunas made 7 of 11 shots and scored 17 points including free throws. The hit rate was as high as 63.6%. Basically, he was hit once. .

Whether it’s in the previous article Sun Weekly (7): Did you know your switches are hard to find? once mentioned that Ayton is a type who can pick opponents seriously, or can pick opponents and fish, or he is not good at dealing with such muscular long people. In short, this series should be You can see whether Ayton doesn’t want to or can’t,

By the way, a friendly reminder, although I haven’t played a few times in total, so the sample size is quite small, but when JaVale McGee was in charge of defending Valanciunas this season, the matchup rate was 2-for-8, and Bismack Biyombo was in charge. Defensively, it’s 1-for-5…I remember you said you wanted the max, right? In case you can’t meet Jokic this year, you may have to let everyone see it from other channels.

But in any case, even if the Pelicans have one reason or another to create some trouble for the Suns, without too many surprises, I think the Suns should still be able to end the series within five games.

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