Suns’ hopes for finally after the 6th consecutive loss

To arrive there felt a formality for months, but we are almost beyond that and in the certainty of the Phoenix Suns season having no future in the playoffs, with the last stage from the defeat of 112-98 on Sunday against the New York Knicks.

Phoenix was actually in this early one, with seven quick reversals for the Knicks and Great Suns Energy, making it a 2-20-nine minute lead. But the Suns just couldn’t have shots, marking five points in the following 7:04 am. This allowed the Knicks to jump to a 15-point lead in the middle of the second quarter, with some of the Phoenix reversals and the cerebral farts contributing defensively.

This suggested that the cracks in the dam were about to burst, but instead, it was the type of slow burn in an inevitable Suns, because the case was in these three games without Kevin during (sprained of the left ankle). This could easily have been a game controlled by the Suns at some point given their horrible shot 4 for 34 (11.8%) from the 3 -point beach.

Phoenix has reduced Knicks’ biggest advance from 19 to five with 3:43 not to find a push strong enough to make things more dramatic.

Devin Booker scored 39, 37 and now 40 points (16 for 29) in this competition trio. Sunday was his last stellar performance at Madison Square Garden, with the latter establishing the Suns’ franchise record for most of the points scored in a match.

Bradley Beal had a hard time with his shot to start the match in a goalless first half after an evening of shooting 0 for 7 in his return Friday before making five consecutive shots in the second period to start. He then moved away late to go 8 out of 19 for 16 points with two rebounds, two assists, four interceptions and two blocks in 34 minutes. He was effective and present in defense in these two games, the shots falling on the last piece of the puzzle he needed to give a positive impact. Beal arrives there after he was brutal for him in his first six quarters.

The Knicks recovered their complete rotation from the leader to Jalen Brunson and Miles McBride. Brunson had missed the last 15 games when he was eight for McBride.

New York striker Og Anunoby has been rating in recent weeks and has kept this with 32 points out of 13 shots.

Sun dark game photo for the last week

The biggest development of the weekend was the Kings of Sacramento (38-40) by making a major upheaval against the Cleveland horsemen on Sunday, considerably increasing their chances of playing the game. Meanwhile, the Dallas Mavericks (38-41) have lost consecutive matches against the Los Angeles clippers. Anthony Davis missed the first competition and did Anthony Davis’s thing in the second match, working through injuries while playing.

So what we know is that the Suns (35-43) must win two minimum games over their last four. The magic number of Sacramento to secure a place of play is now a combination of two victories and defeats of Suns. Phoenix could still catch Dallas, in theory.

The next Tuesday is the Golden State Warriors, which are in a real final sprint which will determine the 3-8 seeds and which are the hottest team in the league.

At the opposite end of this is Oklahoma City Thunder, Phoenix visitors the following night. OKC has the seed n ° 1 in the west wrapped and is roughly there for the overall seed n ° 1.. The Thunder the previous night is in Los Angeles against the Lakers, a team with Golden State in this race. If there was a team in the back to play your best guys against your best guys and also take the best race against to prepare for the playoffs, these are obviously the Lakers.

Again, even if OKC rests a few players on Wednesday in Phoenix, the Suns should still not be favored.

Tanking San Antonio Spurs (32-46) will come on Friday in the valley for what is probably the last match at Phx Arena this season. From there, it is Sacramento on Sunday, which could contain some of the greatest possible participations.

Phoenix is ​​obviously in a perilous position. What he has to his advantage is equality breaks, unlike the Mavericks.

The Suns have the break in individual equality with Dallas, a 3-1 head record, while a break in equality with three also returns to the head-to-face record between the three teams. The Mavericks went 1-7 against Sacramento (6-1) and Phoenix (4-3), so the Kings would be ninth and the Suns would be 10th if this happens.

Sacramento going 4-0 against Dallas also attaches them.

The last to determine is between kings and suns. A Phoenix victory on the last day of the regular season at Sacramento would divide 2-2 matches, forcing the division record, which the Suns (9-5) have already won the Kings (4-10).

Dallas welcomes Lakers Wednesday and the Raptors Toronto in shock Friday before ending in Memphis on Sunday against a grizzly team stuck in this mess to try to avoid the game. Sacramento goes to Detroit on Monday for the second night of a consecutive back, then put an end to the regular season on a three -game homestand that presents the Denver Nuggets on Wednesday, the Clippers on Friday, aforementioned on Sunday.

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