At 11 minutes and 45 seconds of the first quarter, the score was 31 to 25. The Suns beat the Trail Blazers 16 to 10 in more than 5 minutes after returning from the timeout!

In the last attack of the first quarter, Liu Xiu suddenly passed to McDyess. McDyess missed the ball and shot. Fortunately, Liu Xiu drilled inside after passing the ball and grabbed the offensive rebound when Tim Thomas and Marion were unprepared.

Then passed it to Ray Allen, who took the ball and shot a three-pointer...

In!

For a few seconds, leave it to Ray Allen!

With 1.7 seconds left in the first quarter, Nash caught the ball in the backcourt and threw it directly... out of bounds.

After the first quarter, the Suns led the Trail Blazers by 3 points 31 to 28 and entered the intersection break!

Liu Xiu walked back to the bench angrily. It's not that they didn't play well offensively. They played better than usual in the first quarter tonight. The Blazers' offense has been slow this season, and they only averaged 10 points per game in the first quarter.

In terms of league average, 28 points in a single quarter is pretty good.

But the opponent is like Gundam. In the previous 81 games, he averaged 32+ in the first quarter! First in the league!

However, the Suns averaged 111.4 points per game, which is also the first in the league, and the first since the 1992-1993 season, surpassing themselves last season, the Magic in the 1994-95 season.

Liu Xiu has checked. The last team that averaged more points per game than the Suns this season was the Suns. In the 1992-93 season, the Suns averaged 113.4 points per game.

Liu Xiu could feel that although he and his teammates were in good shape tonight, they were not bad and could not be said to be explosive. Facing the Suns, which had the strongest offensive firepower in the league in the first quarter, when the opponent was also in good shape,

Being able to hold on to the score... the performance doesn't seem to be too bad!

Thinking of this, his mood became high, and he praised Ray Allen, who was drinking an energy drink next to him, saying that he was the best three-point shooter in the world.

What did you hear?

Ray Allen can't say he likes such praise, but he doesn't hate it either.

But he sensed a sense of crisis: Does the warden want to work hard on three points?

No! He thinks he has to work harder!

…

After the break, Liu Xiu sat on the bench.

The coach sent out a combination of Flying Squirrel, Ray Allen, Stevenson, Raheem, and Kwame Brown.

Tonight, the Blazers' starters played significantly more minutes than they have in the past month.

The final game of the regular season is here, and there is no need to rotate like before.

Liu Xiu looked up at the big screen and made 2 of 3 shots, plus 1 of 2 free throws. He scored 6 points, 1 rebound and 6 assists. These were Nash's first quarter statistics.

Liu Xiu looked at himself again. He made 2 of 4 shots and scored 6 points, 2 rebounds and 3 assists, which was not bad, but he attacked aggressively and got assists... He found that Nash said he didn't want it, but his body was very honest!

On the opposite side, Nash continues to start.

It's obvious that Zonda is very eager to win the assists title.

The other four players on the Suns are Barbosa, Diaw, Marion and Kurt Thomas.

After the start of the second quarter, the Suns continued to have the upper hand, and their offensive firepower reached a new level!

The little flying squirrel fought hard, but his ability to fight was not that outstanding when facing the Suns.

The Suns scored 15 points in more than 4 minutes, beating the Trail Blazers on a 15-10 climax, widening the point difference to 8 points, and stopped the Trail Blazers with a score of 46-38!

After returning from the timeout, Maurice Cheeks changed into a defensive lineup, and the combination of Payton, Liu Xiu, Outlaws, Aaron Williams, and Mourning came on the court.

After this lineup came on the scene, the major commentators were generally not optimistic about it.

The reason they stated was quite recognized by the audience - when the Trail Blazers played against the Suns before, they tried to suppress the Suns' scoring by defense more than once, but most of the time the effect was not good.

But this time, the situation has not changed...

In the middle of the second quarter, the Suns scored 10 to 6. At 8 minutes and 11 seconds of the second quarter, the Suns scored 56 to 44, and the lead reached 12 points! The Blazers were stopped again.

Team!

The commentators are all saying that the Trail Blazers still have a chance, and a 12-point deficit with more than two quarters is not a huge gap.

The Trail Blazers changed their lineup and slapped the announcers in the face.

Their predictions were wrong again. Instead of fielding an offensive lineup, the Trail Blazers intensified their efforts and fielded a worse offensive lineup—Liu Xiu, Stevenson, Outlaws, Kwame Brown, and McDyess.

The combination was replaced by Maurice Cheeks!

On the other side, D'Antoni sent a combination of Eddie House, Barbosa, Diaw, Tim Thomas, and Kurt Thomas.

Nash, who played 20 minutes and scored 13 points and 11 assists, was replaced and rested. The number of Suns players finally reached 8. In the first 20 minutes and 11 seconds, the Suns played with 7 players.

The timeout ended and the game continued. Few commentators were optimistic about the Trail Blazers' lineup.

Even if Liu Xiu came back from a timeout and beat Barbosa to score 2+1, narrowing the point difference to 9 points, no one would care.

Then, Eddie House hit a three-pointer after Diaw's pass, once again widening the point difference to 12 points. The score came to 59 to 47, and there were more voices looking down on the Trail Blazers.

Some commentators who originally disliked the Trail Blazers commented: "There is an essential difference between a 70-win team and a 69-win team..."

In the remaining time, the Suns' offensive firepower was still fierce. Tim Thomas and Barbosa each scored a mid-range shot. At the end of the half, Barbosa also scored a buzzer-beating three-pointer from Diaw.

Points... plus Eddie House's three-pointer, the Suns scored 10 points in the remaining 3 minutes and 49 seconds!

After halftime, the Suns' score increased to 66 points!

but!

When Barbosa hit the three-pointer at the buzzer, the Suns' lead was not as big as it was when the timeout entered at 8 minutes and 11 seconds!

After playing a 2+1, Liu Xiu made another step-back mid-range shot, a counterattack layup, and a single cross-step three-pointer. There was no Raja Bell, no Marion, no matter it was Eddie Howe.

Si or Barbossa, Liu Xiu caught each other and beat him up!

In 3 minutes and 49 seconds, Liu Xiu scored 10 points alone.

In addition, the Outlaws made a catch and layup, and Kwame Brown made a put-back dunk.

In less than 4 minutes, the Trail Blazers scored 14 points!

After halftime, the Trail Blazers narrowed the point difference to single digits again, trailing the Suns by 8 points 58 to 66 entering the halftime break!

Although the Suns scored 35-30 in the second quarter, the Trail Blazers lost by 5 points in this quarter, falling further behind than in the first quarter.

But the Trail Blazers players were much more excited at this time than at the end of the first quarter, and they were determined to move forward!

However, when entering the halftime break, the Trail Blazers stole the spotlight again - Stevenson slapped him on the head like crazy after the second quarter, and his teammates couldn't hold him back.
Chapter completed!