On January 29, Beijing time, in the NBA regular season, the Suns challenged the Magic away. Despite the best efforts of the whole team, they still lost to the Magic with a score of 98-113 and suffered two consecutive defeats.
I still remember that at the beginning of the season, the Suns management and head coach were full of confidence, believing that the Suns' Big Three was enough to make this year's Tai** prepare for the ability to impact the championship.
The Magic won this game by defense, and the Magic's defensive attitude has been positive and unrelaxed throughout the game, and their defense has allowed the opponent to repeatedly put the ball in their own hands, and they have successfully limited the opponent's scoring, allowing the Suns to score only three double-doubles.
The best basket protector of the Suns in this game is actually the 39-year-old Durant, and the Magic's defense made the Suns have 22 turnovers, while they only have 7 turnovers.
When the game came up, the two teams fell into a tug-of-war, and the scores on the court alternated leads, at this time the Suns were still reassuring that there were no big problems with offense and defense, and the Suns' shooting rate was more than ten percentage points higher than that of the Magic in the first quarter, and the Suns led by 11 points at 37-26 in the first quarter.
Coming back in the second quarter, the Suns' shooting percentage began to decline, scoring only 19 points in a single quarter, while the Magic scored 25 points, which was basically the same as the first quarter
Coming back from the second half break, the Suns once again stretched the difference to more than ten points, but fortunately, the Magic adjusted in time to respond, and the two sides kept seesawing after that, and at the end of the third quarter, 85-82, the Suns were still in the lead.
But at the critical moment in the last quarter, the offense of Suns Booker and Beal suddenly lost power, and the whole team scored without sports for eight minutes, only relying on free throws to score two points, on the other hand, the Magic, a wave of 18-2 offensive, not only overtook the score, but also allowed the opponent to score only 13 points in a single quarter.
Fortunately, it did not break the Suns' all-time record of 9 points in a single quarter, otherwise it would have been even more embarrassing, and finally the Magic defeated the Suns at home to stop the losing streak.
The only thing to celebrate was that at 10:11 of the final quarter of the game, Durant scored on a jumper against Isaac, setting a new career high for his total points, breaking the 28,000-point mark.