Phoenix Suns vs New Orleans Pelicans Full Highlights 1st QTR | Apr 1 | 2024 NBA Regular Season

Phoenix Suns vs New Orleans Pelicans Full Highlights 1st QTR | Apr 1 | 2024 NBA Regular Season

Times that when this team is clicking offensively and doing the things that they are capable of and supposed to do they are hard to stop but often times they are Their Own Worst Enemy we’ll see if they can correct some of those flaws here tonight it’s good to have Isaiah

Over there actually offering his opinion and and showing leadership I think Valen opens up the scoring with a little Baseline jumper and I think look as much as anything that is one of the reasons why they went ahead and signed him to a second day contract you know we talked about it so

Often in our trips as valent tuna is trying to jam up nurkic shakes the defender Murphy and nerk able to get inside can’t get the roll but will get the foul and that foul will be and look some teams you don’t worry about in regards to the Suns being 100%

Up and concentrated the play and this Pelicans team just based on a couple of years ago with the play off of that it’s a lot of emotion not only with the teams but with this crowd as well Grayson sees an opening passing up the layup kicks it out to Durant who

Fires the three ner fighting with a rebound the back tap to Booker book able to get to that free throw line extended jumper and gets on the scoreboard early [Applause] Here here’s McCullum his numbers not surprisingly have gone up since the absence of Brandon Ingram able to get the leaner in the lane right there he’s a pristine scorer but he’s tried to you know do other things for this ball Club but when his mind is concentrated on scoring he’s

Difficult book quick trigger pulls for three and gets it he loves this gym that call it a gym I’m not in the arena with him it’s just a gym he’s got the scoring record here as the pels answer with their own three this is a Pelicans team that a little

Bit like the Suns they don’t get a high volume of three-point shots up as Durant will try his hand in a second one and connects on that one I like that Devon recognize KD coming off the weak side wide open in Rhythm mcum on the drive and kick finds

Valen shuis in the corner he willing three-point shooter shoot 33% though not a high volume as you would expect KD says I’ll give you another one so two quick triples from Kevin Durant that it’s a 127 Phoenix lead and they’re going to get those looks in transition M Cullen comes across the line

And well it was a three-point shooting as much as anything that proved to be the undoing for Phoenix Friday night in Oklahoma City as book on the spin dropped it off and nerk who brings the boom you see early on that look KD and Devin they’re going to have an advantage

Uh defensively I mean against I mean offensively against them they’re going to be able to move without the ball man and get open off the dribble they combined for 78 in the last meeting as McCullum misfires on that three-pointed timy wor book getting 52 of those book gets a green Fires for

Three they’ve made five straight prior to that one here comes Williamson quick Advance pass to McCullum racing across the base line quick pull from distance well he’s been shooting the three ball extremely well he’s been averaging 8 and 1 half attempts per game since January 1 it’s

Gron Allen you’d love to see him get back in his three-point shooting Rhythm struggled over the last couple of games he was one of nine in a loss on Friday night yeah this is a Shooters Arena though I I I F see him getting some great looks and knocking him down mullum

On the Drive Allen with a help but that’s knocked off ner so leaves Zion he wants to put the ball down and Bill can bother him off the dribble and and that’s to me is where you can make Zion have to work and think McCullum with a step back corner three well defended

That time by Beal mullum is another one who’s elevated his three-point shooting attempts per game over the last couple of months KD back to the basket going right at Murphy the third that little Baseline fade no nerk inside with the offensive glass a put back nope knocked out of his hands by valent

Tunis nerk with the left hand would have been an easy an attempt Murphy lost his footing and it’ll be a New Orleans turnover it’s a Pelicans team that lost here on their home floor Saturday afternoon to Boston they scored just 11 point points in the third quarter of

That game as the C’s put him in lockdown book with a pullup three behind the screen connects on his second triple of the night already well book near his hometown not Hometown but well halfway Hometown Michigan and [Applause] Obviously on the little Flo yeah Melvin Brooker of course is his father and all of moss points Mississippi well yeah and so you know he gets a lot of people to come up and support him every year so you know he is wired up yeah well represented here tonight between Melvin

And Moss Point is KD again going to the back down gets the turnar around this time Point uh you know Devon went to high school all those things come into play yeah and then you factor in the the obvious reason to be motivated as we touched on to start theight and the

Important of this game and as we said you no longer have to squint to see the Finish Line it is directly in front of this team Durant waits for the screen gets it to nerk takes a pocket pass but a kick there by valent chunis and here at home

15th best home record seventh overall record in the NBA Beal turns a corner book side step three on the way splash down got that glimp in his eye that’s all I’m going to say 11 quick points for Booker Williamson trying to turn the corner hasn’t taken a shot

Yet yeah it’s been interesting they’ve kind of played the role a facilitator between he and McCullum book sets fires wide open look and down it goes Lo column and they see them again Zion threw it away triggers a break opportunity for Kevin R and an easy run to the

Rim well his assist to turnover ratio has not been what you would call particularly good for Zion Williamson though they will continue to put the ball in in hand and try to initiate the offense son’s doing a good job of zoning up on Zion not really giving him any

Angles to get to the rim Murphy with another three he’s got to a perfect start nine points three of three from downtown and Murphy is the one one that’s getting those looks based on how the suns are guarding Zion he’s played extremely well in a month to March’s

Book that time little dribble hesitation on the perimeter throws the defender and he takes it right to the rack well you know how that works he’s been knocking the threes down now they’re getting up on him and he’s as lethal as anyone pointed in in the performance on Friday

Night at Oklahoma City and he says we saw it time and time and time again he emphasized it the ocean of space that OKC had to operate in Good ball pops it around finds Gordon in the far Corner who connects on the triple another little old home feeling for the former pel 223 games in a New Orleans uniform for Eric Gordon former Sixth Man of the Year here’s a talented rookie on the drive inside Jordan Hawkins and like I

Said the defense has been great to start the offense has been for St but I am really impressed with the D book on the drive sets up Grayson Allen who drops it in from the corner that’s eight straight made field goal from the Suns with a red hot first [Applause]

Here Murphy jammed up defensively and he’ll take the contested three he shot that KN he’s

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