Although Kevin Durant they haven’t played a single minute in his shirt yet Phoenix Sans His impact is already being felt on the Arizona team. His signing had an automatic and immediate impact on the team led by Monty Williams, who have featured names such as Deandre Ayton, more mature and concentrated recently. But the biggest beneficiary of this is none other than ChrisPaul, which seems to have woken up from the slumber it had sunk into for the first half of the season.
This lesson was not easy for CP3. Injuries, inconsistency, inaccuracy and the sense that the twilight of his career was about to consume a sensational point guard. An example of this was certain segments where his loss volume was particularly high, which is not at all usual for him. While it would make sense to see his scoring contribution decrease compared to previous years, the decline was very sharp.
Chris Paul is a player who has been characterized as someone who is extremely consistent throughout his career, but also someone who is greatly affected by poor internal dynamics. And what the Suns were going through before getting KD was not positive at all.
However, this move came as a shock to the legendary point guard. An example of this was the game he left against the Sacramento Kings, which the Suns beat 120 to 109. Chris Paul had perhaps his best performance of the entire season at just the right time for Arizona, serving as the engine of a highly anticipated group the rest of the way. The base went to 17 points on 7-of-15 shooting (46.7%), 5 rebounds and an amazing 19 assists.
And who benefited most from their big night? Deandre Ayton. inside received 9 of the point guard’s 19 terminal passes, that is, 18 of his 29 points against the Kings.
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With this record you pass in the basket Chris Paul became the second oldest player to reach 19 assists. Only Steve Nash in front, who left the record twenty in 2011 when he was already part of the Lakers. The magnitude of the point guard’s performance doesn’t stop there as those assist figures are his second-highest this season, surpassed only by Harden’s 21 on December 23rd.
If against the Pacers in the first game of the KD era the Suns player already went to 19 points, 9 assists and 2 steals, in this his contribution has not been left behind. He Chris Paul what is seen from the TRANSPORT invites you to believe you still have gas in the tank to another push into the playoffs.
Three months after turning 38, CP3 has, perhaps, his last chance to win and fight for a championship, which a few weeks ago seemed like an impossible dream.
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