though he left early and did not return. <\/a><\/p>\nIn spite of Butler’s absence, Golden State shot tremendously well – converting 50% of shots from the field and 45% from downtown.<\/p>\n
They led by as much as 25 on the night. <\/p>\n
Quick recap:<\/p>\n
The Suns started out just 1-11 shooting from the field, and combined with Golden State’s 14-2 run after the first, Phoenix found themselves down early 17-13 entering the first timeout of the game. <\/p>\n
Collin Gillespie and Oso Ighodaro were the first players off the bench for the Suns. Nigel Hayes-Davis also checked in for Phoenix in the first. <\/p>\n
Golden State eventually hit another 11-2 run towards the end of the first to spring a timeout from Suns coach Jordan Ott.<\/p>\n
Phoenix trailed 33-19 as the second quarter began. Warriors big man Quinten Post led all scorers with nine points while the Suns shot just 1-7 from three-point land to start the game. <\/p>\n
Gillespie, the NBA’s top three-point shooting reserve player, scored a quick six points in ten seconds to trim Golden State’s advantage to ten, forcing Warriors coach Steve Kerr to stop action and collect his troops. <\/p>\n
Yet true to Warriors fashion, Golden State quickly caught fire and emerged to a 45-27 lead with just over eight minutes left in the half. The Warriors were shooting a strong 50% from the field and 60% from deep to that point. <\/p>\n
That prompted Ott to plug most of his starting lineup back into action with the exception of Gillespie on the floor. <\/p>\n
Golden State maintained a roughly 20-point advantage in the closing moments of the first half, ultimately entering the locker room up 68-49. <\/p>\n
Booker’s 17 points was a team-high for Phoenix after two quarters. No other Suns player had more than seven. <\/p>\n
Butler played 14 minutes in the first half but was ruled out as second half action began. <\/p>\n
To start the third, the Suns threw Golden State a bit of a curveball with a box+1 defense, which helped cut the Warriors’ lead to 16 in the early stages of the second half. <\/p>\n
After a Golden State surge, Phoenix’s 13-2 run near the end of the quarter cut the Warriors’ lead to 12, which prompted another timeout from Kerr. <\/p>\n
The Suns ultimately found themselves down 92-83 entering the fourth quarter thanks to 34 points from Booker, who sank all eleven free throw attempts from the stripe. <\/p>\n
Meanwhile, Golden State had seven turnovers in the third. <\/p>\n
With Booker on the bench to start the fourth, Golden State found their rhythm and extended their lead to 16 in the opening minutes thanks to a 15-3 run. <\/p>\n
Grayson Allen gave the Suns a bit of hope, hitting a step-back three to get Phoenix’s deficit to under ten with five minutes remaining. <\/p>\n
In spite of a late 12-3 run by Phoenix, Dillon Brooks was assessed a technical foul from the bench with under three to go – giving Golden State a pair of points that would prove to be too much for the Suns as the final buzzer sounded. <\/p>\n
The Suns return home for a Thursday night matchup against the Los Angeles Clippers. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Despite making a late push, the Phoenix Suns fell short to the Golden State Warriors in 118-107 fashion…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":357359,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5131],"tags":[5229,5643,1587,1589,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-357358","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-phoenix","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-arizona","10":"tag-az","11":"tag-phoenix","12":"tag-united-states","13":"tag-united-states-of-america","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","16":"tag-us","17":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115496972725729775","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=357358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357358\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/357359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=357358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=357358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=357358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}