In an early morning game, the Lakers ended a four-game losing streak with a win over the Suns. When I knew before I went to bed that both Doncic and Hayes could play, the result was not a surprise. Just by looking at the rankings of these two teams, you know that they are not a team of the same grade at this time, even if James is not playing.

Hayes finished with 19 points and 6 rebounds on 8-of-10 shooting today, and if it weren't for the four free throws he missed, Hayes would have set a new season high for him today. The rise of Hayes during this period reflects how much the team system can add to a player, or how much a superstar can add to a role player.

Hayes, the center, to be honest, has not reached the league's average starting level, and most teams in the league can't start. But a jumping man like him, when paired with Doncic, can achieve twice the result with half the effort.

As long as you can block people, go down fast enough, and grasp opportunities well enough, you can eat countless pies under Doncic's tandem. Of course, eating cake is also an important skill of the center, such as the Lakers' Colok today, who spit out the pie in his mouth several times.

Hayes is also important to Doncic. When Ryan played the starter before, Doncic's cooperation with the center was completely unopen, and he lost the threat of the lower pass, and the opponent was more unscrupulous to contain Doncic. After Hayes returned, Doncic gave Hayes a few pies at the beginning, and the Lakers' offense was opened.

The Lakers led the Suns by 20 points in the first quarter, and the game was always in control of the situation on the court, and the Suns did not pose a substantial threat to the Lakers. Durant and Buden are arguing earlier than ever today.

The Suns were blown out 2-23 by the Lakers in the first quarter, and Durant and Budenholzer broke out into a heated argument during the timeout. The two men glared angrily, and Buden was very emotional. After returning from the timeout, the Suns collapsed and were beaten 23-2 by the Lakers.

During this period, the Suns completely let go of Doncic on the defensive end, and the latter hit a three-point shot; In the Suns' offensive round, O'Neal ignored Durant's request, and in the next round, Durant was angry and forced to shoot three points and three without sticking; Then on the defensive round, the Suns let Vincent go again, and the latter hit a three-point shot.

Just like that, the point difference was quickly widened, and the plot of such a game was repeated countless times on the Suns this season. Poor communication on the offensive end, constant leaks on the defensive end, and the whole team played without discipline at all.

There must be something wrong with the Suns' interior, and there is no need for reporters to break the news, from the casual attitude of the players on the court and the attitude towards Budenholzer off the court, you can see that Buden has lost control of the locker room.

There are constantly reporters who break the news that Booker and Buden can't communicate, and Durant has publicly expressed his dissatisfaction with Buden in front of the camera at least three times this month. First shook off Buden's hand, then glared at Buden fiercely, and today they quarreled openly.

Although Buden stood up and said: "KD and I are like old friends, we always communicate with each other like that, and sometimes we do have different opinions, but after that I am not a calculating person, we are still very good friends!" "But things have come to this point, and everyone knows that you two don't have much time to spend together.

Durant was really mentally by Doncic a lot of times today, and Durant trash talked to Doncic: "You can't get these whistles in the playoffs. Doncic retorted: "No, I can." ”

When Durant made a free throw, Doncic and the referee said that Durant had stepped on the line with his toe, and Durant missed the free throw. After Durant stepped up to the free-throw line again, Doncic said to Durant, "Your toe is on the line, that's why you're missing the free throw." ”

The most poignant sentence was when Doncic returned to the bench during the timeout and said to Reaves next to him: "I've never been so empty in my life." "Lies don't hurt, the truth is the quick knife. With Doncic's big open in the first quarter, it's hard to imagine that this is the defensive treatment Doncic deserves.

In this game, you only need to carefully observe the Suns' defense for a few rounds, and you can always find countless faults, as if as long as the Lakers' ball-handler comes to the inside, the Suns' defensive system will be chaotic, and there will be no rotation at all. All eyes are on the ball-handler, and Doncic's casual pass is a big open space.

The Suns' defense is poor, it's rotten to the bone, can't their players be competent? Of course not. At the beginning of the third quarter, their defense was not bad, and the rotation was in place. But most of the time, the Suns' players make mistakes on the defensive end and can't fix them.

The defense is rotten like this, and the coach has to take the main responsibility, and there are more and more voices to get Budenholzer out of class. But the Suns just signed a five-year contract with Buden, and the previous Monty and Vogel Suns have paid high liquidated damages, so do you want to add another Buden?

The Suns' current ball is to look at the offense, the "Big Three" is difficult to win when you open one, there is a play when you open two, and it is basically a fantasy to open three. Today's half-time ball, Booker was 4-of-9, Beal was 2-of-6, Durant was 1-of-9, and the three of them were 0-of-8 three-pointers, scoring a total of 17 points, the same as Doncic's halftime score.

The Suns' season has long been over, even if there is still hope of winning tenth place because of the Mavericks' injuries, but it is just a dying struggle. As for whether next season is over or not, it will be interesting to see who leaves and who stays in the offseason.