PHOENIX — The Phoenix Suns’ opponent for Friday night time’s ultimate play-in matchup has been revealed.
After a shock comeback victory over the Los Angeles Clippers tonight, the No. 10 Golden State Warriors will journey to Phoenix Friday to tackle the Suns.
Stephen Curry completed with 35 factors and the Warriors shot 19-for-41 (46%) from deep in opposition to L.A., overcoming a 13-point fourth quarter deficit within the win.
Whoever wins Friday’s matchup will transfer on to face the No. 1 Oklahoma City Thunder within the first spherical of the playoffs.
Phoenix, who fell to the Portland Trail Blazers last night to place itself on this place, will look to keep away from being on the unsuitable facet of historical past because the No. 7 seed has by no means missed the playoffs for the reason that play-in was created 5 years in the past.
In order to do that, the Suns should regroup quick after the disheartening loss to the Blazers by which they blew an 11-point lead within the fourth quarter.
Previewing Suns vs Warriors
The Warriors received the regular-season sequence over the Suns 3-1 and handed them considered one of their worst losses of the season after they beat them 101-97 of their final assembly on Feb. 5 when Golden State got here again from down 14 within the fourth quarter with out Curry.
Phoenix has not performed the Warriors since they acquired Kristaps Porzingis, who performed simply his fourth recreation tonight with Curry.
Golden State has handled a number of accidents all season lengthy, together with a knee damage to Curry that sidelined him 27 video games and Jimmy Butler tearing his ACL.
The Warriors struggled to take care of these accidents, going 9-18 on this stretch from Feb. 3 to April 2 with out Curry, and completed the yr with a 37-45 file.
Still, simply as they confirmed tonight, Curry and the remainder of the crew’s playoff expertise might play an enormous consider Friday’s matchup.
No matter what the Warriors current, one of many largest obstacles for the Suns can be themselves and attempting to beat their very own current struggles.
“The goal is get in (the playoffs), just get in any way possible. It’s been our goal for a while. So we got to move on. Got to move on. It sucks. These are hard to take, but there’s stuff to learn in here that we got to learn fast and do everything we can to get ready for Friday night,” Suns coach Jordan Ott told reporters after the loss to Portland.
Phoenix will get homecourt benefit as soon as once more, so we’ll see if it may well benefit from it this time round.
Friday’s recreation will tip off shortly after 7:00 p.m. MST on Prime Video.
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