Phoenix 87, Denver 97

May 1, 2023

Conference Semi Finals - Denver wins 4-2

Ball Arena (Denver, Colorado)

Attendance: 19,592

Officials: John Goble, Sean Wright, Eric Lewis, Aaron Smith

Team Rebounds: Phoenix (10) Denver (10)

Technicals: Phoenix (0) Denver (0)

  1 2 3 4 Final
PHX (45-37) 21 21 31 14 87
DEN (53-29) 18 22 30 27 97

Advanced Poss ORtg DRtg
PHX 90 96.9 108.0
DEN 90 108.0 96.9

Four Factors eFG% TO% OR% FTR
PHX .432 0.100 0.282 0.053
DEN .520 0.111 0.122 0.237

Phoenix Suns

# Player Status Pos Min FGM-A 3PM-A FTM-A FIC Off Def Reb Ast PF STL BLK TO PTS
35 Kevin Durant Starter PF 44:23 10-27 2-12 2-2 11.2 1 7 8 3 4 1 2 2 24
3 Chris Paul Starter PG 25:23 4-10 0-0 0-0 10.5 1 4 5 6 0 0 0 0 8
1 Devin Booker Starter SG 44:40 14-29 4-8 3-3 17.9 0 5 5 6 4 0 0 2 35
22 Deandre Ayton Starter C 33:01 7-10 0-0 0-0 12.0 4 4 8 4 5 0 1 4 14
2 Josh Okogie Starter SF 21:39 1-3 0-2 0-0 -0.8 0 0 0 1 3 0 0 0 2
12 Torrey Craig Bench SF 11:13 0-2 0-2 0-0 -0.5 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
18 Bismack Biyombo Bench C 09:34 1-2 0-0 0-0 1.0 0 4 4 0 3 0 0 1 2
10 Damion Lee Bench SG 25:37 0-5 0-3 0-0 3.0 3 3 6 2 1 0 0 0 0
15 Cameron Payne Bench PG 16:42 1-7 0-4 0-0 -2.5 0 1 1 1 4 0 1 0 2
11 Jock Landale Bench C 05:25 0-0 0-0 0-0 2.0 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0
12 Ish Wainright Bench PF 02:23 0-0 0-0 0-0 -0.5 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0
  Team                   10         1  
        240 38-95 6-31 5-5 63.4 11 28 49 23 25 2 4 10 87
          40.0% 19.4% 100.0%                    

Denver Nuggets

# Player Status Pos Min FGM-A 3PM-A FTM-A FIC Off Def Reb Ast PF STL BLK TO PTS
5 Kentavious Caldwell-Pope Starter SG 41:06 5-6 4-4 0-0 14.8 2 3 5 2 2 1 0 1 14
50 Aaron Gordon Starter PF 39:01 5-8 1-3 5-6 9.5 0 1 1 1 2 2 1 2 16
15 Nikola Jokic Starter C 41:16 17-30 2-6 3-4 31.8 3 13 16 5 2 2 1 3 39
27 Jamal Murray Starter PG 39:11 3-15 0-9 4-4 5.2 0 4 4 8 0 0 0 3 10
1 Michael Porter, Jr. Starter SF 23:17 2-7 0-2 1-1 4.4 0 4 4 1 0 0 1 0 5
32 Jeff Green Bench PF 15:43 1-3 0-2 0-0 3.2 0 4 4 1 3 0 2 1 2
11 Bruce Brown, Jr. Bench SG 24:39 2-5 0-1 5-6 6.0 0 4 4 1 4 0 1 0 9
0 Christian Braun Bench SF 15:47 1-2 0-0 0-0 1.2 0 3 3 0 3 0 0 0 2
  Team                   10         3  
        240 36-76 7-27 18-21 84.1 5 36 51 19 16 5 6 13 97
          47.4% 25.9% 85.7%                    

Phoenix Suns Depth Chart

  PG SG SF PF C
Starters Chris Paul
13.9p, 4.3r, 8.9a
Devin Booker
27.8p, 4.5r, 5.5a
Josh Okogie
7.3p, 3.5r, 1.5a
Kevin Durant
29.1p, 6.7r, 5a
Deandre Ayton
18p, 10r, 1.7a
Rotation Cameron Payne
10.3p, 2.2r, 4.5a
Damion Lee
8.2p, 3r, 1.3a
Torrey Craig
7.4p, 5.4r, 1.5a
 
 
 
 
Lim PT  
 
 
 
 
 
Ish Wainright
4.2p, 2.3r, 0.9a
Bismack Biyombo
4.3p, 4.3r, 0.9a
Lim PT  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Jock Landale
6.6p, 4.1r, 1a

Denver Nuggets Depth Chart

  PG SG SF PF C
Starters Jamal Murray
20p, 4r, 6.2a
Kentavious Caldwell-Pope
10.8p, 2.7r, 2.4a
Michael Porter, Jr.
17.4p, 5.5r, 1a
Aaron Gordon
16.3p, 6.6r, 3a
Nikola Jokic
24.5p, 11.8r, 9.8a
Rotation  
 
Bruce Brown, Jr.
11.5p, 4.1r, 3.4a
Christian Braun
4.7p, 2.4r, 0.8a
Jeff Green
7.8p, 2.6r, 1.2a
 
 

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