{"id":413694,"date":"2022-12-20T20:53:44","date_gmt":"2022-12-20T20:53:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/?p=413694"},"modified":"2022-12-20T20:53:44","modified_gmt":"2022-12-20T20:53:44","slug":"phoenix-suns-coach-monty-williams-happy-to-see-chris-paul-aggressive-after-28-point-performance-vs-lebron-james-lakers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/phoenix-suns-coach-monty-williams-happy-to-see-chris-paul-aggressive-after-28-point-performance-vs-lebron-james-lakers\/","title":{"rendered":"Phoenix Suns Coach Monty Williams &#8216;Happy to See&#8217; Chris Paul &#8216;Aggressive&#8217; After 28-Point Performance vs LeBron James&#8217; Lakers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 37-year-old Chris Paul appeared to be losing some ground to Father Time in recent months. On Monday night, the 12-time All-Star showed he&#8217;s not giving up easily. Deandre Ayton added 21 points and 11 rebounds, and Chris Paul scored a season-high 28 points as the Phoenix Suns defeated the Los Angeles Lakers 130-104 on Monday night. LeBron James, Anthony Davis, and Russell Westbrook were not on the Lakers&#8217; roster.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/73SoEydIFss\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In the rout victory, the Suns performed nearly every task flawlessly. They had a 51-36 lead in rebounds, hit 20 3-pointers, shot 50% from the field, and committed only eight turnovers.<\/p>\n<p><strong>ALSO READ: <a title=\"Kevin Durant Slams Media After Contentious Giovani Bernard Interview\" href=\"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/kevin-durant-slams-media-after-contentious-giovani-bernard-interview\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"bookmark noopener\">Kevin Durant Slams Media After Contentious Giovani Bernard Interview<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<h2>Suns coach hails &#8216;aggressive&#8217; Chris Paul<\/h2>\n<p><em>\u201cI was happy to see him aggressive, knocking down shots and taking shots,\u201d<\/em> Suns coach Monty Williams <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/recap\/_\/gameId\/401468614\">said<\/a>.\u00a0<em>\u201cEveryone on the team, we tell Chris to shoot the ball. It\u2019s the most unbelievable thing ever \u2013 having to tell a Hall of Fame player to shoot.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"td-a-rec td-a-rec-id-content_inline  tdi_2 td_block_template_8\">\n<div>\n<div id=\"snack_dex5\">\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1615992198933-0\" data-google-query-id=\"CLC4kfGCifwCFX2EZgIdcAoGCg\">After Patrick Beverley&#8217;s celebration during the Los Angeles Lakers loss to the Phoenix Suns, which seemed to poke light at the 37-year-height, old&#8217;s Chris Paul ordered him to &#8220;just play basketball, bro.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div data-google-query-id=\"CLC4kfGCifwCFX2EZgIdcAoGCg\"><\/div>\n<div data-google-query-id=\"CLC4kfGCifwCFX2EZgIdcAoGCg\">\n<figure id=\"attachment_408570\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-408570\" style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-408570\" src=\"https:\/\/yebscore-cms.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/2022\/10\/Patrick-Beverley.jpg\" alt=\"Patrick Beverley Los Angeles Lakers\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/yebscore-cms.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/2022\/10\/Patrick-Beverley.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/yebscore-cms.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/2022\/10\/Patrick-Beverley-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/yebscore-cms.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/2022\/10\/Patrick-Beverley-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/yebscore-cms.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/2022\/10\/Patrick-Beverley-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/yebscore-cms.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/2022\/10\/Patrick-Beverley-768x768.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-408570\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credits: Sports Illustrated<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div data-google-query-id=\"CLC4kfGCifwCFX2EZgIdcAoGCg\">On Monday, after the Suns had won 130-104, Paul halted the celebration. Paul fouled Beverley after he made a layup and appeared to indicate that his opponent was too little to handle him by raising his hand just over the floor. 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On Monday night, the 12-time All-Star showed he&#8217;s not giving up easily. Deandre Ayton added 21 points and 11 rebounds, and Chris Paul scored a season-high 28 points as the Phoenix Suns defeated the Los Angeles Lakers 130-104 on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":387781,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51,93],"tags":[393],"class_list":["post-413694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba","category-phoenix-suns","tag-chris-paul"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=413694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413694\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/387781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=413694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=413694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=413694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}