Hi Kevin how are you? Yeah, and you ? Do you have a tip for me tonight? Frankly, you can put ten bullets on the Blazers in Milwaukee. Haha you’re stupid. Aperitif tonight? Go ahead. This exchange may have really taken place, who knows, but it symbolizes in any case our astonishment throughout the match between the Bucks and the Blazers, a shock (not at all) which finally saw those who we didn’t see it coming.
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No Giannis Antetokounmpo tonight in Portland, the last MVP of the Finals having recently felt a slight pain in his ankle. Despite everything, we didn’t especially see these Bucks struggling more than that in Oregon, even if since the day before the trade deadline everything is going – a little – better for the men of Chauncey Billups. CJ McCollum went to New Orleans with Larry Nance Jr., Norman Powell now plays Monopoly with Nicolas Batum, Jusuf Nurkic stayed on the boat and he saw new foams like Josh Hart or Justise Winslow disembark, and the Blazous are today the franchise of Anfernee Simons, pending the return of another house leader. An end to the season that promises to be strange, but Coach Billups knows in any case what kind of soldiers he can trust for the last third of the regular and… everything has been going well for a week. The Lakers had a funny game last Wednesday, the Knicks defeated after an incredible comeback on Sunday night, and therefore the Bucks wrung out yesterday by the ardor of these new Blazers. If so, the Bucks, deprived of their MVP perhaps but defending champions all the same.
An infernal Anfernee Simons and still author of a huge evening with 31 points including 7 shots from the parking lota Jusuf Nurkic who looks like a basketball player again and not like a brute that we want to hate, the little Trendon Watford who has been looking out the window since the redesign of the roster, a CJ Elleby as intriguing as it is unsightly and, hold on, two deadline acquisitions that have already made their mark in red and black: Josh Hart and Justise Winslow. Portland needed defense, hustle, madness, and both men have filled the boxes perfectly since arriving. Josh Hart in particular, who after his 23 inaugural pawns against the Knicks returned the cover last night with a huge game on both sides of the field, hello there were some hell of a cutie to manage in front, with 27 points, 7 rebounds, 5 assists , 2 blocks, 1 steal and 32 smiles. Justise Winslow? 10/13/4/21 and constant activity, and let’s cross it between a vigilante and coleslaw who therefore turns to 10.8 points, 6.8 rebounds, 3.3 assists, 1 against and 1, 8 steals since his arrival in Oregon, not the rebirth of the Phenix but not far for the bodybuilder winger.
A prestigious victory, acquired in large part during a fiery second quarter by the Hart / Winslow / Simons trio (in our veins the three consecutive shots from the parking lot of little Anfernee), and Blazers who breathe a little, without to know in which direction they will go at the next intersection. All we can say is that the urge to vomit a few weeks ago is over and we just had fun three or four nights in a row thanks to the Blazers. Thanks to CJ Elleby, yes.
