Every evening (or almost) its record. Personal, franchise or, rarer, in NBA history. By scoring 55 points Tuesday night, at home, against the Washington Wizards (123-113), Giannis Antetokounmpo did not seem so far from the 71 units spent the day before by the back Donovan Mitchell (Cleveland Cavaliers) against the Chicago Bulls, in extension.
The Greek, untenable from one end of the game to the other (24 points at the break), could not express himself for five additional minutes as the former Jazz player had been able to, and therefore was forced to stop counting on a new personal reference mark, while compiling 10 points, 7 rebounds and 2 blocks in 37 minutes of play. As easily as the winger validated his immense evening performance, the statisticians noted that Antetokounmpo had just played three matches with at least 40 points, 10 rebounds and 7 assists, which only Elgin Baylor (1961 and 1963), Wilt Chamberlain (1963) or Russell Westbrook (2016) had so far managed to accomplish.
The tenth to break the 50-point mark this season
We cannot blame the Wizards for having been lax, except sometimes resigned to seeing the “Greek Freak” dominate with ease near the basket, manhandling the Latvian Kristaps Porzingis (22 points, 9 rebounds) and ending the evening with a nice shooting success rate (20 out of 33, 60.6%), and, above all, a superb 15 out of 16 in free throws. ” He plays with a form of determination that puts us in matchesappreciates his coach Mike Budenholzer. […] He is simply phenomenal. »
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Half of the regular season has not yet been played and fourteen individual performances with 50 points or more have already been recorded (so 3 over the last two days). That is five less than those validated for the entire 2021-2022 season.
In a league that more than ever gives pride of place to attacks and allows itself big outbreaks, Antetokounmpo has thus become the tenth player to score at least 50 points in an NBA game this season. A category dominated by the Slovenian Luka Doncic (three matches at 50 points or more), closely followed by Joel Embiid (2) and Devin Booker (2).
From an accounting point of view, the success of the Bucks – a revenge against the same Wizards who had won in the previous match, also played in the American capital (118-95) allows the franchise to revive and return to two victories for the Boston Celtcis (26 wins against 24), largely beaten at the Oklahoma City Thunder (117-150). While they remained on five wins in a row, the Wizards remain at 17 wins (22 losses), and therefore directly threatened by the Chicago Bulls and the Toronto Raptors (16v-21d for the two franchises).
