It wasn’t just Victor Wembanyama who was racking up defeats before that night. His compatriot from the Washington Wizards Bilal Coulibaly won this Friday evening against the Indiana Pacers (137-123) to end a series of six consecutive losses. Worse, the Wizards had only won one of their last sixteen games before this meeting against the Pacers.
Once again on the bench at the start of the match, Coulibaly took up more and more space as the match progressed until he played 30 minutes in total. A lot of playing time with 17 points, 5 rebounds, 2 steals and 1 block. Highlight of his evening, a well slammed dunk at the end of the first quarter which thrilled the official NBA commentator. “Thank you very much,” he said in French in the text.
A performance continuing a good month of December for the 19-year-old Frenchman. With just over 13 points on average at 60% shooting, and more than 40% behind the 3-point line, in addition to his 5.8 rebounds per game, Coulibaly has firmly established himself in the Wizards’ rotation. and can even compete for a spot in Wes Unseld Jr.’s starting five.
Among the other tricolors on the courts this night, apart from Wembanyama, finally victorious with the Spurs, Killian Hayes, he did not succeed in the catastrophic spiral of the Detroit Pistons, with a 22nd loss in a row, this time -this against Philadelphia (92-124). The former Cholet player delivered 5 points, 4 rebounds and 2 assists. A similar stat sheet to Nicolas Batum on the Sixers side (4 points, 5 rebounds and 4 assists in 21 minutes). For his part, Evan Fournier has not played since November 18 with the New York Knicks.
