Los Knicks They continue to make merits in what seems to be the great season of their claim. West Quarters (43-28)just one win away from Cavaliers (44-28) y Magic (42-29) and two of the Bucks (46-25), the Big Apple team is moving steadily towards the playoffs. The Pistonsthe team with the worst balance in the entire NBA (12-60) They were no match for them on a night in which Donté DiVincenzo He experienced the greatest scoring ecstasy of his career.
He 27 year old forward He led the placid victory of his team with 40 points and 11 three-pointers, a historical record for the New York franchise surpassing the 10 that they put in in their day JR Smith y Evan Fournier. No one on that team had ever scored more than 10 three-pointers. And he did it with a large percentage (11/20) without also missing any two-point shot (3/3) on its most magical night.
It’s an incredible feeling to have the crowd behind you, every time I touched the ball they told me ‘Shoot! Strip!
Donté DiVincenzo (Knicks player)
In fact, his feat caused the delirium in the 19,812 spectators who gathered at Madison Square Garden and that, aware that the record was in their hands, they encouraged him from the moment he scored the tenth, asking him to throw in each attack of the Knickssomething that did not go unnoticed by him. “Yes, it’s an incredible feeling to have the crowd behind you, every time I touched the ball they told me ‘Shoot! Shoot!'”explained the player.
Third highest triple scorer after Curry and Doncic
Y He did it with 3:16 to go of the party. DiVincenzo, who this season averages 14.9 points, 3.5 rebounds and 2.6 assistsand credited this season from the triple with an appreciable 40% correct (234/585), the third highest triple scorer in the League after Stephen Curry (312) y Luka Doncic (240). Of he had scored seven in four gamesagainst Hornets (7/10), Raptors (7/9), Pacers (7/11), Mavericks (7/12) and Pelicans (7/18), setting their maximum before breaking the record in a game against the Jazz (9/15).
Impressive what he has done, and he has been doing it all year. His teammates helped him create good shots, he made them and played hard the entire game.
Tom Thibodeau (Knicks Coach)
The forward, as it could not be otherwise, received the congratulations of his coach, Tom Thibodeau: “Amazing what he’s done, and he’s been doing it all year,” he said. “His teammates helped him create good shots, he made them and played hard the whole game,” he explained.
“I feel like it was a bad night for us and DiVincenzo got really hot,” he said. Sasser (24+1+6), the best of the Pistons, who chained their seventh loss in a row and they have lost 15 in a row against the Knicks. A team adrift and that also has its best player injured, Cade Cunningham as well as Jalen Duren, Ausar Thompson, Simone Fontecchio and Isaiah Stewart.
Miles McBride Minute Marathon
In the Knicks, in addition to Di Vincenzo, they stood out Jalen Brunson (28 points) and Josh Hart (11+14+10) with his sixth triple-double this season. And as a curious fact, note that his partner Miles McBride (13+5+4) played 43 minutes and in the last four games he has been on the court for more than 40 games (47. 44. 48 y 43). Added together, they are mmore minutes than he played in his first 20 games of this season.
2024-03-26 11:16:16
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