Last night NBA: Giannis Antetokounmpo and the Milwaukee Bucks blow up Stephen Curry Golden State Warriors”>Nicolas Batum gave us a match worthy of the biggest arsonists in the league to honor Martin Luther King. Our Frenchie from the West Coast thus planted… 32 points in… one half (!) and in all humility to overcome the Pacers.
During his post-match interview Nicolas Batum remained very sober, spoke about the collective and seemed quite disinterested in the performance he had just achieved. Yet the French released a mammoth match, ending the game just three small units from his career high in scoring when he is currently in his fourteenth NBA season. What makes this performance even more daunting? It is that the boy put the exclusivity of his points in… second period, and that he ends his evening with percentages of a cleanliness to make blush the best brands of detergents: 69% from the field, 70% from the parking lot and 100% from throws. Since the start of the season? They are only four to have topped 30 points or more in a single half. Giannis Antetokounmpo, Stephen Curry, Jaylen Brown and therefore Nico, a beautiful foursome of All-Stars, well almost. Such comparisons with the best attackers in the league are obviously hazardous, but in any case it allows us to classify the XXL performance of the Clippers player a little bit.
Completely crazy.
32 points in the SECOND HALF. pic.twitter.com/AIAqyDVoTd
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From the first half we feel an aggressive Nicolas Batum, ready to fight and who wants to take his responsibilities. We see him in particular driving from the baseline and trying to plant a huge dunk on good old Goga Bitadze who passes very close to finishing posterized on the action. But the Frenchman is rather altruistic, he makes his teammates play and plays his role of facilitator – the famous – wonderfully. Everything is going well for his team which ends the first quarter with 40 points on the clock, Nico does not force anything, lets the game come to him and finds himself with zero points scored when returning to the locker room. However, on his return to the floor he began to score frantically. He planted three baskets from the parking lot in as many attempts and finished the third quarter with 14 points. At that time, we don’t know yet… that the worst of the fire is yet to come. We are indeed witnessing a tight match and despite the good revival of Reggie Jackson’s address in the second period, the Pacers are still hanging on to ten points. To prevent the situation from becoming too critical, we then called on our evening superhero, and Batman finished the job with 18 points in the last quarter, including a good number of good clutch shots. Lol fact? The guy is so sober that even when he goes crazy, the public still manages not to designate him man of the match by preferring a Marcus Morris who only scored 21 points.
Our national Nico Batum definitely finds the legs of his first youth and it is not to displease us. He confirmed once again the quality of his outside shot by finishing 7/10 from the parking lot, frankly we are not used to seeing Nico take the light at this point so we are enjoying this huge performance as much as possible. COCONUT. RICO. NICO!
