There are rare evenings like this: on Sunday, Stephen Curry saw blurry when shooting, even if that did not cause him to stop. Despite the 1/13 three points from their leader and only 11 points scored by the team in the last quarter, the Warriors won at home against the Jazz (94-92) after a match where the clumsiness was global (38% success for Utah).
This offered many rebounds to Rudy Gobert (18 catches, plus 12 points), who watched the end of the game from the bench after feeling left calf pain in the last quarter. If the seriousness of the injury was not known Monday morning, he risked joining Donovan Mitchell (concussion) in the infirmary and not being able to take part in the shock in Phoenix on Monday.
‘I tried to play through the pain but I could feel it was wrong’
“I felt it right away, described the Frenchman to the Desert News. I felt something in my calf as I walked…I knew something had happened. I tried to play through the pain as usual, but I could feel it was wrong and sometimes you have to be smart. I didn’t want to make things worse. I’ve never really experienced this before so I don’t know…it’s hard for me to say how many matches or how long it will take me to heal. »
Other French people to have played, Killian Tillie and Killian Hayes also lost on Sunday. Tillie had the right to 22 minutes of play (7 points, 2 rebounds, 3 assists, 3 steals) off the bench for Memphis, overwhelmed in Dallas (104-91) by a great Luka Doncic (37 points, 11 rebounds, 9 assists), winner of his duel of titans against Ja Morant (35 points, 13 rebounds, 6 assists). If he was not on the injured list, Frank Ntilikina did not play for the Mavs in this meeting.
As for Killian Hayes, he was making his comeback after missing two matches with a hip problem. He started on the bench in Denver but was the most used substitute (25 minutes for 8 points, 2/3 from afar, 3 rebounds, 5 assists and 2 blocks) in the loss (117-111) against the Nuggets worn by a currently incandescent Nikola Jokic (34 points, 9 rebounds, 8 assists).
Finally, note that Timothé Luwawu-Cabarrot (3 points at 1/1) was entitled to a few seconds of playing time with the Atlanta Hawks during their landslide victory in Charlotte (113-91).
