After taking 137 points the day before once morest the Warriors, we expected a reaction from the Wolves defense. Not too much of a concern, however, since picking up a correction once morest the defending champions happens even to the best, and once morest Washington, logically, confidence would return. Nope ?
Home stats from the Wizards All-Star Game are right here
142 points, Wolves therefore conceded 142 points tonight.
And they offered a career record to Kristaps Porzingis.
The total we said, and as a bonus track from the Wizards who will never have been afraid. The Latvian Unicorn? 15 points from the first quarter (4 shots from the parking lot including three in a row to attack) and 13 pawns in the second, with two new award-winning shots. It’s not a first half it’s a total abuse of a defenseless defense. The following ? A long Stations of the Cross for the Wolves, who will see moreover and with dread Karl-Anthony Towns smacking his calf (there are our eight seconds of medicine in 2001 that speak) and leave the floor definitively for this evening and probably for a while.
Non-contact injury…KAT immediately holding his leg…thoughts and fingers crossed… pic.twitter.com/5zHLFax2hU
— TrashTalk (@TrashTalk_fr) November 29, 2022
A match from which it will in any case be necessary to retain a mixtape, that of a Kristaps Porzingis at ease as he has rarely been, career high that means what it means, a Porzi as comfortable in attack as confident in defense (huge slaps on KAT and Anthony Edwards), as easy from afar as up close. His start to the match is just as lethal as the defense of Rudy Gobert (of Wolves in general) on the switches is disturbing, a succession of actions that makes us think of Jeff Tuche who loses all his cards. Perfect body language for the Latvian with, very quickly, teammates who put themselves at his service, oh well, nice to see a group that lives well, quite the opposite of… in short.
Kristaps Porzingis’ final stats? 41 points at 12/18 in shooting including 6/10 from the parking lot, 11/11 in throws, 4 rebounds, 3 assists, 2 steals and 3 blocks. The score ? 142-127, and ailments that are therefore far from cured for a team that is beginning to tire within its own community. You have to move guys, it’s urgent.
