ROMA (ITALPRESS) – The Oklahoma City Thunder begin defending the post-season title with the right foot, the Detroit Pistons instead suffer the eleventh consecutive home defeat in the play-offs and prolong a negative strip started in 2008. opposing moods for the first of the class in regular season after race-1 of the first round.
The post-season begins to assume the guise of a curse for the headmaster in the East, whose last home win in the play-offs dates back to the 2008 Eastern Conference finals. This time celebrating in Detroit are the Orlando Magic with a score of 112-101. He plays alone Cade Cunningham, author of 39 points, his top career in playoffs, while Tobias Harris does not go beyond 17. Paolo Banchero, protagonist with 23 points, 9 rebounds and 4 assists, takes the scene between the Magicians. “I found Paul’s dominant approach to the game excellent – said Orlando’s coach, Jamahl Mosley – His presence and guidance were important. When he plays like this, it is a spectacle for the eyes with his aggressiveness in penetration, his ability to attack, his safety at the shoot and his ability to find the right couple.”.
She smiles Oklahoma with a score of 119-84 on the Phoenix Suns and does it with the 25 points of Shai Gilgeous-Alexander. The Mvp in charge (and finalist for this year’s prize along with Nikola Jokic and Victor Wembanyama) only realizes 5 of the 18 pitches from the field, but dresses the shoes of the dragoon in bezel with 15 frees made on 17 (a career record). Well also Jalen Williams (22 points) and Chet Holmgren (16), while on the opposite front is not enough the 23 of Devin Booker, 18 of Dillon Brooks and 17 of Jalen Green.
Debuted in record playoffs for Victor Wembanyama in the San Antonio Spurs victory against the Portland Trail Blazers for 111-98. The new finalist Mvp scores 35 overall points, of which 21 in the first half, establishing the Nba primacy for the largest number of points made in the first half of a game of debut in the playoffs from 1997 to today. Seventeen points per head for Stephon Castle (7 rebounds and 7 assists) and De’Aaron Fox (5 rebounds and 8 assists). In Portland, Deni Avdija’s double, author of 30 points and 10 rebounds, is not enough, nor Scott Henderson’s 18 points, the third overall pick in the 2023 draft behind Wembanyama and Brandon Miller. On the Italian night between Tuesday and Wednesday is scheduled race-2.
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