Off-peak times oblige, TrashTalk has taken the habit each summer of making you relive with emotion the greatest moments of the past season. Even in 2021, moreover, despite a summer that had then put all of our vital forces in PLS, but that’s another story. So we go back to our good old formula, we take a few steps back, a few months, and we remember that this 2021-22 season was crazy, from the first day to the last. Today ? Back to the magic show offered by Kyrie Irving in Orlando, with 60 puntos including 41 in a single half.
To relive Uncle’s sleight of hand, it’s over here!
There are nights like this. Evenings where whatever happens, a player is too strong. Not possible to stop him, even at the cost of a fierce defense. The “zone”, this kind of mind set mind that makes everything easy, everything achievable for a basketball player. This March 15, 2022, the Magic undoubtedly paid the price for the pinnacle of Kyrie Irving’s basketball. However, nothing indicates that this evening will be a classic before it begins. The game ? Yeah ok, Orlando is languishing in the bottom of the Eastern Conference. Brooklyn must begin its fantastic comeback towards the Playoffs, and this victory is therefore mandatory, while also having in mind the logic of resting the executives. Sorry guys, but Kyrie is not going to mess up 40 minutes against you tonight if the bench can handle the game properly.
60 points, 20/31 shooting 8/12 3-pointers, 12/13 shooting, 6 rebounds, 4 assists, 4 steals
Yes, but no actually. Of course holder, Kai sends three arrows to 3-pointers to warm up and go. The recital is on, and there will be almost no false notes during the 35 minutes of music. 20/31 in shooting, 8/12 from the parking lot and 12/13 in free throws. Uncle Drew? Yeah, good nickname, but that’s more Mr. Clean. And Mr Disgusting at the same time. Why ? Because Magic players were simply disgusted. String, the percussion basket of which he alone has the secret. Frankly, who could go and stuff the opposing pivot by being so small and not playing on the vertical trigger? Kyrie Irving, ladies and gentlemen. Game of supports with ultra precise timing which allows you to open a shooting trajectory, passing trick which makes you completely forget where the ball is, and of course shoots wide as soon as space allows it.
In this first half of full fire, Irving also distinguished himself by distributing caviars and stealing a few balls from opposing hands. The Nets’ handyman that night puts Orlando on PLS, and Mickey doesn’t respond. At the break ? The man already compiles 41 points, ie only Devin Booker and Kobe Bryant have done better in the last twenty years. Well, that classifies you a bit the level of history in the performance accomplished. Upon returning from the locker room, the song does not change a single note and the Magic continues to taste without being able to reply. They tried everything, every possible defense… but when it’s like that, when a guy is so hot, there’s unfortunately nothing else to do but contemplate him, appreciate his performance.
60 POINTS
20/31 AT SHOOTING
8/12 THREE-POINT
12/13 AT THROWS
6 BOUNDS
4 PASSES
4 INTERCEPTIONS???? KYRIE IRVING IS ON ANOTHER PLANET!! ???? pic.twitter.com/RFHCrdcfIZ
— TrashTalk (@TrashTalk_fr) March 16, 2022
Kyrie will only play 35 minutes that night, but he will score 60 points. Sixty. 50+10. Personal record knocked out, franchise record too. The symbolic gesture of this exceptional evening? The hand towards the sky, after his last shot which allows him to get the sixty units. Under the cheers of a Magic audience completely bewitched by the basketball stamped Irving, please. We were already writing about it at the time, but it is now accepted that Kai is a divisive personality, through his sometimes strange positions. However, his game – when practiced with such meticulousness – is a real gift, which delights anyone claiming to be a fan of the orange ball. Will he have the opportunity to repeat this feat in the jersey of the Nets? No one really knows but it doesn’t matter the tunic, as long as he does it again.
Magnificent, extraordinary, historic. Here is what we could read the day after Kyrie Irving’s performance against Orlando. And with good reason, because the poetry offered by Tonton Kai was the most lyrical, the most beautiful that he had the opportunity to perform. The next time, it will be under the jersey of the Lakers?
Source : ESPN