2024-04-13 14:40:50
Dream evening at the Frost Bank Center, Friday, under the eyes of Élodie de Fautereau, Victor Wembanyama’s mother. Fists raised at the edge of the field, she let her joy burst with the 18,000 Spurs supporters, when Devonte’ Graham scored the winning basket, just before the buzzer, against the Denver Nuggets leaders before the match and reigning NBA champions.
Sorry! Unsurprisingly, the French giant was once again crucial to the success of his team. Here is the proof.
His stats sheet
If the Spurs once thought they were going to have a bad evening, trailing by 23 points at the start of the third quarter, it was without counting on Victor Wembanyama, author of 17 points in less than three minutes, including four shots awards which allowed Spurs to get back in the game. “Victor is Victor.” It is with this formula that his coach Gregg Popovich summed up the new performance of Wemby, who scored 34 points, took 12 rebounds, delivered 5 assists and made 2 blocks.
The action of the night
For once, it is an action by Wembanyama that we are going to put in the spotlight, on the advice of Popovich who declared after the match that his jewel “achieved a lot of good things, but he didn’t couldn’t have done it without his teammates”, but that of Devonte’ Graham.
Very little used by the legendary Spurs coach this season, the former New Orleans leader first allowed his team to come back to a point 30 seconds from time on a lay-upbefore seeing Nikola Jokic miss the match point for the Nuggets and offering, on the counter, victory to his team on a floater at the (almost) buzzer, letting the Frost Bank Center explode (121-120).
Bonus track
Because hey, still, this man is absolutely crazy, even at three points.
Spurs dynamics
After a first series of three consecutive victories at the end of March, the Spurs returned to their cruising speed, alternating the good and the not so good. The fact remains that this prestigious forceps victory against a heavyweight of the league will remain as one of the great evenings of a first season of learning for Wemby and his gang. Tied at the bottom of the Western Conference with Portland, the Spurs have one more victory at home and therefore move ahead of the Trail Blazers in the standings. There are no small victories.
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