Brook Lopez wasn’t wrong after the Bucks’ win over the Rockets. The pivot no longer knew what to say to talk about Giannis Antetokounmpo, then author of 44 points. He even wondered what could be added to all that had already been written in recent years.
“You lack words to describe it, don’t you? I put myself in your place, you journalists: you have to write papers. I don’t know how one can’t send the same item over and over again. »
The less courageous can therefore send the same paper as against Houston. It will simply be enough to change the team – to Brooklyn – and to remove a point from the counter of the star, who finished with 43 units at 16/25 to shoot.
“It’s old-school Giannis,” notes admiring Mike Budenholzer for ESPN. “He’s done a lot of great performances already, but in the second half he was at his best. He did everything, it was phenomenal. »
His first half was not perfect, with a small 3/10 to shoot. In the second, however, he walked on the Nets, with his incessant penetrations: 34 points at 13/15 to shoot! Result: already two matches in a row with more than 40 points.
“I’ve worked a lot over the past few years and this summer, and I was so eager to prove to myself that I could do what I had worked so hard on,” declares the MVP of the Finals 2021. “In the second half, I got closer to that. I was myself and wanted to get into the racket as much as possible. »
| Giannis Antetokounmpo | Percentage | Bounces | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Season | Crew | GM | Minimum | Shots | 3 points | LF | Off | Def | Early | pd | party | Int | bp | CT | Points |
| 2013-14 | MIL | 77 | 25 | 41.4 | 34.7 | 68.3 | 1.0 | 3.4 | 4.4 | 2.0 | 2.3 | 0.8 | 1.6 | 0.8 | 6.8 |
| 2014-15 | MIL | 81 | 31 | 49.1 | 15.9 | 74.1 | 1.2 | 5.5 | 6.7 | 2.6 | 3.1 | 0.9 | 2.1 | 1.1 | 12.7 |
| 2015-16 | MIL | 80 | 35 | 50.6 | 25.7 | 72.4 | 1.4 | 6.2 | 7.7 | 4.3 | 3.2 | 1.2 | 2.6 | 1.4 | 16.9 |
| 2016-17 | MIL | 80 | 36 | 52.1 | 27.2 | 77.0 | 1.8 | 7.0 | 8.8 | 5.4 | 3.1 | 1.6 | 2.9 | 1.9 | 22.9 |
| 2017-18 | MIL | 75 | 37 | 52.9 | 30.7 | 76.0 | 2.1 | 8.0 | 10.0 | 4.8 | 3.1 | 1.5 | 3.0 | 1.4 | 26.9 |
| 2018-19 ★ | MIL | 72 | 33 | 57.8 | 25.6 | 72.9 | 2.2 | 10.3 | 12.5 | 5.9 | 3.2 | 1.3 | 3.7 | 1.5 | 27.7 |
| 2019-20 ★ | MIL | 63 | 30 | 55.3 | 30.4 | 63.3 | 2.2 | 11.4 | 13.6 | 5.6 | 3.1 | 1.0 | 3.7 | 1.1 | 29.5 |
| 2020-21 | MIL | 61 | 33 | 56.9 | 30.3 | 68.5 | 1.6 | 9.4 | 11.0 | 5.9 | 2.8 | 1.2 | 3.4 | 1.2 | 28.2 |
| 2021-22 | MIL | 67 | 33 | 55.3 | 29.3 | 72.2 | 2.0 | 9.6 | 11.6 | 5.8 | 3.2 | 1.1 | 3.3 | 1.4 | 29.9 |
| 2022-23 | MIL | 2 | 32 | 70.3 | 50.0 | 55.6 | 1.0 | 11.5 | 12.5 | 5.5 | 3.0 | 0.5 | 2.5 | 1.5 | 32.5 |
| Total | 658 | 33 | 53.5 | 28.9 | 71.7 | 1.7 | 7.7 | 9.4 | 4.6 | 3.0 | 1.2 | 2.9 | 1.3 | 21.9 | |
