If Victor Wembanyama’s Summer League is already over with the Spursthat of the other young talents of the club of San Antonio continues to Las Vegas. Among these young people, no one needed to play a new match, to forget the previous one, more than Malaki Branhamthe talented 20-year-old fullback, drafted last year.
Sunday, against the Blazers, the future sophomore of the Spurs had indeed completely holed up, delivering one of the worst games on offense since his arrival in the NBA: 6 points at 1/17 on shots, including 1/8 for shots behind the arc! A real shipwreck, obviously noticed, without much nuance, on social networks…
” I took it to my head on Twitter! », Malaki Branham had fun like this. ” It’s hard to avoid reading all that stuff when you’re spending time on social media. But it’s more fun than anything in the end, because all these people are completely unaware of how hard we work. And that gave me motivation. »
A scorer always confident
The motivation to bounce back, and the native of Ohio had fun last night against the Wizards with a Bilal Coulibaly still as convincing: 29 points at 12/20 on shots, including 5/6 from behind the arc! And victory as a bonus.
” I finally started planting shots, quite simply! “, summed up with humor Malaki Branham, after this beautiful reaction on his part. ” You have to trust your work. We are [en NBA] For a reason. »
A reaction noticed by his superiors, while the young fullback has every interest in proving in the Summer League that he deserves to take on more responsibilities next season, with the “real” team of Gregg Popovich, in which the hierarchy is still to be done, particularly on the offensive level.
” He had a hell of a bad night the other day so I give him credit for bouncing back like that », congratulated Matt Nielsen, assistant to “Pop” and Spurs coach in Las Vegas. ” And again yesterday, it got off to a bad start [0 point dans le premier quart-temps], and could have lamented. But he pushed hard, and it paid off. »
No doubt, the progress of Malaki Branham between his first and his second campaign will be closely followed in San Antonio, next season, alongside “Wemby”.
| Shots | Bounces | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Players | GM | Minimum | Shots | 3 points | LF | Off | Def | Early | pd | bp | Int | CT | party | Points |
| Keldon Johnson | 63 | 32.7 | 45.2 | 32.9 | 74.9 | 0.9 | 4.2 | 5.0 | 2.9 | 2.1 | 0.7 | 0.2 | 2.0 | 22.0 |
| Devin Vasell | 38 | 31.0 | 43.9 | 38.7 | 78.0 | 0.2 | 3.7 | 3.9 | 3.6 | 1.5 | 1.1 | 0.4 | 1.5 | 18.5 |
| Devonte Graham | 20 | 26.4 | 38.0 | 35.8 | 75.0 | 0.4 | 2.2 | 2.5 | 4.0 | 1.3 | 0.8 | 0.3 | 1.6 | 13.0 |
| Tre Jones | 68 | 29.2 | 45.9 | 28.5 | 86.0 | 0.8 | 2.8 | 3.6 | 6.6 | 1.6 | 1.3 | 0.1 | 1.4 | 12.9 |
| Jakob Poeltl | 46 | 26.1 | 61.6 | 0.0 | 60.5 | 3.3 | 5.7 | 9.0 | 3.1 | 2.1 | 0.8 | 1.1 | 2.6 | 12.1 |
| Zach Collins | 63 | 22.9 | 51.8 | 37.4 | 76.1 | 1.8 | 4.5 | 6.4 | 2.9 | 2.0 | 0.6 | 0.8 | 3.2 | 11.6 |
| Josh Richardson | 42 | 23.8 | 43.6 | 35.7 | 88.3 | 0.7 | 2.1 | 2.8 | 3.3 | 1.5 | 1.0 | 0.3 | 1.7 | 11.5 |
| Julian Champagnie | 15 | 20.9 | 46.1 | 40.7 | 82.4 | 0.7 | 3.3 | 4.0 | 0.7 | 0.7 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 1.7 | 11.0 |
| Jeremy Sochan | 56 | 26.0 | 45.3 | 24.6 | 69.8 | 1.7 | 3.6 | 5.3 | 2.5 | 1.7 | 0.8 | 0.4 | 2.5 | 11.0 |
| Sandro Mamukelashvili | 19 | 23.3 | 45.3 | 34.3 | 69.2 | 2.7 | 4.1 | 6.8 | 2.4 | 1.4 | 0.5 | 0.4 | 1.7 | 10.8 |
| Doug Mcdermott | 64 | 20.5 | 45.7 | 41.3 | 75.7 | 0.4 | 1.8 | 2.2 | 1.4 | 0.9 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 1.8 | 10.2 |
| Malaki Branham | 66 | 23.5 | 44.0 | 30.2 | 82.9 | 0.4 | 2.3 | 2.7 | 1.9 | 1.2 | 0.5 | 0.1 | 1.7 | 10.2 |
| Keita Bates-diop | 67 | 21.7 | 50.8 | 39.4 | 79.3 | 1.0 | 2.7 | 3.7 | 1.5 | 0.8 | 0.7 | 0.3 | 0.9 | 9.7 |
| Joshua Primo | 4 | 23.3 | 34.6 | 25.0 | 77.8 | 0.5 | 2.8 | 3.3 | 4.5 | 2.8 | 0.3 | 0.5 | 2.0 | 7.0 |
| Romeo Langford | 43 | 19.6 | 46.7 | 26.2 | 69.6 | 1.3 | 1.3 | 2.7 | 1.2 | 0.7 | 0.6 | 0.3 | 1.6 | 6.9 |
| Stanley Johnson | 30 | 15.6 | 53.3 | 45.0 | 66.7 | 0.7 | 2.4 | 3.2 | 2.2 | 1.1 | 0.5 | 0.2 | 1.6 | 5.8 |
| Charles Bassey | 35 | 14.5 | 64.4 | 37.5 | 59.5 | 2.1 | 3.4 | 5.5 | 1.3 | 1.2 | 0.5 | 0.9 | 2.1 | 5.7 |
| Blake Wesley | 37 | 18.1 | 32.1 | 38.5 | 59.1 | 0.3 | 1.9 | 2.2 | 2.7 | 1.8 | 0.7 | 0.1 | 1.8 | 5.0 |
| Isaiah Roby | 42 | 11.3 | 43.2 | 30.0 | 48.8 | 0.5 | 2.0 | 2.5 | 0.9 | 0.7 | 0.4 | 0.2 | 1.3 | 4.1 |
| Dominick Barlow | 28 | 14.6 | 53.5 | 0.0 | 72.0 | 1.6 | 2.0 | 3.6 | 0.9 | 0.5 | 0.4 | 0.7 | 2.0 | 3.9 |
| Gorgui Dieng | 31 | 11.6 | 38.5 | 28.0 | 76.9 | 0.9 | 2.6 | 3.5 | 1.7 | 1.0 | 0.1 | 0.5 | 1.8 | 3.9 |
| Jordan Hall | 9 | 9.1 | 32.1 | 20.0 | 77.8 | 0.3 | 1.0 | 1.3 | 1.2 | 0.8 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.7 | 3.1 |
| Alize Johnson | 4 | 7.4 | 50.0 | 0.0 | 50.0 | 0.5 | 2.0 | 2.5 | 0.3 | 1.0 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 0.8 | 1.8 |
