With an average of 22.8 points at 49% 3-point success, Michael Porter Jr. had been particularly good in the first round of the playoffs against the Lakers. A performance far from trivial since the player was weighed down by family problems.
As a reminder, in just a few days, his brother Jontay was banned for life from the NBA for a sports betting affair, his other brother Coban was sentenced to six years in prison for causing a serious car accident , and a third brother, Jevon, was arrested on suspicion of drunk driving.
He seemed to have sorted things out perfectly, to concentrate on the floor. But the return to reality hit against Wolves.
“If I had played better, at my usual level, we would have won this series”
“I’m not going to say that it wasn’t a burden to bear, that I didn’t think about it every day,” recognizes the interior of Denver. “But that’s no excuse. In the NBA, we have to separate the court and what happens off it. I have to do better than in this series. I told my teammates that I was sorry, that this lost series was my fault. I'm a better shooter than I showed in this series. »
He finished this conference semi-final with only 10.7 points on average at 37% shooting success including 32% at 3-points. In the last four matches, it was even 6.3 small points per match at 29% including 19% at 3-pts.
” It hurts. The series was catastrophic for me. I feel like I was only good one or two matches,” he analyzes like this. “It's hard because if I had played better, at my usual level, we would have won this series. And I have to live with that…”
| Michael Porter, Jr. | Percentage | Rebounds | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Season | Team | MJ | Min | Shots | 3pts | L.F. | Off | Def | Early | Pd | Party | Int | Bp | Ct | Pts |
| 2019-20 | DEN | 55 | 16 | 50.9 | 42.2 | 83.3 | 1.2 | 3.5 | 4.7 | 0.8 | 1.8 | 0.5 | 0.9 | 0.5 | 9.3 |
| 2020-21 | DEN | 61 | 31 | 54.2 | 44.5 | 79.1 | 1.5 | 5.8 | 7.3 | 1.2 | 2.1 | 0.7 | 1.3 | 0.9 | 19.1 |
| 2021-22 | DEN | 9 | 30 | 35.9 | 20.8 | 55.6 | 1.0 | 5.6 | 6.6 | 1.9 | 1.8 | 1.1 | 1.3 | 0.2 | 9.9 |
| 2022-23 | DEN | 62 | 29 | 48.7 | 41.4 | 80.0 | 1.0 | 4.5 | 5.5 | 1.1 | 1.9 | 0.6 | 1.1 | 0.5 | 17.4 |
| 2023-24 | DEN | 81 | 32 | 48.4 | 39.7 | 83.6 | 1.3 | 5.7 | 7.0 | 1.5 | 1.8 | 0.5 | 1.1 | 0.7 | 16.7 |
| Total | 268 | 28 | 49.9 | 41.0 | 80.7 | 1.3 | 5.0 | 6.2 | 1.2 | 1.9 | 0.6 | 1.1 | 0.6 | 15.7 | |
How to read the stats? MJ = matches played; Min = Minutes; Shots = Successful shots / Attempted shots; 3pts = 3-points / 3-points attempted; LF = free throws made / free throws attempted; Off = offensive rebound; Def=defensive rebound; Tot = Total rebounds; Pd = assists; Fte: Personal fouls; Int = Intercepts; Bp = Lost balls; Ct: Against; Pts = Points.
