When the Hornets offer a deductible record for the number of 3-point baskets scored in a match (26/46) and equal that of the assists, we can suspect that Lamelo Ball is in the blow. Charlotte's playmaker signed a very nice outing Friday in an easy victory in San Antonio. The Spurs health assessment has helped well, it is true, to have fun for visitors. But Ball did not need anyone to sign his best match since January with 27 points, 15 assists.
The former Rookie of the Year has been going through a complicated period, alternating between small health seeds and serious awkwardness. In Texas, the Pistolero Lamelo had found the sights, in its characteristic style. The 23-year-old did not hesitate to draw in first intention, sometimes far behind the arc, as at the end of the second quarter, where he put the spurs a little more under the water of a shot more than nine meters to allow his family to put himself comfortably in front of the break (55-81).
Eleven passes in the first half
The highlight of the show will remain its hot stroke in the third quarter, when San Antonio attempted a passage in zone 2-3 to slow down the shooters of the Hornets. A strategy that Lamelo Ball has shattered by three distant shots in the same place, at 45 degrees to the left of the circle, in only 40 seconds! Ball ends with a superb 7/11 by far, and 9/13 in shooting, his first match above the 50 % successful success for two months and January 15 against Utah.
In great personal success, Ball had the merit of not drawing the coverage, especially in the first period, in a second quarter to the air of collective demonstration. The leader ends with 15 assists – record in a career equaled – including 11 before rest, and 8 in the only second act! A recital without forcing, where it was enough for Lamelo Ball to create a gap to find a teammate open from afar, like Nick Smith Jr, already found five times behind the arc at the break. In the wake of her master to play, Charlotte ends with 42 assists, eight more than what was until then their best performance of the season, and the same total as in the first franchise record on February 11, 2014 against Dallas
“Our passes were really exceptional tonight” could congratulate Coach Charles Lee. “” We talked about it this morning, to have confidence in our passes and to do it for 48 minutes. I think our guys have done a hell of a job. They created advantages at the screen output not to keep the ball in their hands. Everyone has had their share of the cake and a large part of it all started with our great energy in defense and our intensity. »»
Two conditions not always met this season in North Carolina, but a real reason for satisfaction in a new end of the season without stake, for Lamelo Ball and its Hornets.
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