Sunday night, the NBA will complete a seventh straight season with more than 100 triple-doubles. Thanks or because of elements like Russell Westbrook, LeBron James or even Nikola Jokic and Luka Doncic, the performance has become commonplace, and this year, 25 teams have at least one player who has signed a triple-double.
Among the five franchises without a triple-double is the Jazz, and that’s nothing new. It has even become a habit since it has now been more than 15 years since the Utah franchise has not had a triple-double in the regular season. If you consider the playoffs, Ricky Rubio broke the streak in 2018 with his one and only triple-double in the NBA. It was against the Thunder.
As the NBA counts the stats in the playoffs apart, the last dated February 13, 2008, and it was signed Carlos Boozer. Since then, the NBA has recorded 1,167 triple-doubles!
However, we really thought that this series was going to stop tonight since Kelly Olynyk was on a very good footing with 16 points, 14 rebounds and 8 assists against… the Thunder. Except that Will Hardy took it out four minutes from the end, and the Canadian will therefore not be the one to break the series…
Close to quadruple-double negative…
” It has no importance. We were trailing by 20 points. did he react when he was at 15 points, 10 rebounds and 7 assists at the end of the 3rd quarter. “I should have realized it before. »
The strong winger of the Jazz however tried, distributing a maximum of passes, to the point also of losing a lot of balloons (7!). But in the 3rd and 4th quarters, Luka Samanic, Simone Fontecchio, Juan Toscano-Anderson, Johnny Juzang and Ochai Agbaji missed shots that would have allowed him to break that streak.
Asked about his choice to release Kelly Olynyk, Will Hardy summed up the situation with a touch of humor: “If I had left him on the field, he would have had it in two different ways: through passes or stray balls. The only thing that could have ruined the evening even more is if Kelly had been injured at the end. »
