Stephen Silas had a clear idea of how his Rockets would defend against Giannis Antetokounmpo. The coach especially had one player in mind: Usman Garuba. “I wanted to give him a chance to defend on Giannis, to use his physicality and his speed for that”explains Silas for the Houston Chronicle.
Except it didn’t work. Not at all even. The Greek was as always overpowered, especially in transition, and scored 44 points at 17/21 in shooting and 8/13 in free throws in just 28 minutes. A demonstration.
After chaining the dunks, and in addition to his 12 rebounds, the MVP of the 2021 Finals even had fun in the second half with two award-winning shots. The Rockets couldn’t do anything. An observation that comes up very regularly when we talk about the star of Milwaukee.
“You lack words to describe it, don’t you? »commented Brook Lopez for the JS Online. “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. You have to find new terms to talk about your progress and it’s hard. »
For stats lovers, a double-double with 40 points in less than 30 minutes is very rare. Since the stats are taken into account, only seven players have succeeded: Richie Guerin (1967), Pat Ewing (1988), Rik Smits (1994), Anthony Davis (2017), LeBron James (2021), Joel Embiid (2022 ) and therefore Giannis Antetokounmpo.
| 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 | 1 | 36 | 56.3 | 33.3 | 40.0 | 0.0 | 13.0 | 13.0 | 8.0 | 4.0 | 1.0 | 1.0 | 3.0 | 21.0 |
| Total | 657 | 33 | 53.5 | 28.8 | 71.8 | 1.7 | 7.7 | 9.4 | 4.6 | 3.0 | 1.2 | 2.9 | 1.3 | 21.8 | |
