January 2015, Klay Thompson would like to know his first All-Star Game selection. So the back, who was voted player of the week in the West on the 12th, is going to pull out all the stops on January 23 against the poor Kings to convince the voters with this crazy number of 37 points in a quarter, including 18 in a row and a clear shot: 13/13 including 9/9 from 3-points!
All in all positions, and sometimes instinctively. Even he couldn’t believe it during a time-out…
“I really don’t know what happened. It was absolutely insane” he confided after the match. “Actually, I took a lot of bad shots, but I decided to keep going until I missed one. “
Sacramento was leading before Klay Thompson’s heatstroke…
The most incredible thing is that so far the game was balanced, and that Sacramento was playing eye to eye with the Warriors thanks to 28 points and 11 rebounds from DeMarcus Cousins. Led by only five points at the break after having exploded at the start of the match (22-2), the Kings had even taken the advantage at the start of the 3rd quarter (58-56) thanks to a 7-0 . All without Rudy Gay, sent off in the first half.
And then, Klay Thompson made a 3-pointer, then two… and Golden State went back in front (66-64). The following is a moment of grace: Klay Thompson, like a grown-up, sticks an 11-4 to the Kings to make the break (77-68). Sacramento takes a time-out to stop the bleeding. But it’s worse since the back will score the next 18 points for his team!
The Oracle Arena is standing. His teammates surround him. Sacramento is not an actor, but a spectator of a historic exploit. In ten minutes, the score went to… 97-73!
The last quarter will only be a formality. He crushes his personal best (52 points), which will explode less than two years later in a new crazy evening: 60 points in 29 minutes, with only 11 dribbles…
