Facundo Campazzo and a dream night in the NBA

2021-01-04T02:49:36.203Z

The Cordovan began to show everything he can give in the best league in the world: he scored 15 points and also shone in defense, where he contributed half of Denver's steals for the victory against Minnesota.

Mauricio Codocea

01/03/2021 23:29

Clarín.com
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Updated 01/03/2021 23:37

And finally the

uncovering

arrived

Facundo Campazzo played his best game in the NBA and coincided with the comeback of the Denver Nuggets, who beat

Minnesota

124 to 109

and thus added their second win of the season, in which they barely had one success against five falls.

The Argentine played his most minutes (21) and was

set on fire

in front of the basket, scoring

5 of 8 on 3-pointers

to reach a total of 15 points.

He was the team's third leading scorer, behind the team's two greats:

Jamal Murray

(36) and Nikola Jokic (19).

But he also contributed two assists, a rebound,

three steals

(half of the team's) and even a cover with his meter and 79 centimeters.

As always, the Argentine started on the bench and entered early in the second quarter, with the team winning just by one point.

The game was getting difficult for Denver, despite the multiple problems that Minnesota was carrying, one of the weakest in the West and that on top of it came without its top star, pivot

Karl-Anthony Towns.

The Cordoba man was able to share minutes with Murray and, for the first time, not get involved with the last players in the squad, which had happened to him in most of his minutes until this Sunday night.

With the brand as well as an old acquaintance of FIBA basketball as the Spanish

Ricky Rubio

, Campazzo began to show his weapons with an offensive foul that took out pivot

Naz Reid

, a triple in the next possession to get 45-39 and a

great steal

anticipating the posting of another big man like

Jake Layman.

🔥 The Joker's pass deserved a bomb like that 🔥

3️ Triple Triple from @facucampazzo!

pic.twitter.com/vUoliQ3Dy9

- TeamFacu (@ TeamFacu7) January 4, 2021

In that period (in which he stole another ball and assisted a

Monte Morris

that he could not define) it did not seem a coincidence that Denver took what was by then the maximum advantage (12 points).

The Argentine returned near the end of the third quarter, with 3 minutes remaining and the Nuggets had been complicated: the distance had been cut to three (80-77).

Minnesota came to turn it around and actually started the last quarter, up by one (84-83).

At the start of the fourth quarter,

Campazzo was decisive

with his outside shot, scoring one of the three that Denver made to move away 94-86.

He also intervened with a steal from

D'Angelo Russell

, the rival figure, which ended in a score by

PJ Dozier

to get the maximum of 14 points (100-86) and begin to define the game.

🚔 Call the Minnesota Police!

🚫 Facu stole, put a stop to the attack and Jokic did the rest.

#MileHighBasketball opens light of 14. pic.twitter.com/4UDYCTP7cM