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Raising gear: Yannis proves to be a money-time player, LeBron becomes a defensive anchor
Antocompo responds to commentators and admits that the knockout for Kwai "was a matter of ego", LeBron reinvents himself and aims for a personal title he has already managed to forget about.
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Monday, 01 March 2021, 10:41
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Again at its peak.
Yannis (Photo: GettyImages, Stacy Revere)
Yannis Antocompo and Milwaukee are starting to mention the team that dominated the regular season of the NBA last year.
The Bucks recorded a five-game winning streak tonight (Sunday through Monday), beating the Clippers 100-105 in a game between two teams with aspirations for the championship, which mainly highlighted the renewed hunger of Yannis Antocompo.
The last two MVPs were at their peak with 36 points, 14 rebounds, 5 assists and 4 blocks, and surpassed in the final quarter where he looked unstoppable, even against Kwai Leonard and Paul George.
The Greek freak has raised his career balance to 61 games with at least 30 points, 10 rebounds and 5 assists.
By comparison, Michael Jordan finished his career with 61 such games.
And while the Bucks look menacing again, Yannis is up in gear: In the last four games he has added 149 points and 50 rebounds, and tonight provided a statement of intent in front of the Clippers' star battery.
"It was a matter of pride, of ego," Yannis said of his and Chris Middleton's fight with Kwai Leonard and Paul George.
"Our pride was at stake. Personally, I enjoy when games like this come to a tense end. When you play against the best players in the world in a close game, when you try to stop them and they you, it feels like something big. A big mouth develops."
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Leading the NBA in points in the final quarter.
Yannis (Photo: GettyImages, Stacy Revere)
Yannis, who has yet to prove he is capable of taking a team to the playoffs, who has suffered a host of problems in crucial games, seems particularly determined this season to show he is a Money Time player.
He leads the NBA in points in the final quarter, with 8.2 per game.
Tonight he scored 17 points alone in the last eight minutes, compared to just 10 for the Clippers.
"When we lost five games in a row, people started to panic. Now that we've won five in a row no one talks about it. That's probably how it works. When you lose, everyone thinks it's the end of the world, but we were not even scared for a moment," Yannis said.
And unlike Yannis who did as he pleased, Leonard and George had a hard time finishing together with just 3 of 15 from the field in the final quarter.
In conclusion, Leonard admitted that "as a team, I feel we are not quite there yet. We still look at Ty Lou from time to time to signal us offensive drills, our pace is not always high enough, we are not working automatically yet. "Credit." They made the stops they needed at the right time, and they were better. "
"As a team, we are not there yet."
Kwai (Photo: GettyImages, Stacy Revere)
Is LeBron James on his way to being named in this season's defensive five?
The Lakers star helped the champion skip Golden State and Steph Kerry and win 91: 117 in a one-sided game, which was decided after just one quarter.
In his 1,300-game career LeBron may have made do with 19 points and played just 24 minutes under the auspices of the Garbage Time that allowed him a long rest, but in his little time on the floor, he continued to display impressive defensive ability.
LeBron has not been included in one of the season's five defenses since 2014, and the last time he was included in the first five of the season was somewhere in 2013.
This season he continues to reinvent himself on defense, and in recent games he has been gearing up, in the absence of defensive anchor Anthony Davis.
In the last win over Portland he had four steals, and tonight he contributed two blocks and two steals.
LeBron now ranks second in the league in Defensive Rating, an advanced statistic that checks how many points a particular player’s team has absorbed in his minutes on the floor.
Reinventing himself.
LeBron (Photo: GettyImages, Harry How)
"LeBron for the defensive five of the season!", Kyle Kozma tweeted at the end, and LeBron himself admitted that he takes the defense too seriously in recent games.
"My job is to lead the team on both sides of the pitch. Defensively, I try to be a little more active in recent games. I just move from place to place all the time, and I feel it catches everyone," he said.
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