By George Efkarpides / info@eurohoops.net
While many players seemed a little bit full from last night’s Thanksgiving festivities, Euro-ballers and especially “Bigs” came to play.
First, Jusuf Nurkic helped the Blazers seal a tough win (129-127) over the Nets in Brooklyn. The Bosnian center had 29 points to go with 15 boards, 29 points, 15 rebounds, 3 assists, a steal and 4 blocks while coming up clutch just when his team needed him.
Later on, in a match-up that featured six Euro-ballers due to Kanter being inactive, the Hawks managed to beat the New York Knicks (116-104) behind Dennis Schroder superb performance. The German point guard dropped 26 points to go with 2 boards, 8 assists and a steal.
Kristaps Porzingis had 28 points for the losing side and Willy Hernangomez had 6 points, 7 boards an assist and a block in 18:31 of action. Frank Ntilikina played some exceptional defense down the stretch keeping the Knicks in the game.
The French rookie had 5 points, 4 boards, 3 assists and 2 highlight-reel blocks.
The biggest Euro-matchup of the day was the duel between two of the most skilled and versatile big men in the game, Nikola Jokic and Marc Gasol.
The Spanish center continued to ball out in absence of Mike Conley and finished with a career-high 14 assists to go with 15 points, 6 rebounds and 2 steals despite the 92-104 loss.
On the other hand, Nikola Jokic put on a show for the crowd in Denver and finished just 2 assists away from a triple-double ( 28 p. 13 r. 8 a.). Juanch Hernangomez is starting to find his old form as he played 17 minutes and had 3 points, boards and a steal in a win.
Here are last night’s results and the Euro-scorers:
| BROOKLYN NETS | PORTLAND TRAIL BLAZERS | 125-127 | Nurkic 29 p. 15 r. 3 a. 1 s 4 b. |
| ATLANTA HAWKS | NEW YORK KNICKS | 116-104 | Schroder 26 p. 2 r. 8 a. 1 s., Belinelli 15 p. 2 r. 5 a. 1 a., Illyasova 10 p. 6 r. 1 s. – Porzingis 28 p. 4 r. 2 a. 2 b., Hernangomez 6 p. 7 r. 1 a. 1 b., Ntilikina 5 p. 4 r. 3 a. 2 b. |
| BOSTON CELTICS | ORLANDO MAGIC | 118-103 | Yabusele 2 r. – Vucevic 12 p. 11 r. 2 a 3 s. 1 b., Fournier 7 p. 5 r. 1 a. 1 s., Hezonja 2 p. 1 r. 1 a. |
| CLEVELAND CAVALIERS | CHARLOTTE HORNETS | 100-99 | Calderon 3 p. 2 r. 1 a. |
| INDIANA PACERS | TORONTO RAPTORS | 107-104 | Bogdanovic 19 p. 1 r. 1 s., Sabonis 13 p. 6 r. 1 a. 1 s. 1 b.- Valanciunas 6 p. 5 r., Ibaka 10 p. 7 r. 1 a. 1 s. 1 b., Poeltl 6 p. 2 r. |
| MINNESOTA TIMBERWOLVES | MIAMI HEAT | 97-109 | Dragic 20 p. 4 r. 6 a. 2 s. |
| OKLAHOMA CITY THUNDER | DETROIT PISTONS | 98-99 | Abrines 1 r. 1 a. 1 s. |
| DENVER NUGGETS | MEMPHIS GRIZZLIES | 99-89 | Jokic 28 p. 13 e. 8 a. 1 s., Hernangomez 3 p. 5 r. 1 s. – Gasol 15 p. 6 r. 14 a. 2 s, |
| PHOENIX SUNS | NEW ORLEANS PELICANS | 91-115 | Bender 2 p. 2 r. – Asik 6 p. |
| GOLDEN STATE WARRIORS | CHICAGO BULLS | 143-94 | Pachulia 11 p. 5 r. 6 a. 2 s., Casspi 6 p. 4 r. 4 a. 2 s. 1 b., Markkanen 14 p. 6 r. 1 s. 1 b. |
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#
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TEAM
|
PTS
|
MP
|
W
|
L
|
POINTS
|
+/-
|
|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EASTERN | ||||||||
|
1
|
20
|
17
|
3
|
2068 – 1914
|
154
|
|||
|
2
|
18
|
12
|
6
|
1867 – 1833
|
34
|
|||
|
3
|
19
|
12
|
7
|
2105 – 2091
|
14
|
|||
|
4
|
18
|
11
|
7
|
1970 – 1871
|
99
|
|||
|
5
|
17
|
10
|
7
|
1843 – 1823
|
20
|
|||
|
6
|
19
|
11
|
8
|
2067 – 2036
|
31
|
|||
|
7
|
18
|
10
|
8
|
1952 – 1878
|
74
|
|||
|
8
|
NEW YORK KNICKS
|
18
|
10
|
8
|
1887 – 1873
|
14
|
||
|
9
|
17
|
9
|
8
|
1735 – 1779
|
-44
|
|||
|
10
|
18
|
9
|
9
|
1817 – 1845
|
-28
|
|||
|
11
|
18
|
8
|
10
|
1916 – 1910
|
6
|
|||
|
12
|
19
|
8
|
11
|
2034 – 2080
|
-46
|
|||
|
13
|
BROOKLYN NETS
|
18
|
6
|
12
|
2003 – 2069
|
-66
|
||
|
14
|
ATLANTA HAWKS
|
19
|
4
|
15
|
1966 – 2052
|
-86
|
||
|
15
|
17
|
3
|
14
|
1605 – 1824
|
-219
|
|||
| WESTERN | ||||||||
|
1
|
18
|
14
|
4
|
2040 – 1863
|
177
|
|||
|
2
|
19
|
14
|
5
|
2238 – 2029
|
209
|
|||
|
3
|
18
|
11
|
7
|
1812 – 1777
|
35
|
|||
|
4
|
PORTLAND TRAIL BLAZERS
|
19
|
11
|
8
|
1956 – 1878
|
78
|
||
|
5
|
19
|
11
|
8
|
2070 – 2057
|
13
|
|||
|
6
|
19
|
11
|
8
|
2049 – 2023
|
26
|
|||
|
7
|
19
|
11
|
8
|
2043 – 2057
|
-14
|
|||
|
8
|
18
|
8
|
10
|
1857 – 1767
|
90
|
|||
|
9
|
19
|
8
|
11
|
1905 – 1900
|
5
|
|||
|
10
|
19
|
8
|
11
|
2000 – 2035
|
-35
|
|||
|
11
|
18
|
7
|
11
|
1789 – 1819
|
-30
|
|||
|
12
|
17
|
6
|
11
|
1795 – 1808
|
-13
|
|||
|
13
|
20
|
7
|
13
|
2140 – 2315
|
-175
|
|||
|
14
|
18
|
5
|
13
|
1697 – 1900
|
-203
|
|||
|
15
|
19
|
4
|
15
|
1879 – 1999
|
-120
|
|||