Facundo Campazzo lived his best statistical night in the NBA, with a record of points, a double-double and … various luxuries

A luxury premiere. One night in which it is a matter of consolidating a position. A test in which if there was any doubt, it was cleared with a stroke of the pen. Absolute ratification. The beginning of 2022 Facundo Campazzo, it turned out as exact as you looked for it. Beat his record for points in an NBA game, got his second double-double in the best league in the world, tied his best stealing and plugging marks in one night and delivered a luxury stock festival. And in a team in which the injuries and Covid were crying out for a solution to the emergencies. The Cordoba base stood with all the lights in the victory of Denver nuggets in view of Houston Rockets for 124 to 111, with which the Colorado team was consolidated in the Fifth place of the Western Conference.

There will be those who say that Houston is today the worst team in the NBA West and that it lacked its figures, although that has little to do with the task of the Cordobes, since he took the step forward in a decimated group in which he even part of the coaching staff was out of action for having tested positive for coronavirus. In that context, Campazzo was the best of the Texan night, he had his almost perfect night in the year and ten days that he has been in the United States league.

So high was his production that his numbers in 34 minutes of play that show that he had a night at the height of one of the stars of the competition:

Compact of Campazzo’s best individual night in the NBA

And so high was the production of the Argentine outside the payroll that he made a spout assist (to JaMychal Green between Christian Wood’s legs) and, in the same play, two strips: a, to bypass with a crossover shocking Kevin Porter Jr., and the second, to snub David Nwaba and enable Aaron Gordon, leaving him almost under the rim. This last action generated all kinds of compliments, so much so that the official Denver account put in its post: “O my God. Ladies and gentlemen @facucampazzo ”.

After the match, at the press conference, Campazzo was consulted about the night he had and chose to run away from the praise: “I leave the statistics to the journalists who have more tools to analyze them. I try not to let that influence my game. I seek to gain confidence from defense, infect my teammates, give them energy and I felt very comfortable in that sense. And well with all the injuries that we have, more than those that are within the sanitary protocols, we have to hide those absences with intensity, with a focus on the game, playing good basketball. I think you win not only with games with intensity, energy and fighting, but with good basketball and I feel that tonight we did very well. That gives you extra motivation. When you don’t have half the squad and your coaching staff due to these difficulties, it is an engine that drives you to play for them ”.

What the Argentine said after his record match

This type of game represents a lot for Campazzo and in his statements there is not a shred of politics. His interests pursue much more than good statistics, beyond the fact that those numbers are what elevate him above the rest. In a production like the one he achieved against the Rockets, the Argentine guard multiplied the team chemistry, which although it was already good, these tasks only consolidate the confidence in the group to give the ball to the Cordoba in the hot moments of the game. match.

And on the other hand, achieving his best individual mark, being decisive in key moments of the game, allows him to add to his individual objective that has little to do with statistics: to sustain in the NBA. In this last year of his contract with the Nuggets, he knows that his performance will be the key to renewal, to rule out any premature trade (exchange) or, failing that, that other franchises want to tempt him to emigrate from Colorado.

And there are signs that feed that goal, because even the official NBA account was left with Campazzo’s task and in the crossover against Kevin Porter Jr who continued with a girdle assist for Gordon, on Twitter they published: “OK, wait, this Facu finds the way out. He’s putting on a show. “

A collection night for Campazzo. Everyone understood that way, because the Houston players came to greet the Argentine after the game, some took photos and part of the Rockets staff also congratulated the Cordovan point guard. “I have fun playing,” he said in his last column in LA NACION. And Facu does not lie in a letter.