One more time Facundo Campazzo did his thing in the NBA: at the start of the new season, the Argentine made a nice assist “no look” in the victory of the Denver nuggets by 110-98 about Phoenix suns, on Wednesday night. Here, the video.
The Cordovan base entered as a substitute, played 19 minutes and could not score any points, since he missed all three shots he had. Anyway, he was in key in some plays, especially in defense, and he provided four assists, two rebounds and three rebounds.
THE FACU PARTY
He had two entries to the court, the first was in the second quarter where managed to generate a foul in attack of NaderIn addition, he was a great help to his partner Jeff Green, who made several triples to add on the scoreboard. Too, lived his first hand in hand with Chris paul, who is one of the best drivers in the NBA.
In his second entry, already at the end of the third quarter, it was where he excelled in his defensive facet, because he caused a loss of the rival that ended in a counterattack for his team. Already in the last seconds, he annoyed Cameron Payne with his suffocating mark, he elbowed him in the chest and ended in an offensive foul in favor of the Argentine.
Facundo Campazzo collides with Cameron Payne. Christian Petersen / Getty Images / AFP
As for the last quarter, he started on the court, a great success for the coach because Campazzo again won a duel against Paul, when he wanted to give a pass and the Argentine intercepted him. The Suns No. 3 got frustrated and cut him with a violation, which generated that all the Cordovan teammates applauded him automatically.
But the best play of the Argentine in the game was when took a rebound on his hoop and ran across the court to give a ” no look ” pass to his teammate Nikola Jokic, who defined with great solvency.
Likewise, he was the protagonist of a blooper that went viral when he fought against Cameron Payne for possession of the ball and ended up leaving the field of play and bumping into one of the cameramen of the meeting.
Facu fighting Payne for the ball (AP Photo / Matt York)
REMATCH
It is worth remembering that Phoenix were in charge of shutting out the Nuggets in last season’s playoffs by a resounding 4-0. This is why they took to the field to take revenge for that great defeat, at the hand of Nikola Jokic, who with 27 points and 13 rebounds was the main driver of this victory. In the preseason games the Nuggets did not have great performances, they won only one friendly game of the five they played.
NEXT MEETING
Denver together with Facu Campazzo will seek a new victory this Friday at 10:00 p.m. of Argentina before San antonio spurs at the Pepsi Center stadium, for the Western Conference. The Spurs beat this Wednesday to Orlando Magic by 123-98, in local condition, where all the starters scored at least 10 points.
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