Saddiq Bey signed the best performance of his career this Thursday and, with his 51 points and ten triples , led the Detroit Pistons to victory by 120-120 against the Orlando Magic, in a duel between penultimate and last, respectively, in the Eastern Conference.
The intense rhythm of the NBA regular season stopped for a day and the This Thursday’s program only previewed the game between Pistons and Magic, two teams that already think more about next year than in the present, in which they were never in the fight for the “playoffs”.
Even so, they gave life to an entertaining match marked by a fantastic performance by Saddiq Bey, forward of 20 years, who got 51 points, ten rebounds and four assists.
The forward born in North Carolina has an average of 15.8 points per game this season, but this Thursday he wore a 17 of 24 in shots and an excellent ten of fourteen in triples.
His three-point baskets were essential for the Pistons to survive the dominance of the Magic in the paint, in which they scored 64 points and the 48 of the Pistons.
A pain in the paint that was opposed by the 20 triples of the team from Detroit by the 10 from Orlando.
Marvin Bagley, with 20 points and eleven rebounds, supported Saddiq Bey in the Pistons while Franz Wagner, with 26 points and five rebounds, was the best of the Magic.
The Pistons are fourteenth in the East (15-51) and met again with victory after four consecutive losses. The Magic suffered their third setback in a row and are bottom (18-53).
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