The NBA regular season continues today, with a total of 9 games.
The Trail Blazers narrowly defeated the Hornets 89-86, the Pacers lost to the Nets 111-115, the Pistons lost to the Hawks 113-121, the Thunder defeated the Celtics 100-135, the Magic defeated the Pelicans 117-108, the Grizzlies defeated the Bucks 111-101, and the Raptors lost to the Timberwolves 85-133.
At a glance, these NBA teams are all playing chess, all picking playoff opponents, the Bucks and the Thunder are really fake, the former lost incredible, and the latter lost by 35 points is too much.
At this stage of the season, there are really no particularly good games, after all, the strong teams are going to start to rest the main team, and the weak teams are also completely rotten, waiting for the draft.
Then at this point in time, it's time for small characters to fight hard for next season's contract, and many counterattack stories will happen, such as one in the Pistons today.
Although the Pistons lost to the Hawks, a small character on their team named Malachi Flynn blew up.
The Hawks were clearly superior to the Pistons, but they couldn't get away with the score in the first half and only won by eight points in the end because they couldn't get the whole game off Flynn.
In the first quarter, Flynn, who came off the bench for five minutes, scored eight points efficiently, hitting all four free throws, showing his impact and destructive power.
In the second quarter, Flynn continued to play his muscles, scoring nine points on 60 percent shooting.
And in the second half, Flynn completely blew up, he hit 14 points with a 100% shooting rate in the third quarter, and he went all out in the final quarter to score another 19 points.
For a while, the Eagles' home court actually sounded sporadic "MVP" calls for this visiting player.
In the whole game, Flynn scored 50 points, 6 rebounds and 5 assists, shooting 18 of 25 in the field of action, shooting 72%, and 5 of 9 from beyond the three-point line, shooting 56%.
Having said that, some people may still be puzzled, who is this Flynn?
He was indeed a small character, so small that most people had never heard of it before today.
In the 2020 NBA Draft, Flynn was selected by the Raptors with the 29th pick in the first round, and spent most of his time on the bench, averaging 7.5 points, 2.5 rebounds and 2.9 assists per game in his rookie season is already the best stats of his career so far.
In his fourth season with the Raptors, Flynn began his wandering career, first playing 31 games this season before being sent to the Knicks by the Raptors, then playing 14 games in New York before being traded to the Pistons.
An average role player who is traded twice in a season is likely to fall out of the rotation or even say goodbye to the NBA.
But Flynn held up and stubbornly squeezed into the Pistons' rotation.
In fact, Flynn's outburst is not the first time, he participated in the 2022 offseason in the NBA legend Crawford's TheCrawsOver League, scoring 73 points and 12 rebounds in a single game, leading the team to a 115-108 victory.
However, this did not cause a sensation, and it was only today that Flynn scored 50 points efficiently in the NBA, which really made everyone remember this guy.
According to statistics, Flynn is the second NBA player in the 21st century to score 50+ points as a bench, the previous being Crawford in 2019.
In this season's NBA, there are only four players who have scored 50+ points with more than 70% shooting, namely Doncic, Alphabet, Brunson and today's Flynn.
In addition, only five players have scored 50+ points on 25 or fewer shots this season: Doncic, Alphabet, Embiid, Brunson, and today's Flynn.
Accidentally, Flynn is tied to Doncic, twice, good guy.
Flynn was a vindictive guy when he said after the game: "I almost did it in high school, and there was one game where I scored 49 points, and then the coach replaced me, and I remember it now. ”
In fact, this kind of character is quite important, if it is not so stubborn and even stingy, "Waste Wood" Flynn will not be able to fight out of the NBA.
Previously, he averaged only 5.8 points per game in 17 games with the Pistons, and Flynn scored 50 points to become famous, and today he is his own Jordan.
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