“My grandfather had Kareem, dad had Michael Jordan, I have Al Horford’”: NBA Twitter in awe with Dominican big man’s playoff career high 30-points against the Bucks

Akash Murty | 10/05/2022
"Holy sh*t AL HORFORD just ENDED Giannis Antetokounmpo": Dominican big man scores playoff career high 30-points to get Celtics at level terms with the Bucks, NBA Twitter is impressed

A 6’9, 35-year-old Al Horford posterizing a young 6’11 Giannis Antetokounmpo was not what Bucks fans expected coming into Game 4 but they witnessed it.

Monday night the Milwaukee Bucks hosted the Boston Celtics for the 4th game of the Eastern Conference Semi-finals looking to close both games at home and take a 3-1 series lead back to TD Garden.

They started the game with that intent, outscoring the C’s by 7 points as they scored 25 first-quarter points. The game then went back and forth for the next two quarters, giving us the best basketball action of the second round.

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Although Giannis Antetokounmpo had another monster game and went to the basket at will, he couldn’t score at will. The Greek Freak went 14/32 from the field and 0/4 from the 3-point line for his 34-points.

He was again a bit inefficient compared to his last game’s endeavors, Jrue Holiday was even more bugged by the suffocating Celtics defense that held him to 5/22 shooting for 16 points. While Boston was back with their defensive prowess, their offense wasn’t lagging far behind with a surprising top scorer.

 

Al Horford bamboozled Giannis Antetokounmpo and NBA Twitter

Al Horford at 35 years of age is having the best post-season of his life on the defense as well as the 3-point line. But we could see the Dominican wanted to do it all, and he most certainly did in Game 4, having a playoff career-high 30 points.

He posted team-high alongside Jayson Tatum and did it with close to double the efficiency of the Greek international. However, it was this poster of him that set the internet on fire.

Experts were similarly impressed.

And his teammates and the coach as well.

Also read: “Jayson Tatum is rarely bad, but when he’s bad, he’s horrendous”: NBA Twitter trolls the Boston star after an awful 10-point outing in Celtics’ Game 3 103-101 loss vs Bucks

 

 

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Akash Murty

An Electrical and Electronics Engineer by degree, Akash Murty is an NBA Editor at The SportsRush. Previously a Software Engineer, Murty couldn’t keep himself away from sports, and his knack for writing and putting his opinion forward brought him to the TSR. A big Soccer enthusiast, his interest in basketball developed late, as he got access to a hoop for the first time at 17. Following this, he started watching basketball at the 2012 Olympics, which transitioned to NBA, and he became a fan of the game as he watched LeBron James dominate the league. Him being an avid learner of the game and ritually following the league for around a decade, he now writes articles ranging from throwbacks, and live game reports, to gossip. LA Lakers are his favourite basketball team, while Chelsea has his heart in football. He also likes travelling, reading fiction, and sometimes cooking.

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