How likely is it for LA Clippers’ Nicolas Batum to log just as many points as the superstar tandem of Devin Booker and Kevin Durant in the fourth quarter of a win-or-go-home game? Not too likely. But it is exactly what happened.
In game five against the Phoenix Suns, the Frenchman swished five three-pointers en route to a 20-point (12 in the fourth) finish in a nearly-complete comeback run. But the veteran forward’s heroics, as great as they were, were nowhere to be found prior.
In the first four games of the first-round series, Batum cashed in on just one of his nine field-goal attempts, amassing a grand total of three points.