Lyou Rio Grande Valley Vipers they still haven’t lost in the G League and it’s partly thanks to Usman Garuba, great protagonist of the fifth victory in five games of the linked team of the Rockets -Who incidentally has a trajectory diametrically opposite to those of his older brother in the NBA-.
Garuba, once again a starter, is showing that the G League is running out for him and in his second game he wreaked havoc on the defense of the Mexico City Capitanes.
Garuba’s numbers are impressive: 18 points, 8 of 10 in field goals and 2 of 2 in triples, in 31 minutes. But he also grabbed 17 rebounds, 11 defensive rebounds, and made five recoveries.
The star moment came when, one second to the end of the game, the Spaniard plug a clear entrance by Matt Mooney, his second stopper in the game, to seal his team’s victory, 125-123.
It looks like Garuba return to Rockets discipline soon. It so happens that after his showing with the Nets’ tied team, the Long Island Nets, Cam Thomas He has already won minutes with the NBA team. He scored 46 points against the Raptors 905 and tonight he has already had 15 minutes against the Cavaliers in which he scored 11 points helping Kevin Durant and James Harden in the victory of Brooklyn.