'Throw the ball up. I’m going to go get it.': Nerlens Noel helps Thunder dunk its way past Magic
The Orlando defense lost Thunder center Nerlens Noel.
It was busy covering the pick-and-pop developing between point guard Chris Paul and forward Danilo Gallinari. But when Paul drove past the screen, he didn’t pass to Gallinari on the perimeter. Instead, he threw a high-arcing lob to the low post.
A similar series of events played on a loop throughout the night. Noel made his fifth start of the season in the Thunder’s 120-114 win at Orlando on Wednesday. Just two nights before, Oklahoma City had seen how hard a game could be without Noel or starting center Steven Adams. Against the Magic, Noel announced his return with a bang. More accurately, with six.
Noel darted in from the opposite side to pluck the pass out of the sky and slam it through the hoop.
“I just keep telling them,” Noel said recently of his alley-oop chemistry with his point guards, “’Throw the ball up. I’m going to go get it.’”
Noel, who finished the night with 14 points, was one of six Thunder players who scored in double figures Wednesday.
In that a 112-107 comeback win at Houston, Adams left the game early with a left ankle sprain. The Rockets outscored the Thunder in the paint 64-44.
Noel has been battling left ankle issued for two weeks. First, he missed six straight games with a left ankle sprain. He returned for two games, in which he played a combined 40 minutes off the bench. But at Houston on Monday, Noel was a late scratch with left ankle soreness.
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