{"id":328204,"date":"2023-04-27T19:12:53","date_gmt":"2023-04-27T17:12:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=328204"},"modified":"2023-04-27T19:12:53","modified_gmt":"2023-04-27T17:12:53","slug":"euroleague-playoffs-game-1-mvp-kevin-punter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/euroleague-playoffs-game-1-mvp-kevin-punter\/","title":{"rendered":"Euroleague Playoffs Game 1 MVP: Kevin Punter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.euroleaguebasketball.net\/euroleague\/players\/kevin-punter\/009862\/\">Kevin Punter<\/a>\u00a0lifted Partizan Mozzart Bet Belgrade to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.euroleaguebasketball.net\/euroleague\/game-center\/2022-23\/real-madrid-partizan-mozzart-bet-belgrade\/E2022\/309\/\">a thrilling 87-89 series opening road win<\/a>\u00a0over Real Madrid and in the process earned the honor as the MVP of Game 1 of the playoffs. Punter drained a game-winning three-pointer with 0.4 seconds on the clock and finished the game with 26 points. He knocked down 5-of-8 three-pointers, made 9 of 9 free throws and tied his career-high with 6 assists. Punter&#8217;s career-high PIR of 33 was the best among players on winning teams in Game 1, securing him his second MVP of the Round honor.<\/p>\n<p>Also with a PIR of 33 in that game, but in a losing effort, was Real&#8217;s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.euroleaguebasketball.net\/euroleague\/players\/gabriel-deck\/009005\/\">Gabriel Deck<\/a>, who scored 24 points on 8-for-8 two-point shooting, tied for the third-best in a playoff game since 2005. Deck also made 8 of 11 free throws, grabbed 8 rebounds, dished 1 assist and collected 1 steal. The next best PIR, 26, belonged to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.euroleaguebasketball.net\/euroleague\/players\/wade-baldwin-iv\/009863\/\">Wade Baldwin<\/a>\u00a0of Maccabi Playtika Tel Aviv. In his team&#8217;s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.euroleaguebasketball.net\/euroleague\/game-center\/2022-23\/as-monaco-maccabi-playtika-tel-aviv\/E2022\/308\/\">67-79 road win<\/a>\u00a0at AS Monaco, Baldwin collected 20 points, 6 assists and 6 rebounds. Five different players had PIRs of 20:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.euroleaguebasketball.net\/euroleague\/players\/sertac-sanli\/002968\/\">Sertac Sanli<\/a>\u00a0of FC Barcelona, Monaco&#8217;s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.euroleaguebasketball.net\/euroleague\/players\/alpha-diallo\/011226\/\">Alpha Diallo<\/a>, Real&#8217;s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.euroleaguebasketball.net\/euroleague\/players\/walter-tavares\/005791\/\">Walter Tavares<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.euroleaguebasketball.net\/euroleague\/players\/marko-guduric\/004004\/\">Marko Guduric<\/a>\u00a0of Fenerbahce Beko Istanbul and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.euroleaguebasketball.net\/euroleague\/players\/moustapha-fall\/008811\/\">Moustapha Fall<\/a>\u00a0of Olympiacos Piraeus.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Kevin Punter | MVP Showreel | Turkish Airlines EuroLeague\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/axk-VEk8GFI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Partizan guard scored 26 points and the game-winning three-pointer in the Game 1 win over Real Madrid<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":328205,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[199],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[15727,187],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-328204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-euroleague","typology-press-release-en","typology-video"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2023\/04\/2839a681-73bb-4c75-89f6-faa07e4d868d.webp","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=328204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328204\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/328205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=328204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=328204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=328204"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=328204"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=328204"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=328204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}