Zaza Pachulia opened the new season of National Basketball Association (NBA) with double double. Georgian center gained 13 points and 11 rebounds in the lost match against “Knicks” in New York and had the best coefficient of utility.

Captain of Georgian national team, who joined “Milwaukee Bucks” before the new season, was not in the starting five, but he proved in the first meeting that he is better than Larry Sunders.

Zaza scored 6 2-pointers of 10, a free throw, 3 assists and 2 steals. Georgian basketball player got 4 personal fouls.

Carmelo Anthony (leader of “Knicks”) was the only player besides Pachulia, who scored double double. He gained 19 points and 10 rebounds.

Exactly with the help of these players, New Yorkers celebrated the first victory of the season.

After the first half of the meeting the hosts promoted with 25 (!) points difference, but in the middle of the last quarter “Bucks” was in the role of leaders. Unfortunately, again hosts played well the last minutes and won.

“Milwaukee” will have their next match on November 2 against “Celtic” in Boston. 

Dato Manjavidze