Campazzo suffers lack of play in the Dallas Mavericks: He had almost half the minutes of his first season in Denver

When he signed a contract with Dallasdays before the start of the 2022/23 season of NBA, Facundo Campazzo he knew he would have to work to earn his place on the team led by Jason Kidd, who already had three other players playing – or able to play – in his place. And the stats from her early performances confirmed that reality.

In the party that Mavericks lost Wed 125-112 y Boston As a guest, in which they were clearly dominated by the Celtics, Cordovan, a typical organizational point guard, was on the field for 1’45, at the end of the game, when everything was already defined. And he finished with only one point (1-2 free) on a personal scoresheet.

The difference in scoring was no greater in Boston’s favor because Luca Doncic furious night: 42 points (14-20 doubles, 3-8 triples and 5-9 free throws), 8 rebounds and 9 assists.

The duel against the Celtics did not last long the sixth of the season for Campazzowho was on the bench for Dallas’ other eleven games (the team is 9-8 and tenth in the western conference).

In those six performances, the Cordovan takes the average 7.4 minutes, with 1.2 points, 0.3 rebounds and 1.3 assists.

His best game, if we talk about numbers, was played last week, when he starred for 23 minutes in a 101-92 defeat against houston in Dallas. Added 3 points, two two rebounds and five assists. The only other match in which he spent more than 5 minutes on the pitch was his debut on October 25, when the mavs they fell from 113 to 114 before pelicans in New Orleans and played 13 minutes, had three points and two assists.

Predictably, Campazzo had a small role early in his first season with Dallas. Just to make a comparison, as he did in his first months with the shirt Denver in the 2020/21 season, his first in the NBA.

In that edition of the championship, marked by the coronavirus pandemic which forced the reduction of the regular season calendar, Campazzo played 16 of the first 17 matches of the championship Nuggetswho started with a 10-7 record, not unlike that of the Mavericks in this campaign

In that stretch, he averaged 12.3 minutes, 3.7 points, 0.9 rebounds and 1.3 assists. His best productions came in back-to-back victories against Minnesota. In the first, as a guest, he was on the field for 21 minutes, in which he scored 15 points in a 124-109 Nuggets victory. Two days later, in Denver, he played 26 minutes and contributed 11 of the points as his team prevailed 123-116.

In that championship, Campazzo went from less to more and, already in the last stretch of the regular season, he managed to add 40 minutes on the field and 15 points, in the defeat against the Celtics in Boston in mid-February 2021. And he scored 19 points, his second personal best in the NBA (his best is 22), in two games, the win against New Orleans in late April and a loss to Brooklyn in early May.

Can he also go up in this championship with Dallas, who will also play this Saturday against the Raptors in Toronto?