Blazers’ Andre Miller Scores 52 Points in Overtime Win

January 31, 2010

With All-Star Brandon Roy out with a hamstring injury, it has been uncertain where all the offense will come from on a nightly basis for the Portland Trail Blazers. Well, last night guard Andre Miller more than answered the call.

Miller scored a career-high 52 points, with 25 of them coming in the fourth quarter and overtime, to help lift the Blazers past the Dallas Mavericks 114-112. It was an extremely efficient performance too as Miller went 22 of 31 from the field and 7 of 8 from the free throw line.

If you saw Miller’s first shot of the game, a 15-footer that bricked hard off the backboard, you would have thought chances were better that he would go scoreless, rather than post a new career high.

Miller entered the game averaging just 12.6 points per game and his previous season high had been only 28.

Miller came up just three points shy of breaking the Blazers’ team record set by Damon Stoudamire and six points shy of the mark set by the Bucks’ Brandon Jennings for the most points scored this season. The NBA hasn’t had a 50-point scorer since the Nuggets’ Carmelo Anthony last went off back on November 27.

It will be interesting to see if this performance will give Miller enough confidence to continue to be an increased offensive threat for the Blazers.