Only one round has been played but it appears that the scoring record for the season has already been set.
Gustav Hansson Södertälje sank with 46 points and became the Swede who scored the most points in the basketball league in the modern era.
– I looked at the painting and thought “What the hell is going on?” , said the Umeo player.
Victor Gadfors He scored 40 points in one match with Södertälje last season. But other than that, it’s Americans or other imports who usually share the scoring record in the NBA.
This season, Gustav Hansson may have already put him in the premiere. The Umeå goalkeeper scored 46 points when the home team beat Södertälje 95-85 on Friday night.
– It feels so sick. It wasn’t something I immediately thought of before the match. I’ve done 27 at most before. I looked at the board at 3 and saw that I had 40 points and thought “what the hell is going on?” , but it wasn’t more than that. It was more then that, says the 27-year-old who made seven two-pointers, four three-pointers and 20 free throws.
Was the plan for you to get an extra ball in this match?
– That was not the idea, but they played this kind of defense and lost in front of the ball screens and then you give up the “three pull” to the goalkeeper. When I got a few of them, the basket felt a little bigger. I got 24 free throws as well and hit quite a few of them. So it worked a little bit because of their defence.
He has a brother on the team
Thus Hanson is the Swede who has scored the most points in the basketball league in the modern era. The Swedish Basketball Association website contains statistics only from 2006 onwards, but only in the last 14 years has American Tyler Sabin scored more points in a single game when he scored 48 for Witterbegden in the 2019/2020 season.
– I haven’t heard that there are many Swedes who have scored more points. He feels nauseous. I got a little fluent in the beginning, Hanson says, and that’s the only thing I can explain with it.
Perhaps a small piece of the record is also that Gustav Hanson has been joined by his brother Daniel Hanson on the team this season.
– I missed two shots in a row at some point and then there he was saying “Keep shooting, keep shooting”. But the same goes for the other players on the team, everyone just wants us to win. The toy dead is great fun to play with and this might help a little.