Dragan Bender 11 Points Full Highlights (12/26/2016)

The “11 Points” in the title of this video doesn’t do justice to the kind of performance Dragan Bender had tonight. Not even close, but if I put everything he did up there then I think YouTube would get mad at for it being too long. So I’ll put it here instead: 11 points, 13 rebounds, 2 assists, 3 steals, 2 blocks. That’s right! Bender achieved the elusive and noteworthy…

Scrub by five!

If you don’t know what that means, don’t feel bad, I made up the term a while back but haven’t used it yet. Basically, it’s like a “five by five”, which is 5 of every stat, but instead of the threshold being 5, it’s 2, and it has to be performed by a scrub or it doesn’t count. Giannis gets a scrub by five basically every game but it doesn’t matter. Besides Bender, other players who have gotten scrub by fives this season include Isaiah Whitehead, Wade Baldwin, Raymond Felton, Dorian Finney-Smith, and Dirk Nowitzki.

He affected the game in a lot of ways tonight. Definitely his best game as a pro to date, and a good showcase of his predraft hype as a jack-of-all-trades player. If Earl Watson can take his head out of his ass and stop playing P.J. Tucker so much, maybe we can see more of this in the future. Otherwise, I bet Bender would tear up the D-League.

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