I’m thinking really hard, absolutely stretching my brain to its limits, I even put my head in my absurdly overclocked microwave-within-a-microwave and set the timer to 10 minutes to try and help my recall ability, but I can’t think of a time that T.J. McConnell took over a game with his scoring. I’ve seen a lot of him, and I would know if such an occurrence happened, so I doubt that there was one.
Until now.
And this wasn’t some random second-quarter takeover. This was a FOURTH-QUARTER takeover. He scored 8 straight points to stretch the Pacers’ lead from 9 to… 10. Well, imagine how screwed they would’ve been if he hadn’t been abusing Sviatoslav Mykhailiuk so bad! He might not have but the game away, but he definitely took it over. For the first time in his career, as far as can I remember.
By the way, if 76ers fans can come up with on occasion similar to this where he took over a game by getting buckets, kindly refrain from telling me. Your opinions/facts are not wanted if they are going to contradict me.