“Big” Al Jefferson is a puzzle. He puts up excellent numbers and has a supremely refined offensive game, but can he contribute to a winning basketball team? Nope. The Jazz are merely average this year, although they are worlds better than the awful Timberpuppy teams that Jefferson headlined for a while. None of this is any comfort to Nikola Vucevic, who got handled by Jefferson last night. Hooks, drives, dunks, jumpers, Jefferson deployed every weapon at his disposal in order to make Vucevic look like a total loser.
But when you’ve been the best player on losing teams for your whole career, who’s the real loser?