Watching this game makes me think that Isaiah Canaan is like a Stephen Curry without the handles, playmaking ability, or MVP-ness. So basically just Curry’s three point shooting and nothing else. In this game, Canaan repeatedly makes the Hawks suck on his Canaan Balls by making a wide variety of three-point shots: deep threes, fading threes, pull-up threes, and step-back threes. Those are all things that Curry does with regularity and now Canaan does them with regularity as well.
Canaan also recorded zero assists, grabbed exactly one rebound, and committed three turnovers in thirty minutes of court time. Taking all that into account, I’m thinking even the “Curry 0.1” nickname that I was readying for deployment is too generous. “Curry 0.01” would be more apt but is also more tedious to say out loud. For now I’m going with “Canaan’t Pass the Ball”.