I didn’t think that I’d have the privilege of compiling any more Rodney Hood highlights this year, or ever.
When he had that 4-of-17 game, I thought to myself “Well, that’s it. All good things must come to an end”. After a shockingly bad performance like that, I figured, as any sane person would, that he would never recover, slinking back into the muck from which he was spawned to pass away from this existence in anguish. That’s what most players do when they have a bad game.
I thought that, at most, he’d play out the year with the Jazz, scoring 0 points on 0% shooting in 15 minutes per game. What I didn’t think was that he would shrug off his bad shooting night and return in dominating fashion, scoring 29 and hitting a bunch of clutch baskets. Are we sure that he wasn’t replaced with an impostor?