All those haters who said that Emmanuel Mudiay sucks are sure looking stupid right now, aren’t they? Claiming that he was a bust, that he can’t shoot, that advanced stats showed him to be the worst player in the league, that he’s actually 6 years older than his birth certificate states because record-keeping in the Congo is notoriously suspect, that he doesn’t even like Denver and wants to be traded to the Lakers. All those things that the haters were claiming, and now Mudi-All-Day has gone and scored 30, sending them back into the dark corners of the earth from which they emerged.
Take that, haters.
In a way, this performance is more noteworthy than Devin Booker’s 35 occurring in the same game. We know Booker can score. He’s shown the ability. Mudiay? He had shown some flashes of being able to put the ball in the hole, but not efficiently or consistently. Him scoring 30 on the percentages that he did is way out of character, and I’m impressed. I take back all the bad things I said about him, except for the one about him being the most detrimental player in the league. Even with this game, his -2.0 winshares are a far cry from Tony Wroten’s -0.8, much less Kobe’s -0.7.