Forget all the other stuff you may have heard about tonight. This is the REAL most amazing scoring performance of the night, a night that now belongs to OMER ASIK.
Asik’s struggles at getting the ball to go into the whole have been well-covered this season. Despite having the confidence of the coaches, starting 63 of 67 games, he’s averaging an anemic 3.7 ppg before tonight. He just never shoots the ball. Ever. It makes sense that he would self-impose limits on his offensive touches knowing that he can’t hit a jumper or even jump, but still. His 24 points in the season finale account for nearly ten percent of his total point output this year.
TEN PERCENT!