If Wilson Chandler is feeling any lingering aftereffects from his injury (I think it was in the lower half of his body somewhere? But definitely not his butt), he’s definitely not showing it; his seventeen points per game are the highest in his career so far. And that’s while shooting well below his standards from three (below thirty percent so far). If he could hit threes at his expected clip, he would be averaging eighteen or nineteen. And from there it would only be one or two more points before he was averaging twenty a game. And twenty a game is where people start paying attention to how skilled of a scorer you are.
Who cares if he missed a free throw that would have put the Nuggets up by one with a few seconds left? The important thing is he made the first one to tie it. There are worse things than going to overtime. Like losing in overtime. Losing is worse than going to overtime and Chandler did his job by making sure that didn’t happen. And, you know, if he had made the free throw, the Raptors would have had their backs against the wall and they would have run a better play than the “play” they ended up “running” in the waning seconds, a DeRozan iso resulting in a turnaround jumper from sixteen feet. So Chandler actually acted intelligently in missing the free throw. So if you were hating on him, please stop it right now.