This game from Dragan Bender is what is called “progress”. You might not be familiar with that concept since you have yet to make any of it towards any of your personal goals, so you’re going to have to trust me on this one. Even if you do understand the abstract concept of “progress”, you might not understand how Bender scoring eleven one game and then ten the next could be considered “progression”. Yet another example of your astounding ignorance, my dumber-than-average friend. Bender did, in fact, score one fewer point, but he needed six fewer shots to score nearly the same amount. He shot a perfect four-of-four from the field, a good mark for any rookie, not to mention a rookie who makes his living shooting perimeter jumpshots.
So now that you’ve been educated on the concept of progress and how Bender perfectly embodies that concept, the question is: where does he progress from here? More dunks? More drives? More ball-handling responsibilities? More three-pointers? All of the above? The most likely thing is that he scores three or four points in each of the next ten games, but the important thing is that Bender showed us that he could progress once, which means he will probably keep progressing at some point in the future.