What’s that I see in this video? Something that we’ve been looking for from Buddy Hield for a while now. Why…yes! Yes, I do believe I see them! Right here in this very video! I almost hesitate to believe it, but, yes, there is no doubting it now!
They’re FLASHES! Buddy Hield is showing FLASHES!
These Buddy Hield flashes made brief appearances in other Pelicans games, but this is one of the first where the flashes were more consistent and weren’t surrounded by long periods of darkness. Seventeen points on an efficient 7-of-10 is among the best games of Hield’s rookie season, and while he didn’t do it in a flashy way, he did it while displaying plenty of flashes, if that makes any sense (it does). Even better, the Pelicans came away with a win despite some injury issues, and we can pin at least twenty or thirty percent of the win on Hield making Brandon Rush look like the scrub that he is.
It’s way, way too late for Hield to win ROTY of the year, but then again, maybe it isn’t. A bunch of people wanted to give it to Nikola Mirotic his rookie year after he averaged like twenty points in the month of March. If Hield does the same there will be people who vote for him. I would vote for him in that scenario but there’s been some kind of oversight and nobody ever gave me a vote.