The Bulls traded their only truly competent three-point shooter, Doug McDermott. Since they can’t just pretend it’s 1982 and stop shooting threes entirely, that means the long-distance slack needs to be picked up somewhere else. Enter… Denzel Valentine? If this game is anything to go by, yes! Valentine is the three-pointer shooter they always needed, and wouldn’t you know he was on the roster for the whole season but Hoiberg hates him so he never gets to play! Wow!
Ignore all those other games (all except one) where he didn’t do anything, ignore the mere 25 threes he made on the season before tonight, ignore his 31 percent shooting, just ignore it. It’s so much more fun to be positive and to let one-game-large sample sizes affect your entire view of player. Reality is for the weak. Dare to dream. Dream that Valentine will hit 4 triples a game for the rest of the season before heading into the postseason and sweeping LeBaby Blames out of the playoffs on the back of a 32-point game-four performance. Dream with me.