It’s good to see that Ersan Ilyasova still has that stepback three in his repertoire. There aren’t many bigs who are willing to do something like that. That shot drove me crazy when he was on the Bucks, because he could so often shoot it without moving but instead made things harder on himself by dribbling and fading and all that garbage. But now that he’s not on my team I can focus on how aesthetic it is, and not on how often it goes in (which is approximately 0 percent of the time).
It’s also good to see him starting to regain the form he had for the 76ers last year. We got a taste of what it was like to have the Ersanator as a number 1 option, and it was amazing. He hasn’t been so great with the Hawks, but as I said, things are improving. 26 points last game, 20 points this game, someone needs to take the shots on that team. Why not Ersan?