Is it too late to get Joe Harris in the three-point shootout? I don’t think it is. I know with All-Star voting there was a hashtag you could use to register your support for a certain player. Is there such a thing for the shootout? #shootoutvote Joe Harris
Sadly, even if that vote was counted by some nefarious automated system, it probably wouldn’t be enough. His volume on threes isn’t there, and his percentage on threes doesn’t make up for it. All this talk by people (actually just me) about him being just as good as Klay Thompson is not enough to sway the people in charge.
If this game had been nationally televised, maybe it’d be a different story. He hit five triples tonight and was the Nets leading scorer. That’s the kind of narrative that the public demands, and Harris has it now. He’s a big shot taker and maker, if you consider any shot during the course of a game to be “big”.