Last night’s recipient of the SORPWWOAGB award was none other than the Pacers’ Thaddeus Young. In case your brain is too small to remember what the acronym stands for, it’s the “Scrub or Role Player Who Went Out and Got Buckets” award. The SORPWWOAGB Award (pronounced “sorp woag bee”) was instituted by myself to raise awareness of scrubs and role players who make large amounts of field goals but remain unheralded.
The minimum amount of field goals needed to qualify for the SORPWWOAGB award is ten, and Young got there with his hyper-efficient 10-of-13 shooting performance. I thought about giving it to Wesley Matthews, who also made ten field goals last night, but I judged Young to be more in need of the accolade since nobody really cares about him or pays attention to him. Now he can show off his bling-bling trophy and everybody will know that he went out there and just scored the rock over and over. Except I don’t have any money for a trophy so he’ll have to come up with one himself.