Kyle Kuzma hasn’t exactly hit the rookie wall, well, maybe he has a little bit, call it the rookie speedbump if you want. He’s still scoring at a decent rate, but it’s decidedly less decent than what he was doing at the beginning of the season. Lots of single-digit affairs after those 30-point games he had back in December.
Meanwhile, my standards for him went up so fast that I haven’t been getting my daily dose of Kuz nor distrubting that dose to my subscribers. He’s set the bar so high for himself that 15-ish points just doesn’t cut it anymore. Tonight, he made sure that people would be able to see his performance by scoring 23, his most in almost a month. He scored in all different ways, everyone knows he has that Kareem-esque skyhook well guess what, he did it again, and then he did some other stuff too.
But that skyhook, man, I love it when he does that. For a while Robin Lopez was the only player in the league who had a shot even close to it, but Kuzma’s is almost a perfect replica. Can we reverse history and have him demand a trade to Milwaukee?