I almost didn’t make this video, because it’s only 13 points and it’s of the 1st overall pick from last year, but then I remembered that we’re talking about Markelle Fultz here. The guy I don’t even get to talk about because he’s had one other “good” game in his whole career. Which was a 13-point triple-double. This is the same amount of points, at least.
Notice the semi-sarcastic/fully-patronizing “3 Jumpers” in the video title. There is no lying going on, no deception. That is the true amount of jumpers he made tonight. One of them was a three. We occupy the strangest universe of the countless ones residing in the multiverse, the one where we get excited for jumpers from a guy who was supposed to be able to make them no problem right off the bat.
Here’s the deal: when my mom’s new boyfriend comes in and tells me that I need to fix my jumper, I tell him to screw right off. This has happened twice to me and both times I emerged with my jumper still perfectly intact and perfectly wet. Fultz made the rookie mistake of listening to his mom’s new boyfriend, and it has cost him. Big time. I can’t even imagine what’s going through his head every time he takes one (or passes one up even though he’s wide open).