Once, a long time ago, I promised that I wouldn’t do highlights of Nikola Vucevic unless he was scoring 40. I was tired of the mid-to-high 20’s he was scoring night-in and night-out, and I lashed out. These words don’t act as an apology for my anger; my apology is the countless Vooch vids I have made since then, vids which ignored my hasty proclamation.
I still don’t get why people don’t care more about this dude. I just don’t get it at all. He’s a Euro, people. Just because he went to college in the States doesn’t mean he wasn’t first forged in the primordial fires of glorious Europa. He’s not even THAT much worse than Nikola Jokic, honestly. He is measurably worse for sure, but pure stats-wise, ignoring wins and all that stuff, if you gave him the same role and touches that Jokic has, Vucevic would do incredible things.
We already saw him get a triple-double this year and, real talk incoming, the assists that comprised it were way better than Jokic’s lame handoffs. I might catch some downvotes for saying this, but probably not, because no one’s going to watch this video anyway. They never do. It’s like they don’t want to see my guy frickin’ average 20 and 10.