In case you didn’t hear about it, Domantas Sabonis just scored 30 points on 12-for-12 shooting. Everyone’s busy not paying attention because of some other thing that happened tonight which wasn’t even that cool because it involved missed shots, but there’s got to be a few Lithuanians or something who care about this right now.
I always feel glad for players who show out on national TV. ESPN is probably seriously regretting choosing this game for their broadcast, but there were some exciting individual performances even if the teams are slightly uninspiring. Now everyone got to see how much of a beast Sabonis really is. There are probably casuals thinking right now, RIGHT NOW, “wow that Sabonis guy is really good he might be the best player on the Pacers”, and they’re totally wrong, but can you blame them? If all I had to go on was this one game I would think Sabonis was the MVP to infinity and beyond.
Enes Kanter is supposed to be a not-bad post defender, remember. It’s not like he was getting cooked repeatedly on pick-and-rolls (though that did happen a bit). This was just Sabonis using his own moves against him, up-and-unders, bully-ball, rebounds. Arvydas would be proud.