It must suck to be a fan who watched their team get blown out for three quarters, and then the fourth quarters comes along and they’re like “oh well at least we get to see the scrubs for once I’m really high on [INSERT SCRUB HERE]” and then the other team’s scrubs just keep kicking booty. I’m pretty sure I’ve had to deal with that situation multiple times (with the INSERT SCRUB HERE being Jon Brockman), and that’s what Blazers fans had to deal with tonight.
They got their booty kicked by a lineup of two cruddy Aussies (Maker and Delly), a two-way scrub (Morris), a fatty (Brown), and a bundle of potential who is apparently so flawed that he can only stick on the fringiest fringes of the NBA (Christian Wood, the protagonist of this tale).
I’m not going to rehash all the stuff that’s gone wrong with his career so far (which is pretty much everything), but I will say that he looked pretty decent in exhibition games. So decent that he got real minutes in real non-garbage time in the first game of the season. Then the rotations tightened up, and now he gets to clap and look excited and watch Giannis to see if he can pick up some strategies.
It’s going to really suck for the league when the Bucks can sub Giannis out and just put another one in without even a break.