Josh Richardson, with his 20.5 PPG average, now occupies the position that Khris Middleton used to occupy on my channel: the “too many PPGs for DownToBuck but not enough of a star to consistently get videos from the bigger highlights channels” position. His rapid ascendancy has caught most people by surprise (I’m sure Heat fans knew he had this in him all along) and we’re still adjusting to this new reality where he’s the go-to scorer on a team.
I guess, going into this season, I just sort of assumed that Goran Dragic would continue to be the main scorer. And if you had told me that he was going to give up that mantle, I would have told you that Hassan Whiteside would be the one to take it from him. I wouldn’t have guessed that Josh Richardson, the guy who regressed his second year in the league and then un-regressed for this third year, would continue to un-regress at such a furious pace.
For now he’s going to stick around on my channel. But the case to include him on DTB’S OFFICIAL EXCLUSION LIST grows more compelling by the day.