I would normally assume, just by watching the shots that Jerami Grant was taking tonight, that he was attempting to help his teammate Russell Westbrook out by trying to get him as many assists as possible. But that’s not the case! Westbrook only dimed him a few times tonight, and I have to think now that Grant was shooting those shots simply because he wanted to.
Can’t blame the guy, shooting shots is straight-up the most fun part of basketball and if you disagree you can go start your own league where they just run the offense all the time but if someone actually takes a shot they get ejected. Yeah. I thought so.
My memory of all of Grant’s previous high-scoring performances isn’t perfect, so I could be wrong, but this seems like the one with the highest volume of impressive buckets. As Zaza Pachulia once wisely yelled to a delirious crowd: “Nothing easy!”.