Man, at some point I should stop being surprised when Emmanuel Mudiay scores 30 or more, because he’s doing it regularly now, but it’s insane to me every time. No one has yet satisfactorily answered my question of “how is this happening?”. I suspect that that’s because there are no answers that make any sort of logical sense. This is pure voodoo witchcraft we’re seeing here, folks. That is the only explanation, even if it is a supernatural one. Mudiay’s from Africa, right? Can’t remember which Congo, but one of them. I think they still believe in witchcraft/folk religions/weird stuff all mixed in with Christianity and Islam. I bet he went over there during the offseason, had some spells done on him by a shaman, and now he’s good after being so bad last year.
This is the third game out of five where he’s scored 30-plus. Before that stretch, he was 2 for 209 in scoring that many points. Just to put in perspective how crazy his current scoring mojo is right now. Whatever tinctures that mystical Congolese shaman applied to his nether regions must have been the slow-release versions.
I don’t know how the Knicks could possibly lose a game where Mudiay was this dominant, much less against the Hawks, but they managed it. He and Knox combined for almost 60 points, what were their teammates even doing? They never should’ve waived Ron Baker.