It’s sort of weird that the night Andre Iguodala had his best game of the season by far, the Warriors lost by 26 to the Lakers, even though LeBron had an injury to his “private area” and only played twenty minutes. Actually, it’s not just sort of weird. It’s REALLY weird.
I think what happened here is that Andre Iguodala made a pregame Christmas wish to Santa (or Jesus), wishing for a good individual game. But Santa/Jesus doesn’t take kindly to people making vain wishes like that, so this wish was fulfilled in an ironic way that taught Iguodala a valuable lesson in making ego-inflating wishes when there are more meaningful things to wish for. Basically, the collective talent of the Warriors was all transferred into Iguodala for this one game, which meant that Iggy displayed his versatile scoring game like he was ten years younger, but all of his All-Star teammates played like donkey dong.
If you take Iguodala’s shots out of the equation, the Warriors shot 34% from the field. Given how loaded they are with scoring talent, the only explanation is that Santa/Jesus sapped them of their scoring powers so that Iguodala could be good for just one game. That is literally the only explanation. I dare you to come up with a better explanation. You can’t because there isn’t one.