It always makes me a little annoyed when I’m looking over the potential videos to do for a night and there at the top of the list is an unexciting role-player like D.J. Augustin. Like, no one good (but still bad enough for my channel) or foreign or young could muster more than 26 points? Come ON. An Augustin highlight vid is usually the kind of thing that can wait for a little bit, maybe even until the next day.
Not tonight. Augustin had a better game than almost everybody else who played. And I don’t mean to be hating on him or whatever. I think he’s a good player (especially in the half-season after he gets traded), and it’s really cool that he’s had such a long career while being really short. But I know what the view counts say, and they say with regards to him “no one cares”.
He really might be playing something close to his best basketball ever this year for the Magic. No hyperbole, no exaggeration. He’s more efficient than ever, he’s got a nice assist-to-turnover ratio, his hitting threes (and shooting foul shots) like he’s a rookie again, is this a result of him finally having some consistency in his team and not getting passed around like a marijuana cigarette? It seems like ages since I’ve seen his name in a Wajnaroosky tweet.