Just to temper everyone’s excitement from this career-high-tying performance: Kyle Anderson went 0-of-6 from the free-throw line during it. That’s the most free throws taken without a make this season, by any player. We could be looking at a career-high-smashing 26-burger. We could legitimately be looking at that RIGHT NOW. What a way to welcome the new year, right? 26 points by one of the lowest-scoring players in the whole league? Well, thanks to his bricky nature, we only get 20, which he has done before both in the regular season and playoffs.
He’s not going to have a chance better than this very often. James Harden isn’t the primary defender for most of the games Anderson has. He made a lot of shots, true, and some of them were really exciting in their slowness, but having a career high of just 20 points is so LAME.
I guess I should be thankful. Editing free throws for these vids is, no lie, the most time-consuming part of the whole process. And I didn’t have to do it all for this video. So thanks, Anderson, that almost makes up for the whole season I spent hyping you up as a potential 1st overall pick because you basically averaged a triple double your last season in college and then you went and decided to stop scoring once you got to the NBA. Yeah, it almost makes up for all of that.