Alex “Alyexsiyiiy” Len looks like a beast in this video. Do I think he is really a beast in real life? Not really. Replace the “ea” in “beast” with a “u” and you’d be getting closer to what I really think about him. But I can’t deny that he sort of totally made Thomas Bryant into chopped meat BBQ with his strong rolls to the hoop and tenacious rebounding. And did you see that Jeff Green flop? He knew that the only way to contain Len was to make him commit phantom offensive fouls.
Really, most of the credit here should go to Trae Young, who really has a knack for finding guys in spots where they can make shots (see: the entirety of John Collins’ All-Star-esque season). I fully believe that Young could make a meatball like Miles Plumlee look like a studcake if they shared the court for an extended period of time. If Plumlee could look good, then Len should look REALLY good. And he did.
Next question: could Young make prime Kyrylo Fesenko look like prime Patrick Ewing? What about nowadays Kyrylo Fesenko? He probably weighs 400 pounds now and smokes cigarettes nonstop while gambling on dice games.