Rodions Kurucs 24 Points/5 Threes Full Highlights (1/7/2018)

Rodions Kurucs is in the enviable position of being good enough to start while also being scrubby enough to play the final minutes of blowouts. How many players in the NBA can you say that about? With this being the case, it seems like he should get a highlight video every night. He gets to hone his skills against the toughest players in the league, holding his own admirably, and then gets to take a breather while dominating the lesser scrubs of other teams.

Theoretically, at least. In reality, he did most of his damage tonight against the actual NBA players that the Celtics have, not the Wanamakers and the Timelords. I was hopeful that he would pad his stats into the 30-point range during the abundance of garbage time this game had, because him scoring 30-plus would’ve been the sickest thing to happen, not just in the NBA, but in the whole word, since Davis Bertans scored 28.

You could make a list a mile long about players who you would be insanely hyped to see score 24, a whole bunch of players who were really good in college, really hyped up. In that sense, it doesn’t really seem fair that Kurucs can just come into the NBA without knowing what the heck is going on and just drop 24. You have to earn that by being the best player on your high school team averaging 50 per game.

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