Given their respective college careers (and their draft positions), I don’t think anybody thought that Jerami Grant would be the superior brother out of him and Jerian Grant. Yet here we are. Jerami is getting big minutes on one of the powerhouses in the West, while Jerian’s minutes on a bad team in the East, the Magic, have dwindled to near-DNP levels.
One advantage Jerami has is his height. That may sound obvious and stupid, but in today’s NBA, you can still get away with playing a power forward who doesn’t have much of a jumpshot. It’s not ideal, but you can do it. Jerian doesn’t have that luxury. As a guard, he pretty much has to have a workable jumper in order to be a workable player. So while both players don’t have tons of “conventional” scoring talent, Jerami plays a position where it is more acceptable for him to not have those talents.
That’s why I shouldn’t be surprised that 25 is a career high for him. My first thought was “he’s been in the league five years now, he’s definitely scored more points than that in one game”, but when I thought about it more, I realized that he’s always been the fifth man on offense for his teams. While he does contribute to winning basketball in that role, it’s hard for him to score a lot of points when there are four other people on the court who should be taking shots ahead of him. So, all that considered, 25 is pretty sick. Too bad it comes with an asterisk on account of the two-overtime thing which nullifies all stats achieved in the game.