Torrey “Aggro-Craig” Craig is now a member of the 20-point club in the NBA, an exclusive club adorned with a multitude of neon lights that is reserved only for the most elite NBA players who can manage to score 20 points or more in a single NBA basketball contest. You know who else is in this club? Players like Wilt Chamberlain, Kobe Bryant, Isaiah Canaan, the list can go on, if you make the font big enough, it might be a mile long. Basically every Hall of Famer, if you can think of them, they’re in. That is the company Craig now finds himself in, while losers like D.J. Wilson and Hanno Mottola have to stand outside in the rain and try to listen to the hot beats emanating from within.
All it took for him to get there was a Rockets defense that had no desire to stop him from dunking the ball whenever he wanted. Add in a couple of improbable three-pointers (seriously you don’t get just to run up there and shoot it you’re not Curry) and some free-throws, and you end up with his best game ever. By a significant margin, too. As always, let me take this moment to register my delight at the fact that there are now a whole bunch of casuals who only watch ESPN who think that Craig is some sort of “good scorer”, when he really isn’t.
I also want to extend a “shout out” to the countries of New Zealand and Australia for developing this dude so well that he can be a legit role-player in the NBA despite playing at a college that doesn’t exactly produce NBA talent. The only other alumnus of South Carolina Upstate? Mike Gibson, who I’ve never heard of before and will never hear of again.