Rudy “Better than Fernandez but Worse than Gobert” Gay continues to be, against all odds, a solid scoring option for the Spurs. After getting ragged on by analytics-minded fans (including myself) for the entirety of his decade-plus in the NBA, he’s finally putting up efficienct scoring numbers at the grand old age of 32. And it’s not like he’s doing it on less volume; if you adjust for minutes, he’s actually scoring at a faster rate this season than he was for any of his Memphis seasons.
So the moral of the story is, I should have been making Rudy Gay highlight videos all this time until stopping for this season. That’s what my rules of scrubbiness would dictate. Instead, I’ve ignored Rudy Gay since I started this highlight enterprise seven years ago, and only now am I making videos for him. The exact opposite of how it should have been.
I don’t want to say that Gay is playing better because he knows that he’s going to be featured on the world-renowned DownToBuck NBA highlights channel on YouTube. I’m just saying that it’s a possibility. If you think that NBA players don’t keep a personal list of all the YouTube channels that will make highlight videos for them, you’d be sorely mistaken.