My first impression was that Luka “Lukadris” Doncic maybe did just a little bit of statpadding at the end of this game when the outcome (a Mavs loss) was already determined. Maybe I sorta think that, but the Mavs had closed the gap to the point where three Doncic triples in a row would have made it interesting again.
Also, I’ve decided to go easier on statpadders from now on. A few days ago I evaluated my own life and, in the course of that evaluation, found the following instances where I padded my own stats:
-I told everybody in my middle school friend group that I could eat a whole large pizza from Pizza Hut by myself. I did this by not eating the crusts. Pizza stats were statpadded for several years in that time period.
-I wrote a script that connects to a random proxy, watches my Taj Gibson highlight videos for enough time to count as a “view”, connects to a different random proxy, refreshes the page, and watches the Taj Gibson videos again. That is blatant statpadding of my viewcount stats.
-I make Nikola Jokic videos way past the point of his eligibility because I want more subscribers from Serbia. Through these Jokic highlight videos I am statpadding my subscriber stats.
-I statpad defensive stats in park pickup games by actually running back and playing defense while all my lazy loser teammates stand around after they inevitiably brick a jumper leading to a long run-out rebound.
-I write video descriptions with unnecessarily florid language to statpad my video description lengths.
So, sorry for statpadding everybody. I will try to be more tolerant of statpadders going forward. Except for Russell Westbrook AKA Chucksell Statpadbrook. His statpadding is on an entirely different level and I cannot condone it.