Is there anybody on this planet who considers Evan Fournier to be one of the better up-and-coming shooting guards in the league today? Anybody at all? Sure, he’s playing worse this season than he was last season, but come on. He’s like Victor Oladipo 0.6. There’s gotta be at least one mistreated Magic fan, or one nationalistic Frenchman, who remains convinced of Fournier’s impending stardom.
I feel like I repeat this sentiment in every Fournier video I make, but nobody really cares about this guy anymore, impending stardom or no. Being on the Magic has been good for his minutes (and thereby, his stats, at least until this season), but it’s been bad for intangible things like “exposure”, “winner’s mentality”, and “living in a place where the specter of the Disney Corporation doesn’t hang over everything like a light-choking shroud”.
Maybe this season the Magic will finally go to the playoffs (they have some really pathetic marketing material going around which literally just says the words “playoff push”) and Fournier will get some amount of exposure. I feel like any national exposure at all would help draw fans to him, fans that can then hype up other fans with the promise of a balding French dude who can be a jumpshooting, non-streetball Tyreke Evans. If that doesn’t happen, I’ll just sit here quietly and continue to make videos for him while getting mad at the view counts.