Malik Beasley would totally be a candidate for the MIP Improved Player award if a.) there weren’t so many other good candidates, b.) he was averaging maybe two or three more PPG per game than he is currently averaging, and c.) Pascal Siakam experience a very temporary and very localized gravity void and got flung out into deep space. He went from an unspiring young shooting guard to an inspiring, exciting shooting guard.
Try to watch this video and not get inspired and/or excited. I dare you. Hint it’s impossible. I didn’t even watch it, but just thinking about watching it is inspiring me to achieve more with my life. I’m afraid if I actually watched the video, I would abandon my channel and go do other things. That’s how inspired I would be.
There are games like this one where Beasley’s scoring (especially his shooting) looks effortless. Maybe Nuggets fans were expecting this uptick in play based on what they had seen from Beasley in past seasons, but I totally wasn’t. I expected him to be Gary Harris 0.1 (alpha version available only on GitHub), not Gary Harris 1.0.1 (bug fixes on Linux, added Serbian translation). And, as soon as next year, he can be Gary Harris 2.0 (major GUI overhaul, added multi-threading support).