This performance by Tony Bradley represents a full 64 percent of his made shots. Not just this season, but over his entire two-year career. 7 of his 11 buckets, contained within this video. If you were on the fence about watching this video, consider yourself off the fence. You leapt off it and are running full-speed to your YouTube-viewing device so you can see a vast majority of Bradley’s productive NBA action contained within this neat minute-and-a-half-long package.
It goes without saying, but this is what I love about the NBA regular season finale. This is probably even better in terms of “DTB rating” than something like the Anfernee Simons video. That one, he scored so much that you know he could’ve been doing it all season. But this one, it was a low-enough scoring performance that maybe Bradley could have the same opportunity 100 times and not match it again. I know, I’m not making sense right now. I swear, it made sense in my head. Just trust me on this one.
In the end, this video gets a 9 out of 10 on the DTB rating scale. I invented the scale just now, for the express purpose of rating this video. In the past, it had never occurred to me to rate the videos, to place them above or below each other; I loved all my children equally. But this video is so great that I had to find another way to express how great it was.
I think I’m retiring the DTB rating scale now. I’m feeling bad about all the videos that would maybe get only a 7 out of 10 (no way any would be lower than that, otherwise why would I have made them?). They’re looking at me and saying “why isn’t Jae Crowder scoring 16 for the Mavericks better than Tony Bradley scoring 15?”.