The path to a new career-high for a marginal offensive talent like Jonathan Isaac is surprisingly clear: shoot a bunch of threes, like really a whole bunch of them, and have a good amount of them go in. BOOM. Career high! That’s really all there is to it. Attention marginal offensive talents of the league: if you end up following my sage advice for achieving new personal bests in scoring, don’t forget that this advice is not given freely as it costs 10,000 dollars per successful use.
Isaac, I’m waiting for my check. And it better not bounce or you’re a dead MFer.
This is my first Magic highlight vid of the season which, among other things, indicates that Isaac hasn’t been very good on offense so far. And looking at his stats, yeah, it’s not so good. 30 percent shooting as a big, even a big as willowy and perimeter-oriented as Isaac, isn’t what the Magic are looking for. That said, it’s a young season, and there are tons of players who are shooting abysmal percentages (James Harden says hi) who you know will turn it around. And I don’t know why I’m dissing Isaac so much when the existence of this video and the “Career High” part of its title means that he HAS turned it around.
Unfortunately, his anomalous outside-shooting performance didn’t result in a win for the Magic, because Nikola Vucevic received a reenactment of how bad he got shut down by the Raptors in the playoffs last year, going 1-for-13. Honestly, the more I make these vids, the more I feel sad about all the career-highs that get wasted on losing efforts. Isn’t the point of having good players so that they can support the role-players in winning games?