Prior to this game, Aaron Holiday was shooting a laughable 1-for-18 from two-point land. That’s worse than JaVale McGee’s three-point percentage from last year, but at least McGee had an excuse (that excuse being that he was shooting from way outside his real range and Luke Walton was too much of a wimp to stop him). Holiday has no such excuse. Two-pointers are in everybody’s range. I could do a scouting report and check out all his misses from there (and the single make, why not) so I could tell you guys what’s going on, but guess what? That’s way too much work. You’ll just have to imagine. I’m imagining some missed layups, a couple hopeless floaters, and some midrange bricks. You can imagine some easily-blocked skyhooks if you want, but they probably didn’t actually happen.
That horrible percentage will go up quite a bit with his 4-for-5 performance from there tonight. That’s the good thing about having really low percentages: it takes only a few makes for them to go rocketing back up. Assuming that your percentages aren’t the result of a season’s worth of bricks. Realistically, there was no way he’d stay at 5 percent or whatever, if only because a player who was actually that good at two-pointers would find himself out of a job very quickly.
The Holiday bro duo in Indiana hasn’t turned out as well as I hoped. I knew Aaron was still developing, but I’ve seen Justin get hella buckets before, on many different teams. What’s going on? Putting brothers on the same team might do more harm than good, in my anecdotal experience. Brook and Robin Lopez on the same team is rad, but they’re both being underutilized. And you know it’s going to mess with team chemistry when everyone is supposed to be like brothers to each other but then you have ACTUAL brothers who are way closer to each other than everyone else. Yeah, never thought of that, did you?