Marquese “Marqueso” “Sea Cheese” Chriss was very close to being out of the league until the Warriors rescued him from the heap of discarded, unloved NBA players. He was lying there in the middle of the pile, surrounded by moaning, semi-coherent castoffs, waiting for somebody to dump them all in a shipping crate going to China, when Steve Kerr walked up, grabbed his arm, dragged him out of the mountain of despairing flesh, and handed him a Warriors jersey.
Now the Warriors’ decision to keep him on the 15-man roster is paying dividends. This game is definitely the cheesiest of Sea Cheese’s tenure with the team. The skills displayed here embody the skills that the Warriors need from Chriss: defense and alley-oops and cool hair tubes. They don’t really need his underdeveloped three-point shooting (most of the other players on the roster are capable of hitting the three), they just need his activity and hustle (things that he allegedly did not consistently display while with the Suns).
Let’s hope that Sea Cheese continues to play well or it’s very possible that, once the season is over, he crawls back onto the pile of unwanted NBA players to wait for another rescuer that might never arrive. That sweaty, disgusting mountain of man-meat is not where anybody wants to end up, but legend says that Jamal Crawford is lying there to this day.