Jonas Valanciunas was the reason the Grizzlies were within 2 points with 6 minutes left in the game. Everyone else was throwing up bricks, and he was helpfully grabbing those bricks and placing them gently in the bucket so that two points could be scored. After that point, though, he stopped scoring or even shooting, his teammates continued sucking, and the Jazz won easily.
I will find a way to blame Dwane Casey for this. It will be hard, but as that dude in Jurassic Park said, “life, uh, finds a way”, and my life is devoted to pinning all of Valanciunas’ failures on his former coach.
In the meantime, I will take this opportunity to say how much I frickin’ LOVE teal. Teal is definitely in my “Mount Rushmore” of colors. I’m not going to share with you the other three colors that make up my personal best, but rest assured that teal is there. Blue is great, green is great, mixing them together is just the best. I love all sorts of blue-greens, aquamarine is dope, turquoise is dope, but teal is the dopest. Just inject it right into my veins.
I feel like the league is heading towards a future where every team has a teal-colored alternate jersey. Is there any way they can, like, turn me off or something and put me in a cryogenic chamber until that future is realized? I’ll miss out on some sweet performances (probably including Valanciunas scoring 50 for a team that is not the Grizzlies or the Raptors), but it will totally be worth it when I wake up and see nothing but teal on NBA.com.