Just like the Jacob Evans 13 Points highlight video that I made and now am feeling large amounts of regret towards (YouTube makes it very easy to delete videos…), this Derrick Jones Jr. 17 points highlight video doesn’t sit well with me because he only made four shots. There were 57 players last night who made more than four shots, and 31 who made exactly four. If I made a video for all of those guys, even if I excluded the ones who weren’t DTB-eligible, I would be making videos from dusk to dawn to dusk again. Are you ready for Derrick Favors 8 Points Full Highlights? How about T.J. McConnell 8 Points/5 Assists Full Highlights? No frickin’ way.
But seventeen points is one off DJJ’s career high of 18 points, so I have put aside my lingering doubts to upload this completed video for the whole world to watch with amazement. And, I will say, despite my initial misgivings, this video is elevated by the fact that DJJ had two rather nice dunks. One of them was so nice that it caused Kelly Olynyk to spontaneously make the “airplane arms” gesture even though he wasn’t the one dunking it and he’s probably never gotten high enough on a dunk himself to necessitate that gesture.
Now that I think about it, I should have included DJJ’s four assists. Oh well. Too late now. Maybe I’ll upload the version with assists in it as a special bonus to my loyal Patreon supporters.