This highlight video of Bryn Forbes scoring eighteen points by hitting six three-pointers might be the quickest a highlight video has ever finished in terms of elapsed game time. By halfway through the second quarter, Forbes is done scoring. He does nothing else in the game other than miss shots, foul, commit turnovers, and rebound, so the last clip of the video still takes place in the first half of the game. There’s no way that’s ever happened before, right?
This is crazy because, typically, a player who is capable of accruing a highlight-worthy amount of points through just a quarter and a half is a skilled enough player that they won’t go scoreless for the rest of the game. Also, if they were that hot to score so many points so quickly, they’ll continue attempting shots at perhaps a higher rate than normal. Forbes certainly knew he was hot, and he certainly kept shooting, but after the 5:27 mark in the second quarter, nothing went in for him.
A consequence of Forbes’ extremely hot start followed by an extremely cold finish is that the Spurs let their twenty-point lead dwindle until it was no longer a lead at all. That’s sad for Spurs fans, but, mostly, I’m trying to recover from the fact that I just made a highlight video for a player where the entire video takes place in the first half. The only other way this would happen is if a player got injured after starting off strong.
No lie, I am reeling right now. My head is spinning. Forbes scored twelve in the span of a minute and a half but couldn’t score for the last 28 minutes of the game. That’s nuts.