You know a highlight video is good when it has a ton of replays in it. Well, you don’t know that yet, because you have to watch the video in the first place to find out how many replays it has in it and by that point you’ve already seen the whole and KNOW that it’s good and don’t need the amount of replays to tell you that. Did that make sense? Probably not.
Anyway, Malik Monk made 9 shots in this game, and 6 of them had replays. And 2 of the shots that went un-replayed probably should have had them, which leaves just one “normal” shot. And even that one wasn’t that normal, it was a pull-up mini-jumper which is not something Monk does very often, so that should’ve had a replay as well. Basically, he was scoring in the most impressive way possible every time he touched the ball. That’s an exaggeration, but I think I’m allowed to exaggerate a little bit considering the quality of the buckets on display.
I was also impressed by the quality and creativity of his post-three celebration gesture, which appeared to be a combination of the “big balls” gesture and the three-point hand signal.
A lot of people have sorta given up on Monk, but let me clue you in to something that you maybe were not aware of: he’s only 21 right now. That’s younger than a lot of rookies, and not only that, that’s young than a lot of BAD rookies. He wasn’t drafted to be good right away. Small scoring guards usually take a while to really figure things out, athleticism or no athleticism. By the way, I still believe Rashad Vaughn can find a spot in the NBA. There is no reason why I should believe that, but I do. It’s called faith.