Anzejs “The NBA Player Too Obscure for Basketball-reference To Acknowledge” Pasecniks was, up until recently, and as his nickname suggests, too obscure for basketball-reference to acknowledge as having actually played in an NBA game. I don’t know who they were giving his stats to, but they weren’t giving them to him, because he continued being listed as not having made his NBA debut yet even a few days after he did.
The powers that be at basketball-reference must have decided, once he played his second game, that he was no longer too obscure for their website, and now he’s present in all his low-volume Latvian glory. Take that for data!
By the way, I’m going to use that phrase in approximately 25 percent of my descriptions from now on, in order to honor the recently canned David Fizdale. Deal with it, or should I say, take that for data!
But enough about his presence or non-presence on certain basketball-related websites. What we care about right now is what he looks like on the court. The verdict? Obviously, it’s too early for a verdict. That’s your verdict right there. What are you even doing asking for a verdict, he’s frickin’ three games into his career at this point. Jeez.
He did score on Joel Embiid, which is good. If you can score on Embiid, you can score on a lot of dudes in the NBA. He looks to be a legit 7-footer, something of a rarity now that the NBA has remeasured everyone and declared them all to be midgets. 11 points is nothing to sneeze at, either. That’s a legit amount of points, I can think of lots of super-tall Euro bigs who never came close to that. Pavel Podkolzin is only 34, by the way. Just saying, if there’s any team who needs a big body, you know…