I’m too lazy to really figure it out, but I’m pretty sure that at one point during this game Jordan McRae was 1-for-9 from the field. Maybe it was, like, 1-for-8 or 1-for-10, but definitely 1-for-some-big-number. And this was fairly late in the game, too, like around the start of the fourth quarter.
So imagine my surprise (and anger, actually, at being forced to make another video when I didn’t expect to) when I looked back at the final totals for this game and saw that McRae had 20 points! Everyone’s thoughts will go to the same thing and, yes, you’re all correct: he statpadded the heck out of the stats in the fourth quarter. He was getting his statpad juice all over the court, it was making the ball slippery, I think some even got in a fan’s eye who was sitting courtside and he had to be whisked off to the hospital.
And all that statpadding didn’t result in a win, even against the Knicks. Which should be obvious, because if the ‘Zards had won, it wouldn’t have been statpadding, it would’ve been called “being clutch” or “stepping up in the big moments”.