https://youtu.be/iTQm9X1UBmM
I am SO over big-man triple-doubles. From now on, any time I see that a dude greater than 6’9″ in height got a triple-double, my only reaction will be a big, exaggerated, arms-fully-outstretched yawn. As the kids say, “miss me with that”. Am I using that phrase correctly? I don’t care.
Nikola Jokic is not immune from my utter lack of care. He might have been one of my big view-count draws on my unfairly-deleted first channel, but I had to make enough vids of him that I know he started statpadding by doing handoffs all the time.
And that’s the real problem with the big-man triple-double: too many handoffs, or passes that are so short that they might as well be handoffs (“handoffs adjacent”). The amount of actually good passes in a given big-man triple-double vid varies, but it’s often a big fat zero. Jokic can sometimes have 5 or 6, but he’s obviously a statistical outlier when it comes to being big and dropping dimes.
In this video? One. One good pass for Steven Adams out of ten, a nice behind-the-back on the break to Nickeil Alexander-Walker for a slam. If you’re feeling generous, you can give him the one he squeezed into to a cutting Brandon Ingram, or the entry pass to Lonzo Ball. I am not feeling generous. I don’t think I’ll ever feel generous again, because now that I’m semi-retired, I’m cranky and cantankerous. Just like a real retired wrinkly person.