Boban Marjanovic attempted fourteen shots in this game. That’s the second-highest total of his career, well behind the eighteen that he attempted on April 7, 2017 while he was on the Pistons. Given that many shot attempts, this should have been a game for the ages. This should have been a game that was recorded by scribes into tomes of legend. But it wasn’t. Marjanovic only made six of his attempts, and scored fewer points than he had shot attempts (always a warning sign from an efficiency perspective).
Honestly, this game damages my personal narrative that not only does Marjanovic need to get more minutes, he needs to do more in the minutes that he’s given. In this game he got more minutes, and he tried to do more in the minutes he got, but it didn’t quite work out. Is that going to stop me from demanding that SuckDick Carlisle find a way to give Marjanovic fifteen MPG per game? No. No it’s not. But it will give me a slight amount of pause before I fire off my storm of twenty abusive tweets from twenty different Twitter accounts.
Besides, it’s not like a Marjanovic shot attempt is a bad value proposition despite his true shooting percentage being at a career low this season. And you just know that a lot of his shot attempts come from him being an unstoppable offensive rebounding force. When he catches the ball under the basket, he’s gotta put it up, and if he ends up Moses Maloning his way to extra rebounds and attempts, that’s what he’s earned for being such a huge dude. If I was that huge, you can bet I’d be toying with people by never letting them get rebounds.