The Celtics may have had Marcus Smart and his 11 threes and his career-high 37 points, but it was no match for Phoenix’s Mikal Bridges and his 6 threes and his career-high 26 points. There may have been other factors at play (I’m looking at the box-score and apparently Bridges was only tied for second place on his team in scoring tonight), but I choose to frame this game as a colossal battle of two basketball titans, Bridges and Smart, with Bridges coming out victorious.
The only thing that’s left to do is to combine this video and the Smart video I already did into one big epic mashup with big epic music lifted straight from Lord of the Rings and big epic slow-motion replays and big epic narration (voiced by me, my mom always tells me I have a beautiful voice when we talk on the phone). It would be so epic that I could burn it do DVDs and sell it to people, I bet.
As it stands, this video by itself isn’t very epic at all. 26 points is by far a career-high for Bridges (his previous high was 20, both this season and last season), but 26 points isn’t very much for a populace desensitized to big scoring-performances by all the ridiculous stuff that is going on around the league right now. How is anybody supposed to be excited for this when James Harden is averaging 10 points more than what Bridges scored?
The answer: by being a fan of role-players and scrubs above all us. Other people may not be excited, but I sure as HECK am, even if I haven’t really been thinking about Bridges at all this season. Maybe that makes my excitement even greater.