Just four days ago, I wrote words that were almost frighteningly prophetic:
“If Andre Drummond does get traded and no starting-caliber centers are received in return, then the date of that trade will mark the true beginning of the Christian Wood era in Detroit. The eras will be marked by the denotations B.C. (“Before Christ(ian)”) and A.D. (“Andre Drummond (is gone forever and he can’t hurt us)”)… If you give him thirty MPG per game and you don’t have Drummond clogging up the offense with meaningless post touches, he’ll drop 20/10’s nonstop. Non friggin stop. No stopping. Ever.”
Guess what, nerds? The Pistons gave Wood thirty minutes (35 to be exact), and not only did he drop 20/10, he dropped something BETTER than 20/10: 27/12/5. My gifts of prophecy are too potent to use often (I would be shunned from my community and possibly executed by a mob), but I do occasionally use those gifts to predict relatively mundane stuff like this. Lottery numbers are off-limits, but Christian Wood’s FULLY UNLEASHED STATLINES are definitely on-limits.
I wonder what Joe Johnson’s doing right now. Probably eating popcorn and crying because he knows that if you put him on this Pistons squad, he wouldn’t ever come close to a 27/12/5 line. He might average 2.7/1.2/.5 if you were lucky.