Dejounte Murray has been learning well at the knee of DeMar “Midrange Master” DeRozan and LaMarcus “Midrange Master” Aldridge. Soon, Dejounte Murray will also earn the nickname of “Midrange Master” and the Spurs will have three of them on their team. Who says the league is moving away from the midrange game? Well, everybody does, but the Spurs aren’t listening. All they need to do is acquire Khris Middleton (unlikely) and Rui Hachimura (also unlikely) and they would have all the league’s Midrange Masters on the same team. Is Jason Smith still alive? Drag him out of retirement and throw him on the team too. He can be the stretch five who only stretches out to twenty feet.
Murray’s midrange game as depicted in this video is SMOOTH and BUTTERY. I would even go one step further than buttery: his midrange game is CHOCOLATEY. His length at the point guard position means that he can get that middy jimbo basically as often as he wants, and in this game, he took full advantage. They just kept going to it and it kept working. Tim Duncan was probably clapping politely from the sidelines and saying encouraging things in a calm, fatherly voice.
I think I’m going to use this video for midrangespiration going forward. If I ever have a rough pickup game where my middy jimmies aren’t falling, I’ll watch this one to strengthen my earnest belief that my one chance to dominate a pickup game is through an unexpected amount of high-accuracy midrange jimbos.