The real story of this game is T.J. Warren scoring 53 points, the third most points that any Pacers player has ever scored. However, due to circumstances beyond my control (circumstances which boil down to “T.J. Warren being a total studbeast”), T.J. Warren was added to my OFFICIAL EXCLUSION LIST for this season, so there’s no way I can make a highlight video for him no matter how balls-to-the-wall awesome such a video would be.
(Note that, while I did recently make an emergency decision to take Jordan Clarkson off my exclusion list, the difference is that Clarkson is secretly kinda booty while Warren is just a straight-up beast)
Despite the sad state of affairs surrounding Warren’s ineligibility for DTB highlight videos, I can at least relive some of the most exciting parts of his game by making this Aaron Holiday video. When I saw that Holiday had ten assists, I yelled out loud to myself, “I bet he was dropping hella dimes to Warren all game long.” And you know what? He kinda was. He dimed up some other teammates for sure, but Warren was Holiday’s main passing target.
By the way, if somebody donates $200 to my Patreon, I will totally take Warren off my exclusion list and make a video for him.